NItrogen Cycle-Well Water Testing, Hormones...

Monday: SWBAT: describe the nitrogen cycle and relate it to hemoglobin.
1.) Nitrogen Cycle Role Play in Class.
2.) Nitrogen Cycle Animation
3.) Article Reading, Answering Questions.
4.) Go over Water Collection Techniques.

Tuesday
SWBAT: test their water for nitrates and pH.
Review Nitrogen Cycle
1.) Demonstrate how to strip test and Labquest test the well water.
2.) Students collect data on their well water, and place it on the data table.

Wednesday
SWBAT: Map their data on a regional map.
1.) Review Nitrogen Cycle
2.) Show how to insert data on the wellwater map.

Thursday: Snow Make-Up

Friday: iTunes U Immune System.

Monday: Presentations of Hormones, Cycle Discussion

Tuesday: Finish Presentations.

Wednesday: Go over what is on next Monday's Test, The answers to the questions from chapters 20-30 (emphasis on homeostasis and regulation, xylem, phloem, vascular cambium, grafting process, . Homeostasis Experiment? Dissect and whiteboard what the parts of a blossom do.

Thursday and Friday: What Darwin Didn't Know Video

Monday: Finish what darwin didn't know. Other questions from Chapters 20-30

Tuesday: Test.

Wednesday:
1.) Show Chlorophyll absorption wavelength graph and ask questions.
2.) Re-whiteboard blossoms, using textbook to show what each part actually does.

Thursday:
1.) Draw from a hat for each of the plant phyum/divisions.
2.) Make radio ads for the different plant phylum
3.) Questions over 31-33.

Friday:
1.) Transpitation Lab?

Monday:

Digestion, Circulation, Nitrogen Cycle, Hormones

Monday:
Grafting Diversion

Tuesday:
Whiteboarding what happens to molecules in digestion.

Wednesday:
Lytic Cycle Engage with Explorelearning
Whiteboarding kidney analogy

Thursday:
Daphnia Experiment

Friday:
Hormone Talking about pictures, AP Free Response Go Over, Nitrogen Cycle Reading About.
Nitrogen Cycle Animation

Monday:
Hormone Discussion
Well Water Practice Testing

Tuesday:
Well Water Testing

Wednesday:
Mapping Well Water.

Thursday-Inside Natures Giants
Friday-Inside Natures Giants

Grafting

Monday: SWBAT: Identify cross section of a tree and complete practice grafting.
1.) Quick Kidney Going over. (Images from ppt.)
2.) Brainstorm Functions of Tree Branch, and connecting the functions to the branch and parts they are given.
3.) Grafting video.
4.) Each student completes a practice graft.

Bonus Day:
Review Meiosis (role play)
Crossing Over,
Nondisjunction,
Down's Syndrome Lawsuit.

Tuesday: SWBAT: Identify cross section of a tree and complete saddle graft.
1.) Review grafting procedure/cross section imagge.
2.) Complete grafts.

Wednesday: SWBAT: Determine the impact of temperature and caffeine
1.) Graph the heart rate of a Daphnia in different temperatures of water.

Thursday: SWBAT: Determine the level of detail and accuracy of homeostasis descriptions.
Going over comics and writing comments on post-its that go on the back of the comics. one positive and one negative for each.

Friday:
Digestion Whiteboarding.
Cycles?
Questions?
Comments?
Flower Anatomy?

Monday:
SWBAT: Map out the location of their tree.