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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Friday October 31, 2014

Feel the Beat Lab Part B

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

Thursday October 30, 2014

Today, students are conducting experiments to test the effect of some variable of their choice on pulse. Some of the variable students are testing our vet Friday foods, tai chi, and jumping. Once complete, students will write the lab report due Wednesday. Tomorrow Friday, October 31 all students will work on my report to complete over the weekend.

HW: complete three analysis questions from Feel the Beat lab part A. 

Wednesday October 29, 2014

Feel the Beat 

Today, students concluded the data collection for Feel the Beat part A. With this data, students are able to determine the effect movement has on their heart beat. Once data is completed, students will complete three analysis questions and submit for a lab report grade; due Friday. Students also received their interim progress reports to get signed and return on Thursday. Every signed and returned interim report will count towards our class challenge.

HW: Get interim progress report signed.

Monday October 27 and 28, 2014

Feel the Beat

Students are creating their own experiments to determine the effect different movement has on your heart beat. Each class is selected 3 movements to test and then carry's out the experiment. Once our data has been collected students will use their data to support their answer to the problem question: What effect does movement have on pulse?

HW: Review vein and artery

Friday October 24, 2014

Ropes course

Thursday October 23, 2014

Unit A and part of B test

Wednesday October 22

We completed the socrative.com review for the Unit test.

Completed Review Sheet

Unit b review sheet 2014 2015 done from Jim Forde

Monday October 20, 2014

Today,  students are creating vocabulary term flash cards utilizing their notes, glossary, and each other for Thursdays test. 

October 15 and 16, 2014

Activity 16B: Support System; Bones, Joints and Muscles

In this activity students dissect a chicken wing to learn the function of tendons. While dissecting the chicken wing studetns' are actively seeking cartilage, muscle, bone and bone marrow.

Homework: All classes review the following terms: tendon and ligament

Tuesday October 14, 2014

Activity 16: Support system; Bones, Joints, and Muscles

In this activity, students discover the role of tendons by dissecting a chicken wing. They are also able to identify the key functions of the skeletal system. For this part of Activity 16, students completed a reading activity to extract information about the muscular and skeletal systems.

  

Homework: All classes review tendon and ligament

Thursday October 9 and Friday October 10, 2014

Activity 17B Gas Exchange

Today's activity has students investigate the air which leaves their body after exhaling. Students used BTB indicator solution to determine the presence of Carbon Dioxide in their exhaled breath.

Homework: Study function of Lung and Alveoli

Wednesday vocabulary quiz

There are terms on quizlet. 

Go to http://quizlet.com and search DeGennaro science. Look for body works part 1. There are games and cards to help you prepare for the test. 

October 7, 2014

Activity 13B Living with Your Liver

To aim class students completed the common core state standards's assignment which focused on utilizing a text containing information have a do with the liver. Students cited information from the text to answers various questions haven't do with the liver function its role in human body and its role give me a homeostasis. Each class performed at their own pace with questions being graded based on the average number of questions completed per student per class every question I was completed above the class average we counted towards extra credit along some students to earn a significant amount of extra credit. Tomorrow students will complete two quizzes. The first quiz, is okay with requests focusing primarily on several terms that were assigned to students as homework. He's okay but her terms were usually sign one term every two or three nights on students to focus solely on one term and giving students 1 to 3 nights or more to try and memorize the terms. Once memorized, students would have the ability to recall information and use those terms in class with the idea being that the vocabularies learned when used in class discussions both large and small. The second quiz is not content-based. The second quiz asks questions about information that is contained within the students notebook. This is a check to make sure the students are maintaining an accurate and up-to-date notebook. Class averages on these quizzes are routinely above 80%.

Homework: study the following terms for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz: independent variable, dependent variable, variable, constant variable, control group, organ, organ system, function, villi, Mouth, esophagus, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, nerve, neuron, motor neuron, sensory neuron, inter-neuron

Class Challenge

This is our Class Challenge bulletin board (for lack of a better or fancier name). This is where class progress towards various challenges is posted. The goal is to be the first class to have 100 students compete in the various challenges. These challenges can include; but are not limited to, being in class on time, completing homework, answering specific questions about a topic, bringing in signed interim progress reports, etc Once a class achieves the goal of 100 students, they receive a reward and the challenge resets.



Squad twenty-seven 76 students Name Loading 55 students Fly Guys 51 students Anaconda 39 students  

Homework: work on the graph and conclusion of the lab report, due Tuesday

October 3 and 4, 2014

Activity 15B: Digestion: An Asorbing Tale

Today, we cited sections of the text to explain and describe the role of various digestive system organelle. Using the textbook students found supporting evidence to explain how the digestive system is able to carry out its day to day function of breaking down food into usable nutrients.

Homework: Complete the graph and conclusion of your lab report, due Tuesday. Those students that left class today to help Mrs. Chichester we only completed question 1 and 2. You do not need to continue beyond that unless you want to.

October 2, 2014

Activity 14B Breakdown

Today, we continued investigating the relationship between mechanical and chemical breakdown. We discussed yesterdays results and answered questions and concerns about the lab report from The Paper Basketball Challenge, which is due Tuesday.

Homework: Complete the graph section of the lab report and the conclusion section of the lab report.

October 1, 2014

Activity 14B Breakdown

Today begins our investigation into the digestive system. In this activity, which lasts two class periods, we specifically investigate mechanical and chemical breakdown. We also discuss the specific organs of the digestion and their functions.

HW: All classes study chemical and mechanical breakdown. Also, don't forget to complete lab report