Classpage - Mrs. Sachs

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF June 15

Due Tuesday:

1. Review Frog Lab.
2. Review all three virtual frog dissections. (see Mrs. Sachs' Website)
3. Complete Lung Capacity Wrap-up Chart.

Due Wednesday:

1. Review Human Body Test & study guide if you got less than 90%.
2. Color your exterior frog drawing & make sure labels are neat.

Due Thursday:

1. Review your science binder in preparation for common assessment.
2. Save all study guides & anything else you think will help prepare for CMT next year.

Due Friday:

1. Ask for parent input on feedback form.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF June 8 (ONLY 2 weeks of school left!)

Due Monday:

1. Share what you learned this week & have Weekend Sheet Signed.
2. Actively Study for Friday’s Test.
3. Complete 1st two pages of Human Body Study Guide.
4. Complete Lab Initiation Sheet.

Due Tuesday:

1. Pre-read Chapter 17 – Section 2, pages 574-78.
2. Read & do Cornell Notes.
3. Make sure you cover “Reading Preview.”
4. Periods 1&5 complete #1 (Identify Background Info) on Lung Capacity Lab Procedures Sheet.
5. Period 2 complete Initiation for Lung Capacity Lab.

Due Wednesday:

1.Read Chapter 15, Sections 2&3 (pages 516-521 & 524-527).
2. Sequence the organs in the Digestive System or
3. Write a description on how a sandwich travels through the digestive system.
4. Complete Study Guide pages 1&2.

Due Thursday:

1. Read Ch 14, Sections 1&2.
2. List type of joints & give an example of each.
3. Answer question in Figure 13 on page 485.
4. Complete Study Guide page 3.

Due Friday:

1. Actively study for Human Body Test.

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Due Wednesday:

1. Type up one copy per team of Page 1 & 2 of Feel the Beat Lab.
2. Be able to spell & define Atherosclerosis (page 553).
3. Why is hypertension the silent killer (page 554)?

Due Thursday:

1. Complete drafting Results & Conclusions of Feel the Beat Lab Report.
2. Final typed lab report due Friday.

Due Friday:

1. Complete final typed Feel the Beat Lab Report.
2. Read Ch17, Section 1 (pages 564-572).
3. Do Cornell Notes or answer Section 1 Assessment questions 1a through to 3c. (pages 572)

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF May 26

Due Tuesday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.

Due Wednesday:

1. Complete Cornell Notes (goal: 12 questions)

Due Thursday:

1. Type Cornell Notes.
2. Type Blood Pressure Lab.

Due Friday:

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF May 18

Due Tuesday:

1. Read Chapter 16 – Section 1 (pages 534-543).
2. Do first 2 pages of The Body’s Transport System Packet (pages 157-158).

Due Wednesday:

1. Complete The Amazing Pump – Your Heart.
2. Do 3rd, 4th, & 5th pages of The Body’s Transport System Packet (pages 159-161).
3. Be able to discuss what is different between artery, veins, & capillaries.

Due Thursday:

1. Complete Arteries, Capillaries, & Veins Chart.
2. Correct The Amazing Pump – Your Heart, if necessary.

Due Friday:

1. Be prepared for Blood Pressure Lab.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF May 11

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Interview someone at home regarding Cell Cycle & Punnett Squares.
3. Complete Mendel’s Packet on Heredity.
4. Check out Mitosis video on Mrs. Sachs’ Website.

Due Tuesday:

1. Read Chapter 4 – Section 2 (pages 118-123).
2. Answer Reading Checkpoint Questions.
3. Make sure your Chapter 3 – Section 5 Cornell Notes are correct.
4. Review Study Guide for test Friday.

Due Wednesday:

1. Complete Bikini Bottom Genetics.
2. Read Chapter 4, Section 3 (pages 126-130).
3. Answer question in Figure 15, page 130.

Due Thursday:

1. Describe the difference between Mitosis & Meiosis (see links on Mrs. Sachs' Website).
* Use pictures from Internet or drawings.
* Write description also in your own words or make table.
2. Complete Cell Division & Genetics Study Guide 1.

Due Friday:

1. Actively Study for Test.
2. Make sure you complete Study Guides 1 & 2.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF May 4

Due Monday:

1. Parent signature & initials on Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Initials regarding yes or no for Homework club VERY IMPORTANT!

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete Class Assignments.
2. Read Chapter 3 Section 4 (pages 91-94).
3. Complete questions 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, & 2c.

