Characteristics of Life

Monday:

Late Start

Owl Pellet Dissection- in lab

Tuesday:

Owl Pellet Dissection- in lab

Wednesday:

Energy in the ecosystem reading and review

Thursday:

Characteristics of Life: Growth and development, reproduction, change over time

Week in review

Friday:

Weekly quiz 

Characteristics of Life review material

Characteristics of Life

Monday

Preparing a Wet Mount Slide Lab

- Write procedure for making a wet mount

Drawings of "e" under low and high power

Drawing and labeling of thread slide

What is Life? Reading due

Tuesday

Complete work on Wet Mount Slide Lab - due at end of period

Notes on Characteristics of Life

Wednesday

Characteristics of Life 

Needs of living organisms

Thursday

Owl Pellet Dissection in Computer Lab

Friday

Owl Pellet Dissection in Computer Lab

Using the Compound Light Microscope

Monday

Begin work on using the microscopes

Anatomy of a Compound Light Microscope Lab

Parent Teacher Conferences 4-7:30

Tuesday

Viewing prepared slides under a microscope:

- 4 different slides

- scientific drawing for each slide

- record the name of the specimen, the power of magnification it was viewed on, and a descriptive sentence about each slide

Parent Teacher Conferences 4-7:30

Wednesday

Complete work on prepared slides

What is Life? reading and review questions due Monday

Thursday

No School MEA Weekend

Friday

No School MEA Weekend

Monarch Project Ends / Scientific Method/ Metric Measurements

Monday

Eagle Bluff field trip

Tuesday

Dead Men's Tales Lab due today

Volume practice questions

Work on Monarch Journal completion: summary, graph, observations

Wednesday

Volume Lab

Thursday

Hypothesis Writing and Identifying Variables

Complete Monarch Project

Friday

Monarch Project due - 150 pts!

Weekly quiz

Scientific Method

Monday

Alexander Flemming reading due Wednesday

Observation 11 (larva) or Observation 14 (chrysalis)

Tuesday

 Metric System preview

Metric system practice problems 1-9 all and 10-24 odd due Thursday

Wednesday

Dead Men's Tale Lab: Length and Inference

Thursday

Finish Dead Men's Tales

Metric System Notes: Length

Week in wrap up

Friday

Weekly Quiz