Rotation 7 - day 3

Today's Goal: To discuss limiting factors and human activities.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is one way that humans impact natural populations?
- Notes

Rotation 7 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To finish the discussion of energy flow in the ecosystem.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What do arrows represent on a food web?
- Gizmo: Forest Ecosystem
- Notes: carrying capacity and limiting factors

Rotation 7 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look into how populations interact.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What kind of organism eats both plants and animals?
- Finish Build a Food web questions if necessary
- Gizmo: Forest Ecosystem

Rotation 6 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To create a food web.

Agenda: 
- Daily Journal: What are the two ways producers make energy?
- Work on To Build a Food Web

Rotation 6 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To continue looking at food webs.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a food web?
- Continue food web activity

Rotation 6 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To discuss energy flow in the environment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What two organelles deal with energy in cells?
- Period 3 - SNOW DAY
- Period 4 - Notes - Ecology
- Activity: Build a Food Web

Rotation 5 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To assess our knowledge of cells.

Agenda:

- Daily Journal: What type of diffusion uses protein gates?

- Cells Assessment

- New Vocab

Rotation 5 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To review for tomorrow assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: When during the cell cycle are chromosomes visible?
- Kahoot
- Video

Rotation 5 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at cells and organisms

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the protein that gives our skin color?
- Finish cells review sheet if necessary
- Video: Life - episode: Challenges of Life

Rotation 4 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To wrap up the unit on cells.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the second layer of skin called?
- Finish up skin activities
- Review sheet

Rotation 4 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look into out skin.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the name of the proteins that regulate the cell cycle?
- Grades 
- Notes - Skin
- Activity

Rotation 4 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To discuss and learn more about cancer.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What happens in metaphase?
- Cancer Documentary with handout

Rotation 3 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at the cell cycle and cancer.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What phase of cell division involves pulling chromosomes apart?
- Online Mitosis Activity
- Notes: Cancer

Rotation 3 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To determine the differences between the phases of mitosis.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What part of the cell cycle involves making DNA?
- Finish Cell cycle foldable
- Online mitosis activity

Rotation 3 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look into how cells divide.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the movement of molecules from high concentration to low concentration?
- Notes
- Foldable - info on Google Classroom to help

Rotation 2 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To make analogies with the cell organelles.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What organelle is on the outside of plant cells?
- Cell City WS

Rotation 2 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To continue looking at the microscopic world of cells.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of cell does not have a nucleus?
- Finish Gizmo
- Cell City Analogy

Rotation 2 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To review cell organelles.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What organelle deals with energy in plant cells?
- Go to library: VR and Gizmo
- WS Cell City analogies

Rotation 1 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look into the cell.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is one difference between animal and plant cells?
Period 4 - Video: Click Link
- Egg Experiment - next week
- Notes

Rotation 1 - Day 2

Today's Goal: Wrap up microscope work with cells.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of cells did we look at yesterday?
- Finish Microscope Lab and questions
- Notes

Rotation 1 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To observe cells under a microscope.

Agenda:

- Daily Journal: What is in a cell? (many answers)

- Introduction to Microscope Lab

Rotation 11 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To wrap up the marking period.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are your plans for the four-day weekend?
- Finish and turn in marking period assessment
- Cells Vocab
- Video if everyone is done

Rotation 11 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To finish the assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Why do we have daylight savings time?
- Finish PechaKucha
- Cells Vocab if you haven't already done it

Rotation 11 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To finish our marking period assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: 2 part: Are you happy with your current grade? What is your goal in relation to grade for the second marking period?
- Laptops - work on PechaKucha

Rotation 10 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To work on marking period assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the organ that stores bile?
- Work on late work 
- Google Classroom: PechaKucha

Rotation 10 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To begin our marking period assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What macromolecule was highly featured in last night's festivities? 
- Discuss Newsela - Malnourished article
- Begin Marking Period Assessment

Rotation 10 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To check grades and start a project.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What has been the most interesting topic/idea that we have covered so far in biology?
- Finish Newsela as a class
- Marking Period Assessment discussion

Rotation 9 - day 3

Today's Goal: To assess our knowledge of chemistry.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What foods would you eat to get protein?
- Quick review
- Assessment
- Unit 3 Vocab

Rotation 9 - Day 2

Today's Goal: to review and look at malnutrition.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What organ connects the mouth to the stomach?
- Log into a laptop and log into Quizlet.com (the link is on Google Classroom - About tab if you haven't joined the class.) Spend 15-20 minutes reviewing for tomorrow's test.
- www.newsela.com - Article “Study finds malnutrition...” was assigned

• Read article
• Do quiz questions
• Start filling out science literacy worksheet

Rotation 9 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To review the chemistry unit.

