Week of November 30th

Plant Quiz- Pollination, Fertilization and flowers.


11/30 Monocots and Dicots and Basic Flower Structure
12/1 Flower and Plant reproduction and Pollination
12/2 Stems and Leaves reading 35-39, Review for Quiz
12/3 Quiz- "Plants" Flowers.
12/4 Vocabulary Championships

Electronic

Vocabulary

Chlorophyll

Cotyledon

Embryo

Energy

Food

Germination

Photosynthesis

Root

http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2015/05/06/the-mighty-seed/

I'm featured in minute 25!

http://vpcsim.usu.edu/

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0601.htm

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plfeb99.htm

Electronic

Vocabulary

Chlorophyll

Cotyledon

Embryo

Energy

Food

Germination

Photosynthesis

Root

Electronic

Vocabulary

Anther

Egg

Fertilization

Fruit

Ovary

Ovule

Pistil

Pollen

Pollination

Reproduction

Seed-dispersal mechanism

Seed-dispersal strategy

Sperm

Stamen

http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2015/05/06/the-mighty-seed/

I'm featured in minute 25!

http://vpcsim.usu.edu/

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0601.htm

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plfeb99.htm

Review for the quiz on Dec 3.

Plants reproduce sexually. Explain this process. 

Why is it usually important for seeds to be dispersed away from a parent plant?

11-24 Resources

Take the Quiz about seeds.
http://tinyurl.com/og3ytr

Check out these websites.
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0601.htm

Read from the text book to prepare for Plantemon

Never to early to prepare Free SAT and ACT practice tests

We want you to be college ready...

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Week of 11/23 and Week of 11/30

Plants, plants and more plants!

11/23 Seeds on the Move- review 
11/24 Quiz- "Plants" Seeds of life, Flowers to Seeds
11/25 Ecological Investigations within a plant community - http://vpcsim.usu.edu/

Thanksgiving break.

11/30 Monocots and Dicots and basic Flower Structure
12/1 Flower and plant reproduction and Pollination
12/2 Stems and Leaves reading 35-39, Review for Quiz
12/3 Quiz- "Plants" Flowers.
12/4 Vocabulary Championships

Electronic

Vocabulary

Chlorophyll

Cotyledon

Embryo

Energy

Food

Germination

Photosynthesis

Root

http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2015/05/06/the-mighty-seed/

I'm featured in minute 25!

http://vpcsim.usu.edu/

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0601.htm

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plfeb99.htm

Electronic

Vocabulary

Chlorophyll

Cotyledon

Embryo

Energy

Food

Germination

Photosynthesis

Root

Electronic

Vocabulary

Anther

Egg

Fertilization

Fruit

Ovary

Ovule

Pistil

Pollen

Pollination

Reproduction

Seed-dispersal mechanism

Seed-dispersal strategy

Sperm

Stamen

http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2015/05/06/the-mighty-seed/

I'm featured in minute 25!

http://vpcsim.usu.edu/

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0601.htm

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plfeb99.htm

Review for the quiz on Dec 3.

Plants reproduce sexually. Explain this process. 

Why is it usually important for seeds to be dispersed away from a parent plant?

11-17-15

                                    http://tinyurl.com/pptc7

This is missing some letters and numbers

Week of 11-16

11/16 One million dots and graphing exponential growth.
11/17 Review and Quiz on the Kingdom of Monera
11/18 Topic Plants- Roots and Shoots, Seed Dissection, Flower Dissection
11/19 Plantemon start- Reading Seeds and Roots
11/20 Stems and Leaves

Tentative...

11/23 Seeds on the Move- review 
11/24 Quiz- "Plants" Seeds of life, Flowers to Seeds
11/25 Ecological Investigations within a plant community




Resources for Monera Quiz


Basics

Electronic

Vocabulary

http://www.kidsbiology.com/biology_basics/five_kingdoms_life/moneran2.php

http://www.softschools.com/science/biology/monera_kingdom/

http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/antibiotic.html

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/exponential-outbreaks-the-mathematics-of-epidemics/?_r=2

Please Use headphones to listen to this one

http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/chipotle-sites-could-reopen-wednesday-after-e-coli-cases/

http://www.thejournal.ie/gut-bacteria-cure-stress-2415092-Nov2015/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151105152105.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151104120752.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/insulin/diabetes-insulin.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151027132835.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29.


