Tacey Nielsen
7-12 Science
KWL Assistant Girls' Basketball Coach
2011 -
2012
Course Schedule
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Study Hall |
Open Hour |
Earth Science |
Physical Science |
Biology |
Anatomy |
Life Science |
Open Hour |
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& Date |
7th
Grade Life Science |
8th
Grade Earth Science |
Physical Science | Biology | Anatomy |
| 8/24 | *Hand out books and syllabus; class expectations | *Hand out books and syllabus; class expectations | *Hand out books and syllabus; class expectations | *Hand out books and syllabus; class expectations | *Hand out books and syllabus; class expectations |
| 8/25 | *Internet
activity, Making word clouds *Read 1.1 Discovering Cells *Chp 1 vocab list, due Friday |
*Internet
Activity: Making word Clouds *Read 1.1 The Earth System *Chp 1 vocab list; due Friday |
*Internet
Activity: Making word clouds *Read "What is Science" Intro on Scientific Method *Intro vocab list due Friday |
*Internet
Activity: Making word clouds *Read 1.1 What is Science *Chp 1 Vocab, due Friday |
*Internet
Activity: Making word clouds *Read chp 1 pg 2-3 - Overview of Anatomy and levels of structural organization *Chp 1 vocab, due Friday |
| 8/26 | *Cover lab safety and lab safety contract | *Cover lab safety and lab safety contract | *Cover Lab safety and lab safety contract | *Cover Lab safety and lab safety contract | *Cover Lab safety and lab safety contract |
| 8/29 | *Discuss cells,
cell theory and microscopes *Quiz 1.1 *wksht 1.1 |
*discuss parts
of the Earth System *Quiz 1.1 *wksht 1.1 *read 1.2 |
*discuss intro
to physical science, terms and scientific method *intro wksht *read 1.1 |
*discuss 1.1 and
the scientific process and hot to form a hypothesis *wksht 1.1 *read 1.2 |
*Discuss levels of Anatomy |
| 8/30 | *Microscope recognition Lab | *Lab: What Forces Shape Earth | *Inquiry Skills Lab: Swing Time of a Pendulum | *Discuss 1.2 and
the scientific method *wksht 1.2 *Read 1.3 |
*Overview of Organ Systems |
| 8/31 | *Using a
Microscope Lab *Lab data sheet |
*Discuss 1.2
Earth's interios; the crust, mantle and core *wksht 1.2 |
*Discuss 1.1,
matter, properties of matter, physical and chemical properties *wksht 1.1 |
*Discuss 1.2;
characteristics of living things, homeostasis, and branches of biology *wksht 1.3 |
*Finish Organ
Systems
*wkbook pg 2-6 |
| 9/1 | *Comparing Cells
Lab *Observing Cells Lab |
*Solid or Liquid Lab | *1.2 discuss
measuring matter, metric system *metric system conversions |
*Making Measurements Lab | *Maintaining
homeostasis and internal balance *wkbook pg 7-8 |
| 9/6 | *1.2 parts of
the cell; animal cell vs. plant cell *wksht 1.2 |
*1.3 discuss
convection and the mantle *Enrichment - what's happening during convection *wksht 1.3 |
*Measurement Lab | *Discuss 1.4
microscopes and tools *metric system *review conversions |
*Anatomical
Positions wkbook pg 8-11 |
| 9/7 | *Finish cell
structures and cell organization *Cell City Model |
*1.3 Quiz *Chapter 1 Review *Test tomorrow |
*Measurement Lab | *Microscope lab - Intro to the Microscope | *Anatomical
Positions Lab *wkbook 11-13 |
| 9/8 | *1.2 Quiz *Plant cell/Animal cell drawing *read 1.3 |
*Chapter 1 Test *Start Chp 2 vocab |
*Study hall (Land Judging) | *Study hall (Land Judging) | *Quiz over Anatomical Positions |