Due Wednesday:

1. Read Section 5 (pages 96-102).
2. Complete Cornell Notes.
3. Bring covered textbooks tomorrow (part of grade).

Due Thursday:

1. Complete your Cell Cycle Drawing.
3. Read Chapter 4, Section 1 (pages 110-115).
4. Relate a trait to a gene to an allele.

Due Friday:

1. Create "tricks" to remember order of Cell Stages & Mitosis Phases.
2. Study the order of the stages & phases of the cell cycle.
3. Do half of Mendel’s Work Packet.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF April 27

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete Chapter 7 Notes.

Due Wednesday:

1. Correct your Chapter 7 Notes.
2. Actively study Chapter 7 Notes (use template).

Due Thursday:

1. Read Food for Keeps Article (see link).
2. Complete Food for Keeps Questions.

Due Friday:

1. Actively study for quiz:

- Chapter 7 notes (Use template - file #2)
- Prokaryotic versus Eukaryotic cells (See Cells Study Guide 3 - file #5)
- Scientific Method Study Guide (file #13)
- Food for Keeps article & answer sheet (types of food preservation methods, see link #2)
- Bacteria, Fungi, and Food Preservation Flash Cards on this website.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF April 20

Due Monday:

1. Be rested and ready to finish up the year.
2. Identify or implement Earth Day Commitment.

Due Tuesday:

1. Identify Earth Day/Environmental article.
2. Identify or implement Earth Day Commitment.

Due Wednesday:

1. Typed article summary.
2. Signed Weekend HA Sheet with Earth Day Commitment.

Due Thursday:

1. Organize Science Binder.
2. Make sure the following is in order:
* Trout Section
* Weekend HA Sheets for 2009
3. Think about the most important things you learned in Trout Unit.

Due Friday:

1. Complete Trout Wrap-up.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF April 6

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete Study Guide 3.
2. Revise Study Guide 2.
3. Actively study for Wednesday’s Test.

Due Wednesday:

1. Actively study for Cell Test.

Due Thursday:

1. Find an Earth Day or Environmental article for writing a summary due Wednesday, April 22.
2. Think of a Earth Day (public service) Project that will help the environment.
3. Make sure there is nothing loose in your science binder.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF March 30

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Work on Cell Project.

Due Tuesday:

1. Read Chapter 3, Section 1 (pages 74-78).
2. Answer Reading Checkpoint Questions.

Due Wednesday (April 1):

1. Read Chapter 3, Section 2 (pages 80-83)
2. Read page 40.
3. Answer Reading Checkpoint Questions.
4. Optional: read pages 84-85.

Due Thursday:

1. Complete Cell Project.
2. Study for Friday's quiz (refer to Cell Study Guide 1 & online Flashcards).
3. Complete Cell Study Guide 2, especially if not done before last quiz.

Due Friday:

1. Study for quiz.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF March 23

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete the description of your Cell Project idea on Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
3. Complete Article Summary & Article Summary Rubric.
4. Polish off your Cell Storyboard if not handed in on Friday.

Due Wednesday:

1. Complete questions regarding all the slides you have viewed (pages 6-7 of Cell Lab).
2. Correct/finish the labeling on the General Plant & Animal Diagrams.
3. Label all the organelles that you can in YOUR drawings.

Due Thursday:

1. Complete all questions of Cell Lab).
2. Correct/finish the labeling on the General Plant & Animal Diagrams.
3. Label all the organelles that you can in YOUR drawings.

Due Friday:

1. Read page 67 in textbook.
2. Answer questions 3a,b, & c.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF 16

Due Tuesday:

1. Revise storyboard done in class.
2. Come up with at least one idea to help remember structure and function of organelles covered.
3. Read pages 88-93 and do reading check points.

Due Wednesday:

1. Study the study guide.*
2. Complete and correct the back of the study guide.*
3. Complete 1&2 of Cell City.*
4. Complete Looking Inside Cells.
*Must do.

Due Thursday:

1. Actively study for quiz.
2. Complete Study Guide 2

Due Friday:

1. Read - Read Only- Cell Lab.
2. Wear old shirt (why? read lab).

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF March 9

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. If not done already,type final lab report for At-Home Experiment and
3. ....and Have reflection sheet signed by parent if requested by Mrs. Sachs.
4. Optional: Create Lab Report Notebook cover.

Due Tuesday:

1. Revise storyboard done in class: Cell Wall & start Cell Membrane
2. Come up with at least one idea to help remember structure and/or function of organelles covered.

