Question of the Day Period 4

9-14-11 How did your group know what was on the bottom of the cube?

9-15-11 Describe the bottom of the cube that your group saw.

9-16-11 What is an example of a testable question?

9-19-11 How does the amount of sugar one eats affect weight? Testable?

9-20-11 What is a paleontologist?

9-21-11 What do you think the organism is?

9-22-11 T/F Are opinion questions testable in science?

9-23-11 Explain how you helped your group during The Great Fossil Find.

9-26-11 Is 'Does the amount of sleep affect amount on test?' a testable question?

9-27-11 How might graphs and tables help you make a decision?

9-28-11 What was your testable question for Unusual Absences?

9-29-11 Are there any particular classes that had a lot of absences? Which ones?

9-30-11 How many centimeters are in a meter and how many millimeters are in a meter?

10-3-11 Did you drop over dead from converting metrics? Explain.

10-4-11 .325= __kg?

10-5-11 What do you find to be the most difficult for metric conversions?

10-6-11 What activity are you on?

10-10-11 Where do you think the illness came from?

10-11-11 What are traits of a successful class?

10-12-11 On a scale of 1-10, rate your ability to write a testable question. Explain.

10-13-11 On a scale of 1-10, how confident do you feel about metrics?

10-14-11 What are some characteristics of life?

10-17-11 Why did you think sewer lice were alive?

10-18-11 What is something all life is made of?

10-19-11 What is the difference between red-blood cells and white blood cells?

10-20-11 What sorts of foods have sugars?

10-21-11 Describe one result from your testing.

10-24-11 Which test has been the hardest for you to figure out? Explain.

10-25-11 On a scale of 1-10, write your effort in your group. Explain.

10-26-11 What is Spontaneous Generation?

10-27-11 Does life come from non-life?

10-31-11 Where do you think the dirtiest parts of the school are?

11-1-11 What surface do you think you will swab?

11-2-11 What were the first microscopes like?

11-3-11 If the ocular lens is 10x and the objective is 100x, what is the total magnification?

11-8-11 What's one new thing you learned about Veterans Day?

11-9-11 What are the little parts of cells called?

11-10-11 Which types of cells have cell walls? Hint: animal, plant, bacteria.

11-11-11 Which type of cell looks the simplest? (plant, animal, bacteria)

11-14-11 What part of the cell controls plant and animal cells?

11-15-11 What organelle makes energy for animal cells?

11-16-11 Describe how the different magnifications of cells looked like.

11-17-11 What part of the plant cell makes energy?

11-21-What do all 3 cell types have in common?

11-28-11 What did you do on your break?

11-29-11 What do you know about photosynthesis?

11-30-11 What do the plant do?

12-1-11 T/F During Photosynthesis plants make sugar (glucose).

12-5-11 How does the carbon cycle tie into photosynthesis?

12-6-11 What could happen if there were no plants?

12-7-11 The moon forms a 90 degree angle with the Earth and Sun, and the shadow is on the right side.

12-8-11 What was most common trait in your class?

12-9-11 What trait was least common in your class?

12-12-11 What does dominant mean?

12-13-11 What does recessive mean?

12-14-11 How do you think light amount will affect photosynthesis?

12-15-11 How do you think the amount of CO₂ would affect photosynthesis?

12-16-11 Why should you only test one variable at a time?

12-19-11 Finish the equation: CO2 + ______ light-->H2O + Sugar + O2

12-20-11 Which color was the least effective for photosynthesis?

12-21-11 T/F Dominant traits mask recessive traits.

1-4-12 What did you do over break?

1-5-12 How many copies of a gene do you get?

1-6-12 If you have siblings (imagine if you don't), why don't you look exactly

the same?

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1-10-12 Predict which will diffuse (spread) faster: cold or hot water. Explain.

1-11-12 T/F A Cell splitting in half (mitosis) creates an identical cell.

1-12-12 What is probably captured in our balloon?

1-13-12 What do you think the alcohol help do for the DNA we extracted?

1-17-12 T/F Asexual reproduction can produce new organisms quickly.

1-18-12 T/F Sexual reproduction is how organisms get a mix of genes. Explain.

1-19-12 Describe one way that plants attract organisms to help spread their genes?

1-24-12 Which of the solution changed the egg the most?

1-25-12 Convert 100 km into dm (Use the saying on the board!)

1-26-12 What's an advantage of laying over 100 eggs at time compared to having one child at a time? How does that help make sure one's genes are passed on?

1-30-12 What is a pedigree?

1-31-12 How was the Generation of Traits like a pedigree?

2-1-12 Why don't we usually see recessive traits?

2-2-12 In terms of genes (DNA), how similar are you to a banana?

2-3-12 Why do we have similarities to bananas or other living things?

2-7-12 Tay Sach's is a recessive disease. How many copies of the gene does one need to get Tay Sach's?

2-8-12 T/F dd is a genotype and blue is the phenotype.

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2-15-12 How does the design of the bird's beak relate to it's habitat and what food it eats?

2-21-12 What are some characteristics you think help classify organisms?

2-27-12 In toothpick fish, when there is an R & Y, what color is the fish?

2-28-12 What happened to the population of yellow fish when they stood out against the algae?

2-29-12 Why did the dominant trait (green) disappear faster than the recessive (yellow)?

3-1-12 What might an adaptation be for the polar bears?

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3-19-12 Have you started your Glog?

3-20-12 What is something new that you learned about you group of organisms?

3-21-12 What's left on your Glog?

4-10-12 How able are you to classify the different organisms?

4-12-12 What are some safety rules we should follow?

4-13-12 What is one qualitative description you can say about the inside of the clam?

4-23-12 What body systems can you name?

4-24-12 What is a major job of your system?

4-25-12 What is one new fact that you learned about your system?

4-26-12 What questions does your group have left to answer?