| 9/9 | *1.3 Chemical
compounds found in cells *wksht 1.3 |
*Finish chp 2
vocab *Look over test *read 2.1 |
*Measurement Lab | *Pond Water and
Cheek Cells Lab *vocab review wksht |
*Body Plants,
body sections and body regions *Finish wkbook pages |
| 9/13 | *wksht 1.3 *What's that Taste Lab *Detecting Starch Lab |
*Hand in chp 2
vocab *2.1 properties of minerals, hardness, cleavage, defining minerals, structure |
*Density and
Volume *Density math skills wksht |
*Chp 1 Review | *Planes of a
banana *planes, sections, and regions |
| 9/14 | *Quiz 1.3 *1.4 Cell in its environment *wksht 1.4 |
*Finish 2.1 How
do Minerals Form *wksht 2.1 |
*Density Lab *Metric System Challenge |
*Chp 1 test *Chp 2 vocab list *Read 2.1 |
*Chp 1 review and objectives |
| 9/15 | *Quiz 1.4 *1.4 Enrichment |
*Quiz 2.1 *2.1 Enrichment |
*Density Lab *Density Crossword |
*Go over test *Finish chp 2 vocab |
*Chp 1 Review BINGO |
| 9/16 | Homecoming | Homecoming | Homecoming | Homecoming | Homecoming |
| 9/19 | *Detecting Starch Lab | *Chp 1 Test | |||
| 9/20 | *Diffusion in Action Lab | *Read Chp 3 *Chp 3 Vocab |
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| 9/22 | *Chp 1 Test *Chp 2 Vocab *Read 2.1 |
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| 10/31 | *wksht 3.3 *enrichment 3.3 *read 3.4 |
*Quiz 4.2 *4.2 enrichment *read 4.3 |
*Chp 4 Review *practice problems ionic and covalent bonding |
*8.3
photosynthetic reactions, Calvin Cycle *wksht 8.3 |
*Chp 4 vocab *Read Chp 4, Integumentary System |
| 11/1 | *Quiz 3.3 *3.4 Chromosomes and Inheritance, genes |
*Earthquake website, look at pictures and rate each earthquake on a scale | *Chp 4 Review | *Chp 8 Review *Chp 8 vocab review |
*Intro to Integumentary System |
| 11/2 | *Meiosis *wksht 3.4 *Get chp 3 review |
*4.3 Monitoring
earthquakes, seismographs, earthquake risk around the world *wksht 4.3 |
*Chp 4 Test *Chp 5 Vocab *Read 5.1 |
*Chp 8 Review | *Classification
of Body Membranes *wkbook pg 49-50 |
| 11/3 | *3.4 Enrichment *Make Meiosis Models |
*Artist in Residence | *Artist in Residence | *Artist in Residence | *Ingetumentary
system and skin functions *wkbook ph 51-52 |
| 11/4 | *Finish Meiosis
Models *Quiz 3.4 |
*Quiz 4.3 *Enrichment 4.3 *Get Chp 4 Review |
*5.1 Chemical
reactions, endothermic and exothermic reations, energy changes *wksht 5.1 |
*Chapter 8 Test *Chp 9 Vocab *read 9.1 |
*Appendages of
the skin *wkbook 53-54 |
| 11/7 | *Chp 3 Review | *Chp 4 Review *Test Tuesday |
*Evidence of a Chemical Change Lab | *Cellular
Respiration, Energy in foods *Ye Olde Wine Vat Lab - set up mixtures |
*Appendages of the Skin |
| 11/8 | *Chp 3 Test *Chp 4 vocab *Read 4.1 |
*Chapter 4 Test *Chp 5 vocab *read 5.1 |
*Finish Evidence
of a Chemical Change Lab *Organize and Clean Lab |
*Energy in Stored Food Lab | *Infections and
Allergies of the Skin *Wkbook 55-56 |
| 11/9 | *4.1 DNA, genes
and Base pairs |
*5.1 Volcanoes
and plate tectonics *wksht 5.1 |
*5.2 writing
chemical equations, types of chemical equations, make types of
chemical equation note cards *types of reactions wksht |
*Finish Energy
in Stored Food Lab *Wine Lab tasting and analysis |
*Burns and Skin Cancer |
| 11/10 | * 4.1 DNA Replication | *Quiz 5.1 *5.1 Enrichment *Read 5.2 |
*Balancing
