Ms. Howard

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Couple of things...

3-5-and 6th Periods: Today some students dissected owl pellets :o)

and some students worked towards completed missing work :o(

If you did not dissect an owl pellet and would like to, we can arrange a morning for you to come in early and complete that activity once you have caught up on missing assignments.

Fourth Period began work on the game boards, these will be due on Wednesday, May 13. We will PLAY them on that Thursday and Friday. You need to have a game board- it can be foam board or poster board. Both are available at Wal-Mart for cheap...

Virus project and test:

Here are the instructions for the virus project that we began in class today: Download Create a Virus 

Project is due on Monday May 4, 2009. We worked in class today and will continue after the test tomorrow. Any parts unfinished with be homework for the weekend.

Yesterday's notes for viruses, Ch 10 Section 3: Download Viruses Ch 10 Sec 3 , also:  Download Virus short notes. These will help you study for Friday's test.

Test Friday over viruses

This week we are discussing viruses. We will have a short test on Friday over viruses (Textbook pages 256-259).

Questions you need to be able to answer/discuss:

How do you treat and/or prevent viral and bacterial infections?
What are vaccines?
What are antibiotics?

**(Classwork) Questions to answer from the text:

(p 256) What is a virus?

(p 256-257) Describe a virus. Size? shape? Type of genetic material?

(p 256) Is it living?  What is a host?

(p 258) Draw and label the steps of the lytic cycle of a virus (infectious cycle).

(p 258 Time Bomb) What is the lysogenic cycle of a virus (resting cycle)?

 

**(HW) Also, those questions on page 259 (write questions and answers): #1-4, 6-8

 

**These two assignments will be taken as grades due Wed, April 29. Please complete them.

Homework for Tuesday April 21 if not done in class:

Complete the attached assignment, sorting the body system parts and giving their functions:

Download Human Body Review

Plowing to the end of the row...

Ever heard the phrase "Plow to the end of the row"? My great- grandfather was a farmer here in Georgia; and I'm sure he knew it well...

Please be mindful that school is not yet over and we still have to go a little ways to reach the end of the 7th grade row. We are working hard to review our year in class; but you need to put in some effort at home. We will have frequent quizzes over the next two weeks- please study. Your work is not yet through...

Tomorrow (4/3) will be a quiz over organelles. Please review your notebook or textbook, Ch 3.

Following are review notes from today:Download CRCT review notes 2

Quiz Wednesday, 4/1 (No Joke ;o)

Review Quiz Wed over the 4 needs of living things, 5 building blocks of living things (CLAPD) and the 6 characteristics of living things (GRACCE or "Can somebody really really do every good deed?") plus cell organelles.
Some review notes follow: Download Cells Review

4TH period ONLY: Article Review due on 4/21. Your articles were due for approval by 3/30- and several of you have still not shown one to me :o(

You should have the first 4 paragraphs ready to turn in on 4/13. If I have time I will scan them; but this is just a check to see if you are on schedule and not behind in the process. It is not meant as grading.

GUTS T-shirts and Ice Cream

We will be painting GUTS shirts after testing. Pictures of last year's shirts are posted at the picture link below. We need to collect $10 from each student to cover the cost of the t-shirt, paints and supplies as well as an ice cream sundae from Dairy Queen on the last day of school. ** Students who paid to go on the Jekyll trip do not need to pay as there was a small amount of money left over from that trip which will cover your costs.

Please send in your $10 by Monday, March 30 so that shirts can be ordered. You will need to let your science teacher know what size shirt you want.
They are adult sizes and run pretty true to size: S, M, L, XL.

Please use your wonderful notebooks to begin reviewing for the CRCT testing. We will have very short review assessments each day or so. I'll let you know what to review each night (see your agenda if you forget). Tomorrow's (3/24) quiz will cover vocab lists one and two. The entire vocab list is posted a few posts back.

Fourth Period Article Summary

Fourth period has started work on the fourth article summary. The guidelines for this asssignment are posted on the October 2 blog entry. You can choose an article of interest that relates to anything we have covered this year. Remember, in your writing, you will be expected to describe HOW your article relates to this year's study in science. There are no computer labs available right now, so you will need to find your article on your own. If you have trouble getting online at home, see me to arrange a time to come in early to use the internet.
Dates:
Article due to me for approval BY MARCH 30.
Your summary is due on ARPIL 21. I may establish some deadlines through out the month for portions of your work to be submitted so that no one waits until the last minute ;o) I'll let you know those.
REMEMBER to choose an appropriate article that is written in language that YOU UNDERSTAND. Also, choose an article that is long enough the write a good summary. Some of you are choosing very short articles and finding it very difficult to write on these.

Bird Beak Lab

Today we did a simulation lab to illustrate the adaptations of bird beaks to the available food sources in a habitat. Check out the pictures. (6th period will do lab tomorrow after quiz)

Remember: Quiz tomorrow over CH 7 Vocab (in previous post) and Friday test over Chapter 7.