Monday and Tuesday December 19th and 20th - Cellular Respiration overview

On Monday I gave you two different activities to work through to give you a general introductory understanding of cellular respiration.  Today we had the following daily questions based off of that information.

You were given the rest of this period to finish up your Cellular respiration work.  Tomorrow we will have an Open Notes Quiz and you will turn in those papers!!

Friday December 16th - Photosynthesis Daily Question Quiz

Still pretty cold outside today!!!!

.... but.........

That doesn't get us out of taking our daily question quiz!!!

Here ya go ;)

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Thursday December 15th - Continue through Photosynthesis

Well - We had our first 2 hour delay!!!

 BECAUSE..............................................

Which means we didn't get AS much done as I'd hoped.  We still managed to chug along though!!!

Daily Questions:

And then the following notes:

Wednesday December 14th - Photosynthesis Continued

Yesterday while I was away, you guys worked through some photosynthesis questions and started into a packet that outlines Photosynthesis.  Today we started with the following daily questions - I encouraged you to look over the overall equation for photosynthesis when answering these:

The rest of the period was yours to finish up the "Need for Energy" packet.

Monday December 12th - Intro to Photosynthesis

Last week we went through the overall process of photosynthesis and cellular respiration and looked at how the two are related.  This week we will get into the specifics of Photosynthesis.   To start off, we had these daily questions:

Then started into the notes:

Friday December 9th - Energy of Life Daily Question Quiz

Today the Intro to Bioenergetics Daily Question Quiz will be on Study Island!!

Head over to the Island and get started!!

Wednesday and Thursday December 7th and 8th - Bioenergetics Introduction

Well................   It's been a while dear friends!!!

Since we have been back from Thanksgiving break we managed to take our Cell Membrane and Transport Exam and then this week started into Bioenergetics.  On Monday and Tuesday you worked through a directed reading and an active reading.

Wednesday we spent the WHOLE class period on Daily Questions.  You completed these questions on Study Island and then we came back across the hall and went over them.  Here are some of the screen shots:

Today we started with only 2 daily questions that went along with your directed readings:

All the notes we looked at today went along with your directed reading.  You did not write any of these in your notebooks:

 

Tuesday November 22nd - Cell Transport Daily Question

Perfect way to send you off on Thanksgiving break.....  
(Or maybe not ;)

Here ya go!

Cell Transport Daily Question Quiz!!!

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Kiddos - have a GREAT THANKSGIVING!!!!  

Aaaaand - Let's be 5 year olds again, because life is too short to not have  a little childish fun!!  Sooooo

Hand Turkeys it is :)

Monday November 21st - Active Transport Intro

Today's daily questions led us into a discussion about ACTIVE transport.  We will work through active transport today and tomorrow and I am hoping that we can finish up this chapter next week when we get back from Thanksgiving break!!

Then into a relatively boring - but NECESSARY lecture about Active Transport:

 We talked a little about the importance of the Sodium-potassium pump in nerve impulses!  Here is a video about the Sodium-Potassium pump and why it is so important!!

Thursday and Friday November 17th and 18th - Day 3 and 4 of Egg Lab

Thursday we had a couple daily questions.

After the DQs we took our eggs out of the Corn Syrup and ended up with a pretty strange looking egg!!  Since the concentration of water was higher INSIDE the cell, water moved from high to low concentration OUT of the cell causing it to deflate.

Friday was the BIG day!!  The egg was ENORMOUS and slightly bouncy!  After making your observations and collected your data you had a chance to mess around with the egg and then dispose of it as you wished.  (Which many of you made into a pretty messy situation!!!)

Here is a video that shows what was happening at the cellular level for all 4 days:

Wednesday November 16th - Egg Lab Day 2

Well..... We survived the first messy day of this lab!!!

Today involved removing the egg from the vinegar and observed that the egg gained mass and the volume of vinegar went DOWN.......

Here is a video that shows what happened specifically at the molecular Level:

And some of our class pics from today :)

 And if you are now following Reed's "Book"  Here was today's page: