Grade Updates & Cell Unit Preview & Twitter

Hello everyone. I have your quizzes graded and will get them plugged into Powerschool sometime this weekend (there is a slight snafu that I need to correct before I load them in). Additionally, I should be able to get all of your food labs graded this weekend and will get those loaded into the gradebook as well.

If you did not finish your notes on "Life is Cellular", please do so this weekend. Next week we will look into what the parts of the cells are, develop advertisements for the parts of the cell, look more closely at cells under the microscope, and explore the cell membrane and how it regulates the movement of certain things into and out of the cell.

Finally, I have linked this blog to Twitter, so if you are interested in getting more timely notices about this blog, please follow me on Twitter @mrlandryshs. Thanks and enjoy your weekend.

YouTube Playlist for Cell Structure, Function, & Transport Unit

Quiz Thursday and Next Unit

I hope you all are preparing for tomorrow's quiz. On Friday, we will start our cell unit. All materials for this unit are available on the class share site, including all of the notes. Happy studying!

Goldfish Lab Continued

The goldfish lab is now in full swing. Just a reminder that if you get your procedure approved by me sooner, then you will get more data collected. Hey, that's a hypothesis - isn't it! Anyway, please make sure you look through the checklist that you are supposed to be using to help evaluate other groups' work (part of today's opener). Once you have two signed checklists from non-group members, you can come see me to evaluate your procedure. If you'd like an electronic copy of the checklist, then click here.

You will be submitting your completed reports by no later than Monday, February 11, 2013 and this will be done electronically. The beauty behind a digital world is that it ends at 11:59.99 pm so you have a few extra hours after school on Monday if you need them. The best way to submit your reports is by adding me to the list of people that you are sharing your document with. I will then mark my comments in the document using the "comment" tab; just click comment to see my comments after I grade them. I will also be using the same rubric that I used for grading your Styrofoam peanut labs, so you have the expectations for the lab readily available.

Good luck and if you have any questions, please make sure you let me know. Have fun with the lab.

Links:
Lab report form (after clicking, select file, make a copy, and then its your own document; you all did this already :))

Lab report rubric

Lab design & report expectations PowerPoint

Goldfish Lab

Here's the link to the lab report form:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zkOC1Wzq8DLplYlU0rjCgCO3g6unlplAXEc8ajlSinA/edit?usp=sharing

Textbook Inventory

Please complete the quality inventory sheet for your textbook by no later than Friday. See below for links to the document:

2nd Block Click Here

3rd Block Click Here

Welcome to the start of a new semester.

Hello everyone and welcome to the blog that I maintain for my biology classes at Sparta High School. I will update this blog frequently with schedules, due dates, science news, miscellaneous study tools, etc. to help everyone achieve at a higher level.

Toward the top of the page you will find a "follow by email" feature that I highly recommend. Just type your email address into the provided box and then hit submit. This will then send you an email everytime I update this blog (two to three times a week). On this site you will also find a link to my wiki, which is where I store all of the files that I use for this class, including note sets and powerpoints, review sheets, lab activities, etc. Some of the files will require a username and password (Username: first.last@sparta.lan and the password is your normal password at school) while others will take you to a google document (which you can turn into either a word or pdf document).

I will post the remainder of the weeks schedule soon.