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Norman Price                Click here for  Science GRADES                            11/08/2010   Amherst Regional Middle School

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Week 39: 6.12

  Heredity Independent study Punnet Square practice Mendel practice Central Dogma of molecular biology
 

Week 38: 6.5

HW GG:  Alveoli in the lungs

HW II: Human body test review 6 circles

    4 chambered Heart and lung connection

Week 37: 5.29

HW HH: Progress report Signed by Parent or guardian

  Anatomy quiz

Research Diseases: Medline

good picture of the villi1, 2 villi Coast of Maine difficult to measure
 

Week 36: 5.22

HW CC: Drawing Perfect Capillary bed structure and function

HW EE: Capillaries in the organs

HW FF: Bill Nye Circulation notes

HW DD: Diffusion between Capillaries and cells 

DJ's Blood Slide Challenge Circulation: Report on some  ideas  about blood from this resource. Research Blood type  write up or present a PowerPoint explanation.  

Week 35: 5.15

HW AA: Circulation in (Html version)

HW BB: Blood(in html)

River Delta Analogy Blue Blood:

Is blood in Veins blue?

So is it blue?

So is it?

Challenge Circulation: Find some  ideas  from this resource which go beyond our work in class and explain them in your own words. Good list of terms: learn 20 and take a challenge quiz.

Read the blue blood articles to the left and write me a paragraph describing the evidence.

Week 34: 5.8

  Mitochondria Simulation   bite size BBC games Practice Makes Perfect Article

Week 33: 5.1

HW Y: Glucose the fuel of life and study for quiz Mitochondria notes   A bit more complex picture of metabolism Cell Organelle online quiz, send me your results
Week 32: 4.24 HW Z: Cell respiration (doc)

HW X: Progress report signed

Computer day check list   The mixed up cells

animal and plant cell  Venn diagram

Cells alive!

Print and do this Cells alive work sheet

 

Week 31: 4.10

 

HW S: Current event article template

HW W: Cell organelle flash cards

 

compare contrast plant and animal cell

XC Plant cell coloring (doc)

 

wilkopedia on cell biology

Virtual cell

kids cells

Cell tutorial and concentration game

Take and print out the quiz.

Week 30: 4.3 HW V: Cell City and cell drawing

 

HW U :The cell choice analogy

Stem Cell article  2pages(html)

 Stem cell and treatments 4 pages (html)

Lab grows a bladder

Skating field trip  permission slip (html) and 3$ (check made out to ARMS). Call Team Teachers if you have questions. Hailey's Quiz

Sara's Researc

Cells review page

Week 29: 3.27

 

HW S: Find  read and mark up Science article.

Go to the Today's Science home page on Facts.comor try HS Library

U: AmherstRHS
P: Facts

Katy's link to sciencenews for kids

HW T :The cell The mystery of life (doc)

Hailey cell

Why skin color article? Stem cell diagram 

What is this?

 

Week 28: 3.20 HW R: Universe within: Video Notes

HW Q: Building block Homework

onion cells

Muscle contraction at the molecule level! Kidzone Microscopes links for the handout. XC Microscope history

  XC Microscope Electron microscope

Week 27: 3.13   Digestion Quiz (in ppt) (in html)   Looking a head to evolution. Spore The game! Describe the basic tissue types in plants and animals.

 Draw some Sketches of different types of tissues: Tissue links

Week 26: 3.6  HW P: Carbohydrate digestion model Clay ball activity   Movies of cool biological things. Go to the sun wheel for the vernal Equinox.  3.21

link to sunwheel

Week 25: 2.27

 

HW L: Digestive tube Analysis

HW N Review

HW M: Digestive system function reading page 1, page 2

HW O: Digestion Reading

Quiz on digestion Review sheets:

Notes on structure of digestive system with numbers

Notes on function of digestive system

blank notes page on function

  Glucose Science Poetry

 

Week 24: 2.13

 

HW K: spelling test

HW J: Research permission letter: Consent letter, Please sign this Consent form

HW I: Desert Island calorie problem

  Chapter 1 Energy Check up Pop quiz Graph paper 1/4 inch Make a poster of a MCAS question  and answer  with an explanation using the MCAS question  search : Science 8th grade
Week 23: 2.6

Energy

 

HW H: Find 5 nutrition labels from food and attach them to a piece of paper. Extra  challenge for bringing in a total of 10 labels.

Extra challenge: 1) rank them in order of energy potential 2) make a bar graph comparing the grams of carbohydrate in each food.

  Looking a head toward Classification Ms. LaCroix's slide show Current event article template

Facts.com

U: Amherst RHS
P: Facts

or try HS Library

Week 22: 1.30 HW F: What is a model? Handout and practice making a paper tower.

HW G: List and define the 4 cooperative roles. Extra challenge for make Icons for each of the roles.

    Watch a science TV show or presentation, take notes, and write about it:  Video Notes template
Week 21: 1.23 No homework Exhibition presentation   Cool evolution timeline,  
Week 20: 1.16 Work on Note cards for presentation. Working on Science section of Exhibition      
Week 19: 1.9 No Homework Exhibition: Science Process Rubric Geology quiz    
Week 18: 1.03 Hw D:  Plate tectonic reading HW E: Geology quiz flash cards Plate tectonic notes  
Week 17: 12.19 HW C: Island Life Margaret Mead Reading        
Week 16: 12.12  HW B: Mathematical comparisons of Earth layers        
Week 15: 12.05 HW A: Creeping of the Continents  Note introducing continental drift      
Week 14: 11.28          
Week 13: 11.21       Pest world for kids  
Week 12: 11.14 HW Sheet V,W, X Test Review and Island Chapter 2 review sheet

Island project

Flash cards for test on chap 2    
Week 11: 11.7 HW  Sheet S ,T, U Energy Flows HW U and U -XC

HW S

    Write a paragraph about a career exploration
Week 10: 10.31 HW  Sheet  Q, R Carbon and water cycles HW Q and Q-XC due Tuesday

HW R front + R back due Friday

  Soil quotes  
Week 9: 10.24 HW  Sheet O + P Chapter 2.2: Soils and cycles Week 9 Seasons What causes seasons, spreading of light Season links

reasons for seasons

 
Week 8: 10.17 HW  Sheet M, N  Chapter 2.1: Abiotic part 2 HW L and L-XC

HW N and N-XC

  School yard solar system; solar system 2; many like this; Make a scale model of the solar system: School yard Space distance calculator
Week 7: 10.10 HW  Sheet J, K, L, Chapter 2.1: Abiotic     world climate Keep track of the length of day and moon phases: Looney Seasons
Week 6: 10.3 HW  Sheet G,  H, I,  Chapter 1 Test Prep Chapter 1 flash cards (doc), Review sheet 1, 2, 3     Do a home experiment and  write it up,
Week 5: 9.26 HW  Sheet D, E, F Chapter 1 wrap up   Notes on Producer/ consumers Predator prey simulation Describe and ID birds and their behaviors at your feeder with this bird feeder journal.
Week 4: 9.19 HW  Sheet A, B, C : Populations and interactions Lynx/Hare Lab Notes Predator Prey interactions Women Scientists Make one of these boxes
Week 3: 9.12

 

Naturalist Field Journal Page Big Levels of organization Earth systems Animations Make vocabatoon using a Blank vocabatoon flash card (doc)
Week 2:  9.5

Homework policy

    BBC Science Naturalist field Journal entry or Naturalist Field Journal Page
 Week 1      

Science Vocabulary

Chart for extra challenge points
Curriculum Map for Science 7     Flash Cards