Due Wednesday:

1. Revise storyboard done in class: Cell Membrane & Nucleus.
2. Come up with at least one idea to help remember structure and/or function of organelles covered.

Due Thursday:

1. Revise storyboard done in class: Nuclear Envelope, Nucleolus, Chromatin (p62), & Chromosomes (p97).
2. Come up with at least one idea to help remember structure and/or function of organelles covered.

Due Friday:

1. Revise storyboard done in class: Cytoplasm (not an organelle), Endoplasmic Reticulum, & Ribosomes.
2. Come up with at least one idea to help remember structure and/or function of organelles covered.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF March 2

Due Monday:

1) Wrap up your experiment if possible this weekend.
2) Start typing up your results and conclusions. Bring in questions about data validity Monday.
3) Lab reports due Wednesday, March 4, unless you have an extension.
4) Note the metric & British (Standard) units on something you use.

Due Tuesday:

1. Work on final lab report.
2. Make sure you address how you could of made your data more valid.

Due Wednesday:

1. Lab reports due unless you ask for an extension.

Due Thursday:

1. Work on lab report if not handed in.

Due Friday:

1. Work on lab report if not handed in.
2. Complete Measurement Game worked on in class.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF February 23

Due Monday:

1. Be rested.
2. Be ready to get back into the swing of things.
3. Have your first 2 pages typed of At-Home Lab Report if not handed in already.

Due Tuesday:

1. Share & have signed February 13 Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Be ready to go over Ch 2, Sec 2 Cornell Notes Assignment.
3. Be organized for "I Want to Be Organized Contest."
4. Complete Rewriting Detailed Conclusions.

Due Wednesday:

1. Read pages 50-57, Chapter 2, Section 3.
2. Complete "Discovering Cells."

Due Thursday:

1. Complete online Microscope Quiz.
2. Complete Microscope Study Guide.
3. Optional: Read Advances in Microscopes.

Due Friday:

1. Study for Microscope Test.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF February 9

Due Monday:

1. Share what we have done this week & have Weekend HA signed.
2. Finish Sciencespot.net online microscope activity if not completed.
3. Make sure you have done your best in typing up first two pages of your lab report (only print first 2 pages of lab template unless experiment is complete).

Due Tuesday:

1. Review peer review form.
2. ONLY put your name & period on the form. DO NOT FILL OUT.
3. Have your lab report ready for peer review tomorrow.

Due Wednesday:

1. Revise At-Home Experiment Lab Report.
2. Review & double check Microscope Lab Report.

Due Thursday:

1. Finalize (your best work) At-Home Experiment Lab Report.
2. Hand in Lab Report & Signed Peer Review Sheet.

Due Friday:

1. Read pages 42-49 in your Textbook.
2. Complete Cornell Notes Sheet.
3. View images of our live specimens online (mark “online” if viewed).

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF February 2

Due Monday:

1. Share what we have done this past week.
2. Actively study the items I don’t know for Jeopardy Monday & Test Tuesday.
3. Organize and number all Trout papers using the new typed Table of Contents.
4. Make sure Science Binder is organized & removed papers are safely filed at home.
5. Type the first 2 pages of your At-Home Lab and hand in Wednesday, Feb 4.

Due Tuesday:

1. Actively study for Trout Final.
2. Add to your A & Q Jeopardy list.

Due Wednesday:

1. Type page 1&2 of your lab report.
2. Make sure you research some Background Information.
3. Finish organizing your Trout Section of Science Binder.

Due Thursday:

1. Read p.829 & 830 of Appendix B in Textbook.
2. Complete "The Parts of a Microscope."
3. Note what coarse adjustment knob does.

Due Friday:

1. Reread page 829 of Appendix B.
2. Note what you need to be careful about when changing from low to high objective.
3. Study "Microscope Parts Identification."
4. Read pages 55-56 on microscopes.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF January 26

Due Monday:

1. Share what we have done this week & get signature on Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Continue to make sure you understand trout material covered so far.
3. Finalize the first two pages of your lab report, if not completed already (next week type them).

Due Tuesday:

1. Play the Watershed Game.
2. Print results or list games completed (there is a total of 4).
3. Read Hypoxia article.
4. For Period 1, half of 2, and Period 5, please complete the 11 Cleaning Up Pollution questions.

