Mrs. Salvi Agenda for December 3, 2014

Science 7:• Objective: Identify some patterns of inheritance in humans. Describe the

functions of the sex chromosomes. Explain the relationship between genes and the environment.

• Engage: Question of the Day? Why do some traits exhibit a large number of phenotypes? (Formative Assessment)

• Explore: Lab Zone: Try this Activity - The Eyes Have it (pg 147)• Explain: Sex chromosomes are one of 23 pairs in each body cell. Sex

chromosomes carry genes that determine gender. Sex-Linked genes(traits) determine colorblindness. A carrier is a person that has one recessive allele for trait and one dominant allele. In sex linked traits, only a female can be a carrier. Interaction between genes and the environment.

• Elaborate: Sex linked Genes - Enrich (Formative Assessment)• Evaluate: Guided Reading and Study - Human Inheritance (Summative

Assessment)

Mrs. Salvi Agenda for December 3, 2014

Science 6:• Objective: Students will continue to gather research in their teams in

preparation for the visit from Mr. Macken on Friday.• Engage: http://futurecity.org/essay/resources - Students will look at

resources that will be useful in providing answers to their research questions.

• Explore; Students will use the resources above to work on their research questions

• Explain: Powerpoint presentation guidelines• Elaborate: Teams will work together to produce a powerpoint

presentation that will provide answers to the research questions that were given.

• Evaluate: Team progress will be assessed (Formative Assessment)

Mrs. Salvi Agenda for December 3,2014

Science 5:• Objective: The student knows that variations in light, temperature and soil content are largely

responsible for the existence of different kinds of organisms and population densities in an ecosystem. The student knows that the size of a population is dependent upon the available resources within a community.

• Engage: Question of the day? What would happen to a community if half of the water from an ecosystem were removed? (Formative Assessment)

• Explore: Project Wild Activity - http://www.yorkcenterforwildlife.org/pdfs/Ed_4th%20and%20up_Habitat%20rummy.pdf

• Explain: Organisms live and grown in ecosystems where there needs are met. Organisms within a biome interact with each other and may change the habitat or be affected by changes that occur to other organisms.

• Elaborate: Project Wild Activity - http://www.yorkcenterforwildlife.org/pdfs/Ed_4th%20and%20up_Habitat%20rummy.pdf

• Evaluate: Project Wild Activity (Summative Assessment) - http://www.yorkcenterforwildlife.org/pdfs/Ed_4th%20and%20up_Habitat%20rummy.pdf

• Explain: Vocabulary - ecosystem, population, community, biome, niche, habitat• Elaborate: Ecological Habitat and Niche - DE Streaming• Evaluate: What determines the kind and size of populations in an area? (Formative Assessment)

Mrs. Salvi Agenda for December 3, 2014

Science 8:• Objective: Tell what information about elements is found in the

periodic table.• Engage: Question of the day? What information does the

organization of the periodic table give about elements? (Formative Assessment)

• Explore: Discover Activity: Which is Easier? page 109• Explain: Mendelev noticed a repeating pattern when he arranged

the elements in order of increasing atomic mass. Patterns help to make predictions (calenders, weather, etc)

• Elaborate: Periodic Table Bingo• Evaluate: Content Refresher - page 111 (Formative Assessment)

Mrs. SalviAgenda for December 3, 2014

Science 4• Objective: The student knows that the size of a population is dependent on

the available resources.• Engage: Question of the Day? What are two behaviors that help animals avoid

or reduce competition?• Explore: Relationships among organisms in their environments mutualism,

commensalism and Parasite / Host relationship examples - wooly adelgid• Explain: Two different organisms can live together for the benefit of one or

both. Parasites are organisms that benefit from a relationship while harming the host organism.

• Elaborate: Grossology: Club Parasites - Lice - DE Streaming• Evaluate: Research a relationship among two living things in your environment

and write a paragraph describing that relationship - two things are helped or one organism is helped and the other is harmed. (Summative Assessment)