Resources for Plant Quiz

Electronic

Vocabulary

Chlorophyll

Cotyledon

Embryo

Energy

Food

Germination

Photosynthesis

Root

http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2015/05/06/the-mighty-seed/

I'm featured in minute 25!

http://vpcsim.usu.edu/

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0601.htm

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plfeb99.htm

11-10 Resources

1. Take a student interest survey please.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wixPM-9MI2Z2C7WY1u_cu0yqG0BxFr3XD3uUbrAbV0E/viewform

2. Take the Quiz- The following URL is missing a letter or two. Please copy and paste this into the URL and wait for the secret letters.
http://tinyurl.com

3. Let's Start preparing for our next quiz.- The Kingdom of Monera

Basics
Electronic

Vocabulary

http://www.kidsbiology.com/biology_basics/five_kingdoms_life/moneran2.php

http://www.softschools.com/science/biology/monera_kingdom/

Bacteria in the News...

Please Use headphones to listen to this one

http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/chipotle-sites-could-reopen-wednesday-after-e-coli-cases/

http://www.thejournal.ie/gut-bacteria-cure-stress-2415092-Nov2015/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151105152105.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151104120752.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/insulin/diabetes-insulin.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151027132835.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

Week of 11/9

This week's topics- Kingdoms of Life (Taxonomy) and starting The Kingdom of Monera

Multiple Monday 11/9 Reading and Review of the Kingdoms of Life
Twisted Tuesday 11/10 Quiz on the 5 kingdoms of life.
11/11 Veteran's Day
Throwback Thursday 11/12 Monera Start- Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes, Importance of Micro-organisms to humans
Spirit day (7th grade wears white)11/12 Bacterial Reproduction, Germ Theory, and Spontaneous Generation

Tentative
11/16 One million dots and graphing exponential growth.
11/17 Quiz on the Kingdom of Monera
11/18 Topic Plants- Roots and Shoots, Seed Dissection, Flower Dissection
11/19 Plantemon start- Reading Seeds and Roots
11/20 Stems and Leaves.

Vocabulary

11/5-11/10 Kingdoms Vocabulary
Electronic Vocabulary

11/10-11/17 Monera Vocabulary

Electronic Vocabulary

This Week's Homework

Quiz November 10th on Kingdoms
a) A classification game
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

b) A database of organisms.
Go to the top right and search by "Entity by common name" and then type in "dog" It will give you the latin name "Canis familiaris" as well as all of the different sub categories that it is in.
Try out your favorite animal, plant, fungus, protist and moneran.
http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/Default.aspx

c) Check out this current event. Want to name a moth after your favorite seventh grade science teacher?
 http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/19/9566011/ebay-auction-name-a-moth

d) Electronic Vocabulary

e) Electronic notes
6.1.2

6.1.3

7.2.5

f) Another game to introduce the concept of evolution.
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/evolution.html

g) Check out this card game.
http://phylogame.org/

Quiz November 17th on the Kingdom of Monera

11/5 Resources

1.Enrichment Preferences 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Nko369VCydZ-LYS1VFjHOTr3ohJbFmTMqQoBoNaLLPI/viewform

2. Test- You will need the code after the following URL address

http://tinyurl.com/

3. Get ready for the next test- it will be on classification and the kingdoms of life. 

a) A classification game
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

b) A database of organisms.
Go to the top right and search by "Entity by common name" and then type in "dog" It will give you the latin name "Canis familiaris" as well as all of the different sub categories that it is in.
Try out your favorite animal, plant, fungus, protist and moneran.
http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/Default.aspx

c) Check out this current event. Want to name a moth after your favorite seventh grade science teacher?
 http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/19/9566011/ebay-auction-name-a-moth

d) Electronic Vocabulary

e) Electronic notes
6.1.2

6.1.3

7.2.5

f) Another game to introduce the concept of evolution.
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/evolution.html

g) Check out this card game.
http://phylogame.org/