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