WELCOME TO THE HORNETS' NEST TEAM 7.3
The following is a list of a daily class activities: practice, test dates, labs, and Team information. If there is an (open) button next to the listing (assignment), you can click on it to view and print the document. If there is NOT a link next to the listing (assignment), ask a classmate or me to explain the assignment to you.
Date Classwork/Activity/Practice/Announcements
2018
06/12 River Crossing (PPT)
06/05 ECOLOGY SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
06/04 #13 Study Guide (open) review and studied flash cards TEST TOMORROW
ECOLOGY SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH
06/01 Study Guide due Monday 6/4--see 5/30 for viewing or printing
#12 Symbiosis Practice (open) Studied symbiosis with smiley, neutral and sad face cards
05/31 Discussed Competition of Native Red Squirrels and Invasive Grey Squirrels and coyotes and
discussed and analyzed a predator and prey graph and made predictions
#11 Completed a Directed Reading Chapter 18.3 (open) Reading (open)
Worked on Study Guide and studied with our flash cards
05/30 Read pages 444, 445, and one paragraph of 446 (open)
#10 Amoeba Sisters Food Web worksheet (open)
Study Guide due Monday, 6/4 (open)
05/29 Niche vs. Habitat Read pages 442-443 (open)
Wrote the definition of each and made a T-Chart and recorded observations of habitat and niche in the Red Wolf video 05/25 Took the Redwood Food Web and made an energy pyramid with it (open)
#9 Review Paper (open)
05/24 Peer Graded Redwood Food Web, Read page 441 (open) and watched videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZkWZ12A8s
- Learn Biology: Trophic Levels and Producer vs. Consumer 2:21 Mahalo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScizkxMlEOM
- The 10 percent rule 1:42
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVavgmveyY
- Amoeba Sisters Food Web. .
05/22 #8 Redwood Canopy Food Web --see me and reviewed yesterday's assignment
05/21 #7 D. Read and Food Web Intro (open)(open) read 238-240 (open)
05/18 #6 Flash Cards from vocabulary list (open) Due 5/25
completed #5 drawing and labeling an ecosystem (see #5 below)
05/17 #4 Read pages 434-437 in your green Life Science book (you should have a book at home that is
checked out to you) and complete worksheet (open) (open)
#5 Drawing of Ecosystem and labeled is a formative see the bottom of the #5 Abiotic/biotic
worksheet for directions.
05/16 Introduction to Ecology Unit --capacity matrix (open) discussed abiotic and biotic factors
05/15 SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT RENEWABLE AND NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES
05/14 Discussed and completed the notes taken on slideshow presentations (see below)
05/01- 05/11 #4 Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Resource Project--due 5/9
(open) (open)
Notes taken on presentation of Slideshow Project of each resource (open)
04/30 Mastery Part of Plate Tectonics test and reviewed other part of the test.
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT PLATE TECTONICS FRIDAY, APRIL 27
FLASH CARDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR STUDY UPON REQUEST
04/25 Read pages 205-207 and 234-235 in Holt Earth Science book and answered questions on a
worksheet, made a Plate Tectonic "Cootie Catcher" to quiz each other
04/24 Discussed predicting Natural Hazards and Catastrophes
Practiced studying with student whiteboard responses
04/23 Answered Task Cards and used as flash card study
Discussed predictions of natural disasters
04/20 Practice Tectonic Boundary identification with matching cards
20 minutes of Planet Earth video to honor Earth Day
04/19 #2 Graham Cracker Lab and lab sheet (open) PPT (open)
04/18 Completed notes and questions on the Plate Tectonic Note assignment
Studied plate boundaries with matching cards
04/17 Continue with notes and discussion regarding different plate boundaries
04/16 #1 Plate Tectonic Notes with PPT (open) (open)
04/12 #30 Seafloor Spreading notes (open) PPT (open)
04/11 #29 Pangaea Puzzle (open) (open) PPT (open)
04/11 #30 Seafloor Spreading Notes (open)
04/10 #28 Wegener Continental Drift Notes (open)
PPT for notes above (open)
04/09 Went back for a quick review of Heredity as we analyzed our Monster Families.
