2019-2020
HOMEWORK
#1. Must do #1, #2 and #3.#2. There is nothing to turn in on Google Classroom: Classroom Section.
Suggested due date: June 13
ccarter@lexingtonma.org
#1. Must do #1(yellow block), then do one of the other choices(2 or 3).#2. Turn in work on Google Classroom: Classroom Section.#3. This week Everyone has to complete the first choice which is a Google Form only. Then you must choose 2 or 3 to do and turn in on Google Classroom. Suggested due date: June 6
ccarter@lexingtonma.org
#1. Must do #1(yellow block), then do one of the other choices(2,3, or 4).#2. Turn in work on Google Classroom: Classroom Section.#3. This week Everyone has to complete the first choice. The reason is that it is new vocabulary which gives you a foundation to do the other activities. Suggested due date: May 30
ccarter@lexingtonma.org
#1. Must do #1(yellow block), then do one of the other choices(2,3,4,5).#2. Turn in work on Google Classroom: Classroom Section.#3. This week Everyone has to complete the first choice. The reason is that it is new vocabulary which gives you a foundation to do the other activities. Suggested due date: May 23
Optional this week, but would be cool to add something to share with the rest of your Everest peers: Link: Week 8 Padlet
If you have questions, please feel free to email me at any time about the assignments. ccarter@lexingtonma.org
May 11 - May 15: Week #7 Link: Evolution Project (Film Strip)
#1. Complete the Evolution Film Strip Project (a.k.a. slide show)#2. Turn in work on Google Classroom: Classroom Section.Suggested due date: May 16Optional this week, but would be cool to add something to share with the rest of your Everest peers: Link: Week 7 Padlet
If you have questions, please feel free to email me at any time about the assignments. ccarter@lexingtonma.org
#1. Must do #1(yellow block), then do one of the other choices(2,3,4,5).#2. Turn in work on Google Classroom: Classroom Section.#3. This week Everyone has to complete the first choice. The reason is that it is new vocabulary which gives you a foundation to do the other activities. Suggested due date: May 9
Optional this week, but would be cool to add something to share with the rest of your Everest peers: Link: Week 6 Padlet
If you have questions, please feel free to email me at any time about the assignments. ccarter@lexingtonma.org
#1. Must do #1(yellow block), then do one of the other choices(2,3,4,5).#2. Turn in work on Google Classroom: Classroom Section.#3. This week is a little different as everyone has to complete the first choice. The reason is that it is new vocabulary which gives you a foundation to do the other activities. Suggested due date: May 2
Optional this week, but would be cool to add something to share with the rest of your Everest peers: Link: Week 5 Padlet
If you have questions, please feel free to email me at any time about the assignments. ccarter@lexingtonma.org
April 21 - 24:
I posted a choice board(link below) for our fourth week of working from home. Choose 2 out of the 6 on the choice board to work on this week in Science. Post your work to the 2 Google Classroom posts by the end of the day on Saturday, April 25(suggested due date). Activities must be from different columns, pick ones that you are interested in. Link to Science Choice Board. Optional this week, but would be cool to add something to share with the rest of your Everest peers: Link: Week 4 Padlet Feel free to add models you made last week as well, or food that you made for week 1. Or post picture from a nature walk you went on, or a flower in your backyard.
If you have questions, please feel free to email me at any time about the assignments. ccarter@lexingtonma.org
April 13 - 17:
I posted a choice board(link below) for our third week of working from home. Choose 2 out of the 6 on the choice board to work on this week in Science. Post your work to the 2 Google Classroom posts by the end of the day on Saturday, April 18(suggested due date). Activities must be from different columns, pick ones that you are interested in. Link to Science Choice Board.Optional this week, but would be cool to add something to share with the rest of your Everest peers: Link: Week 3 Padlet Feel free to add models you made last week as well, or food that you made for week 1. Or post picture from a nature walk you went on, or a flower in your backyard.
If you have questions, please feel free to email me at any time about the assignments. ccarter@lexingtonma.org
April 6 - 10:
I posted a choice board(link below) for our second week of working from home. Choose 2 out of the 6 on the choice board to work on this week in Science. Post your work to the 2 Google Classroom posts by the end of the day on Saturday, April 11(suggested due date). Activities must be from different columns, pick ones that you are interested in. Link to Science Choice Board. If you have questions, please feel free to email me at any time about the assignments. ccarter@lexingtonma.orgMarch 30 - April 3:
I posted a choice board(link below) for our first week of working from home. Choose 2 out of the 6 on the choice board to work on this week in Science. Post your work to the 2 Google Classroom posts by the end of the day on Saturday, April 4. It does not matter what 2 you choose, pick ones that you are interested in. Link to Science Choice Board. If you have questions, please feel free to email me at any time about the assignments. ccarter@lexingtonma.orgDNA
March 2-13: DNA, Punnett Squares, Genetics. Link Below can be used to help write your Crazy Creature Paragraph about your Crazy Creature that has landed in a habitat on the planet Earth. This is the best site to use to look up animals and plants that live in the habitat(biome) that your Crazy Creature now lives. Blue Planet Biomes: Click HereMarch 9-13: Geniverse interactive Lab: Topic is Genetics: How traits are passed down from parent to offspring. Geniverse Website: Click HereMust click on Register first. Then you could enter your first name and last name, OR You can log in using your school email account. Must use your School Google Password. Enter the class word below for your class. We are only doing the Case Log. Do the stars only, not the feather ones.
February 24-28: Work on finishing the Slide Show for human body systems interactions. Posted on Google Classroom. We worked on this in class before vacation. Due Friday, February 28. We will be working with DNA model Kits in class from Monday-Wednesday.
Tuesday, February 25 Homework: Finish coloring in the DNA model on paper. Study where these parts are in the DNA molecule: deoxyribose, phosphate, hydrogen bond, the bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine.
Thursday Lab: Extracting Strawberry DNA using simple method.
#1 Strawberry DNA Lab Video Clip: Click Here #2 Amoeba Sisters DNA structure and function: Click Here (Watch this while waiting for the DNA to precipitate out of solution).Future work: Don't do until Mr. Carter talks about it in class and assigns. Read Chapter 5, Lesson 3 about DNA. Fill in the guided reading worksheet.
Video Clips/Videos that could help make better connections to classwork. Video Clip of How Genes code Click Here DNA: How Proteins are made: Click HereBill Nye Genes(important segments of DNA code) Video: Click Here
Digestive System
Due February 4: Your part of the Pill Lab slide show is due.
Most of the classwork/homework is posted on Google Classroom for this unit.
January 21- January 31: API Pill Lab experiment and research. Slide show requirements posted on January 22 on Google Classroom Stream and Classwork.
Circulatory System
Practice Quizzes: Parts are for the Heart, Valves, Arteries/Veins.
Heart Parts Quiz #1: Click HereHeart Parts Quiz #2: Click HereHeart Parts Quiz #3: Click HereWe will use this video to dissect the Sheep Heart the week of Jan. 13-17. Click Here (Start at 2:45 minute mark with your dissection) Cover your computer screen with plastic wrap.
The 3D Heart Project: The Pathway of a red blood cell:The red blood cell starts in left atrium, goes through a valve(mitral valve) and enters left ventricle, then through a valve(aortic valve) and enters aorta, then goes to some cells in the body and gives some oxygen to them/takes in carbon dioxide, then goes back to heart and enters the right atrium, goes through a valve(tricuspid valve) and enters the right ventricle, goes through a valve(pulmonary valve) and enters the pulmonary artery and travels to the lungs, then gets more oxygen/released carbon dioxide and travels via the pulmonary veins and enters the left atrium. This Little red blood cell will do this about 1,000 times each day for 100-120 days until its life is over.
