Links from class today

Food Game

Element-design an energy bar

Look up any food

Activity 105 DONE! woohoo!

We are officially done with activity 105. Due to missing a day of class last week for Soul Writers, CP groups 003 and 004, today you had to turn in your company poster and completed packets. All analysis questions had to be done and the packet needed to be filled in.
Group 003- thank you for those of you who typed out your analysis in class today. You showed such great effort. You do not need to finish typing these- It was a little too ambitious for our short class period.

Honors- You need to complete your individual activity 105 papers by THURSDAY. Have it already printed or emailed to me BY THURSDAY!

Below is my example.

example paper

Please bring in food labels (with the nutrition facts like how many calories and grams of protein) for class on Thursday.

Tomorrow I will be at Marist with the AVID kids. You will be working on completing activity 108 during class.

Activity 108 in class reading (read this)

Activity 108 student worksheet and analysis (complete this)

Artificial Bone Lab

We're off to the races with the artificial bone lab. You should have the article from Wednesday as well as the lab packet from today. (Anyone from the Soul Writer's production should get it too!)

Tomorrow and Friday will be a building and testing day. I expect everyone to keep ALL data and prototypes. We should be able to recreate any of your testing prototypes from your notes. 

A rubric for the final turn-in is shown below: 

Here is a real life example of how bioengineers are using technology to help patients. 

Check out these videos!

Hugh Herr demonstrates the new technology behind prosthesis (March 2014)

Aimee Mullins does a TED talk and shows off her 12 pairs of legs

Test Tomorrow!

Here's the review sheet you should have completed in class. Make sure you're ready for the exam tomorrow!

Review KEY!

*P.S. If you write "Darwin is my homeboy" at the top of your test tomorrow, you'll get extra credit :-)

Tuesday Homework Answer Key

ANSWER KEY

Update

Week Update:

I just entered quite a few grades.

 Some of you still owe me the signed grade update (parents-- a signed grade sheet for science and social studies quarter 4 grades went home this past weekend), activity 97 notes, stopping to think questions, and analysis, as well as the notebook quiz we took on Monday.

Online book for activity 97---> to the right, scroll down and you will see the online textbook link and password/username.

Notebook Quiz


We did activity 99: a whale of a tale on Tuesday and you had an evolution review sheet for homework due Wednesday.

Today in class we compared the DNA of different organisms to figure out their evolutionary relationships (activity 100). Analysis are homework and you should check your answers to last nights HW using the answer key posted below.

 Group 004, tonight for HW you should work on the review sheet.

Tomorrow is studying in class for Friday's BIG evolution exam. Check the blog for an extra credit opportunity Thursday evening.

Evolution Practice HW WS KEY

Activity 100

Activity 99: A Whale of a Tale

A whale of a tale

Forkbirds graph due Monday

Forkbird graph due Monday

Activity 95

Activity 96 forkbirds

activity 95: hiding in the background

Today in class we did activity 95: hiding in the background. Make sure you have your data table filled in and analysis questions completed for class tomorrow.

CP Thurs night HW

activity 95 graph

Activity 95 data table

Natural Selection Comic

Create a mini poster of your natural selection scenario for analysis question 5 

MUST INCLUDE:
a population of organisms 
description/picture of the environment
predator OR environment change 
mutation/adaptation
picture and caption 

Natural Selection

Today we read the activity 94 role play and played the natural selection computer simulations below.

MOTH GAME

WHO WANTS TO LIVE 1 MILLION YEARS

Activity 94: Meeting of the Minds

HOMEWORK: analysis questions 1-5

Geologic Time Scale Classwork Project

Personal time scale and geologic time scale math

Activity 92: Time for Change

Today in class we worked on Activity 92: A time for change. You defined fossil and geologic time scale in your glossary (geologic (Earth) time periods divided by the appearance and disappearance of life forms), created a personal time scale, and began working on your scaled geologic time scale using the pink cards. Tonight for homework, make sure you print some pictures of the fossils/life forms to glue to your time scale tomorrow in class. 

003- complete activity 91 analysis 1-5 as well 

Time scales due tomorrow at the end of the period! Also, I will give you back your solar system tests tomorrow. 

Look up pictures!