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Friday, February 17, 2012

Week of Feb. 27 - March 2

Date
Plan
What we did
Monday
1) Reminders:
- Bring a food label
- Those who missed quizzes need to get them finished up
- We will correct the Plate Tectonics worksheet on Tues
2) Quick review of Carbs and Lipds
3) Proteins
4) Enzymes
1) Reviewed Carbs and Lipids
2) Worked through proteins
3) Started Enzymes
- What are the 5 factors that affect Enzyme reactions?
Feb. 27
Tuesday
1) Correct Plate Tectonics Worksheet. (Moved to end of the week so that those missing can finish up)

2)  Find a protein in your food label.

3) Enzymes

4) Nucleic Acids
1) Practiced finding Carbs, Lipids and proteins in a food label (posted this in your google site as a blog post)
2) Researched and learned about Proteins.
Feb. 28
Wednesday
1) Reminder to have your Plate Tectonics finished up for Friday
2) Enzyme review and funny story:)
Bio 30 Group
http://www.facebook.com/groups/104650812992810/

Carbs, Lipids, Proteins Quiz Set for Tuesdday

Set up our Facebook accounts and joined the Bio 30-Mrs Painchaud group

Reviewed Enzymes

Started Nucleic Acids
Feb. 29
Thursday
1) Finish up DNA RNA questions on your google site.
- Discuss what you found.
2) Continue with DNA RNA
3) DNA Replication
Bio 30 Facebook Group

1) Discussed:

DNA/RNA Questions
- Worked through Two challenge problems
March 1
Friday
1) Correct Plate Tectonics
3) DNA Replication
1) Corrected Plate Tectonics
 
2) Watch part 1 of the videos
 
 
March 2

Friday, February 10, 2012

Week of Feb. 13 - 17

Date
Plan
What we did
Monday
Reminders:
- Bring a food label for Tuesday
1) Web check-ins:
- Google Site working?
- Twitter Account up and running?
- Facebook
  - we are going to set up a school Facebook account and join Mrs. Painchaud's Bio Group
2) Finish up Carbs
3) Start Lipids
1. Worked through reminders:
Set Evolution Quiz for Friday
- Bring a Food Label for Tuesday

1) Web Check-ins
- Set up Facebook on Tuesday.
- Most students have a twitter account set up.
- Worked on adding links to our google website.

2) Wrapped up Carbohydrates and researched some interesting facts about Carbs and sugars.
- Tried Polleverywhere to update class discussion.


Feb. 13
Tuesday
1) Overview of Wed.
2) Evolution Questions Due
- Quiz on Friday

3) Set up Facebook:
- Facebook
- we are going to set up a school Facebook account and join Mrs. Painchaud's Bio Group
4) Food Label Analysis - Bring a food label to investigate.
5) Lipids
1) Overviewed Wed
2) Corrected Evidence for Evolution Worksheet. - quiz Friday
3) Worked on trying to set up Facebook.
- you can use your real first name and then your last name can be "Bio"
= School email
- Birthday - Jan. 1 1989
Feb. 14
Wednesday
SUB

1) Please complete the Evolution worksheet on Plate Tectonics.

2) Note any questions that you have.

3) Summarize the link between plate tectonics and evidence for evolution.

4) If you have a food label, try to identify all the items are that are carbohydrates (i.e. sugar).

5) Work on the evolution questions from the front of the booklet.
Feb. 15
Thursday
1) Reminders: Quiz at 12:10 for those that missed
- Yesterday's on Task feedback and use of cell phones.
2) Review Evidence for Evolution Worksheet
- Set date to correct.
3) Carbs and Food Labels
4) Lipids
1) Chatted about using technology in our class (including how to use cell phones appropriately).
2) Reviewed Evidence for Evolution Worksheet for our quiz.
3) Worked through the Food labels worksheet.
- talked about the nutition facts
- Talked about serving sizes
- order of ingredients.
Feb 16
Friday
1) Evolution Quiz - Evidence for Evolution worksheet.
2) Start Lipids

1) Learned about Lipids
 
2) used a food label to review carbs and lipids
 
3) Reviewed for and then wrote the quiz.
 
Feb. 17

Friday, February 3, 2012

Week of Feb. 6-10

Date
Plan
What we did
Monday
1) Reminders:
- New Seating Plan
Please put up the chairs at the end of class.
- Please put textbooks that you borrow back on the shelf.
- Review how to plug in and store laptops.
2) Finish Review of Chem Crossword.
- Winning Team: __________
3) Review of Chem:
i) highlight the key terms in your notes or online.
ii) Work through Review of Chemistry powerpoint. 
iii) Any questions
iv) Set Quiz date
4) Introduce Evolution - Pre-Assessment.
1) Reminders
2) Finished the cross word
3) Check to make sure the work was completed.
- Time to highlight key words.
Feb. 6
Tuesday
1) Finish powerpoint on Review of Chem
- Set quiz date

2) Evolution Pre-Assessment
1) Finished review of Chem
Quiz is set for Friday.
2) Completed the Evolution unit Pre-Assessment
3) Discussed the plan for Wed.
Feb. 7
Wednesday
SUB

1) Work on the evolution unit handout set.  Focus on the worksheets starting on page 14 - Biology 30 - Evidence for Evolution (it has the pictures of the skelatons on the front of the worksheet)
-- You do not need to colour the bones in just look at how they are shaded.

--> This should be completed by the end of the hour.

2) Look for the purple handout that I gave out last week.  It asks what do you know about Carbs, Lipids and Proteins.
- please fill in what you know about these topics without referencing a textbook or website.
- Then jot down what you would like to learn more about. 

3) If you have finished the items mentioned above you can review your chemistry terms.
- Try the Review of Chemistry on Quizlet. 


Feb. 8
Thursday
1) Set date to correct Evidence for Evolution worksheet: ________
2) Did you try the Quizlet Review of Chemistry (What is Quizlet).
- Practice review of chem quiz
- Try recording your scores using the following reporting option for formative assessment.
3) What do we know about Carbs?
- Work through carbohydrates.
1) Reviewed what it means to ask a question in class and how that connects to the rubric for summative assessments.
2) Looked at Quizlet as a study tool.
3) Practice Quiz on Review of Chem
4) Started setting up our Google site Portfolio.
Feb. 9
Friday
1) Review of Chem Quiz
2) As you wait for people to finish up the quiz you can finish up your Evidence for Evolution worksheet for Tuesday or you can continue building your website.

3) Finish the basic structure of our Google Portfolios:
- build in the rest of the pages
- Unit 3: Genetics
- Unit 4 - Animal Systems
- Unit 5 - Evolution
- Web 2.0 Tools

You already have:
Unit 1: Biochem
Unit 2: Cells
Blog (set up in the announcement style)

- Review how to insert video, links, etc.
- Review google docs and how to share

**Share website with Mrs. Painchaud

4) What do we know about Carbohydrates?
1) Wrote our Quiz.
 
2) Added the rest of our pages to the website.
 
3) Completed the Find Someone Who Activity
 
4) Started working on information about carbohydrates.
 
Feb. 10