Thursday, November 20, 2014

Today in class, students organized their binders moving first quarter materials into a folder for the mid-term and final examinations. Students were also given the opportunity to ask for any items they felt would help improve their ability to keep and maintain a nice, neat, organized binder.

Apology

I am currently waist deep in grading the unit test and the notebook quiz. As soon as these two items have been loaded in Powerschool I will update the blog. I apologize for any inconvenience. There is no homework for Thursday 11/20.

Monday November 10, 2014

Activity 22B: The Heart: A Muscle

In today's activity, students are comparing the muscles in their hand, forearm, and shoulder to the muscle that makes up their heart. Students are trying to pump water the same number of times as their heart beats in one minute. Then, students are comparing the volume of water pumped to the volume of blood that the average heart pumps for a person of their height.

Homework: Review the vocabulary terms: vein, artery, heart

Tuesday 11/12/2014

Homework: pick 2 terms and review

Artery

Vein

Capillaries

Ventricle

Atria/atrium

Heart

Circulatory/cardiovascular system

Thursday November 13, 2014

Today we continued our discussion about blood flow through the body. Instead of using text, we used video. Students create a flow chart to represent the movement of blood through the body citing evidence from the video. 

Homework: pick 2 terms and review

Artery

Vein

Capillaries

Ventricle

Atria/atrium

Heart

Circulatory/cardiovascular system

Friday STEAM Day

Today, students attempted to create a balloon powered car that would travel the farthest. 

We Have A Winner...

Squad 27 has won the first ever classroom challenge when Jocelyn Aquino brought in 5 cans to contribute to Advisory 319's Can Food Drive. Their ice cream celebration will take place next week.

Thursday November 6, 2014

Activity 21B: Inside a Pump

In today's activity students will use a pump to model and explain how the heart moves blood in one direction. By moving water from one bucket to another with both a siphon and pressure pump, students will learn that valves are responsible for the one way movement of blood throughout the body.

Homework: Complete any missing assignments. Quarter ends Friday 11/7

Wednesday November 5, 2014

RACECaR

Today, we collected baseline data for argumentative writing so we can track our progress throughout the year. Students used a secondary source document to answer the following question using the rubric below: Which body system is the most important? This questions was selected because it can have any number of answers. Students are to select the body system they believe is most important and support their side of the argument with information from the text.




Homework: Complete all missing assignments or assignments that have lower then expected grades.

Food Drive Starts Wednesday

Today starts Mr. Forde's advisory food drive. Each homeroom will have a box for which donations can be placed. My advisory is committing random acts of kindness and helped make the promotional signs for the food drive. To help promote giving, my science classes will be competing against one another as part of our classroom challenge by bringing in canned goods.

Monday November 3, 2014

Activity 18B: The Circulation Game

Today students will be reviewing several sources to determine the path of blood throughout the body.

Path of Blood Through the Heart
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Here is a song created by ParrMr; with "Ho Hey I Belong with You You Belong with Me" by Power of Sound (eMusic • AmazonMP3 • iTunes)

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Friday October 31, 2014

Feel the Beat Lab Part B

Today, all students worked on their lab report, due Wednesday 11/5.