Watched 20 minutes of a Planet Earth video
04/06 SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT TEST Earth's Interior
04/05 Reviewed Study Guide and Played an Earth's Interior Kahoots
04/04 #26 Convection Current Lab (open)
04/03 #25 Convection Currents worksheet to accompany reading pages #288-289 (open)
Lesson 1 Reading Earth's Interior--go to page 288-289 (open)
#26 Earth Foldable Questions (open)
#28 Study Guide due Thursday 4/5 (open)
04/02 Completed Foldable and added notes, quizzed each other with a blank foldable
03/23 #24 Earth Foldable (open) colored on 3/26, completed on 3/27
03/22 #23 Bill Nye The Earth's Crust video note fill-in (open) answer key (open)
03/20-21 Beginning of our Earth Science Unit
#22 Earth's Interior (open) completed 3/14
Lesson 1 Reading Earth's Interior (open)
#21 Earth's Layers Oreo Lab (open) completed 3/14
03/19 Discussed Hybrids, read a Science World article on hybrids of Zebras and Horses
03/15-16 Blood Typing 2 day lab
03/14 Blood Typing lesson
03/13 HEREDITY SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
03/12 Review Study Guide that was due today
Practice problems on student whiteboards
HEREDITY SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT TOMORROW
03/09 Monster Project due
#19 Coin Flip (open)
03/08 Reviewed Guinea Pig paper and practiced 3 Punnett Square problems
#18 Dimple Punnett Square (open)
#19 Study Guide (open) due Monday
03/07 Intro to Punnett Squares, #17 Guinea Pig handout (open)
watched an Amoeba Sister video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-0rSv6oxSY
03/06 #16 Bill Nye Genes Video handout (open) Answer Key (open)
Last day to work on Monster Project in the classroom. Finish at home--Due Friday, 3/9
03/05 Review vocabulary with student whiteboards
#15 Heredity Fill-In Notes (open) Answer Key (open)
03/02 Monster Lab
03/01 Monster Lab
02/28 Monster Lab
02/27 Study vocab. words, Ted Ed-How Mendel's Pea Plants helped us understand genetics
Intro to Monster Lab that is due Friday, March 9 If absent, the student will need to make an
appointment to come and see me to get caught up.
02/26 Review with student whiteboards genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous, genes, alleles,
dominant, recessive--2 hour late start due to snow
02/23 Review Vocabulary words for flash cards (open) flash cards card template (open)
Gregor Mendel Pea Lab (open)
02/21 Directed Reading Chapter 5 discussed and completed #1-#17 together (open)
Chapter 5 Reading (open)
02/20 Discussed results of class and team % of the Inventory of Traits and determined that dominant
traits do not always show up more frequently in a population.
Gingerbread People Lab (open)
02/16 Intro to Heredity Unit (open)
Inventory of Traits (open)
02/15 SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT DNA AND THE CELL CYCLE
02/14 Studied and reviewed with student white boards for the test that is tomorrow
02/13 Reviewed Study Guide and observed different steps of the cell cycle in onion root tips on 400X with
the microscopes
02/12 Practiced the steps of the cell cycle on student whiteboards, discussed why we are not a banana
02/09 Hela Cells "The Immortal Woman" and Cancer Fighter (open)
"The Immortal Woman" ScienceWorld Article (open)
Study Guide (open) due Tuesday
02/08 Mitosis Notes Fill in and drawings with colored pencils (open) answer key (open)
02/07 Amoeba Sisters Video Mitosis 7:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwcwSZIfKlM
Handed out Directed Reading Chapter 4.3 The Cell Cycle--due Friday (open)
Chapter 4.3 Reading (open)
02/06 Reviewed DNA Pre and Post Banana lab and completed DNA models
02/05 #4a Post Lab of the DNA Extraction Banana Lab (open)
#5 DNA worksheet and Model (open) (open)
02/02 #4 Banana DNA Extraction Lab and Post Lab--on the link below (open)
02/01 #4 Banana DNA Extraction PreLab (open)
01/31 #3 Cornell Notes (open) PPT (open)
01/30 #2 Amoeba Sisters: Structure and Function of DNA video notes and
Ted Ed The Twisting Tale of DNA (open)
Link to the Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_POdWsii7AI
Link to the Ted Ed video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_b80fHmuWw&vl=en
01/29 Intro to new unit - (open)
#1 Prior Knowledge and Directed Reading Chapter 6 pages 128 and 130 (open)
Chapter pages 128 and 130 (open)
01/25 CELL ENERGY (PHOTOSYNTHESIS/CELLULAR RESPIRATION TEST
01/24 Review for the test tomorrow, played the game for 15 minutes for final review.
01/23 Played the Photosynthesis/Cellular Respiration game for review for the test.
CELL ENERGY (PHOTOSYNTHESIS/CELLULAR RESPIRATION TEST THURSDAY 1/25
01/22 Reviewed Study Guide and worked on the Board Game that is due tomorrow.