Due Wednesday:

1. Study for Jeopardy Game/Test.

Due Thursday:

1. Study for Test.

**No Classes Friday**

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF January 20

Due Wednesday:

1. Read Important Habitat Factors for Salmonids.
2. Try to list 12 needs of trout.

Due Thursday:

1. Read & underline Cleaning up Polluted Water.
2. Start studying Trout Needs and Threats to Trout Study Guide.
3. Start studying Your Trout Body.

Due Friday:

1. Actively study for quiz:
*Flash cards
*Have someone quiz you
*Quiz yourself by writing answers
2. Label Your Trout Body.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF January 12

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Obtain approval for at-home experiment or do further research.

Due Tuesday:

1. Finish labeling of your Trout Body using our rules for scientific drawings.
2. Complete Trout Body Crossword Puzzle.

Due Wednesday:

1. Make sure writeup for Trout Observation is complete.
2. Read and answer questions on Dissolved Oxygen.
3. Last call for Extra Credit Article Summaries.

Due Thursday:

1. Make sure writeup for Trout Observation is complete.
2. Read Threats to Trout Habitat.
3. Identify background information on your At-Home Experiment.

Due Friday:

1. Write up page 1 & 2 of your lab report on your At-Home Experiment if experiment is approved.
2. Draw a picture regarding your paragraph on Threats to Trout Habitat.
3. Be prepared to present your picture to the class.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF January 5

Due Monday:

1. Come back rested and ready to learn.

Due Tuesday:

1. Review Chem 101 Lab.
2. Review Trout Journal Observations.
3. Make sure you have a pencil.
4. Make sure your Trout section is organized.

Due Wednesday:

*Remember Snow Days are an excellent opportunity for extra credit article summary.

Due Thursday:

1. Complete “Developing Specific Hypotheses.”
2. Brainstorm ideas for your at-home experiment.

Due Friday:

1. Complete “Writing Detailed Conclusions.”
2. Do research on potential at-home experiments.
3. Add to or refine ideas for your at-home experiment.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF December 22

Due Monday:

1. Write down questions for Monday about your Chem 101 Lab.
2. Share & have signed Early Weekend HA Sheet.

Due Tuesday:

1. Make sure your lab is complete and legible.
2. Make sure eight structures are labeled on your first Trout Lab Journal.
3. Reread 3-page Chemistry 101: http://www.boquetriver.org/adoptmonitor.html
4. Make sure you understand the nitrogen cycle. Biological filter converts ammonia → nitrite → nitrate → plant food → fish food → fish → fish or food waste (ammonia).
5. Know ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate formulas.

Due January 6:

1. Come back from vacation rested & healthy.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF December 15

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Study 2nd Trout Vocabulary List.

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete lab questions for completed chem tests.
2. Do 2nd Trout Vocab Study Guide.

Due Wednesday:

1. Study for Trout vocabulary quiz on lists 1 & 2 for Thursday.
2. Complete lab questions for completed chem tests.
3. Do Understanding pH Trout HA.

Due Thursday:

1. Study for Trout vocabulary quiz on lists 1 & 2

Due Friday:

See due Monday above due to snow day.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF December 8

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete Wrap-up Sheet for 12/11.
2. Complete First Trout Crossword Puzzle.
3. Study flash cards (flash cards extra credit)

Due Wednesday:

1. Study for quiz.

Due Thursday:

1. Organize your science binder.
2. Read Chemistry 101 handout.
3. Bring in a one gallon Ziplock bag with name on it.*
Note: *Only if you were NOT issued a pair of goggles last year.

Due Friday:

1. Learn chemical formulas for Ammonia, Nitrite, & Nitrate.
2. Finish reading Chemistry 101 handout.
3. Finish Wrap-up Sheet for 12/11.
4. If snow - Find life science article and do summary.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF December 1

Due Monday:

1. Come in ready to learn!

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete CA on the Scientific Method & Classification.
2. Finish What’s a Crowd Lab Report if not completed yet.

Due Wednesday:

1. Explain in your own words the definition for the “Control of an Experiment.”
2. Give an example of your own.

Due Thursday:

1. Make a list of what should be in your science binder by tab.
2. Star “*” what should be listed in grading log for 2nd Quarter.
3. Finish What's a Crowd Bean Lab Assignment if not done yet.

Due Friday:

1. Read article “History of Brook Trout.”
2. Highlight or underline all the words you do not know.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF November 24

Due Monday:

1. Share what we have done this week & get signature.
2. Study for Tuesday's quiz on the Scientific Method.
3. Complete your OSLIS reference list & presentation notes.

