Date |
Assignment Due |
Topic |
Class Plan |
2/28 |
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- WU: What are chromosomes?
- Review Exams
- Academic Break
- Introduce Genetics
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2/29 |
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- WU: Explain what a genetics are.
- Pass out new text books
- Academic Break
- Continue genetics discussion
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3/01 |
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3/02 |
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- WU: Explain why Mendel worked on pea plants.
- Discussion on Punnett Squares
- Complete CW
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2/20 |
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- WU: What is mitosis?
- Complete Lab
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2/21 |
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- WU: Explain 2 things you learned in your lab.
- Review mitosis stages
- Study for test
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2/22 |
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- WU: Questions
- Cell Cycle and Mitosis Test
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2/23 |
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- WU: None
- Review Exam
- Notebook Quiz
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2/13 |
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- WU: Explain each phase of mitosis.
- Complete mitosis drawings.
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2/14 |
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- WU: Diagram each stage of mitosis
- Mitosis modeling in the lab
- Set Lab: Mitosis Observations
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2/15 |
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- WU: Lab Quiz
- Lab: Mitosis Observations
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2/16 |
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- WU: Lab Questions
- Lab: Mitosis Observations
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2/6 |
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- WU: Explain how you could tell the difference between your cells.
- Discussion on writing lab conclusions.
- Academic Break--Take 5
- Complete lab conclusions
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2/7 |
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- WU: Why do cells divide?
- Discussion on stages of cell division
- Academic Break--Walk outside
- Cells stage diagrams
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2/8 |
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- WU: What are the stages of cell division?
- Complete cell stage diagrams
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2/9 |
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- WU: Explain each stage of division.
- Exam Review Guide
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1/30 |
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- WU: Summarize your cell model.
- Demo Cell Models
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1/31 |
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- WU: Work in textbook
- Discussion on microscope observatons
- Academic Break: Walk around playground
- Set Lab: Cell Observations
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2/1 |
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- WU: Lab Quiz
- Lab: Cell Observations
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2/2 |
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- WU: 3 observations from lab
- Complete Lab: Cell Observations
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1/23 |
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- WU: Why is understanding a cell important?
- Review papers
- Academic Break: Organize papers
- Discussion on a light microscope and it parts.
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1/24 |
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- WU: List and describe 5 parts of a light microscope.
- Discuss how to use a microscope and proper technique.
- Academic Break: Take 5
- Review field assignment and expectations
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1/25 |
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- Field Trip--La Junta Industrial Park
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- No Class-Field Trip La Junta Industrial Park
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1/26 |
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- Field Trip--La Junta Industrial Park
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- WU: What was your favorite part of each location visited yesterday.
- Complete field trip assignment--Due Monday
- Academic Break: Bring assignment to me to review half way through
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1/09 |
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- WU: What are the six kingdoms and what type of cells do they have
- Organelle flashcards
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1/10 |
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- WU: List 5 organelles and their function.
- Complete flashcards
- Set Quiz
- Begin cell drawings
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1/11 |
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- WU: List an addition 3 organelles and functions
- Complete drawings
- Set cell model
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1/12 |
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- WU: Review organelles
- Organelle quiz
- Work on Textbook Chapter
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1/02 |
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- WU: What is a cell?
- Explanation of semester plan.
- Discussion on surface area and volume.
- Demo of sugar cubes.
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1/03 |
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- WU: Explain why surface area and volume ratio is important.
- Discussion on the characteristics of life.
- Explain what a cell organelle is.
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1/04 |
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- WU: What is a cell organelle?
- Discussion on types of cells--prokaryotic and eukaryotic
- Cell organelle flashcards
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1/05 |
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- WU: What is the difference between a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell
- Complete flashcards
- Begin cell drawings (?)
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11/28 |
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- WU: What are 5 sedimentary rocks formations
- Rock Research Project
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11/29 |
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- WU: Questions and gather material
- Rock Research
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11/30 |
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- WU: Questions and gather material
- Rock Research
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12/1 |
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- WU: Questions and gather material
- Rock Research
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11/14 |
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- WU: What are the three types of rocks
- Discussion on the rock cycle
- Drawings
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11/15 |
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- WU: Explain the rock cycle
- Discussion on igneous rocks
- Drawings
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11/16 |
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- WU: Explain igneous rocks
- Discussion on metamorphic rocks
- Drawings
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11/17 |
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- WU: What is a metamorphic rock
- Discussion on sedimentary rocks
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11/7 |
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- WU: What is a taxonomic key?
