Early Earth, Life timeline project, & Plant evolution unit

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:47:31 -0800

BOTANY CALENDAR OF ASSIGNMENTS

Monday January 28
L vs Rt & B.H. Model review
Syllabus: go through quickly
Lab Tour & safety info
Univ & Early Earth notes
Room: tools, bath pass,
HW: Parent sign, rev. course policies,.
Review: “3 things about …”

Tuesday January 29
Welcome new people
WU: + & - of your sm. school. 2 want to knows about botany.
INB Creation
Brain Hand Model p2/procP1
Get to Know: “Stand Up If” & intro each other (conclusion)

Wednesday January 30
L vs Rt & B.H. Model review
Syllabus: go through quickly
Lab Tour & safety info
Univ & Early Earth notes
Room: tools, bath pass,
HW: Parent sign, rev. course policies,.
Review: “3 things about …”

Thursday January 31
Turn in p3 syllabus: (signed)
U & Early E History (notes)
Handout: Appendix B & other
Earth Life Timeline: 2500MYA-
Show: App B (periods, etc.)
Reminder: INB cover due Fri.

Friday February 1
Video: Naked Sci: Snowball Earth (available via YouTube)
Hand-out: Historical Temps & O2 levels graphs
Discuss: how best to include those data in posters
½ per. work-time: Earth Life Timeline Poster

Monday February 4
Show: class website
For class: Botany-use clothing for cool/drippy-weather outside work
Universe & Early Earth History (notes)
Rest of period: work-time

Earth Life Timeline Poster Due Tuesday AM before 1st period.

Tuesday February 5
Show grades thus far, stamp INB front covers.
Assignment cards out, put today’s HW on it.
Video: History of Life on Earth
Universe/Early LIfe Practice Quiz (use your notes, the timelines & info sheets I’ve given you)
HW: INB processing, “Early Earth T-shirt” (Pick one early period on earth, like Carboniferous and create a T-shirt with image and words/description to promote it.)

Wednesday February 6
Notes & video clip: Evolution & Oxygen (about Cyanobacteria)
Microscope intro (notes on use, etc)
Lab: Cyanobacteria
INB processing, pg 5, Cyanobacteria T-shirt
If extra time: video clip on fuel from Cyanobacteria

Thursday February 7
Stamp INB pg 5
Microcscope notes
INB Unit 1 Scoring
Unit 1 Reflection
Unit Test review activity
Group reading activity: Cyanobacteria
If extra time: video clip on fuel from Cyanobacteria

Friday February 6
Quiz: Universe, Earth Earth & Life
Video: the Private Life of Plants, episode 1.

Monday February 11
WU: YouTube video: “Amazing Mind Reader Shares His Gift” Watched half-way, made a hypothesis on how he reads minds, then watched to the end. (Notes INB pg 12)
Characteristics of Algae & Fungi pairs activity (make a T-chart, pg 12)
Video & notes (p12) Fungi
HW: INB Pg 11 Processing on Algae and Fungi:
Two gorgeous T-shirts, one for Algae and one for Fungi. OK to split the page.
Plenty of information, image, 4 colors minimum. Include a slogan. (“Plenty” means five facts about algae, five about fungi)

Thursday February 14
Brainstorm: “What are the features in a good scientific experiment?”
Scientific Method activity: “what order do these sci method steps go in?”
Intro: Seed Germination Inquiry Lab

Friday February 15
How a good research question is written: ‘How does _____ affect the germination rate and growth rate of ___ seeds?”
Format of data tables, and what kind of data will be taken.
Work time: filling out our lab sheet, questions 1-6.
Work time: groups set up their experiments.

Tuesday February 19
Warm-up video: iO Tillett Wright: “50 Shades of Gay” We write responses, or answer to questions pgs 19-20.
Showed how to create data tables.
Seed Germ. Lab - watered seeds, took data.

Wednesday February 20
Warm-up: video: “Black Men Ski” and “Kid President-I think we all need a pep talk”
Seed Germ. Lab - watered seeds, took data.
Intro: Plant Evolution Diagram. Instructions: create a two-page diagram that presents at least 7 pieces of information on the five categories of plants: “Cyanobacteria, mosses & their relatives = bryophyes, ferns and their relatives = sporophytes, cone-bearing plants = gymnosperms and flowering plants = angiosperms.

Thursday & Friday February 21 & 22
Continued work on Plant Plant Evolution notes Packet using Ch. 22 From Bio text

Monday February 25, 2013
Filled in our notebooks’ score sheets, units 1-2 (inside front cover)
Continued work on packets using Ch. 22 Bio Text.

Tuesday February 26, 2013
(Reading Packet due.)
Notebook: go over what is expected in NB. Show several example Plant Evolution Diagrams (p21-22)
Video: Ferns and their Relatives
Video: Gymnosperms & Angiosperms
Introduced “skit” to be prepared by a pair or group of 3 students. Group can describe/promote/talk like one of the four main types plants or compare one plant category to another.
Pick topics: walk up to the board, pick a topic off the board.

Wednesday February 27, 2013
Plant category skits
Other review activities

Thursday February 28, 2013
Plant evolution test.