Thursday December 17th - Light independent reactions / Photosynthesis wrap up.

Today we walked through the book work and I went into some details about the light INDEPENDENT reaction (also known as the dark reaction).

I gave you the book pages to look over since this can be a very tough subject to wrap your brains around!!  We started with these daily questions.


We reviewed the steps of the light dependent reaction and the splitting of water to release Oxygen gas and Hydrogen ions.

 Next up..... Producing SUGAR - Glucose.  Using the following book page we worked through the light independent reaction.

 Finally, I had you write the following wrap up slide in your notes.

Tuesday and Wednesday December 15th and 16th

Tuesday we continued with Photosynthesis and used our pop it bead models to work through the first stage of photosynthesis.

Here is a rundown of the days daily questions, notes and activities

Notes and pics of the activity:

 

This was an INCREDIBLY important step during photosynthesis for two reasons.
#1.  It released the oxygen gas that we need to breathe.
#2.  It helps to power the creation of ATP by adding a phosphate group on the ADP.  This is going to help fuel the NEXT stage of photosynthesis.

Bioenenergetics Intro - Sorry for being a slacker!!

It's been a while since I have posted!! It's been a busy couple weeks and I haven't done a great job at keeping up on the blog!!

We've had a couple daily questions since the start of this unit

Most of our discussion so far has been based on the book work.  Make sure you stay updated on that!!

Today, after finishing our discussion on the book work, we did manage to get a couple more slides down in our notes:

 Tomorrow we will dive right into Photosynthesis!!

Cell Transport Daily Question Quiz and Whole Unit Practice Test

Cell Transport Daily Question Quiz.

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2nd - Study Island Practice Test!!!