Landis's Science Classes

Announcements:

• Rocket launch #1: Mon 10/29 – weather permitting
• Test: Ch 6: 3 Laws of Motion: Wed 10/31
• Rocket launch – final: Fri 11/2 – weather permitting
• Rocket project report due: Mon 11/5
• Ch 7 reading guide puzzle due: Wed 11/7

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Rocket launch #1
  • analyze data
  • begin reports
    • rocket project report

Tues:

• Chapter 6 review sheet: Newton’s 3 Laws & debrief
  • ch 6 review sheet
  • answers to ch 6 review sheet
• Re-build rockets

Wed:

• Test: Ch 6: Newton’s 3 Laws
• Begin Ch 7: Energy – reading guide puzzle due: Wed 11/7
  • ch 7 reading guide puzzle_energy
• Rocket rebuild

Thurs:

• Debrief test
• Video: Crash course: Humans & energy
• Complete video questions sheet with laptops
  • crash course vid human energy 207 questions
• If time, rocket rebuild

Fri:

• Final rocket launch
• Finish rocket project reports – due Mon 11/7

Announcements:

• Mitosis sketch lab report due: Mon 10/29
• Short test: Ch 11: Cell cycle & cell division: Tues 10/30
• Ch 12 reading guide packet due: Fri 11/2

Mon:

• Test review: ch 11: Cell cycle & cell division
• Finish Mitosis sketch lab, hand in report

Tues:

• Short test: Ch 11: Cell cycle & cell division
• For Wed: read ch 12.1 & 12.2, complete # 1 – 14 in ch 12 reading guide packet
  • ch 12 reading guide packet_intro to genetics
• Direct instruction: ch 12.1 & 12.2
  • ch 12.1 notes_work of mendel
  • ch 12.2 notes_applying mendels principles
• Concept practice: Genetic symbols
  • Symbols

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Discuss 1 – 14 assignment
• For Fri: read ch 12.3 & 12.4, complete # 15 – 26 in packet – packet due Fri
• Debrief “Genetic symbols” practice handout
  • Answers to Symbols handout
• Practice: Monhybrid crosses
  • monohybrid practic probs_genetics
  • answers_monohybrid cross & indep assortment
• Direct instruction: 2-factor & sex-linked crosses
  • 2-factor-sex-linked-notes-genetics-problems
• Concept practice: sex-linked & 2-factor crosses
  • sex linked & 2 factor cross practice

Thurs:

• Handouts:
  • What to know – ch 12 & 15 test: Genetics
    • ch 12 & 15 test-what to know
  • IB Curriculum Guide: Genetics
    • IB Bio A curriculum guide_unit 5_ genetics
• Debrief Wed concept practice
  • answers to sex-linked & 2-factor cross practice
• Group inquiry activity: Meiosis – begin
  • group-inquiry-meiosis

Fri:

• Direct instruction: ch 12.3 & 12.4
  • ch 12.3 notes_other patterns of inheritance
  • ch 12.4 notes_meiosis
• Discuss #15 – 26 assignment, hand in packet
• Finish Meiosis group inquiry activity, submit group paper

Announcements:

• Rocket project materials must be in room S7 by Mon 10/22!
• Ch 6 reading guide puzzle due: Tues 10/23
• Lab 6B: 3rd Law: Lab report due Thurs 10/25
• First rocket launch: Fri 10/26 – weather permitting

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Rocket project
  • introduction, scoring rubric
    • ISP_Rockets
  • begin design & construction

Tues:

• Hand in ch 6 reading guide puzzle
• Rocket build

Wed:

• Direct instruction: 3rd law of motion
  • ISP_Notes_3rd Law
• Lab 6B: 3rd law of motion
  • lab-6b_newtons-3rd-law 
  • report due Thurs

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Finish Rocket build
• Evaluate rockets for Fri launch

Fri:

• Direct instruction: Momentum
  • ISP_Notes_momentum
• Concept practice: Momentum
  • ISP_Worksheet_Momentum
  • momentum worksheet answers

Announcements:

• Test: Ch 9 & 10: Cell Energetics: Wed 10/24
• Ch 11 reading guide packet due: Fri 10/26
• Mitosis lab report due: Mon 10/29
• Test: ch 11: Cell Cycle: Tues 10/30

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Review Cellular Respiration diagram
• Finish Group Inquiry: Cell Respiration, hand in group paper

Tues:

• Kahoot review: Cell energetics
• Test Review: Cell energetics

Wed:

• Test: Ch 9 & 10: Cell energetics
  • IB test questions
• For Thurs: Read ch 11.1 & 11.2, complete # 1 – 14 in reading guide packet
  • ch 11 reading guide packet_cell growth & division

Thurs:

• Debrief tests
• Direct instruction: Ch 11.1 & 11.2
  • ch 11.1 & 11.2 notes_cell growth, div & reprod
• Discuss # 1 – 14 assignment
• For Fri: Read 11.3 & 11.4, complete # 15 – 24 in reading guide packet
• Mitosis sketch lab: begin
  • mitosis scope lab

Fri:

