Week of October 31 - Nov. 4

Date	Plan	What we did
Monday	1) Seating plan change up 2) Our Online space: - Twitter - Posterous - Phone/iPod survey 3) Introduce Wonder Why? 4) Cells Unit: - Pre-Assessment - Big Ideas/Key Concepts - Vocab Challenge with your team	Attempted to create a twitter list for our class: Reply to this list with your type of phone and access to an ipod, etc. http://twitter.com/MrsPainchaud/bio-30-mrs-painchaud 1) Overview of the week. 2) Cells Pre-Assessment and vocab work - Protein Synthesis checkin LINK TO PROTEIN SYNTHESIS BLANK COPY: http://www.nesd.ca/~pipke/?q=node/181 - Scroll down to assignments: Select Protein Synthesis - Two Part Choice Assign.
October 31
Tuesday	1) Seating Plan 2) Wonder Why? Where to sign up? 3) Finish Cells Pre-Assessment 4) Vocab and Game	Please complete the Technology Student Access Survey 1) Protein synthesis handed in 2) Corrected Cells Pre--Assessment 3) Started correcting vocab. Start with page 2
Nov. 1
Wednesday	1) Tech challenges 2) Correct vocab 3) Vocab team Challenge 4) Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells	1) Finished up vocab discussions 2) Worked through the vocab game.
Nov. 2
Thursday	1) Tech challenges today? - Please recheck - Mrs. Perrault fixed them for us. 2) Handback items 3) Eukaryotic vs. Prokaryotic discussions. 4) Plant and Animal Cells.	1) Worked through Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic 2) Reviewed assessments
Nov. 3
Friday	1) Finish Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells. - Finish similarities - watch video suggestion - Discuss how these cells types affect our lives. 2) Plant and Animal Cells an introduction.	Video Comparison 1) Reviewed Pro and Eukaryotic cells and connections to our life. 2) Started on plant and animal cells.
Nov. 4

Week of Oct. 24-28

Date	Plan	What we did
Monday	Teacher Convention
Oct. 24
Tuesday	Teacher Convention
Oct. 25
Wednesday	1) Classroom things: - Ideas for how to set up the next seating plan. - Were you focused on class work in that location? - Does the Shared folder work? - OneNote - Bio 30 2) Cells Unit - Pre-Assessment - Submit - assessment results here. - Big Ideas/Key Concepts - Vocab Challenge 3) Protein Synthesis check in - You have a topic and your reflection has been roughed out.	1) Discussed how to create an online portfolio with blogging to be another way that we show visible evidence of our learning. - Reviewed the General Rubric and what it meant to be at the different level.  Talked through examples and asked for feedback.
Oct. 26
Thursday	1) Setting up the online portfolio space... 2) Protein Synthesis - working through your reflection. Setting a Due date 3) Cells Pre-Assessment	1) Directed reflection on your protein synthesis assignment.  Bring your updates tomorrow to show your progress.  Be prepared for study hall if you don't extend your learning from today. Now due on Tuesday. 2) Online portfolio creation discussion.  - Started setting up Twitter.
Oct. 27
Friday	1) Continue online portfolio set up. - Twitter - Wikispaces - LiveBinders 2) Cells Pre-Assessment	1) Finished setting up on our online workspace.
Oct. 28

Week of October 17 - 21

Date	Plan	What we did
Monday	1) Overview of the week 2) Review Enzyme Lab Assessments - if everyone has written 3) Discuss what temperature taking device is most accurate and how location changes accuracy? Fever Discussion Wrap up Homeostasis Presentations - Discuss 4) Review Unit Overview/Review 5) Exam Overview - sample exam questions brainstormed by past classes	1) Reorganized the week 2) Reviewed Fever Inquiry
October 17
Tuesday	1) Homeostasis - Fever Inquiry - Indivudal Assessment 2) Any topics to review - Homeostasis - examples other than fevers. - Unit Overview/Review 3) New Unit - Cells	1) Fever Inquiry Assessment - Time to finish at the end of class and lunch tomorrow.
October 18
Wednesday	1) Unit Overview/Review 2) Any topics that need to be reviewed. 3) Finish up Fever Assessment 4) Protein Synthesis - Reflection must be submitted on... 5) New Unit Cells	1) Reviewed Overview/Review 2) Last 10-15 was working on Homeostasis
October 19
Thursday	1) Questions Re: Exam? 2) Protein Syntheis - 15-20 minutes 3) Cells Unit - Pre-Assessment
October 20
Friday	Unit 1 Exam
October 21

Set up blogging and e-portfolios

Week of October 10 - 14

Date	Plan	What we did
Monday	Happy Thanksgiving!
Tuesday	Teacher Inservice Day
October 11
Wednesday	1) Check in for what we accomplished last week. 2) Review Enzyme lab and questions - Set Date for Enzyme Lab assessment (Friday?) 3) Any questions about the Protein Synthesis Assignment? - Workday on Thursday. 4) Fever Inquiry - Wrap up so that groups are ready to present on Friday.  - Please post your digital product to this wiki page. 5) Overview of the rest of the week.	Protein Synthesis Review Video 1) Reviewed where we were at from last week. - talked about Personal and Social Development Rubric. 2) Reviewed Enzyme Lab Questions and key concepts - Talked about format for Lab assessment (It is on Friday) **Enzyme lab video to be posted soon.) 3) Reviewed Protein Synthesis assignment - potential due date Week of October 24 - By Friday you must know what you are comparing to - looked at some exemplars 4) Fever Inquiry - confirmed formats with groups - demonstrated how to link up or insert files on the wiki. 5) Reviewed plan for the week.
October 12
Thursday	Many students away at the U of S Experience US.  So it will be a workday on: 1) Fever inquiry 2) Protein Synthesis 3) Evolution Questions	Enzyme Lab is now on video. 1) Talked about future plans.  Discussed the netbooks.  The comment was made that being introduced to more apps might be helpful and then students have more tools they could use.  We are going to set up a discussion thread where students can post apps/web 2.0 tools that they would like to try, good ones they have found or ones they would like to find. 2) Checked in with each person here about the Protein Synthesis assignment.  You need to have ideas ready to discuss with me ASAP.
October 13
Friday	1) Enzyme lab assessment --> Discuss yesterday's points about web 2.0 tools and Protein Synthesis checkpoints. 2) 15 minutes to wrap up digital product and add to wiki.  - Please post your digital product to this wiki page. 3) Present Fever inquiry digital products. (Please ensure that these are added to the class wiki.)	What Web 2.0 tools/Apps should we introduce in class - Discussion.
October 14