In this lab, you'll be working in small groups looking through microscopes examining slides of various things. Your job is to determine whether the cells in the slides are plant or animal cells based on your knowledge and experience.
Using the handout or online doc, you'll have to identify them as plant or animal and then write down your observations and supporting evidence. Think about what you've learned about cells. What makes a plant cell different then an animal cell? There are a 4 follow up questions after the lab that should be familiar. Use the internet if needed to help you answer them. Chur Hey there everyone,
Congrats on the first month of Bio and all that we've been learning. It's time to review the material and assess our content knowledge and learning. This week we'll be reviewing material Monday through Wednesday getting ready for a comprehensive assessment on Thursday and Friday. It will take a couple of days to get through the assessment so plan on 2 days for it. Time to brush up and review concepts that we've learned.
Cheers and let's do this :) Students are experimenting on an egg first stripping away the hard calcium carbonate shell to reveal the soft semi-permeable membrane beneath.
From here...students submerge the egg into a variety of solutions to see how it affects the egg's shape, mass, and size. Questions for students to consider : 1) When you placed the egg in the acetic acid, did a reaction occur? How do you know? What signs gave you clues to this? 2) How did the mass change after each solution and why? 3) Explain this change in mass in terms of Osmosis. Hey there everyone,
Welcome back from an amazing 3-day weekend. We've been digging deep into cell theory and organelles. I've been excited listening to the conversations of your groups sharing out information on the cells. Way to go with the team work. Teamwork = Dreamwork...yeah I know it's kinda corny yet very appropriate and accurate. The next step is to look at diagrams of cells and be able to identify those same organelles. With this skill, we move into actual lab work where we'll look at slides in a microscope with the hopes of identifying organelles as well. We also have to acquire the skill to differentiate between plant and animal cells as well as single-celled organisms and prokaryotes...remember the bacteria conversation from last week??? So buckle up and let the exploration and learning begin :) Always check the G Class for assignments and expectations on work. We're diving deep into the different organelles found in eukaryotic cells. On your G-Class, I posted an announcement with the guiding doc for this mini-unit. Please read through it and contact me with questions.
The goal is to familiarize ourselves with 9 different organelles of a eukaryotic cell and be able to describe their shape, size relative to the cell, function, and any other interesting facts about them. Once we dial this in, and become experts on them, we'll look at cancer cells and compare them. See their similarities and differences. Chur We're moving forward with cellular biology opening up the conversations and learning around eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. Let's compare similarities and differences and see what organelles are found in them. Each organelle has a unique shape, design, and function and we'll need to know 8 of them moving forward.
Keep in mind students, the work we do now builds towards the cancer research we'll be doing later. A solid foundation in cells is needed to move forward. FLC LAB - Friday Sept 17 Hi there everyone,
We've been discussing "LIVING, NONLIVING, AND DEAD" and I hope you've been able to differentiate between them. We've also been talking about the "6 Characteristics of Living Things". It's time to get busy recording what we've learned and discussed. On your G-class you'll find 2 Google Slide shows containing the information we've been discussing. Use your time in class to gather notes and thoughts about this information. Next steps are heading us into the world of cells and the structures found in them. Chur and check the G-class. Welcome incoming Fresh-people to AHS!!! It's been quite the wild ride for the past 3 semesters of school and I know many of you are excited to be back full time and in person.
We're kicking off the year in Biology diving into living, nonliving, and dead things, then heading into the characteristics of all living things. Once we figure this out, it's time for deep immersion into a variety of topics. Here's where we're headed for the semester. We're starting off examining cell structure and function - Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic. We'll include bacteria and virus in here because hey ... why not??? After this we're off to the wonderful world of structure and systems. The guiding question(s) "what is it, what is it's function, what larger system is it a part of?". After this is immersing ourselves into the world of cancer. The end goal of this amazing deep dive is for all of us to study a type of cancer and exhibition our knowledge in November. As of 2017, 1 in 20 Americans have had a type of cancer and we've all been touched by it somehow either through family, friends, or association. This project and exhibition is designed to have students take the roll of an Oncologists and to turn AHS into the "Durango Oncology Center". Students will have conversations with incoming "patients" having meaningful conversations and describing in detail imaging, diagnosis, and treatment(s) of their type of cancer. So buckle up students and let's get after it :) Good morning activists,
Time to get the development phase of your project going. Start with backwards planning. Check your classroom for a google doc that will help you plan your project. Work with your group in filling out the doc to organize your thoughts and help you get going deeper on your project. Chur |
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