Due Tuesday:

1. Study for quiz.
2. Breakfast Club @ 7:30 a.m.

Due Wednesday:

1. Type "What's a Crowd Lab Report" using template (Period 2 & students seeking an extension have till Tuesday, Dec 2.
2. Share Weekend HA Sheet.
3. Obtain signature ONLY for students who did not get signature last weekend.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF November 17

Due Monday:

1. Share and have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Clean out your Science Binder/Notebook.
3. Save 1st Quarter papers at home.

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete Predicting Skills Practice. (completed in class)
2. Hand in late index cards & references for Animal Project.
3. Complete page 3 of your "What's a Crowd Lab."

Due Wednesday:

1. Respond to questions on returned papers.

Due Thursday:

1. Find & edit page 1 &2 of your "What's a Crowd Lab."
2. Complete Items 1 & 2 on page 4 of "What's a Crowd Lab."

Due Friday:

1. Know the 7 steps of the Scientific Method.
2. Study & complete the study guide.
3. Study for Tuesday's quiz on the Scientific Method.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF November 10

Due Monday:

1. Share and have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Complete your animal presentation and OSLIS list of 5 references (at least one hard copy reference).

Due Wednesday:

1. Presentations all due.
2. Complete 11/10 HA Lab Sheet.

Due Thursday:

1. Refine presentations if necessary.
2. Read pages 262-266 in Chap 8 of your textbook.
3. Look online to see what else seeds need to germinate?

Due Friday:

1. Refine presentations if necessary.
2. Are we ready to draw conclusions from our What’s a Crowd Lab?

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF November 3

Due Tuesday:

1. Identify benthic macro-invertebrates from two more sample streams from link on Mrs. Sachs’ Website.
2. Calculate quality of the two streams (use your calculation chart as a guide).

Due Wednesday:

1. Study for Test.

Due Thursday:

1.Work on your animal presentation, index card (picture one side, what they eat & who eats them on other), and 5 references.
2.Identify date next week for giving your presentation.

Due Friday:

1.Work on your animal presentation, index card (picture one side, what they eat & who eats them on other), and 5 references.
2.Complete index card if not already completed.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF October 27

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA sheet.
2. Type thank you note

Due Tuesday:
1. Enhance SFA if necessary
2. Complete Lab Reflection Sheet.
• List constant variables that we have had trouble keeping constant.
• At this point, do you think it was better using quads or canisters? Why?
• What could we have done differently?

Due Wednesday:

1. Complete sample stream identification & calculations.
2. Select 3 animals you would find at the Bent that you want to do more research on (list in order of interest).

Due Thursday:

1. Create food web and identify producers, consumers, omnivores, carnivores, and herbivores.
2. See link on Mrs. Sachs' Web page http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

Due Friday:

1. Draw a food chain and food pyramid for your selected animal.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF October 20

Due Monday:

1. Share and have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
⁭2. Make flash cards for the terminology we need to know for our field trip (& Friday’s Quiz).
⁭3. Be able to distinguish between a deciduous and coniferous tree,
a pinnately versus a palmately shaped leaf, a compound versus
a simple leaf, and what are alternating versus opposite leaves.

Due Tuesday:

1. Find at least one tree to identify near your home.
2. Look for tree we identified in class.
3. Optional: Bring in good leaf sample with branch.

Due Wednesday:

1. Finish calculating water quality for sample stream.

Due Thursday:

1. Be prepared for field trip.
2. Review ecology material we have covered.

Due Friday:

1. Study for quiz.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF October 14

Due Wednesday:

1. Read Section 1- Energy Flow in Ecosystems (pages 740-745).
2. Answer the reading Checkpoint Questions at end of each subsection.
3. Explain how Food Chains and Food Webs are different.

Due Thursday:

1. Complete first page of your lab report.
2. Read article on Macro-invertebrates.

Due Friday:

1. Pick an animal you might find at the Bent of the River.
2. Sketch a food chain and energy pyramid for your animal.
3. Answer questions on benthic macro-invertebrates.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF October 6

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Finish Cornell Notes if necessary.

Due Tuesday:

1. Read Chapter Project Description.
2. Read Appendix A (page 826-27).
3. List safety symbols & rules that might apply to lab.
4. Finish IV vs. DV Class Assignment.

Due Wednesday:

1. Find out additional information about Brassica rapa plants & plant crowding.
2. Look on Internet and/or interview a gardener/parent.
3. Read/study your selected background piece.

