4/21/10 Warm up• Warm up: What is the difference

between a vein and an artery?

• Review: Name the fours chambers of the human heart.

4/20/10 Warm up• Warm up: How are the circulatory systems

of fish and amphibians different? (2 differences..see page 870)

• Review: How are the circulatory systems of reptiles and mammals different? (2 differences..see page 870)

4/15/10 Warm up• Warm up:What is going well with

your experiment? What could be improved?

• Review: Describe 3 things that you learned about the human body during the presentations today.

4/14/10 Warm up• Warm up: What is the next step to

your experiment?

• Review: How do you prevent diseases or disorders for the system of the body that you are researching.

4/13/10 Warm up• Warm up: What body system are

you researching and what are the major functions of that system?

• Review:What is the next step in your experiment?

4/9/10 Warm up• Warm up:

• Review:

4/8/10 Warm up• Warm up:Which variable is your group

going to change in your experiment?

• Review:List at least 5 variables that you attempt to control (keep the same) during your experiment.

4/7/10 Warm up• Warm up: How is the “killfish”

experiment different from the “mammoth molar” study?

• Review: What is your group’s experimental question?

4/6/10 Warm up• Warm up:No warm up

• Review: No review

4/5/10 Warm up• Warm up: Think of a medicine that you have

taken in the last year. Describe an experiment that could be done to test the effectiveness of the medication.

• Review: How does the experiment in the article control variables? (answer: they only changed one variable at to time)

4/1/10 Warm up• Warm up: Why is it important to identify

sources of error for an experiment?

• Review: Describe 2 sources of error that your group tried to control in the experiment plan?

3/31/10 Warm up• Warm up: Which kind of information should

be on the “X” axis of a graph? • Which belong on the “Y” axis?

• Review:Which information did you put on the “X” axis of

your graph?Which information did you put on the “Y” axis?

3/30/10 Warm up• Warm up: Why is it important to change only

1 variable in an experiment?

• Review: Which variable did your group change?

• List at least 3 variables that your group will attempt to control (keep the same).

3/29/10 Warm up• Warm up: Why is it important to

introduce background information at the beginning of an experiment report?

• Review: Which prompt did your group choose?

3/17/10 Warm up• Warm up: No warm up today

• 3/18/10:• If you could go anywhere for spring

break, where would it be and why?

3/16/10 Warm up• Warm up:Based on the information that you

found in your research, what are at least 3 benefits or costs to society of stem cell research? (choose the opposite side that you discussed in yesterday’s warm up)

3/15/10 Warm up• Warm up:Based on the information that you

found in your research, what are at least 3 benefits or costs to society of stem cell research?

3/15/10 Warm up• Warm up:• Do you think the government should

fund embryonic stem cell research?

Why or why not?

3/11/10 Warm up• Warm up:No warm up today

3/10/10 Warm up• Warm up:What is the hardest thing about school?

What is the easiest thing about school?

3/9/10 Warm up• Warm up:• How many hours of sleep do you get on an

average week night?

• (the reading assignment we are doing today relates to hours of sleep)

3/8/10 Warm up• Warm up:

• What is a simile?

Warm up

No warm up questions March 3-5

We were state testing

3/2/10 Warm up• Warm up:• What is the procedure for finding out what

the warm up question was from an absence?• Answer: (3 parts)Check the website found in “Department resources” section

of the high school website. Click on the warm up questions link. Also check the green wall for a printed copy to borrow

during work time.

3/1/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up:• What is the procedure for finding out what

assignments were given when you were absent?

• Answer: Collect the class calendar from the red folder on the green wall when you return. The due date is extended 1 day if the absence was excused.

2/26/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up:• What is the most abundant gas in

the Earth’s atmosphere?

• How much of the atmosphere is made up of this gas?

2/25/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up: Which natural force

most likely caused the layers to deform into the wavy pattern?

A

D

C

B

1 2

3

4

2/24/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up: Place the fossils

(1,2,3,4) in order from youngest to oldest. Explain how you know your order is correct.

A

D

C

B

1 2

3

4

2/23/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up:According to the most current scientific evidence, how

many years ago did two large objects collide to form our planet?

Rephrase the question into your answer:“According to the most current scientific evidence….”Activities:-State test review “Fearless planet” notes -radiometric dating -ages of fossils

2/22/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up:• What is the hardest thing that you have

ever done that ended in a success?

