Weekly+Schedule

WEEK: 14 February 2011 - 18 February 2011
Electrophoresis ||<  ||< -DNA day finale and review -review PS worksheet -make up test questions -Activity: what is average worksheet -formative ps assess ||<  || Electrophoresis ||<  ||< -DNA day finale and review -Activity: Video -Activity: PS worksheet -formative ps assess ||<  ||
 * < Day ||< Monday ||< Tuesday ||< Wednesday ||< Thursday ||< Friday ||
 * < Date ||< 2/14 B ||< 2/15 A ||< 2/16 B ||< 2/17 B ||< 2/18 A ||
 * < BIO ACCEL ||<  ||<   ||<   ||<   ||<   ||
 * < Title ||<  ||< DNA DAY ||<   ||< Protein Synthesis Day 2 ||<   ||
 * < Activities ||<  ||< Lab: Gel
 * < Homework ||<  ||< DNA DAY ||<   ||< None: Vacation ||<   ||
 * < BIO REG ||<  ||<   ||<   ||<   ||<   ||
 * < Title ||<  ||< DNA DAY ||<   ||< Protein Synthesis Day 2 ||<   ||
 * < Activities ||<  ||< Lab: Gel
 * < Homework ||<  ||< DNA DAY ||<   ||< None: Vacation ||<   ||

WEEK: 28 February 2011 - 4 March 2011
,song/rap) -intro mutations ||  || -Online comparison of mitosis and meiosis -notes on mitosis and meiosis -worksheets on each ||   || - onion root tip lab || (make mitosis linear like meiosis, use color) ||   ||   || -Activity: PS online activity -Intro mutations ||   || -Notes on mitosis and meiosis -Online comparison -Activity: copy diagrams on pages 246 and 276-277 (make mitosis linear like meiosis, use color) ||   || -onion root tip lab ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 2/28 A || 3/1 B || 3/2 A || 3/3 B || 3/4 A ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || PS Review/Genetics Intro ||  || Mitosis/Meiosis ||   || Mitosis/Meiosis Day 2 ||
 * Activities || -Group reps of PS (acting, metaphor/kids story
 * Homework || Read section on Mitosis ||  || copy diagrams on pages 246 and 276-277
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || PS Review/Genetics Intro ||  || Mitosis/Meiosis ||   || Mitosis/Meiosis Day 2 ||
 * Activities || -Writing Portfolio Reflections
 * Homework || read section on Mitosis ||  || worksheets ||   ||   ||

**WEEK: 7 March 2011 - 11 March 2011**
-Review packet: prepare for assessment on DNA, replication, protein synthesis, mutations ||  || -Assessment -What is average? worksheet (intro to genetics) ||  || -Review packet: prepare for assessment on DNA, replication, protein synthesis, cell division ||  || -Assessment -What is average? worksheet (intro to genetics) ||  ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 3/7 B || 3/8 A || 3/9 B || 3/10 A || 3/11 B ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Weeks in Review ||   || Assessment Day! ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || -Activity: finish up meiosis diagrams
 * Homework ||  || work on packet ||   || read and answer questions on mendel ||   ||
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Genetics and Mendel ||   || Assessment Day! ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || -Journal: interpreting graphs and data
 * Homework ||  || work on packet ||   || none ||   ||

WEEK: 14 March 2011 - 18 March 2011
- Mendel PPT - Activity: Drop your genes and draw your baby ||  || - genetics 101 PPT - Homework review - Spongebob worksheet - Planaria observing regeneration lab ||  || - Day 1 of brown/narragansett PTC lab (DNA isolation, sample colletion) - Planaria observations - mini quiz || 1-6, 11-17, 21-23, 25, 28 ||  || Bikini Bottom Genetics worksheets (punnett squares and dihybrid crosses), study for mini quiz Friday ||   || Mutations Paper (1.5-2 pages on an inherited mutation) || - Mendel PPT - Activity: Drop your genes and draw your baby ||  || - genetics 101 PPT - in class worksheet - Planaria observing regeneration lab ||  || - Day 1 brown/narragansett PTC lab (spit sample collection) -planaria observations || -With laptops students use pre-approved sites to research 1 of 4 topics and answer "cosmic" questions ||  || -1 student of each research topic gets in group with the other 3 and share notes. Explain to each other what they learned and how to answer the questions. - Spectroscopy lab ||  ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 3/14 A || 3/15 B || 3/16 A || 3/17 B || 3/18 A ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Genetics Intro ||  || Genetics 101 ||   || PTC ||
 * Activities || - Test make up
 * Homework || read sec. 11-1,2,3 and do pg. 283 assessment
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Genetics Intro ||  || Genetics 101 ||   || PTC ||
 * Activities || -Test make up
 * Homework || finish up drawings ||  || FInish Bikini Bottom Genetics ||   || Dihybrid cross worksheet ||
 * ES COLLAB ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Cosmic Note Sharing ||   || Spectroscopy ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || -Tsunami discussion - before and after pictures of different towns, live footage
 * Homework ||  ||   ||   || finish result questions ||   ||