Chemical Equations *Marshmallow Equations Lab |
*Fermentation and Glycolysis | *Chp 4
Integumentary System Review *Test Tuesday |
| 11/11 | No Class - Dome | No Class - Dome | No Class - Dome | No Class - Dome | No Class - Dome |
| 11/14 | *DNA Replication *wksht 4.1 |
*5.2 Volcanic
Eruptions, parts of a volcano, types of eruptions, hazards and stages
of activity *wksht 5.2 |
*Balancing
Chemical Equations *Finish marshmallow equations |
*Compare/contrast
table - glycolysis and fermentation *read 9.2 |
*Integumentary System Review |
| 11/15 | *Quiz 4.1 *4.1 Enrichment |
*Quiz 5.2 *5.2 Enrichment *read 5.3 |
*Chemical
Equations *Balancing chemical equations wksht |
*9.2 Krebs Cycle
and Electron transport chain *wksht 9.2 *Krebs cycle and electron transport chain videos |
*Integumentary System Test |
| 11/16 | *Make DNA Models *Have your DNA and Eat it Too Lab *Read 4.2 |
*Group read and
notes *Assess your understanding |
*Types of Chemical Reactions Lab | *Cellular
respiration Summary wksht *finish compare/contrast grid *Cellular respiration flow chart |
*Chp 5 Skeletal System pt. 1 vocabulary |
| 11/17 | *4.2 How cells make proteins, RNA | *5.3 volcanic
landforms and types of volcanoes *Wksht 5.3 *Chp 5 review |
*Math Skills 10
- Balancing Chemical Equations *Read 5.3 *Work on chemical equation extra credit - due Monday |
*Energy and
exercise *photosynthesis vs. cellular respiration *vocab review wksht |
*Functions of the bones |
| 11/18 | *Finish 4.2
Protein synthesis, transcription and translation *Wksht 4.2 |
*Volcano and Earthquake Internet Scavenger Hunt | *Work on Math
Skills 10 *Work on chemical equation extra credit |
*Chp 9 Review | *Classification of
bones *wkbook 61-62 |
| 11/21 | *Quiz 4.2 *4.2 Enrichment *Read 4.3 *Chp 4 Review |
*Finish
scavenger hunt *Chp 5 Review *Test Tuesday |
*5.3 Controlling
chemical reactions, rates of chemical reatctions *Chapter 5 Review |
*Finish Chp 9
review, cellular respiration *Test Tuesday |
*Structure of a long bone |
| 11/22 | *Study Hall - JH Music Festival |
*Chapter 5 Test | *Chp 5 Review *Test Wednesday |
*Chp 9 Test |
*Bone formation
and growth, bone fractures *wkbook pg 63-64 *Long bone coloring pg. 17 |
| 11/23 | *4.3 Mutations and Cancer | *Hand out
Earth's Surface Module *Vocab Chp 4 |
*Chp 5 Test | *Chp 10 Vocab *Read 10.1 |
*Correcting wk
pages. |
| 11/28 | *wksht 4.3 *Get Chp 4 Review |
*4.1 Fossils,
kinds of fossils, fossil record *wksht 4.1 |
*Chp 6 Vocab *Read 6.1 |
*Study Hall - Region Music | *Study Hall - Region Music |
| 11/29 | *Quiz 4.3 *Enrichment *Chp 4 Review |
*Quiz 4.1 *4.1 Enrichment *Read 4.2 |
*6.1 Solutions,
suspensions, Colloids, effects on solutions *wksht 6.1 |
*10-1 Cell
growth, ratio to surface area to volume, cell division *wksht 10-1 |
*Fractures, types of fractures |
| 11/30 | *Chapter 4 Test *Hand out Ecology Module *Chp 1 Vocab |
*Jurassic Park | *Classifying
solutions, Suspensions and Colloids Lab |
*Why are Cells so Small Lab | *Axial Skeleton
vocab *review bone markings and fractures *Quiz Thursday |
| 12/1 | *Read 1.1 Living
Things and the Environment *Access Your Understanding *finish vocab |
*Jurassic Park | *Separating
Mixtures Lab *Read 6.2 |
*Why are Cells
so Small Lab *Read 10.2 |
*Bone Markings
and Fractures Quiz *Finish Axial Skeleton Vocab |
| 12/2 | *1.1 Habitats,
