Landis's Science Classes

Announcements:

• Test: Ch 4: Motion: Tues 10/2
• Lab 5A report due: Thurs 10/4
• Lab 5B report due: Mon 10/8
• Ch 5 reading guide puzzle due: Tues 10/9

Mon:

• Chapter 4 test review sheet & debrief
  • ch 4 review sheet
  • answers to ch 4 review sheet
• Kahoot test review

Tues:

• Test: Ch 4 – 2 parts
• Begin reading ch 5: Force
  • Ch 5 reading guide puzzle due: Tues 10/9
    • Chapter 5 Force_2018

Wed:

• Debrief tests
• Direct instruction: Force
  • ISP_Notes_Ch 5_Force
• Lab 5A: What is a newton?
  • Lab 5A_What is a Newton?

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Debrief lab 5A, hand in report
• Direct instruction: weight and mass
  • ISP_Notes_Weight and Mass
• Kahoot review: weight and mass
• Concept practice: weight and mass
  • Practice: weight & mass

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Debrief Thurs concept practice handout
  • answers to weight & mass practice handout
• Lab 5B: Friction and force
  • Lab 5B_Friction

Announcements:

• Lab quiz: Potato osmosis lab: Tues 10/2 – data packet due
• Cells test: pt. 1: Wed 10/3
• Cells test: pt. 2: Thurs 10/4 – ch 8 reading guide packet due
• Biology notebook due: Fri 10/5

Mon:

• Direct instruction: ch 8-4
  • ch 8.4 note_homeostasis & cells
• Discuss # 32 – 36 assignment in reading guide packet – packet due Thurs 10/4
• Group inquiry activity: Cell membrane  – begin
  • group-inquiry-cell-membrane

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Hand in Potato osmosis lab data packet
• Lab quiz: Potato osmosis lab
• Test review: Pt. 1: structure and function
• Finish cell membrane group inquiry, hand in group paper

Wed:

• Cells test pt. 1: structure & function
• Test review: Part 2: cell theory, transport, specialization

Thurs:

• Hand in ch 8 reading guide packet
• Cells test: pt. 2: cell theory, transport, specialization
  • IB test questions
• Biology notebooks: what to include – due tomorrow

Fri:

• Debrief tests
• Direct instruction: ch 9-1
  • ch 9.1 notes_energy & life
• Hand in Biology notebooks
• Group inquiry activity: Photosynthesis – begin
  • group-inquiry_photosynth

Announcements:

• Balloon Jet Car project report due: Wed 9/26
• Lab 4B: Acceleration: lab report due Wed 9/26
• Test: Ch 4: Motion: Tues 10/2

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Finish Lab 4B : Acceleration – data collection
• Balloon Jet car testing

Tues:

• Debrief Lab 4B: Acceleration
• Last day to test Balloon Jet cars  – reports due tomorrow
• Work on Lab 4B reports: Acceleration – reports due tomorrow

Wed:

• Hand in Lab 4B: Acceleration lab report
• Hand in Balloon Jet car project report
• Direct instruction: Free fall
  • ISP_Notes_Free_Fall
• Video clips:
  • https://laughingsquid.com/a-feather-and-a-bowling-ball-dropped-together-inside-the-worlds-largest-vacuum-chamber/
• Concept practice: Analyzing graphs of motion
  • Analyzing Graphs of Motion
  • answers to analyzing graphs activty

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Kahoot review: Acceleration
• Concept practice: Acceleration story problems
  • ISP_Worksheet_Acceleration Story Problems
  • answers to accel story probs practice

Fri:

• Catch-up day for non-IHS students

Announcements:

• Lab quiz: Cell lab series: Wed 9/26 – data packet due
• Lab quiz: Potato osmosis lab: Tues 10/2 – data packet due
• Tests: Cells
  • pt 1: structure & function: Wed 10/3
  • pt 2: processes: Thurs 10/4
• Ch 8 reading guide packet due: Thurs 10/4

Mon:

• Discuss # 10 – 22 reading guide packet assignment
• For Fri: complete #23 – 31 in reading guide packet
• Cell labs 2 & 3

Tues:

• Complete Cell labs 3 & 4
• Debrief Cell lab series – lab quiz and data packet due tomorrow

Wed:

• Hand in Cell lab series data packet
• Lab quiz: Cell lab series
• Potato osmosis lab: Day 1
  • Lab_potato osmosis
• Begin Group Inquiry activity: Cell organelles
  • group-inquiry_organelles

Thurs:

• Potato osmosis lab: Day 2
  • combine class data
  • begin data analysis

Fri:

• Direct instruction: ch 8-3
  • ch 8.3 notes_cell transport
• Discuss # 23 – 31 in reading guide packet
• For Mon: complete # 32 -36 in reading guide packet – packet due Thurs 10/4
• Debrief Potato osmosis lab
  • potato osmosis lab debrief graph answers 
  • lab quiz: Tues 10/2 – data packet due
• Complete Group inquiry activity: Cell organelles, hand in group paper

Announcements:

• Lab 4A: Speed: Lab report due: Wed 9/19
• Ch 4 Reading Guide puzzle due: Thurs 9/20

Mon:

• Debrief Fri test
• Intro: Speed
• Lab 4A: Speed
  • Lab 4A_Speed

Tues:

• Concept practice: Speed calculations
  • Worksheet_Speed Calculations
  • answers to speed calc story probs
• Finish Lab 4A: Speed

Wed:

