September 2023
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
School resumes!
Meet in your advisory space at 7:55
Scavenger hunt (outside) - make sure you dress for the weather and bring a water bottle
Project block review
Mini project week begins (@ JMKAC)
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
Daily Schedule
Advisory, P1, P2, P3, P5, P7, lunch, mini project day 2
Biology Schedule
Do Now: Create a name card. Include the following things: Your name, pronouns, extrovert/introvert ratio, best skill/s you bring to a team, water/land/air/fire. Example on whiteboard.
Exit Ticket: turn your name card in at the door
Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Daily Schedule
Advisory, P1, P2, P3, lunch, mini project day 3
Biology Schedule
Do Now: classroom scavenger hunt
Friday, September 8th, 2023
Daily Schedule
Advisory, P4, P5, P7, lunch, Mini project exhibitions
Biology Schedule
Do Now: classroom scavenger hunt
Monday, September 11th, 2023
-regular academic schedules begin-
Do Now: Find your new assigned seat, get out your notebook and a pencil.
Review supplies: non-spiral bound notebook (composition style) or a journal of similar size and a folder. Put your name and class period on both items.
Review cell phone usage, bathroom, and sign-out policies
Intro to Botany
-topics we will cover
- activities: microgreens, propagation, plant sale
-generate/sort/connect about why plants are important
Watch What is botany?
Exit Ticket: I used to think..., now I think...
Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
Do Now: in your notebook, copy down the words (autotroph and heterotroph) and definitions on the white board
Finish the generate/sort/connect/elaborate activity on the importance of plants that we started yesterday
Trophic pyramid - energy flow video
What makes a plant a plant?
Exit Ticket: Compass points on scrap paper. Something that excites and/or worries you about Botany class
Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
Clubs and GWT
Thursday, September 14th, 2023
learning objectives: outdoor observations, begin unit on cells
Do Now: Have your notebook out and be ready to take notes today. Copy down the terms and definitions (prokaryote and eukaryote) on the whiteboard.
Then: outdoor garden observations - sketch, write, research, share
Friday, September 15th, 2023
Do Now: Have your notebook out and be ready to take notes today. Also, be ready to share your observations from yesterday.
Learning Objectives: Share out yesterdays observations and continue the unit on cell structure
Prokaryotes and eukaryotes video
Monday, September 18th, 2023
Do Now: Have your notebook out and be ready to learn
watch Intro to plant cells - Ameboa Sisters and do a see/think/wonder in your notebook
Exit ticket: what is something that still confuses you about plant cells?
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Do Now: Have your notebook out and be ready to take notes
Cell theory
Macromolecules
Organelles
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Clubs and GWT
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Do Now: Have your notebook out and be ready to take notes
more on cellular structure and function (slideshow)
worksheet - labeling cell parts (due Friday)
rotate through stations - observe cells under microscope and sketch in notebook
Exit Ticket: Name one plant cell organelle
Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Do Now: Get out your notebook and the plant cell worksheet from yesterday. Go ahead and begin working on finishing the worksheet. Color it in. Cut it out and glue it into your notebook.
Then: Finish rotating through microscope stations to observe plant cells. Sketch in your notebooks.
Next: cell cycle and cell division (slideshow - note taking)
Exit Ticket: Explain what is meant by "We need plants, but they don't need us." Write your answer on a notecard or a half sheet of paper.
Monday, September 25th, 2023
Do Now: Take out your notebook. Share with at least one person your sketch of the onion cell and algae cell you observed under the microscope last week. Explain what parts of the cell you can identify.
Next: The cell cycle and mitosis - note taking
Exit Ticket: first to five on your understanding of the cell cycle
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
Do Now: Copy down the terms and definitions on the whiteboard (thylakoids, grana, stroma)
Next: Review the cell cycle and mitosis.
Then: A closer look at chloroplasts and photosynthesis
Finally: photosynthesis interactive
Exit Ticket: Appreciation, Apology, Aha! Identify something you appreciated today, an apology you’d like to deliver, or an aha moment you experienced.
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
Do Now: Take out your notebook and your computer
watch light reactions and the calvin cycle
Photosynthesis Interactive (light dependent reaction, the calvin cycle, quiz)
Exit Ticket: What are the two main reactions involved in photosynthesis?