Mon

• Highs and Lows
• Practice Quiz: Cells
• Cells Lab 4: Living Plant Cells (Onion)

Tue

• Amazing Cell Video
• Cells Lab 5: Living Plant Cells with Chloroplasts (Elodea)

Wed

• Cell Quiz for real
• Finish and turn in all cell labs

Thu

• No classes: Teacher grading and Professional Development

Fri

• No school: Unpaid state inservice day

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Mon

• Summative Project – What’s wrong with Baby Matthew?
  • Intro slides – Explaining Metabolism
  • Partner project: Once I give you a number, log into goformative.com and get started
    • answer the question for your number and also #16
  • Brief partner presentation tomorrow

Tues

• 10-15 min with partners
• Class presentations
• Prelab: Biomolecule Engineering Project

Wed

• Start Cell Unit
• Lab: Measurement and scope skills

Thu

• Direct Instruction (here are the slides): Cells (Text reference Ch 8.1 & 8.2)
• Continue cell labs
  • finish measurement and scope skills lab
  • Cork cells lab

Fri

• Continue Cell Labs
  • Finish cork cells lab
  • Onion cells lab
  • Cheek cells lab
• Be ready for surprise quiz on Monday!

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Mon

• DNA Replication
• Model Building
• Read Ch 14.1 & 14.2

Tue

• Replication review
• Transcription
• Model Building
• Re-read Ch 14.1 & 14.2

Wed

• Log into goformative.com and take “Practice DNA Quiz”
• Done? check out these helpful videos!
  • Transcription (DNAi) <—- watch this one first
  • What are DNA and Genes (Learn Genetics website)
  • Translation (DNAi)
  • Amoeba Sisters Protein Synthesis
  • Crash Course Biology Transcription and Translation
• When your table group is all ready, start the next model building lab: Transcription

Thu

• Making proteins with words

Fri

• Biomolecules and DNA Big Quiz

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Mon

• debrief Popbeadase Lab
• Drylab: Catalase

Tue

• Lab Quiz
• Go over Biomolecules Quiz
• DNA: KWL
• Direct Instruction DNA
• Prelab DNA extraction lab

Wed

• DNA extraction lab

Thu

• Quiz: DNA scientists and structure
• POGIL: DNA structure and replication
• Direct Instruction DNA

Fri

• Quizlets and Kahoot
• Direct Instruction, Cont’d

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Wed

• Welcome back to school!
• Intro Survey
• Syllabus (signatures due tomorrow)
• “Find Someone” bingo
• Nature of Science: Inquiry Cube (due tomorrow)

Thu

• Web resources:
  • this blog
  • Google Classroom
    • per 1: 8l4r8sl
    • per 3: ylz7n10
    • per 5: 51hr3k
  • Quizlet – Click me to join the Quizlet class!
• Take biomolecules pretest (On Google Classroom) and submit result
• Nature of Science: Emails Lab (due tomorrow)

Fri

• Unit opener: Sweet baby boy & class questions
• Inquiry Cubes: Biomolecules (due in class)
• Amoeba Sisters: Biomolecules

Monday 9/9

• Pattern Matching: Biomolecules
• Amoeba Sisters: Biomolecules
• Homework: Read & skim 2.1 & 2.2 (they are review from 9th gr sci)
• Homework: Read and learn 2.3
• Start POGIL: Biological Molecules

Tues 9/10

• Finish POGIL: Biological Molecules
• Direct Instruction: Biological Molecules

Wed 9/11

• Continue Direct Instruction
• Start Lab: PopBeadase
• Amoeba Sisters: Enzymes
• Crash Course Biology: Biological Molecules

Thu 9/12

• Finish PopBeadase Lab
• Practice Quiz (Google Classroom)

Fri 9/13

• Quiz: Molecules and Enzymes (Reference: Text Ch 2, Quizlet 03 Biomolecules, POGIL, classroom discussion)
• Finish Popbeadase Lab (due Mon)

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