Biotic and Abiotic factors, ecological organization *wksht 1.1 |
*Jurassic Park | *6.2
Concentration and Solubility *Solubility Curves *wksht 6.2 |
*10.2 - Stages
of the Cell Cycle, Mitosis *wksht 10.2 |
*Hand in Axial
Skeleton vocab *Read pgs. 139-145 |
| 12/5 | *Quiz 1.1 *Reinforcement *Read 1.2 |
*Jurassic Park *Read 4.2 |
*Study Hall -
wksht 6.2 *Read 6.3 |
*Study hall - wksht 10.2 | *Skull and the
bones of the skull *Wkbk pg 64-68 |
| 12/6 | *What's in the Scene Activity | *Modeling the Fossil Record Activity - pick out an organism that has changed over time - search for pictures | *6.3Acids and
Bases, pH scale, properties of acids and bases *wksht 6.3 *Read 6.4 |
*Mitosis Internet Lesson | *Vertebral
Column (Spine) *Wkbk pg. 69-71 |
| 12/7 | *1.2 Populations
- births and deaths, immigration and emigration, factors affecting
populations *wksht 1.2 |
*Finish Modeling the Fossil Record Activity | *6.4 Acids and
Bases in Solutions *Read 6.5 *wksht 6.4 |
*Onion Root Tip Online Activity | *Review Skull Bones, quiz tomorrow |
| 12/8 | *Quiz 1.2 *Reinforcement |
*4.2 The
Relative Age of Rocks - rock layers where fossils are found and age *wksht 4.2 |
*Plant Pigment
and the pH Scale Lab *Read 6.5 |
*Cancer *Cancer Web Search |
*Skull bones Quiz |
| 12/9 | *Organizing an
Ecosystem Activity *Read 1.3 |
*Quiz 4.2 *Enrichment |
*6.5 Digestion
and pH *wksht 6.5 |
*Finish Cancer Web Search | *Bony Thorax *wkbk 72 |
| 12/12 | *1.3
Interactions Among Living things, natural selection, competition,
predation, symbiosis *wksht 1.3 |
*4.3 Radioactive
Dating, half-life *wksht 4.3 |
*Stomach Acid Tums vs. Rolaids Lab | *ACT PLAN Test *Chapter 10 Review *Chp 10 Vocab Review *Cell Cycle Flow Chart |
*Appendicular
Skeleton Vocab *Bones of the Shoulder Girdle, forearm, hand, hip, legs and feet. |
| 12/13 | *Quiz 1.3 *Enrichment *Read 1.4 |
*Quiz 4.3 *Enrichment *Read 4.4 |
*Chp 6 Review |
*Chapter 10 Review | *Joints |
| 12/14 | *Einstein's Riddle | *4.4Geologic
Time Scale, *wksht 4.4 |
*Chp 6 Review | *Chapter 10 Test | *Joints *Appendicular Skeleton Vocab due |
| 12/15 | *1.4 Changes in
Communities, succession *wksht 1.4 |
*Quiz 4.4 *Enrichment *Read 4.5 |
*Chp 6 Test | Semester Review |
*Test over Joints and Skeleton |
| 12/16 | *Quiz 1.4 *Enrichment |
*4.5 Early Earth
and its inhabitants, how it formed *Wksht 4.5 |
Semester Review | Semester Review | Semester Review |
| 12/19 | *Borax Christmas
Ornaments *Chp 1 Review |
*Quiz 4.5 *Enrichment *Read 4.6 |
Semester Review | Semester Review | Semester Review |
| 12/20 | *Chp 1 Review *Chp 1 Test Wednesday |
*Quiz 4.6 *Enrichment *Chapter 4 Review |
Semester Review | Semester Test | Semester Test |
| 12/21 | *Chp 1 Test | *Chapter 4 Review | Semester Test | Semester Test | Semester Test |
| 12/22 | *No Class | *Chapter 4 Test | Semester Test | *No Class | *No Class |
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| 1/4 | *Chapter 2
Weathering and Soil *Read 2.1 *Chp 2 Vocab List |
*Chapter 2
Ecosystems and Biomes *Read 2.1 *Chp 2 Vocab |
*Chapter 9 Motion |
*Chp 11 Genetics *Read 11.1 *Chp 11 Vocab |
*Chp 6 Muscular
System vocab *Read 178-192 |
| 1/5 | *2.1 Rocks and
Weathering *Wksht 2.1 |
*2.1 Energy Flow
in Ecosystems *Wksht 2.1 |
*9.1 Speed and Velocity |
*11.1 Gregor
Mendel, genes, dominance, segregation |