01/16-19 I was out on a family emergency this week. The following are the activities and classwork that
was completed during this time:
#23 Exercise Lab (open)
#24 Snail and Elodea Lab (open)
Introduction to the creating of a Photosynthesis/Cellular Respiration Board Game
#25 Study Guide--Test Thursday 1/25 (open)
01/12 Looked at the chloroplast of an aquatic leaf under the microscope at 400X
#22 Cellular Respiration Diagram (open) answer key (open) and Cut and Paste activity (open)
01/11 Reviewed and discussed the Leaf Disk Lab analysis and questions/answers
01/10 #21 Leaf Disk Lab (open)
01/09 Previewed the Leaf Disk Lab and discussed
01/08 Cut out Photosynthesis equation and paste (open)
01/05 Cut out atoms and created the molecules for the photosynthesis equation
#19 Photosynthesis diagram--only the first page (open) answer key (open)
01/04 #18 Directed Reading Chapter 4 Section 2 (open)
Copy of chapter (open)
01/03 Continued with discussion of Photosynthesis, reviewed the molecules involved in the reaction
and the discussed the chemical equation: H20+CO2+light energy-------------C6H12O6 + O2
01/02 Review procedures and intro to new unit Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
(open)
2017
12/15 Let's learn about Reindeer HAVE A MERRY AND JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON
12/14 Jeopardy covering Structure and Function of Cells, History of Cells and Microscopes
12/13 Cell Factory Illustration Analogy DUE TODAY (see 12/05 below)
12/12 SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT ON EUKARYOTIC CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
12/11 Reviewed and corrected #17 Study Guide (see 12/07 below)
Sketched a Plant Cell by listening to directions
12/08 Completed the Diffusion Lab, Student Whiteboard Review for Tuesday's test, Formative on
identificaton of 5 cell parts
12/07 #16 Diffusion Lab (open)
#17 Study Guide (open) TEST TUESDAY 12/12
12/06 Flash Card practice, Formative Assessment on 5 cell parts and their functions
Plant and Animal label cell parts and make a color key (open)
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT ON CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION TUESDAY 12/12
12/05 Cell Factory Illustration due 12/13 (open scoring guide)
12/04 Review and discuss Directed Reading
Cheek and Elodea-label drawings (open) T-Chart (open) Due tomorrow-Tuesday
12/01 #11 Directed Reading Chapter 3 Section 3 (open) copy of chapter (open)
#13 The Cell As A Factory and crossword (open) Due Monday
11/30 Made Flash Cards from highlighted Cornell Notes
11/29 Intro to new Unit Chapter 3 Section 3 Eukaryotic Cells "The Inside Story" (open)
#10 Cornell Notes (open) Answer Key (open)
11/28 #9 Onion Cell Lab (open)
11/27 #8 Practice Field of View drawing (open) Draw one image on the back and color (open)
11/17 #7 'e' lab--learned to make a wet mount (open)
11/16 #6 Microscope Parts and 6 quick steps to use a microscope (open)
11/15 SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT DISCOVERY OF CELLS, PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS
11/14 Compared Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic and Both by arranging cut-outs into columns
Review for the test that is TOMORROW
11/13 #5 Venn Diagram on Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells and Identified Cells as
Prokaryotic/Eukaryotic, animal/plant/bacteria (open)
#4 Study Guide due tomorrow (open)
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT DISCOVERY OF CELLS AND PROKARYOTIC/EUKARYOTIC
CELLS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
11/09 Completed Cornell Notes (see 11/07 below)
Worked on Cell Theory Time Line that is due Monday
11/08 Completed #2 Directed Reading (see below)
Cell Theory Time Line (open) (open)
11/07 #3 Cornell Notes on the Discovery of Cells CH 3 S. 2(open)
only took notes on the 5 scientists
11/06 watched a Ted Ed Video "Wacky History of the Cell Theory" #1 (open) we discussed and
completed the worksheet.
#2 Directed Reading Chapter 3 Section 2 Life Science (open) Chapter 3 Section 2 (open)
Due Thursday 11/8 worked on this assignment 10 minutes today, 15 minutes Tuesday and 10-15
minutes Wednesday. If not complete, students were able to check out a copy of the chapter to
complete the assignment at home.
END OF FIRST QUARTER- students have until 11/17 to complete missing assignments
and/or retakes summative assessments (tests) to change their first quarter grade.
11/02 Completed an activity regarding living organisms and discussed the six characteristics of living
things.
11/01 Reviewed and completed a Written Test Reflection
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Pretest
10/31 Dry Ice Lab (open)
10/30 Summative Assessment States of Matter and Phase Changes--weighted as two tests
10/27 Review Study Guide and what to study for Mastery
Endo and Exothermic Reaction list eight phase changes as endo or exothermic reactions
10/26 #20 Jar Diagrams (open)
Venn Diagram Part Two (open)
10/25 #19 Phase Diagram Practice (Boiling/Melting) (open)
Study Guide Due Friday (open)
10/24 #18 Discussed graphed data from Freezing Lab and completed analysis.