Agenda: 
- Daily Journal: What is the cartilage that covers trachea (lungs) when swallowing?
- Finish Digestion Gizmo
- Review sheet
- Assessment is on Day 3

Rotation 8 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look into digestion.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What organ has villi for absorption?
- Vocab quiz
- Digestion

Rotation 8 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discuss digestion.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: How long do you think digestion of food takes?
- Digestion Notes
- Kahoot
- Vocab quiz on Day 3

Rotation 8 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To talk about specific proteins that help chemical reactions.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What indicator is used to test for starch?
- Any Murder Meal wrap-up
- Notes: enzymes
- Demonstration

Rotation 7 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To test food for macromolecules.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of macromolecule helps to build bone and muscle?
- Mystery Meal Lab

Rotation 7 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To finish discussing food labels and start discussing food testing.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What macromolecule provides your body with energy storage?
- Finish food labels
- Discuss the Murder Mystery lab

Rotation 7 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To discuss food and food labels.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What did you eat yesterday?
- Notes: Macromolecules
- Food Labels activity

Rotation 6 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To learn how to read food labels.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is an example of an acid?
- pH activity/graph

Rotation 6 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discuss pH.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is found in an atom?
- Notes
- pH activity

Rotation 6 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To start working on science literacy.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Why is it important for you to learn science?
- Laptops: create an account for www.newsela or sign in
- Science Literacy

Rotation 5 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look more closely at water.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: List three things that you know about water.
- Notes - water
- Water demos

Rotation 5 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To assess knowledge of unit 1.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are the building blocks of matter?
- Unit 1 Assessment
- Unit 2 Vocab - Glossary under About tab in Google Classroom

Rotation 5 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To review for unit 1 assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What color light would a star give off if it were moving towards you?
- Finish Review Sheet - go over
- Molecular Model Activity

Rotation 4 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To begin reviewing unit 1.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is used as evidence that the universe is still expanding?
- Finish Gizmo if necessary (www.explorelearning.com)
- All others start unit review sheet

Rotation 4 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discuss the scientific method.

Agenda: 
- Daily Journal: What is the term for a group of organisms of the same species in an area?
- Vocab quiz
- Finish Gizmo

Rotation 4 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To start reviewing unit 1.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a controlled variable?
- Any vocab for me to check?
- Join Quizlet with link on Google Classroom
- Quizlet Live
- Vocab Quiz is tomorrow
- Gizmo: Effect of Environment on New Life Form

Rotation 3 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To discuss characteristics of life.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What characteristics do cars share with us?
- Notes
- Riddle

Rotation 3 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To use microscopes to see if we caught water bears.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are five things that organisms need to survive?
- Microscope tutorial
- Find Water bears

Rotation 3 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To go hunting and discuss cycles.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: If you couldn't be human, what kind of organism would you want to be? Why?
- Hunting Bears
- Finish vocab if needed
- Continue notes

Rotation 2 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To continue with the study of life.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What boundary is known for causing earthquakes?
- Finish Gizmo Plate Tectonics
- Unit 1 Vocabulary - glossary is on Google Classroom
- Notes: Cycles of Matter

Rotation 2 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To finish our first Gizmo

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What land features can be caused by convergent boundaries?
- Log onto your computers
- www.explorelearning.com... use your username and password from yesterday
- work on the Plate Tectonics Gizmo

Rotation 2 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To discuss and illustrate movement at plate boundaries.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are the four layers of the earth called?
- Make up any lab safety quizzes
- Finish notes on Plate Tectonics
- Laptops: sign up for explorelearning.com
- Gizmo: Plate Tectonics

Rotation 1 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To assess lab safety knowledge

- Daily Journal: Which scientist is known for studying continental drift? (check your notes)
- Look over the lab safety information
- Lab Safety Quiz
- Brain Break
- Scientific Method

Rotation 1 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To start talking about science.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: In your own words, what is one lab safety rule discussed yesterday?
- Save Sammy
- Ch 1 notes - Big Bang and Doppler Effect
- Balloon demo and Videos
- Lab safety quiz tomorrow

Rotation 1 - Day 1

Today's goal: To go over lab safety.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Describe one way that you interacted with another living thing this week.
- Google Classroom

• Back to school survey
• Rotating schedule if not done

- Brain Break - Number Game
- Lab Safety Presentation... quiz on Day 3