Activities:-reading notes 12.1 due at warm up-papers passed back-quiz corrections

2/19/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up:• Explain the evidence that was used to confirm that

DNA is the molecule that stores genetic information.

Activities:-Quiz

-reading notes 12.1 due MON at warm up

2/18/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up:• What chemical characteristics make it so that Adenine

bonds with Thymine and Guanine bonds with Cytosine?

Activities:p. 308 “evolutionary connection” due at warm up

Go over study guide

QUIZ TOMORROW!

2/17/10 Advanced Biology• Warm up:• How does cooperation help scientists make

new discoveries.

Activities:p.308 cooperation vs competition paragraph due at

warm upp. 308 “evolutionary connection” due THURS at warm up

2/16/10 Biology• Warm up:• Why is it important to have genetic variation in a

population of organisms?

Activities:p.278 #1-5 and connecting concepts due at warm up

Graded work is returnedQuiz correctionsMeiosis cutouts due WED @ warm up11.5 reading notes due WED @ warm up

2/11/10 Biology• Warm up:• What is the difference between a haploid cell and a

diploid cell? See page 275

Activities:-Reading notes 11-4 (pp.275-278) due THURS-Notes: meiosis

p.278 #1-5 and connecting concepts

2/10/10 Biology• Warm up:• Describe one of Mendel’s principles of

heredity.

Activities:-review notes due at warm up-QUIZ TODAYReading notes 11-4 (pp.275-278) due THURS

2/5/10 Biology• Warm up: (20 points)Explain how traits are inherited.Use the following terms in your paragraph:alleletraitdominantrecessivehomozygousheterozygous

Activities:Punnett square worksheet due @ warm up-Work sheet : genetics practice packet

These words should be used to form

a coherent paragraph that completely

answer the question.

2/4/10 Biology• Warm up: What is gene segregation?

• Activities:Reading notes 11.2 (pp.267-269) due @ warm upp. 269 #1-5 due at the end of the period (we will do

these together if time allows)

Punnett square practice problems progress check Friday at warm up

2/3/10 Biology• Warm up: Describe at least 3 habits that allow students to be

successful in school.

• Activities:-Reading notes 11.1 due @ warm up-Groups divide: p.266 #1-6 + thinking visually

Reading notes 11.2 (pp.267-269) due THURS @ warm up

2/2/10 Biology• Warm up: • List 3 things that can cause cancer.• Hint: (use complete sentences) • -virus (HPV can cause cervical cancer)• -radiation• -carcinogenic chemicals• -heredity can increase risk

• Activities:-QUIZ TODAY-Reading notes 11.1 (pp.263-266) due WED @ warm up

2/1/10 Biology• Warm up: • List the stages of mitosis in order: Hint:

Interphase is the first stage before it begins.

Use complete sentences to answer the questions.

• Activities:-Review of Mitosis

-Notes: regulating the cell cycle

1/29/10 Biology• Warm up: (20 points)• Explain why it is useful for our cells to be designed to die after

a certain amount of time. What happens if they don’t die on schedule?

• Hints:Write your best paragraph with an introductory sentence that rephrases the question.Include reasons for cell death.Include discussion of cancer.

Activities:-p.249 #1-6 due at warm up-experiment report writing (typing if we have time)

1/28/10 Biology• Warm up: In which part of mitosis do the

chromosomes line up along the “equator” of the cell?

• Use complete sentences.• Activities:• Mitosis Flipbooks due today at warm up• Discussion notes “life span” see p.249• Assignments:• p.249 #1-6 due FRI at warm up• Reading notes for pp.244-249 due FRI @ warm up (reading notes were

assigned Tuesday)

1/27/10 Biology

• Warm up: Which part of the cell cycle does a cell spend most of it’s time?

• Use complete sentences.• Activities:• Notes: Mitosis• Mitosis Flipbooks due Thursday at warm up• Reading notes for pp.244-249 due FRI @ warm up

1/26/10 Biology

• Warm up: Why is it important to human health that cells can make a genetically similar copy of itself?

• Activities:• Discussion: cell division• P.243 #1-4 as a class. Due at the end of the discussion.• Reading notes for pp.244-249 due FRI @ warm up

1/25/10 Biology

• Warm up: Describe something about yourself that you are proud of.

• Activities:• Reading notes pp.241-243 due @ warm up• Review classroom procedures• Test corrections• Discussion notes