Tomorrow #17 Reading Summary CH 3 S. 2 is due and
#16 Phase Change Pictionary (if not turned in Friday) See below for copies of assignments.
CHAPTER 3 SECTION 2 Phase Changes--copy of chapter (open)
10/23 #18 Freezing Lab (open) Did the experiment today. Students are to plot their data on to the
graph. We will discuss and complete the analysis part tomorrow.
If absent--plot the following data (open)
10/20 #16 Phase Change Pictionary (open) See 10/17 for copy of Chapter 3.2
10/19 Reviewed and discussed Evaporation Lab
#17 Completed Reading Summary CH 3 S. 2--see 10/17 for assignment and copy of chapter
10/18 #15 Evaporation Lab (open) Vanishing Act Bell Ringer
10/17 #14 Molecules in Motion (open) hot and cold/food coloring demo, metal ball and ring demo
#17 Reading Summary Chapter 3 Section 2 #1-6 (open) Copy of Reading (open)
10/16 Discussed a "Slime" article to determine if our slime is a solid or liquid.
Completed the Ice Cream Lab and discussed why this is a endothermic reaction.
10/13 Teacher In-service Day--no school for students
10/12 #13 Ice Cream Lab (open) Is it an endothermic or exothermic reaction? If absent, you will be
excused from this lab.
10/11 Fort Vannoy Field Trip
10/10 #12 Venn Diagram Part 1 (open)
Formative assessment States of Matter (0% towards grade)
10/09 #11 Slime Lab (open) --Is it a solid or liquid? If absent, you will be excused from this lab.
10/06 Completed and discussed #10 States of Matter --noted below
10/05 Reviewed and discussed #9 assignment
Started #10 States of Matter Notes (open)
10/04 Reviewed what CRLS (Career Related Learning Standards) are
#9 Reading Summary of Chapter 3 Section 1 (open)--read this CH 3 S. 1 silently and
completed worksheet (open)
10/03 Scanned new unit Vocabulary with a 4-sided puzzle
Watched Bill Nye Phase Changes video and completed #8 Video Notes (open)
10/02 Discussed new unit Rubric and Capacity Matrix (open) States of Matter
Review Friday's test and completed a reflection piece
Discussed and reviewed how to read "Grades"
09/29 Summative Assessment on Scientific Investigation and Design
09/28 Practiced identifying Controls and Variables and writing hypotheses
#7 Practice Writing a Hypothesis (open) due tomorrow
09/27 Connected Observations, Inferences, and Variables to forming a hypothesis
09/26 Reviewed SpongeBob worksheet, Formative Quiz for controls, variables, and 3 guidelines,
#6 Study Guide due Thursday 9/28 (open)
09/25 Discussed and practiced identifying Controls, Independent Variables, and Dependent Variables
#5 SpongeBob Controls and Variables due tomorrow 9/26 (open)
TEST Friday
09/22 Mini Maker Faire Field trip
09/21 Review --is it a controlled experiment or not?, begin identifying a control, independent variable and
dependent variable
09/20 Make a claim of what's inside the original yellow model, Quiz on 6 steps of the Scientific Method
Practice identifying whether or not an experiment is a good controlled experiment based on the three
guidelines.
09/19 Review yesterday's information, analyze evidence of other Tube models
09/18 Explore and analyze Tube models, #4 Scientific Method Steps, 3 Guideline to a Good Controlled
Experiment, Control, Independent Variable and Dependent Variable (open) completed together in
class. Answer Key (open)
09/15 Continue with Tube Exploration--build models--#3 assignment due today
09/14 #3 Tube Exploration (open) make observations and inferences, design drawings
09/13 Review and Discuss #2 assignment, Quiz on Observation & Inferences
09/12 #2 Observation and Inferences assignment due tomorrow, 9/13 (open)
09/11 We begin our first unit: Learning Target: LEARNING TARGET--> I CAN define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with
sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the
natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
STUDENT FRIENDLY LANGUAGE LEARNING TARGET:
I CAN make observation and inferences write an hypothesis, identify variables and apply
scientific processes to design and carry out an experiment.
Today we reviewed and discussed Observations and Inferences.
09/07 #1 Science Word Card, first assignment due 9/12. Students chose a word associated with science,
wrote the word on a 1/2 sheet of card stock and decorated the word.
09/05-09-08 First Week of School students learned the lay out of the school, procedures, expectations,
attended an assembly and we all got to know each other.
Check your Hedrick Planner to see what you need to have completed in class today, what your practice (homework) is each night for all your classes and keep track of upcoming due dates, tests, and upcoming events.