- Notebook Quiz
- New Textbooks
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11/8 |
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11/9 |
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- WU: What is a Rock?
- Discussion on Weathering and Erosion
- Weathering and Erosion Examples
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11/10 |
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- WU: What is weathering and erosion
- Discussion on the rock cycle and rock types
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10/31 |
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- WU: Why is understanding Plate Tectonics Important?
- Complete Letters
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11/1 |
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- WU: What Is mineral?
- Discussion on what a mineral is and difference with rocks
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11/2 |
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- WU: What is a mineral?
- Discussion on mineral characteristics and identification.
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11/3 |
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- WU: What are 4 ways to identify minerals.
- Classification class activity.
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10/17 |
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- WU: List the layers of Earth and explain the core
- Discussion of tectonic plates and subduction zones
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10/18 |
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- WU: What is a subduction zone?
- Discussion on divergent zones.
- Set drawing on subduction zones.
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10/19 |
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- WU: None--Meet in library
- Drawings
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10/20 |
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- WU: Collect Materials
- Drawings
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10/10 |
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- WU: Explain the two types of crust.
- Discussion on the Mantle
- Set Earth Drawing
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10/11 |
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- WU: Explain the Mantle.
- Discussion on the inner core.
- Continue Earth Drawing
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10/12 |
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- WU: Explain the inner core
- Discussion on the outer core.
- Complete drawing
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10/13 |
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- WU: Explain the outer core
- Discussion on plate tectonics and earthquakes
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10/3 |
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- WU: Test Questions
- Exam: Geological Time
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10/4 |
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- WU: What is the Earth made out of?
- Review Exams
- Discussion on Earths layers
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10/5 |
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- WU: What are the 3 major layers of the Earth.
- Discussion on the the Earth's crust and how it formed
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10/6 |
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- WU: Explain the 2 types of Earth's Crust
- Discussion on the Earth's mantle
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9/19 |
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- WU: What is a fossil?
- Discussion on types of fossils
- Begin fossil research.
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9/20 |
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- WU: What are the types of fossils?
- Fossil Research
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9/21 |
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- WU: Explain 2 types of fossils.
- Fossil Research
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9/22 |
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- WU: Explain 2 additional types of fossils
- Fossil Research
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9/12 |
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- WU: Draw 4 event relative time sequences
- Book/Independent Study Time
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9/13 |
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- WU: Questions on textbook questions
- Complete relative aging sequences
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9/14 |
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- WU: What is actual age?
- Discussion on actual age and half lives.
- Half-life demo
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9/15 |
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- WU: Explain half-life
- Discussion and powerpoint on fossil types
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9/6 |
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- WU: Explain each of eras of the phanerozoic eon
- Complete Vocabulary CW
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9/7 |
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- WU: How do we know how old something is?
- Discussion on plate tectonics and land masses
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9/8 |
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- WU: Explain plate tectonics
- Discussion on relative dating and superposition
- Begin relative dating activity
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9/9 |
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- WU: Explain why relative dating is important.
- Complete relative dating activity
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8/29 |
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- WU: What are the 4 eons and when were they?
- Vocabulary CW
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8/30 |
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- WU: List and Define 5 vocab terms
- Discussion on individual eons
- Big Question how has the Earth Changed
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8/31 |
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- WU: How has the Earth Changed?
- Land masses and plate tectonics
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9/1 |
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- WU: Explain plate tectonics.
- Relative dating
- Relative Dating Activity
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8/22 |
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- WU: What is scale?
- Complete scale video
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8/23 |
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- WU: List 5 things that happened on the Earth before humans?
- Discussion on geological time.
- Pass out text books (chapt. 8)
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8/24 |
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- WU: How old is the Earth?
- Discuss the geological eons
- Lesson #1 of chapter 8
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8/25 |
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- WU: Explain the geological eons.
- Vocab. CW on chapter 8
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8/17 |
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- WU: None
- Take Role and Listen to Announcements
- Welcome back assembly in gym
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8/18 |
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- WU: None
- Expectations/Class Syllabus
- Discussion on notebooks
- Demo of online web site
- Begin Video: The Biggest and Smallest
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