Study Island data - Midterm review

Yesterday you guys took a Study Island midterm review exam.  When you finished the test - not only did it give you your total score, but how you scored in specific areas. (see the sample scoring below)

Today I encouraged you to look at the areas where you scored the lowest and take classtime today going through those sections either on study island or through your midterm study guide.

On study Island if you click on the top tab labeled "Science" and then choose biology keystone exam prep you can then chose the topics you struggled in and go through as many sample questions as you can.  The midterm is over any content in areas labeled "Cells and Cell processes"   I starred the topics the person above should focus on.

I also gave everyone their first two CDT scores to see how they are progressing.  We will take the CDT again on the day you have extended time for the midterm.  There will be a scale that corresponds with these scores. Check out this sample students and how i will base the scale.

Cellular Respiration Wrap up

We started with the following daily questions:

When we went through these questions i encouraged you to use the test taking strategies we have talked about.  FIRST thing you should do when reading a question is think about all the things you KNOW about the concepts being questioned.  In this case I had you make a list of all the things you knew about aerobic respiration (the list in the top right hand corner) then all you knew about bacteria (the list in the top left hand corner)  After creating these lists the answers came pretty easy!!!  Keep on using this strategy when answering daily questions or test questions.

Then we finished up with the aerobic processes and anaerobic respiration:

Cellular Respiration Intro

Friday we had our daily question quiz and then watched the following Crash Course video as an intro to cellular respiration.

Today we started with the following daily questions from study island

And then the notes:

You did NOT write out all of these chemical formulas.  What I was trying to point out here was all the
different enzymes that are involved in this process.

 

we also watched the following clip about how much oxygen we actually breath in and then right back out again.

Photosynthesis Notes

 

Daily questions for the week

It has been a crazy past two weeks and we are really chugging along with content this year!!  I apologize for not being as good about updating the blog lately!!  Here are the daily Questions from this week so far.

Wednsday, Thursday Friday Catch up

Wednesday December 3rd

Some student's were taking the Algebra keystone exam in the morning.  Those who were not - and the classes the rest of the day continued to work on their Energy in Living Systems and Photosynthesis Directed Readings. 

If you have misplaced either of these you can find them here.

Thursday December 4th

I was at North Allegheny for the Genetics Update conference and you all spent time getting some notes down that we will go through together next week.  In the notes as an introduction was the following crash course video.



You can download the notes from edline or check back here for the slides as we go over them.

I let you listen to the photosynthesis song (the song that you will love to hate!!)



Then we got into a discussion of how we see light.

bioenergetics intro

Today we started off with the following daily questions:

we then moved into some of the notes

using this slide we also referenced and filled in the first diagram on your "Section 1 energy in living systems directed reading"