Due Tuesday, Jan. 14: We started watching the Classic film called: "Hemo the Magnificient": Click Here (Might have to click twice to get it to play at school). Start at 5:00 minute mark and stop at the 48:00 minute mark. Fill in the answers to questions that go with the video.
Due Thursday, Jan. 9: Read Chapter 16, Lesson 2 about Circulatory System. Fill in the Lesson Outline which was handed out in class but also could be accessed in the online textbook(chapter resources page 29 and 30, the green button).
Class Textbook: https://my.mheducation.com/login Username: Student email (minus the @lexingtonma.org) . Example 25smithPassword: Same as school google password. Case sensitive.Assessment: (Jan. 7th): Eye Parts- identify and what is it's function?
Parts to study: aqueous humor, blind spot, cornea, iris, lens, optic nerve, pupil, retina, sclera, vitreous humor, eye muscle, eye fat, Cells of the retina called rods and cones
Cow Eye Dissection Powerpoint: Click Here
Practice for eye assessment
Label the parts of the eye GAME: Click Here (click continue without supporting on the popup)
Quizlet Scatter Game: Some of the eye parts functions: Click Here
Blind spot Test online: Click Here
Watch these video clips for eye assessments:
Eye parts and functions video clip: Click Here
How the eye works: Click Here
Lasik eye surgery animation: Click Here
Try these Optical Illusions: Click Here
Friday, Dec. 13: Skeletal System Bones Vocabulary. Study picture dictionary terms. Fill in the chicken wing dissection notes table.
Friday, Nov. 22: Human Skeleton Bone Names Assessment
Thursday, Nov. 21: Optional: Student says all the bone names, while pointing to them, in front of the class in less than 1 minute. You could get a grade of 105.
Wednesday, Nov. 20: Video: Eyewitness Human Machine Questions are Due and Screenshot of Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection Congratulations Page. This is the page that has the time it took you after you completed the task.
Thursday, Nov. 14: Egg Experiment Document with Graph is due.
Thursday, Nov. 7: Cell Processes Vocabulary Assessment: Diffusion, Osmosis, Active Transport, Endocytosis, Exocytosis, Facilitated Diffusion using carrier proteins, Facilitated Diffusion using Channel Proteins. Study the shared picture dictionary document and the Quizlet I posted on Tuesday.
Thursday, Oct. 24: Cell Parts Assessment. Study the function and the analogies that your group came up with. Google Forms Assessment. Study the picture dictionary you made, the pink paper, the cell coloring worksheet. Also, I posted a Quizlet in Google Classroom to help you study the functions and spelling.
Friday Oct. 18: Playdough due today. Use my recipe or use one from the internet. If you require the use of the stove, ask your parents first before using this recipe.
Wednesday, 16: Assessment on Characteristics of Living Organisms. Study the Picture Dictionary and the matching game(worksheet handed out in class on Friday, Oct. 11), and finish watching Eyewitness:Life video you started in class on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
Due October 10 at 8:00PM (Assigned on Monday, Oct. 7): Picture Dictionary for the characteristics of all living organisms. Directions posted on Google Classroom, classwork section.
Study the characteristics of living things for a quiz the week of Oct. 15-18. I will update you in class about this. This is a change from what was here before. Study your picture dictionary you made. That is your study guide. An example of a characteristics of living things is all living things are made of CELLS. Cells are the basic unit of life. This is just one of many common characteristics.
October 3: Quiz on Microscope Parts. Study the parts using the online practice website below and the worksheet in class with the picture of the actual microscope we use in class. Microscope parts online practice: MICROSCOPE PARTS
Due by Thursday, Sept. 26: Bring in 5 items no thicker than a quarter to look at under our microscopes. They should be translucent(some light can travel through object) or transparent(like clear plastic).
Check out these cool HD Live Video Cameras
Eagle Nest Cam: Click Here
Panda Cam(Smithsonian Zoo in D.C.): Click Here