Rotation 7 - Day 2

Today's Goal: Limiting factors in nature.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is one way that humans impact natural populations?
- Finish human activities notes
- Isle Royale Graphing

Rotation 7 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at the tragedy of the commons.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of organism eats both plants and animals?
- Go fish!
- Notes - finish human activities

Rotation 6 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To wrap up the ecology section of this unit.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a tropic level?
- Wrap up Energy Flow questions and hand in
- Notes: Limiting Factors

Rotation 6 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at how energy travels through the ecosystem.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: How much energy is transferred to each tropic level?
- Energy Flow lab

Rotation 6 - Day 1

SNOW DAY

Daily Journal: What are two ways that a producer makes energy?

Rotation 5 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To discuss energy and how it moves through the ecosystem.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What organelles deal with energy in cells?
- Notes: Calorimetry and energy flow 
- WS: Food webs

Rotation 5 - day 2

Today's goal: To start discussing ecology.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Where does our energy come from?
- Share flyers
- Notes: calorimetry and energy flow

Rotation 5 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To begin looking at how energy flows through the food web.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What macromolecule do we use as our main source of energy? (think back to food)
- Modeling Energy Flow lab

Rotation 4 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To assess knowledge of cells unit.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of cell has no nucleus?
- Cells Assessment
- Unit 4 Vocab

Rotation 4 - Day 2

Today's goal: To review the unit on cells.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the protein that gives our skin its color?
- Finish skin activities
- Unit review sheet
- Unit assessment is tomorrow

Rotation 4 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To investigate your skin.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the tough fibrous protein found in skin?
- Integumentary lab

Rotation 3 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To complete a flyer.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the top layer of the skin called?
- Google Classroom - create a flyer and turn in via classroom
- Google Classroom - Newsela article

Rotation 3 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look into skin.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are the three parts of interphase?
- Notes: Integumentary system
- Research flyer

Rotation 3 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look into cancer prevention.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the name of the proteins that regulate the cell cycle?
- Video "The C Word"

Rotation 2 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To finish foldable and discuss uncontrolled growth.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the division of the nucleus?
- Notes on Cell cycle control
- Finish Foldable
- Newsela.com - directions on Google classroom

Rotation 2 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To finish a manipulative.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What phase of the mitosis involves chromosomes being pulled apart?
- Finish foldable

Rotation 2 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at how a cell divides.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane?
- Mitosis Foldable 

Rotation 1 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at how cells divide.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the movement of water across membranes?
- Notes: cell cycle

Rotation 1 - Day 2

Today's goal: To finish looking at plasmolysis.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What happens when you put cells into salty water?
- Vocab Quiz
- Finish Plasmolysis lab (graphing)
- Notes

Rotation 1 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To observe movement of materials across a cell membrane.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Which organelle contains enzymes that help digest wastes?
- Plasmolysis lab

Rotation 11 - Day 3

Today's Goal: Look at organelles

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What organelle surrounds all cells?
- Notes
- Cell city organelle

Rotation 11 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To wrap up cell organelles.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What scientist came up with the term "cell"?
- Hand in Cell Catalog and a rubric for each student
- Finish Microscope lab: Elodea cell and questions 
- Notes on Organelles

Rotation 11 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To finish our marking period assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: 2 part: Are you happy with your current grade? What is your goal in relation to grade for the second marking period?
- Computers - work on marking period assessment
- By the end of this period, your group needs to discuss the price of each organelle.

Rotation 10 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To work on marking period assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for s group of cells with a common structure and function?
- work on cell organelle catalog

Rotation 10 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discuss late work and marking period assessments.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What to all cells share? (2 things)
- Any late work
- Marking Period Assessment

Rotation 10 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To begin looking at cells under a microscope.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of cell do you have in your body?
- Discuss Marking Period Assessment
- Microscope review
- Introduction Lab

Rotation 9 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To start talking about types of cells.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the basic unit of life?
- Hand back graded work and discuss grade sheets
- Notes: cell history and types
- Microscope pictures
- Continue Vocab

Rotation 9 - Day 2

Posted late: Friday, Oct 27, 2017

Today's Goal: To assess knowledge of chemistry of life.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What food would you eat for protein?
- Unit 2 Assessment
- Unit 3 Vocab with Google Classroom

Rotation 9 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To review chemistry of life.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the cartilage that covers trachea (lungs) when swallowing?
- Finish review sheet
- Review - Quizlet? 
- Late work

Rotation 8 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To review the chemistry of life.