Due Friday:

1. With your lab team, draft the procedures for your lab.
2. Complete the Studying Populations Review & Reinforce Worksheet.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF September 29

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed this Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Help your parent sign up for the "Be Notified" List on Mrs. Sachs’ Website.

Due Wednesday:

1. Study for Wednesday’s quiz.
2. Look at your grades online (PowerSchool Parental Portal).

Due Thursday:

1. Read Chapter 21, Section 2.
2. Write 16 questions for your Cornell Notes.

Due Friday:

1. Answer your 16 questions.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF September 22

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed this Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Read Article Essay Rubric.
3. Bring in selected life science article on Monday.

Due Tuesday:

1. Read article tonight & be prepared to share.
2. Write summary of your article by Thursday.
3. Summary must be typed if you have difficulty writing neatly or spelling.
4. Read pages 705-706 & take Cornell Notes.

Due Wednesday:

1. Work on article summary.
2. Be prepared to go outside.
3. Wear long pants & old shoes.

Due Thursday:

1. Complete article summary.

Due Friday:

1. Finish reading Chapter 21 (207-209).
2. Finish taking Cornell Notes.
3. Finish drawing your own pictures or diagram to help you remember levels of organization (see page 209).

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF September 15

Due Monday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Contact your Study Buddies.
3. Start studying for Tuesday's Quiz (see Study Guide).

Due Tuesday:

1. Study for Quiz.

Due Wednesday:

1. Study for Quiz.

Due Thursday:

1. Prepare for Science notebook check.
2. Compare your notebook to a Study Buddy's.
3. Make sure all assignments are complete.

Due Friday:

1. Pre-read Chapter 2 – Sec 1 pages 34-40.
2. Read pages 34 & 35.
3. Draw a picture or describe each of the 6 characteristics of life.
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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF Sept 8, 2008

Due Monday:

1. Share and have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Share 2 things you like about your textbook with family.
3. Try to access Mrs. Sachs’ Website from home.

Due Tuesday:

1. Do the Math Analyzing Data Assignment on p 9 questions 1-4.
2. What do you think Environmental Scientists study?

Due Wednesday:

1. Finish “Skill Introduction – Inferring.”
2. Answer Figure 6 question on page 12.
3. Answer questions 1b, 1c, & 1d on page 13.
4. Optional: see if you can find a life science article.

Wednesday's Class assignment is on Mrs. Sachs Website. Class access code is: 122CB60E987AB90F338D.

Due Thursday:

1. Complete & print results from “What Are Your Strengths Questionnaire.”
2. Try to access textbook from home or another computer.
3. Try to access Mrs. Sachs’ Website from home if not done already.

Wednesday's Class assignment is on Mrs. Sachs Website. Class access code is: 122CB60E987AB90F338D.

Due Friday:

1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Read What is Science Study Guide.
3. Remember: Quiz Tuesday.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF Sept 2, 2008

Due Tuesday:
1. Share & have signed Weekend HA Sheet.
2. Set up tabs in notebook.
3. Get textbook cover.

Due Wednesday (Sorry Period 2, you will have this assignment tomorrow when you receive your text):

1. Complete “Ready, Set, Go” for exploring your textbook.
2. Revisit the pre-reading of Chapter 1.
3. Get textbook covered for Friday.

Due Thursday:

1. Write six questions, one for each subsection in Chapter 1 – Section 1 (pages 6-12) .
2. Cover textbook by Friday.

Due Friday:

1. Finish taking Cornell notes on Section 1 & complete “What is Science.”
2. Record time (do not spend more than 20 minutes).
3. Cover textbook.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF Aug 28, 2008

Due Friday:

1. Finish/add to What Makes You Tick?
2. Descriptive adjective OK?
3. Think about “What is Science?”

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF December 1

Due Monday:

1. Come in ready to learn!

Due Tuesday:

1. Complete CA on the Scientific Method & Classification.
2. Finish What’s a Crowd Lab Report if not completed yet.

Due Wednesday:

1. Explain in your own words the definition for the “Control of an Experiment.”
2. Give an example of your own.

Due Thursday:

1. Make a list of what should be in your science binder by tab.
2. Star “*” what should be listed in grading log for 2nd Quarter.
3. Finish What's a Crowd Bean Lab Assignment if not done yet.

Due Friday:

1. Read article “History of Brook Trout.”
2. Highlight or underline all the words you do not know.

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HOME ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF

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