Monday, February 6, 2012

Monday and Tuesday, 6 and 7 February, 2012

This is HL 4. Answers only on your own paper. It is due on Tuesday.

This is HL 5. It is due on Wednesday. Complete sentences on your own paper.

Students will be able to:
use the information from virtual activites and classroom discussions to
-describe the structure of the sun.
-recognize the features of the sun.

Students submitted lab 23 and short story three.

Students will use the next two days to work on the GIZMO Star Spectra and to review the secondary benchmarks on classification, the cell theory, energy transformation, and the the sun's energy.

To those ends, students took diagnostic tests from the sixth and seventh grade texts. Areas not at mastery are automatically remediated via the Person online program myscienceonline.com. Use your student ID number as your username and password to access the program.

Students should also complete the following:
SC.6.L.14.2 Investigate and explain the components of the scientific theory of cells (cell theory); all organisms are composed of cells (single-celled or multi-celllular, all cells come form pre-existing cells, and cells are the basic unit of life.

If you go questions 8, 15, and/or 18 wrong:
What is the cell theory?
Then, Google fact monster cell theory and read the passage.

SC.6.L.15.1 Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics with emphasis on the Linnaean system combined with the concept of Domains.

If you got questions 2, 13, 20, 26, and/or 29 wrong:
How are organisms classified into Domains and Kingdoms?
What ore the levels of classification?
Why do biologists classify organisms?
Then, go to ylearn.co.uk and type in your name access code SC6L151 and complete the activity.

SC.7.P.11.2 Investigate and describe the transformation of energy form one form to another.

If you got questions 7, 9, 11, and/or 23 wrong:
Go to www.explorelearning.com and complete the GIZMO Energy Conversions.

SC.7.P.10.1 Illustrate that the sun’s energy arrives as radiation with a wide range of wavelengths, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet, and that white light is made up of a spectrum of many different colors.

If you got questions 1, 2, 4, 20, 24 and/or 30 wrong:
How do electromagnetic waves compare?
How des the sun’s energy arrive on earth?
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
Then, go to ylearn.co.uk and type in your name access code SC7P101 and complete the activity.

Home learnings 4 and 5 can be found at the top of this blog. Home learning 4 is due on Tuesday and home learning 5 is due on Wednesday.