• Kahoot practice: Speed calculations
• Debrief Lab 4A: Speed, hand in lab report
• Engineering project: Balloon Jet Cars
  • intro
    • ISP_Balloon_Jet_Cars
  • begin work

Thurs:

• Hand in Ch 4 Reading Guide puzzle
• Direct instruction: Velocity
  • ISP_Notes_Velocity_Grphs of Motion
• Work on Balloon Jet cars, test prototypes

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Direct instruction: Acceleration
  • Notes_Acceleration
• Lab 4B – Acceleration
  • Lab 4B_acceleration

Announcements:

• Test: Biochemistry: Tues 9/18
• Enzyme lab data packet due: Tues 9/18
• Lab quiz: Enzyme lab: Tues 9/18
• Scientific sketching lab report due: Thurs 9/20

Mon:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Debrief Enzyme lab
  • lab quiz tomorrow
  • data packet due tomorrow
• Test review: 1-pager
  • Rubric for 1 pager review
  • Sample one-pager

Tues:

• Hand in “1-pager”
• Hand in Enzyme lab data packet
• Lab quiz: Enzymes
• Test: Ch 2: Biochemistry
• For Wed: read ch 8-1, complete # 1 – 9 in ch 8 reading guide packet
  • ch 8 reading guide hw_bio

Wed:

• Test & lab quiz debrief
• Direct instruction: ch 8-1
  • ch 8.1 notes life is cellular
• Discuss Tues reading guide assignment
• For Mon 9/24: read ch 8-2, complete # 10 – 22 in reading guide packet
• Lab: Scientific sketching
  • sketch lab_fly legs

Thurs:

• Finish Sci Sketching lab, debrief, hand in report
• Handouts:
  • What to know – ch 8 test
  • IB Curriculum Guide: The Cell
    • ib-bio-a-curriculum-guide_unit-2_cells
• For Fri: complete Organelles handout
  • organelle struct & funct practice

Fri:

• Debrief Organelles handout
  • answers to organelles handout
• Begin Cell Lab series
  • cell lab 1 cork
  • cell lab 2_onion epidermis
  • cell lab 3 elodea
  • cell lab 4 epithelial cells

Announcements:

• Ch 1 reading guide packet due: Tues 9/11
• Measurement lab report due: Tues 9/11
• Ch 2 reading guide packet due: Fri 9/14
• Ch 1 & 2 Test: Fri 9/14
• Graphing refresher packet due: Fri 9/14
• Ch 4 reading guide puzzle due: Thurs 9/20

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
  • revised-notes-example
• Direct instruction: Precision, accuracy, resolution
  • Precision, Accuracy, Resolution
• Lab: Measurement
  • Measurement Lab

Tues:

• Discuss ch 1 reading guide packet & submit packet
• Ch 2 reading guide packet – due Fri 9/14
  • ch 2 reading assign_PS Energy
• Debrief Measurement lab, hand in lab report
• Direct instruction: significant digits
  • Significant figures notes
• Concept practice: significant digits
  • ISP_Worksheet_Significant Digits I
    • answers to sig fig practice handouts
  • Significant Digits worksheet II
• Metric conversion practice #2
  • metric conversions 2

Wed:

• Debrief Metric conversion practice #2
• Kahoot review: Significant digits
• Direct instruction: Graphing review
  • Graphing notes
• Classwork: Graphing refresher – packet due Fri 9/14
  • Graphing Refresher activity

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Ch 1 & 2 review packet & debrief
  • ch 1 & 2 test review sheet
  • ch 1 & 2 review sheet answers
• Work on Graphing Refresher packet

Fri:

• Discuss ch 2 reading assignmt, submit packet
• Test: Ch 1 & 2
• Finish Graphing Refresher packet and hand in
• Reading assignmt: ch 4 – due Thurs 9/.20
  • Chapter 4 Reading Guide

Announcements:

• Ch 2 reading guide packet due: Thurs 9/13
• Lab quiz: Enyzme simulation lab: Tues 9/18
  • lab data packet due
• Chapter 2 Test: Biochemistry: Tues 9/18

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
  • revised-notes-example_ch-2-1_
• Discuss Fri reading assignmt
• For Tues: complete # 5 – 8 in reading guide packet
• Video: Crash course: Properties of water
• Finish Group Inquiry activity: properties of water
  • submit group paper

Tues:

• Direct instruction: ch 2.2
  • ch 2.2 notes_props of water
• Discuss Mon reading assignmt
• For Wed: complete Q # 9 – 14 in reading guide packet
• Group inquiry activity: Biological molecules
  • group-inquiry-biological-molecule

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Direct instruction: Ch 2.3
  • ch 2.3 notes_carbon compounds
• Discuss Tues reading assignmt
  • For Thurs: complete Q # 15 – 17 in reading guide packet
    • packet due tomorrow
• Finish Group inquiry activity: Biological molecules
  • submit group paper
• Lab safety agreement
  • Lab Safety agreement & xword_Bio

Thurs:

• Handouts:
  • What to know: ch 2 test: Biochemistry
    • WTK – ch 2 test
  • IB Curriculum guide: Biochemistry
    • IB curriculum guide Unit 1 Biochem
• Revise Wed notes
• Direct instruction: ch 2.4
  • ch 2.4 notes_enzymes
• Discuss Wed reading assignmt
  • submit reading guide packet: ch 2
• Lab: Enyzme simulation: Tubase
  • Enzyme simulation lab_tubase

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Complete lab: Enzyme simulation
  • lab quiz: Tues 9/18 – data packet due Tues also