*Muscle Tissues
and Muscle Types *Muscle Functions *wkbook pgs 89-90 |
| 1/6 | *Quiz 2.1 *Enrichment *Read 2.2 |
*Quiz 2.1 *Enrichment *Read 2.2 |
*Velocity Math Skills wksht |
*wksht 11.1 *read 11.2 |
*Finish wkbook
pages *work on muscle note cards |
| 1/9 | *2.2 Cycles of
Matter *wksht 2.2 |
*How Fast Can it
Fizz Lab *Set up Rusting Away Lab |
*Velocity
Lab *Read 9.3 |
*Probability and
Punnett Squares *wksht 11.2 |
*Set up dissecting trays, distribute cats and dissecting materials |
| 1/10 | *Quiz 2.2 *Enrichment *Read 2.3 |
*2.2 Soil
Formation *wksht 2.2 |
*9.3
Acceleration *wksht 9.3 |
*FACE lab | *wkbook #4, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17 - due Thursday |
| 1/11 | *2.3 Discuss Desert, Rain Forest and Grassland Biomes | *Quiz 2.2 *Enrichment *Read 2.3 |
*Acceleration Math Skills | *FACE lab |
*Skin Cats |
| 1/12 | *2.3 Discuss
Deciduous Forest, Boreal Forest and Tundra Biomes *wksht 2.3 |
*2.3 Soil
Conservation *wksht 2.3 |
*Acceleration Lab |
*Assign Genetic Disorder Poster and start researching | *Skin Cats *wkbook pages due |
| 1/13 | *Quiz 2.3 *Enrichment *Read 2.4 *2 liter bottles needed for Monday *Need to bring a shoe box and supplies for "Biome in a Box" |
*Quiz 2.3 *Enrichment *Read Rusting Away Lab Results and Clean up |
*Velocity/Acceleration wksht |
*work on Genetic disorder posters | *Skin Cats |
| 1/16 | *Observing Decomposition Activity | *Go over
enrichment *Get Chp 2 Review |
*Get Chp 9 Review, work on in class |
*Your traits and
Monohybrid cross wksht *Read 11.3 |
*Correct Muscle wkbook |
| 1/17 | *Biome in a Box Activity | *Chp 2 Review *Test tomorrow |
*Chp
9 Review *Test tomorrow |
*11.3 Independent Assortment, Dihybrid crosses, Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, multiple alleles, polygenic traits | *Skin Cats |
| 1/18 | *Biome in a Box | *Chp 2 Test *Read 3.1 Mass Movement *Chp 3 Vocab |
*Chp
9 Test *Read 10.1 *Chp 10 vocab |
*Dihybrid Cross Problems | *Skin Cats |
| 1/19 | *Biome in a Box *Read 2.4 |
*3.1 Mass
Movement of Earth's surface *wksht 3.1 |
*10.1
Nature of Force, unbalanced forces, balanced forces, Newton's First
Law of Motion *Wksht 10.1 *Read 10.2 |
*Finish Genetic Disorder Posters | *Skin Cats |
| 1/20 | *Biome in a Box Letter | *Quiz 3.1 *Enrichment *Read 3.2 |
*10.2
Newton's Second Law of Motion *wksht 10.2 |
*Genetic Disorder Posters and Presentation Due | *Skin Cats |
| 1/23 | *Biome in a Box *Read 2.4 |
*3.2 Water Erosion, Runoff, Stream Formation |
*Newton's Second Law Math Skills |
*Finish
presenting posters *Read 11.4 |
*wkbook muscle pages |
| 1/24 | *Biome in a Box and Letter due - finishing touches | *Finish 3.2
Types of water erosion and water deposition *wksht 3.2 |
*Newton's Second Law Lab |
*11.4 Meiosis,
crossing over, diploid, haploid *wksht 11.4 |
*Cat muscles of the head, neck and chest |
| 1/25 | *2.4 Aquatic Ecosystems *wksht 2.4 |
*Quiz 3.2 *Enrichment *Read 3.3 |
*Newton's Second Law Lab | *11.4 Make Meiosis Models | *muscle shape and names |
| 1/26 | *Quiz 2.4 *Enrichment |
*Glacier Collage | *10.3
Friction and Gravity *wksht 10.3 |
*Genetic Probability Review | *wkbk pages 102 - 105 |
| 1/27 | *Ocean Zone Collage | *Glacier Collage | *Meiosis Booklet
Due *Genetic Probability Due *Chp 11 Vocab Review |
* Chest Muscles | |