Agenda:

- Daily Journal: What two things will denature a protein?

- Vocab Quiz

- Finish Amylase lab

- Unit Review Sheet

- Unit Test will be tomorrow after a review

Rotation 8 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To observe your enzymes in action.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the "stuff" that an enzyme works on?
- Amylaze lab
- Vocab quiz moved to tomorrow

Rotation 8 - Day 1

No class - early dismissal

Rotation 7 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To discuss digestion.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: How long do you think digestion takes?
- Notes - digestion
- Kahoot

Rotation 7 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discuss special proteins.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What indicator is used to test for starch in a food?
- FYI - Vocab quiz on Thursday... 8/17 have handed it in
- Finish Murder Meal Lab
- Notes: enzymes
- Demo

Rotation 7 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To use science to find evidence in a mystery murder.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What macromolecule provides energy storage for humans?
- Murder Meal lab

Rotation 6 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at food labels.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What information is found on food labels?
- Notes: Finish Macromolecules
- Food Labels activity
- Prep lab... sign up for remind now... you can't miss this lab (signed papers?)

Rotation 6 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discuss macromolecules.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What did you eat yesterday?
- Notes: Macromolecules
- Food Labels activity intro

Rotation 6 - Day 1

Today's goal: To work on graphing

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is an example of an acid?
- Graphing Activity
- Survey and work on any late work

Rotation 5 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To discuss pH.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is an acid?
- Notes: pH
- pH activity

Rotation 5 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discover and discuss water.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: List three things about water.
- Notes and demonstrations on water 
- Check grades

Rotation 5 - Day 1

Today's Goal: Start to talk about the chemistry of life.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are the building blocks of matter?
- Grades are updated... except for Gizmo: Water/Carbon Cycles
- Notes 
- Models

Rotation 4 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To assess the understanding of the first unit.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What part of an experiment is your predicted explanation of your problem?
- Unit 1 Assessment
- Unit 2 Vocab - there are a lot of words, so start now

Rotation 4 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To review the unit of life.

Agenda: 
- Daily Journal: What is the term for a group of organisms of the same species in an area?
- Any gizmos to hand in?
- Review Sheet
- Assessment tomorrow

Rotation 4 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To start reviewing unit 1.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a controlled variable?
- Any vocab for me to check?
- Quizlet Live
- Vocab Quiz
- finish Gizmo

Rotation 3 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To begin reviewing life - cycles.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are two terms we would find in the water cycle?
- Grab a chromebook. Log onto Google Classroom

• FIRST: follow directions to join our Gizmo class
• some of you have lab safety quizzes to do
• some of you might still have Vocabulary
• Use the directions to join the Quizlet class

- Vocab quiz tomorrow

Rotation 3 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To use microscopes to see if we caught water bears.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are three characteristics of life?
- Microscope tutorial
- Find Water bears

Rotation 3 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To go hunting and discuss cycles and characteristics.

Agenda:

- Daily Journal: If you couldn't be human, what kind of organism would you want to be? Why?

- Hunting Bears

- Finish talking about Characteristics of Life

- Unit 1 Vocab

Rotation 2 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To continue discussing life.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What happens at a transform boundary?
- Finish up Snack Tectonics handout
- Notes
- Vocab - due Monday - glossary is on Google Classroom

Rotation 2 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To model plate boundaries.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What land features can be caused by convergent boundaries?
- Finish questions for Balloon Activity (5 minutes)
- Snack Tectonics
- Tomorrow... 

Rotation 2 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To simulate the Big Bang.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are the four layers of the earth called?
- Big Bang Activity
- Make up any lab safety exams with Mrs. Hennings
- FYI - zeros will be put in for any incomplete work in Genesis gradebook from now on

Rotation 1 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To illustrate the Big Bang

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: According to the Big Bang Theory, how old is the universe?
- Discuss the Doppler Effect
- Big Bang Activity

Rotation 1 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To start talking about science.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: In your own words, what is one lab safety rule discussed during last class?
- Ch 1 notes - Big Bang and Doppler Effect
- Lab safety quiz tomorrow

Rotation 1 - Day 1

Today's goal: To go over lab safety.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Describe one way that you interacted with another living thing this week. 
- Lab Safety Presentation... quiz on Day 3
- Brain Break - This or that

- Save Sammy
- Google Classroom

• Finish paragraph
• Back to school survey
• Rotating schedule if not done