September 3, 2018 - September 7, 2018

Friday, September 7, 2018

Refer to the PLHS home work page by clicking on the class link below for your home work.

You will take notes on Life's Levels of Organization.
You will also receive a copy of the handout: Investigation and Experimentation Vocabulary word.
Please keep this sheet in the Lab section of your biology binder. 

Thursday, September 6, 2018
 You will read through the Scientific Thinking and Process worksheet and answer the questions.
You will then correct your own paper  in class.

Your knowledge and understanding of the Scientific Process will be tested by reading four short paragraphs and then be asked to identify the following experimental concept from each paragraph:
a: independent variable
b) dependent variable 
c) Control group
d) Experimental group 

 Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Scientific Language Worksheet.
Scientific language is made up of root words that are linked together to have different meaning. If you learn the meaning of the root words, you will find the scientific vocabulary easier to understand.

You will use the root words to interpret the meaning of a few scientific words.

Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Assignment: The classes will work to finish their posters on the 7 Criteria for Life.

Monday, September 3, 2018.
Labour Day - No School.  Enjoy.

2018 through 2019 School Year

  August 31, 2018

Class assignment: Students will use the information shared about the 7 Criteria for Life to create
a Mind map/ concept map to explain the Criteria for Life.  They will use words and pictures in their explanation.


August 30, 2018

Lecture: The 7 Criteria For Life.

Question and answer session about the criteria needed for the classification of living things.
The Criteria:
1) Growth, Development, and Differentiation
2) Reproduction:
3) Need for Energy
4) Responding to Stimuli
5) Evolution
6) Homeostasis
7) Interdependence

August 29, 2109

Answer to the fill in the blanks worksheet, the implied answer and the correct answer.
The worksheet was used to explain the importance of education.  The worksheet was used to explain that there are a lot of things we don know, that we don't know, we don't know.

Click on the link to watch the videoes:
 Why People Believe they Cant Draw and how to prove they can

How to Draw to Remember More
 

 August 28, 2018

Fill in the blanks worksheet completed in class.
The syllabus is available on the PLHS home work page. Click on the link for your class period to access.

 The Best of Times is Now

August 27, 2018

New School Year.
Teacher and students  introductions sharing memorable summer moments.
Assignment: Students write their hopes and expectations for the year and the future.

The Digestive System, June 1, 2018 - June 8, 2018

The Digestive System.
Complete the daily assignments given in class each day. The completed project will be due at the end of the period on June 8, 2018.

The Respiratory System / Circulatory System

May 25, 2018
 
May 24, 2018 and May 24, 2018

Notes on the Respiratory System.
Student activity:
Problem Solving Lab page 973. (Textbook used in class)
Questions 1 - 6 , page 974. ( Textbook used in class)

May 21, 2018 and May 22, 2018 ( Block schedule)
Multiple choice test on Evolution
The Respiratory System

Chapter 13- How Populations Evolve

May 18, 2018
Notes taken for the week from May 14, 2018
Page 102 - 118 from the BSCS A Human Approach will cover the topics done in class.
(Test on Monday, May 21, for Period 1 and Tuesday May 22 for period 6
 
May 14, 2018
Introduction to Evolution