WEEK: 21 March 2011 - 25 March 2011
- last day to observe planaria ||  || - Gel Electrophoresis of samples - Result Analysis ||  || - last day to observe planaria - mitosis and meiosis miniquiz ||  || - Gel Electrophoresis of samples - Result Analysis ||  || - formulating conclusions ||  || - Create study guide - Universe - Galaxies - Stars - Activity: make a fake assessment based on what you think will be on the assessment ||  || Topics: - Universe - Galxies - Stars - Activity: Universcale on overhead so that students can see the relative sizes of the atom all the way to the sun in relation to each other. ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 3/21 B || 3/22 A || 3/23 B || 3/24 A || 3/25 B ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || PTC Day 2 ||   || PTC Day 3 ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || - PTC Lab step 2 (DNA digestion)
 * Homework ||  || write up planaria conclusion ||   ||   ||   ||
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || PTC Day 2 ||   || PTC Day 3 ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || - PTC Lab step 2 (DNA digestion)
 * Homework ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ES COLLAB ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Spectroscopy Day II ||  || Review Day ||   || Test Day ||
 * Activities || - spectroscopy lab part 2
 * Homework || study ||  || study ||   ||

WEEK: 28 March 2011 - 1 April 2011
- heredity PowerPoint (from the papers, students will help fill in slides) ||  || - genetic engineering PPT - review will last as long as students have SPECIFIC questions ||  || - Students will finish up conclusions in class for PTC || - worksheet review - inherited mutations PPT ||  || - how to study - heredity review - questions ||  || - Students will finish up conclusions in class for PTC and planaria || - Jigsaw section 29-4 - watch beginning of "Earth" movie ||  || - finish "Earth" the movie and worksheet for it ||   ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 3/28 A || 3/29 B || 3/30 A || 3/31 B || 4/1 A ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || PTC Last Day ||  || Review ||   || Conclusion Day ||
 * Activities || - Conclusion writing. Students answer all of the questions from the PTC lab, and summarize their results
 * Homework || Study - come up with questions for class review ||  || Study ||   || Study ||
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || PTC Last Day ||  || Review ||   || Conclusion Day ||
 * Activities || - Conclusion writing. Students answer all of the questions from the PTC lab, and summarize their results.
 * Homework || Study - come up with questions ||  || Study ||   || Study ||
 * ES COLLAB ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Intro to Earth ||   || Earth and Oceans ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || -"Known Earth" - view galaxy in actual scale, write down two questions and two observations
 * Homework ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

WEEK: 4 April 2011 - 8 April 2011
- guest speaker from URI ||  || - Connections between genetics and evolution (genetics unit to evolution unit) ||  || - Activity: students will determine relationships between the size of the earth, mass of the earth, density, etc. ||  || - Students will do the first part of the Data Graphing activity, and create a table with their weights on the eight planets and the moon. - follow up questions ||  || - From a website with planet data, students will pick two measured aspects of the planets and use excel to determine their relationship (i.e. temp of planet vs. dist from the sun) via graph ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 4/4 B || 4/5 A || 4/6 B || 4/7 A || 4/8 B ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || CH. 11 and 14 Assessment ||   || Squid Dissection ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || - assessment on Mendelian genetics, punnett squares, and genetic mutations/disorders ||   || - as a class, students will watch and participate in the dissection of a Humboldt squid (6 ft long)
 * Homework ||  ||   ||   || - finish up conclusions and worksheets ||   ||
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || CH. 11 and 14 Assessment ||   || Introduction to Evolution ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || - assessment on Mendelian genetics, punnett squares, and genetic mutations/disorders ||   || - Evolution case study (students will read a study on evolution and analyze data)
 * Homework ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ES COLLAB ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Origins of Earth ||  || Graphing Day 1 ||   || Graphing Day 2 ||
 * Activities || - Students will watch the first half of the "origins of Earth" video
 * Homework ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

WEEK: 11 April 2011 - 15 April 2011
study on evolution and analyze data) - Connections between genetics and evolution (genetics unit to evolution unit) ||  || - pairs receive 1 aspect of 8 for Darwin's Theory of Evolution and must write it at the top of a paper, come up with an example, and a catch phrase to help others remember it. - all papers will be assembled into a book which will count as students notes for this chapter - Which scientist did Darwin draw from for this aspect of his theory? ||   || - Students will participate in "The Great Fossil Find", and fill out conclusions worksheet. - Evidence of the History of Life PPT. || - all papers will be assembled into a book which will count as students notes for this chapter ||   || - Note-taking check -Students will participate in "The Great Fossil Find", and fill out conclusions worksheet. - Evidence of the History of life PPT - Review of Key concepts ||   || - Quiz on Evolution vocabulary - Evolution Movie, with questions to answer as we go. || - Jeopardy game for Earth formation and solar system ||  || - test on space objects, earth/moon/ocean/ atmosphere formation, and solar system ||  ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 4/11 A || 4/12 B || 4/13 A || 4/14 B || 4/15 A ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Intro To Evolution ||  || Theory of Evolution ||   || Fossils as Evidence ||
 * Activities || Evolution case study (students will read a
 * Homework ||  ||   || Make a PPT slide of section 15-2 including all important people ||   || have a good break ||
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Theory of Evolution ||  || Fossil Evidence ||   || Evolution Quiz ||
 * Activities || - pairs receive 1 aspect of 8 for Darwin's Theory of Evolution and must write it at the top of a paper, come up with an example, and a catch phrase to help others remember it.
 * Homework || Study ||  || Study ||   || have a good break ||
 * ES COLLAB ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Solar System Review ||   || Solar System Test ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || - Solar System Review PPT
 * Homework ||  || Study ||   ||   ||   ||

