Cell Energy Mini Project

The Project Guidelines are on my teacherweb.

Take a deep breath--the pictures are in Chapters 8 and 9 of your book, so you are free to trace. 

Those long, LOOOOONG lists of words are for you to label and use telling a story of photosynthesis and respiration.  These are the words the book uses in it's digrams, so it's not hard to find them.

Please comment with questions below.

Pre-AP Project: Biomolecule University

So here it is, second 6 weeks, second Pre-AP Bio Projects (no groaning!)  The links below lead you to download the project instructions and the grading rubric.

In summary, you and possibly a partner are creating a skit, powerpoint or video to show the digestion of  a bite of food, its absorption, and the jobs those nutrients in the body.  You are not going to describe the digestion of everything in that food, just one of four macromolecules (protein, carbohydrate, lipid, cholesterol).

www.teacherweb.com/tx/stonypointninthgradecenter/rowan/BiomoleculeUniversity.doc

www.teacherweb.com/tx/stonypointninthgradecenter/rowan/BiomoleculeUniversityRubric.doc

Let the discussions begin!  Oh, and to keep there from being a million threads, I will just update what I have written here.

pre-AP Homework 10/5-6

Wrapping up Biomolecules, we are taking a quiz next class (A day reviewing in class), so complete your quiz reviews. 

Also, the new project (Biomolecule University) has been assigned and is due 10/28-29.  You may work with one other person of your choice.  See the assignment sheet and rubric on the handouts tab of my teacherweb.

Pre-AP Homework 10/1-2

Complete your Endocrine system (organs, organ jobs, and describing 3 diseases) on the naked fat guy template.  You may pick whatever gender you like for this system, or include both genders.

Pre-AP Digestive System Homework (9/29-30)

Complete the Digestive System on your naked guy template. 

You should draw and label the digestive organs (p939)
Describe what each organ does
Describe 3 diseases of the digestive system.

If you lose the worksheet, print one off the handouts tab of my teacherweb!

Homework--Just a little (9/25-28)

Pre-AP and General

Bring a takeout menu or print a restaurant menu off the web for our warmup!

General Biology Ecology Test Review (9/23-24) HWK

Please make sure you have completed your test review (turn in for a grade!)  before class has started.

Pre-AP! So much Homework

You are:

1. Finishing your Populations Lab--checkout the link on my teacherweb links page (the worksheet is on there too) (Except 1st period)
   
2. Studying your review on for the Populations quiz
3. Working on your project (we have a a project work day tomorrow)

General Bio Deer Population Lab

Finish up this lab as homework.  If you lose it, you can print out a copy off the handouts tab.

Having trouble with Old Macdonald?

Good terms to Google when searching for your old-fashioned farm

• Remember, it doesn't have to contain whatever your new farm crop is!

organic family farm
Texas family farm
pioneer farm

Grades Posted!

Want to see what your progress report will say? Your grades are available on HomeAccess.

Failed the quiz? Come in to tutorials for retakes (70 max) starting Tuesday 9/15.

Pre-AP Ecology Farm Project

The rubric is now located on the Handouts tab of my teacherweb. Please share any websites you are using with your classmates--I know they will find them helpful!

General Biology and Pre-AP 9/4-9/8

You are working on the "Apple-a-Day" Worksheet (handouts page of my Teacherweb).
You are picking 3 (Pre-AP) or 4 (General Bio) statements from the worksheet and explaining:

1. 2 sentences on an experiment you would create to test this statement
2. Independent Variable
3. Dependent Variable
4. Constants
5. Control Group
6. Hypothesis (If...independent variable, then...dependent variable)

Pre-AP Ecology Farm Project

Today you recieved your Ecology Farm Project guidlines.

In this project, you and up to two partners will create a LARGE poster comparing an old-fashioned 1800s farm (think Old MacDonald) to a modern industrial farm, that produces only 1 crop (you have already picked your farm organisms, but if you're in a group, you can pick one of your partners').

You will compare everything the farmers do on and to the land, as well as all of the ecological concepts we are learning in class, including but not limited to:

• Biogeochemical Cycles
• Symbiosis interactions
• Food web and energy pyramid
• Disease
• Biodiversity
• Population dynamics

General Biology 9/2-9/3

Please complete the "Hypothesis Questions" that we glued in our notebooks. This experimental design worksheet is available on the handouts page of my Teacherweb.

8/27-8/28

Please have your parents fill out and return the Biology Policies packet or complete the information sheet on the home page of my teacherweb at www.teacherweb.com/tx/stonypointninthgradecenter/rowan
You can download the Biology Policies on the handouts tab.

Science and Chuck Norris

· When Chuck Norris falls in water, Chuck Norris doesn't get wet. Water gets Chuck Norris.
· Scientists have estimated that the energy given off during the Big Bang is roughly equal to 1CNRhK (Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick)
· Some people like to eat frogs' legs. Chuck Norris likes to eat lizard legs. Hence, snakes.
· Newton's Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
· In the beginning there was nothing...then Chuck Norris Roundhouse kicked that nothing in the face and said "Get a job". That is the story of the universe.
· Chuck Norris has 12 moons. One of those moons is the Earth.
· Thousands of years ago Chuck Norris came across a bear. It was so terrified that it fled north into the arctic. It was also so terrified that all of its descendents now have white hair.
· There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.
· The leading causes of death in the United States are: 1. Heart Disease 2. Chuck Norris 3. Cancer.
· Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.
· Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chuck Norris has 72... and they're all poisonous.
· Chuck Norris is the only human being to display the Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- you can never know both exactly where and how quickly he will roundhouse-kick you in the face.
· Chuck Norris can hit you so hard that he can actually alter your DNA. Decades from now your descendants will occasionally clutch their heads and yell "What was That?"
· Scotty in Star Trek often says “Ye cannae change the laws of physics.” This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of physics. With his fists.
· If, by some incredible space-time paradox, Chuck Norris would ever fight himself, he'd win. Period.
· Science Fact: Roundhouse kicks are comprised primarily of an element called Chucktanium.
· Chuck Norris can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
· According to Einstein's theory of relativity, Chuck Norris can actually roundhouse kick you yesterday.
· Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table, because Chuck Norris only recognizes the element of surprise.
· Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its decendants are known today as Giraffes.
· Human cloning is outlawed because if Chuck Norris were cloned, then it would be possible for a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick to meet another chuck Norris roundhouse kick. Physicists theorize that this contact would end the universe.
· The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed... unless it meets Chuck Norris.
· The chemical formula for the highly toxic cyanide ion is CN-. These are also Chuck Norris' initials. This is not a coincidence.
· There’s an order to the universe: space, time, Chuck Norris.... Just kidding, Chuck Norris is first.
· We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Chuck Norris.
· Chuck Norris is so bad he makes viruses sick. As such, Chuck Norris is also responsible for the eradication of smallpox.
· Chuck Norris can split the atom. With his bare hands.

First day of School!

8/25-26
Please begin gathering the supplies on your supply list (available on the handouts tab of my TeacherWeb stite).