Our weekly lecture schedule appears here. Clicking on the lecture will take you to the lecture notes page. 

Week 7: Sept 21 - 25

Monday, 9/21: Mushroom Presentation Workday

• Students will be given a printed handout with information on a specific fungus. They will read the information and prioritize what information is most important to present to the class in 2 days. 

• Click here for  the printed handout. Students know which fungus they are presenting on. These were randomly assigned. 

Tuesday, 9/22: Steps of the Scientific Method 

Wednesday, 9/23: Practicing the Scientific Method

Thursday, 9/24: Mushroom Presentations Day 1

Friday, 9/25: Mushroom Presentations Day 2

Week 6: Sept 14 - Sept 18

Monday, 9/14: Finish Introduction to Kingdom Fungi 

Tuesday, 9/15: Classification of Fungi

Wednesday, 9/16: Unit 2 Part 1 Exam

Thursday, 9/17: Mushroom Dissection Lab

Friday, 9/18: Important value of Fungi

Week 5: Sept 8 - Sept 11

Monday, 9/7: Labor Day, No school

Tuesday, 9/8: Review for Unit 2 Part 1 Test

Wednesday, 9/9: Start Kingdom Fungi

Thursday, 9/10: Continue Intro to Kingdom Fungi

Friday, 9/11: Cell Analogy Project due today!

Week 4: August 31 - Sept 4

Monday, 8/31: Fungus - like Protist

Tuesday, 9/1: Eutrophication & Red Tide

Wednesday, 9/2: Microscope Use and Lab Safety

Thursday, 9/3: Symbiosis

Friday, 9/4: Protists Lab

Week 3: August 24 - 28

Monday, 8/24: Unit 1 Exam / Finish Parts of a Cell lecture from Week 2

Tuesday, 8/25: Introduce the Cell Project

Wednesday, 8/26: Introduction to Kingdom Protista

Thursday, 8/27: Characteristics of Protozoans. Homework: Read article on malaria and answer question on it.

Friday, 8/28: Characteristics of Algae

Week 2: August 17 - 21

Monday, Aug 17: Continue Classification of Life Lecture from Week 1 

Tuesday, Aug 18: Taxonomy Vocabulary

Wednesday,  Aug 19: Characteristics of the 6 Kingdoms of Life 

Thursday, Aug 20: Review for Unit 1 Exam. See study guide here.

Friday: Aug 21: Start Unit 2, Lesson 1: Parts of a Cell 

Week 1: August 7 - 14

Friday, August 7: First Day of School! Class procedures and expectations. Discuss Syllabus

Monday, August 10:  What is Life Science

Tuesday, August 11: Characteristics of Life

Wednesday, August 12:  How to think and journal like a Naturalist 

Thursday, August 13:  Introduction to Classification of Life

Friday, August 14:  Quiz #1 / Lab #1: First Lab Observation