WEEK: 25 April 2011 - 29 April 2011
- Part 2 of Transformations video - Speciation notes and patterns of evolution ||  || - Intro: What is a Theory really? - review worksheets -intro to the creation of the eukaryotic cell - explain radiated radishes conclusion ||  || - Two articles ozone depletion vs. greenhouse effect - constructed response graphic organizer ||  || - Go over constructed response graphic organizer as class - Create constructed response comparing o.d. and g.e, create evidence list as a group ||  || - Follow along PPT on rock layers (fill in the blanks as we go) - movement of paper when heated in liquid demo to explain currents ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 4/25 B || 4/26 A || 4/27 B || 4/28 A || 4/29 B ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Speciation ||   || Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || - Evolution Review: From Darwin to men of Evolution
 * Homework ||  || Speciation WS and Scenario WS ||   || Radiated Radishes Wrap up ||   ||
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Speciation ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || - same ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Homework ||  || Finish Speciation WS ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Earth Science ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Atmosphere ||  || Atmosphere Day 2 ||   || Layers of the Earth ||
 * Activities || - Atmosphere levels temp graph vs. altitude.
 * Homework || Finish Space Station Drawings ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

WEEK: 2 May 2011 - 6 May 2011
Wooly Worm ||  || Wooly Worm Follow Up ||   || Euglena Activity || - Prep for graph making and reflection writing ||  || - Students will use laptops to graph the data collected during class time - Introduction to Classification: Focus on how much it has changed over the years and how this is indicative of science in general ||  || - Students will look at microorganisms under a microscope to determine notable features. - lab write up, drawings, conclusion questions || Wooly Worm ||  || Wooly Worm Follow Up ||   || Euglena Activity || their data to form a class data table ||  || - Students will use laptops to graph the data collected during class time - Introduction to Classification: Focus on how much it has changed over the years and how this is indicative of science in general ||  || - Students will look at microorganisms under a microscope to determine notable features. - lab write up, drawings, conclusion questions || - 4 maps that combine to be volcano, earthquake, and plate boundaries. Students work in groups on one aspect ||  || - students come together and jigsaw their maps - As a class students create a master key for their map and come up with hypothesis as to why their is so much overlapping ||  ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 5/2 A || 5/3 B || 5/4 A || 5/5 B || 5/6 A ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Common Task:
 * Activities || - Students will go out in groups and collect "worms" and come back in with their data to form a class data table
 * Homework || Graph Data ||  || Copy textbook diagrams ||   ||   ||
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Common Task:
 * Activities || - Students will go out in groups and collect "worms" and come back in with
 * Homework || Review Data for graph making ||  || Copy textbook diagrams of Euglena, Hydra, etc. for Friday lab ||   ||   ||
 * Earth Science ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Plate Tectonics ||   || Plate Tectonics Day 2 ||   ||
 * Activities ||  || - Plate tectonics Lab
 * Homework ||  ||   ||   || Review Packet ||   ||

WEEK: 9 May 2011 - 13 May 2011
- Finish up with Euglena Lab - Feedback on Irradiated Radishes and Wooly Worm Labs ||  || - Evolution unit, Chapter 15, 16 and 17 || - Students will look at microorganisms under a microscope to determine notable features. - lab write up, drawings, conclusion questions || - Laptops; write reflection for Common Task ||  || - Evolution unit, Chapter 16 and 17 || - Students will look at microorganisms under a microscope to determine notable features. - lab write up, drawings, conclusion questions || - National Geographic activity page for Earthquakes - create your own earthquake - components of intensity notes ||  || - Worksheet on Locating Earthquake epicenters and seismic waves - look at earthquake that sparked tsunami in Japan - Volcanoes introduction - create your own volcano - components of intensity notes ||
 * Day || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Date || 5/9 B || 5/10 A || 5/11 B || 5/12 A || 5/13 B ||
 * BIO ACCEL ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Wrap Up ||   || Assessment || Euglena Activity ||
 * Activities ||  || - Jeopardy Review for Evolution Assessment
 * Homework ||  || Study ||   ||   ||   ||
 * BIO REG ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title ||  || Wrap Up ||   || Assessment || Euglena Activity ||
 * Activities ||  || - Jeopardy Review for Evolution Assessment
 * Homework ||  || Study ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Earth Science ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Title || Assessment ||  || Earthquakes Day 1 ||   || Earthquakes Day 2/ Volcanoes Intro ||
 * Activities || - Assessment on Atmosphere, Layers of the Earth, Convection, and Plate Boundaries ||  || - Introduction to Natural Disasters
 * Homework ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||