Biology

Extra credit is always accepted and available in biology class. Here was a "directed assignment" because we got new fish for the classroom aquarium back in 2010...

media type="custom" key="3430086" width="140" height="140" Genetics is such a coooooool topic in biology! We will do lots of laptop activities to learn some skills and master content about the diversity of life and the expression and inheritance of traits. For example: [|Chickens and Lemmings Punnett Squares]

Often, there will be answer keys on this wiki or some assignments to complete. Don't forget to visit this page and the others... You never know what you might find!!!

Cell reproduction is critical for the survival of individual organisms and for lots of species to continue existing on the planet. We often check out videos from Discovery Education online streaming videos. Here's an example of a guide to go along with what we would see in class on the Big Screen! Copy and paste this video link into your web browser if they hyperlink below does NOT work... [] [|Discovery Education Video Segment on Meiosis for 3:30]

Here's an example of a QUIZ... This is from the CELL CYCLE! =Website Visitation= In biology on February 4, 2010 - we visited 2 websites and completed the worksheets to go along with the website viewing guides. Please check these out to learn about MITOSIS!!! [|Mitosis and Cytokinesis Interactive] [|CellsAlive! MITOSIS]

Website Visitation
In biology on February 3, 2010 - we visited 2 websites and completed the worksheets to go along with the website viewing guides. Please check these out to learn about the Cell Cycle and Mitosis. [|How the Cell Cycle Works] [|Nobel Prize Control of the Cell Cycle Game]

Homework
on Feb 3 for Feb 4 for Period 5 biology = Read Cell Cycle Handout worksheet and answer the 6 questions posed on the back of the second page...

This is from biology class on January 28th. Watch this Discovery Education Video Segment for 3:44 and complete the Please Do Now associated with it... [|Discovery Education Video Segment]

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 * The President Speaks...** This was an in class and homework assignment required to complete and then an optional portion to complete for extra credit given on January 27th, 2010. [[file:State of the Union.docx]] [|Listen to a 60 second podcast to hear an excerpt from President Obama's Inaugural Address in 2009.] EXTRA CREDIT = What did President Obama really say in his State of the Union Address on January 27, 2010 in regard to either science and/or education? Provide some type of "proof" that you heard it, saw it, read it, listened to it on the TV, Radio, Internet, Newspaper, etc. Summarize your thoughts or provide documentation about what the President really said. EXTRA CREDIT!!!======

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[|Acid/Base Movie Quiz] **Please Click on the Acid/Base Movie Quiz to watch the kids' movie about acids and bases. At the end of the movie is a short 10 question quiz to test your comprehension. You have to get at least an 80% to "win". Best wishes! You can redo to get a better grade if you miss questions and you only fill in what you have missed on the quiz...**======

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More acid and base stuff... If you want to play [|HANGMAN] click the hyperlink to visit a website with Chapter 3 in our biology textbook vocabulary words about Biochemistry.======

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Even more acid and base stuff... If you would like to test your knowledge on pH - click on this hyperlink to visit a website [|game to organize acids and bases] in order.======

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[|Textbook ONLINE] Please visit our textbook ONLINE in order to take the Chapter 3 Online Quiz - You may use your textbook to help you. Anytime you click on the "HINT" button, it will tell you exactly where to look in the text to get the answers for the questions. This is rather helpful. Since you can use the textbook, you should get a 100% on the QUIZ. ======

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media type="custom" key="5269683" [|HUMAN ENDURANCE] Please visit this website (click on Human Endurace) to learn about 9 Human Extremes! Draw a picture to represent the extreme and record the proper data about the extreme. Here is the worksheet that we are completing in class... This is the "homework" sheet we did as a pretest to get us thinking about human limitations ======

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BIOLOGY LAB DEMONSTRATION ON 11-17-09 [|EGG IN A BOTTLE] Ms. Shimel did this lab in class on 11/17/09. Click on EGG IN A BOTTLE hyperlink to watch a YouTube video. Please use the information in this video to help you complete this worksheet ======

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Answers to Textbook Homework on page 77 and for page 83 for Chapter 3.2 and 3.3 depending on which assignment you would have completed... Click on the PowerPoints here: ======

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 * On March 9, 2010 we got new fish! We have 2 mollies, a hi fancy swordtail, 2 zebra danios and 2 glow tetras in addition to one lonely "old" pink kissing gourami. All the old fish died... Did you ever do the old extra credit for our fish that passed on??? If not...this old extra credit is still available but there's also NEW extra credit for the NEW fish on March 9, 2010**======

Water Labs - please complete these water labs

PLEASE VISIT THESE 3 WEBSITES TO DO THE ONLINE WATER LABS! USE THE HYPERLINKS BELOW. [|Visit First] [|Visit Second and Click on Water and Life's Structure] [|Visit Third!]

Here is the Worksheet that was handed out in class. There are hyperlinks on this if you open the Word Document...

 Please use this worksheet as you visit 3 separate websites to perform online water labs. Be responsible for all of the questions.

These are pictures of a biology period 5 student (JW) showing what happens when you statically charge a balloon and hold it near a stream of the Polar Molecules of WATER!



These pictures are from the Acid and Base Red Cabbage Lab. Color changes...

Click here to view the PowerPoint for Welcome to Biology To learn more about the organisms we saw in class during 9-21-09 through 9-25-09 click on this Word Document. Don't foget to check out the hyperlinks it contains!!!

CLICK HERE FOR A POWER POINT PRESENTATION ON 8 ORGANISMS WE SAW UNDER THE MICROSCOPES IN BIOLOGY

We got a new class pet! It's a Monarch Butterfly Caterpillar!!! Please click here to learn more about what should happen...



Can you complete this worksheet using the Monarch Butterfly PowerPoint show? Here are some tomato and cucumber plants that we planted in biology in spring 2009 for Earth Day and could take home for Mother's Day...

Here are some pictures from Dissection in biology during the Spring 2009 Semester at Bellwood-Antis High School