• Handouts:
  • What to know: ch 11 test
    • Chapter 11 test_what to know
  • IB Curriculum Guide: Cell Cycle
    • IB Bio A curriculum guide_unit 4_ cell cycle
• Revise Wed notes
• Direct instruction: Ch 11.3 & 11.4
  • ch 11.3 & 11.4 notes_regulating cell cycle & cell differentiation
• Discuss # 15 – 24 assignment, hand in reading guide packet
• Continue Mitosis lab

Announcements:

• Test: ch 5: Force: Tues 10/16
• Lab 6A report due: Fri 10/19
• Rocket materials must be in class by Tues 10/23!
• Ch 6 reading guide puzzle due: Tues 10/23

Mon:

• Revise Tues notes
• Kahoot review: Equilibrium and net force – if time
• Ch 5 review sheet and debrief
  • ch 5 review sheet_phys sci
  • answers to ch 5 review sheet

Tues:

• Test: ch 5
• Begin reading ch 6: ch 6 reading guide puzzle due: Tues 10/23
  • ch 6 reading guide puzzle_Newton’s laws
• Rocket project materials: need to be in class by Tues 10/23!
  • rocket materials list

Wed:

• Debrief test
• Direct instruction: 1st law of motion
  • ISP_Notes_1st Law
• Demonstration: 1st law of motion
• Concept practice: Net force & 1st law
  • net force & 1st law practice
  • answers to first law concept practice

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Lab 6A: 1st and 2nd laws of motion
  • Lab 6A_Newton’s 1st & 2nd Law 
  • debrief
  • report due tomorrow

Fri:

• Direct instruction: 2nd law of motion
  • ISP_Notes_2nd Law
• Concept practice: 2nd law calculations & debrief
  • ISP_Worksheet_2nd Law Story Problems
  • answers to 2nd law story problems
• Finish Lab 6A reports and hand in

Announcements:

• Quiz: Photosynthesis: Mon 10/15 – ch 9 reading guide packet due
• Lab quiz: Pigments lab: lab data sheet due
• Energetics project due (Wheaties box): Fri 10/19
• Ch 10 reading guide packet due: Fri 10/19
• Test: ch 9 & 10: Energetics: Wed 10/24

Mon:

• Review photosynthesis
• Hand in ch 9 reading guide packet
• Quiz: Photosynthesis
• Debrief Pigment lab: lab quiz tomorrow, lab data sheet due tomorrow
• For Tues: Read ch 10.1, complete # 1 – 6 in reading guide packet
  • Ch 10 reading guide packet
• Finish Group inquiry activity, submit group papers

Tues:

• Hand in Pigment lab data sheet
• Lab quiz: Pigment lab
• Direct instruction: ch 10.1
  • ch 10.1 notes CR overview
• Discuss # 1 – 6 assignment
• For Wed: complete # 7 – 17 in reading guide packet
• Project: Energetics: intro – due Fri 10/19
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Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Direct instruction: ch 10.2
  • ch 10.2 notes_process of CR
• Discuss # 7 – 17 assignment
• For Fri: complete # 18 – 22 in reading guide packet: packet due Fri
• Library: work on Energetics projects

Thurs:

• Library: last class time to work on Energetics projects – due tomorrow

Fri:

• Hand in projects
• Revise Wed notes
• Direct instruction: ch 10.3
  • ch 10.3 notes_fermentation
• Discuss # 18 – 22 assignment, hand in reading guide packet
• Group inquiry activity: Cellular respiration – begin
  • Group inquiry_Cell_Resp

Announcements:

• Ch 5 reading guide puzzle due: Tues 10/9
• Lab 5B: Friction – lab report due Tues 10/9
• Test: Ch 5: Force: Tues 10/16

Mon:

• Finish Lab 5B: Friction
• Debrief lab – report due tomorrow
• Direct instruction: Friction
  • ISP_Notes_Friction

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Hand in ch 5 reading guide puzzle
• Hand in Lab 5B: Friction lab report
• Direct instruction: Equilibrium
  • ISP_Notes_Equilibrium
• Concept practice: Equilibrium & debrief
  • ISP_Worksheet_Equilibrium
  • answers to equilibrium practice handout

Wed:

• No class meetings: Career & College readiness/Testing Day

Thurs:

• No classes: Professional development & mid-term grading day

Fri:

• No classes: Statewide in-service day

Announcements:

• Quiz: Photosynthesis: Mon 10/15 – ch 9 reading guide packet due
• Lab quiz: Pigment lab: Tues 10/16 – data packet due

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Direct instruction: ch 9.2
  • ch 9.2 notes_photosynthesis
• Handouts:
  • What to know – Cell energetics
    • Chapter 9 & 10 test-what to know
  • IB curriculum guide: Cell energetics
    • IB Biology A Curriculum Guide_Unit 3_Energetics
• Group inquiry activity: Photosynthesis – continue

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Discuss ch 9.3: photosystems
• Discuss # 19 – 27 in reading guide packet – packet due Mon 10/15
• Review Photosynthesis – quiz Mon
• Lab: Pigments
  • lab quiz: Tues 10/16
  • Paper chromatography lab

Wed:

• No class meetings: Career & College readiness/Testing Day

Thurs:

• No classes: Professional development & mid-term grading day

Fri:

• No classes: Statewide in-service day