Welcome to 7th Grade Biology!
Mrs. Duxbury
2/3/12
No homework
2/2/12
Students need to study for a microscope quiz...parts and total magnification. There is a very small assignment in the Human Body Systems packet. Students should read pages 62 and 63 (first two pages) and answer the short questions.
2/1/12
Students need to complete page 40 and the top of page 41 in the Human Systems packet.
1/31/2012
Students need to finish the questions in the E lab. The completed lab is due tomorrow.
1/27/12
No homework for the weekend.
1/25/12
Finish pages 51 and 52 in the unit 2 handout. Questions 7-9 for homework. There will be a test Friday. (multiple choice and short fill-ins.) Students need to study cell theory, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and cell organelles.
1/24/12
Finish pages 49 and 50 in the Unit 2 handout, Questions 1-6 for homework.
1/23/12
For homework students should copy the vocabulary words from last week into their vocabulary notebooks with the definitions we copied in class.
1/20/12
Students need to finish the worksheet from class on cell theory.
1/18/12
Homework for tomorrow is to complete the vocabulary words on the back of the photosynthesis viewing handout. Words should be copied into the vocabulary notebook.
1/17/12
Students in all classes drew the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration for a classroom grade. Second period will have the cell energy quiz tomorrow.
1/13/12
Students in 2nd period will have the cell energy quiz on Tuesday.
1/12/12
Period 8&9 will have a quiz tomorrow on photosynthesis and cell respiration.
1/11/12
Students should review the notes on cellular respiration and photosynthesis and come up with any questions concerning the 2 formulas for class tomorrow.
1/10/12
No homework
1/9/12
Vocabulary word definitions.
1/5/12
Students should (depending on the class) finish the compare/contrast sheet we started in class (some classes were finished) for Protists and Bacteria. ALL STUDENTS need to look over the viewing guides for both kingdoms to prepare for a quiz tomorrow.
1/4/12
No homework
1/3/12
No homework.
12/23/11
Merry Christmas! Happy and Healthy New Year! Enjoy your family, there will be no homework over the holiday.
12/22/11
We have been working on cell models for the better part of this week. There is no homework for tomorrow.
12/16/11
No homework!
12/15/11
Study the power point notes as well as the homework sheet from today that we went over in class.We will have a 20 point quiz tomorrow, multiple choice questions and identification of a cell structure organelles.
12/14/11
Students need to finish the cell structure handout. There will be a quiz in class on organelles (power point notes) this Friday. The cell model projects are due next week!!
12/13/11
Any signatures on the progress reports that have not been turned in for tonight!
12/12/11
Another parent signature required on a progress report for the quarter!
12/9/11
Students need to get a parent signature on the classification test.
12/8/11
No homework!
12/7/11
Students need to read pages 38-45 in the green text book. They need to complete questions 1-4 writing the question and answer for homework.
12/6/11
Students finished classification today with the test. No homework!
12/5/11
Students reviewed today for the classification test tomorrow. They should study their notes as well as the pink quiz.
12/1/11
We had our last practice today using/making dichotomous keys. If students didn't finish the keys in class, they were to finish making the fish key and the pine needle key for HW.
11/30/11
Today in class we continued working on dichotomous keys. For HW students need to complete shark dichotomous key and answer the analysis questions that follow it in the "Using and Making a Biological Key" packet. The students will be taking a test next Tuesday covering classification and the use of dichotomous keys.
11/29/11
Today in class we worked on dichotomous keys. We practiced both using dichotomous keys and designing them.
11/28/11
Students have just finshed their research project on the six kingdoms and presented them. We now are moving on to dichotomous keys and species identification.
11/22/11
Students in periods 2 and 9 will present today, during period 9 their will be a first quarter awards presentation. No HW for any classes except to have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
11/21/11
Students in 2nd and 8th finalized their research for the KIngdoms and are prepared to present on Tuesday (11/22). Period 9 students presented their Kingdoms today. They have no HW for this evening.
11/18/11
Students continued to research their kingdoms. Students should be using the researched information to help complete the "Spicy Nodes" project to present to the class.
11/16/11
Students should continue the kingdom research to fill in any gaps they have in the 6 categorie: characteristics,environment,reproduction,nutrition,complexity of structure,and examples.
11/15/11
Students worked in the library today researching their kingdom. They should have 10 facts on notecards from a website in 2nd period. 8th and 9th period classes are farther along with research so they need to have 25 total cards from a website source.
11/14/11
Students need to complete the handout "5 Kingdoms of Living Things"
11/10/11
Last day of quarter 1. Students took the quiz and worked on the research project in the library. No homework!
11/9/11
We are working on a library research project. Tonight students should study the note sheet given to them today for a short quiz. (kingdoms, binomial nomenclature, classification groups)
11/8/11
Students in 2nd period are completing practice notecards from our library research project. All classes are to complete the bacteria in the kitchen handout as well as get a parent/guardian signature on the progress report for Quarter 1.
11/7/11
Students in 8th and 9th period ned to finish the practise notecards from the library project.
11/2/11
Students need to define the words we listed from the elephant article. Some have definitions within the article, like DNA and speciation. The others can be found in a dictionary.They are: dung,microscopic,DNA,hereditary,sedated,suffocate,genes,savannah,speciation,population,isolated,
accurate,extinct,conservationist,habitat.
11/1/11
Students received a handout about new elephant species. They are to read the article for homework and answer questions 1,3,4,5 on the attached sheet.
10/31/11
No Homework!
10/28/11
Period 2 will have the quiz on Monday that was given to periods 8 and 9 today. No additional homework!
10/27/11
Students need to finish the classification packet for tomorrow. That means that the back page listing three scientists should be completed. In periods 8 and 9 we will have a quiz on the levels of classification. Period 2 will have the quiz on Monday 10/31.
10/26/11
Students will be reading section 4-2 in the classification packet and finishing questions 1-4 at the end.
10/25/11
Students need to read section4-1 in the classification handout and complete questions 1,2,3 at the end of the reading section.
10/24/11
Students need to work on the test corrections and get a parent signature on the unit test for scientific method. They should have brought the file folder (from class) home with them to complete this assignment correctly.
10/21/11
Students worked on a leaf lab today, no homework,
10/20/11
Students will be going outside tomorrow if they have completed the class work from today. They should wear old shoes. No homework.
10/19/11
During class students cleaned out their notebooks (filed them in the classroom) and defined classification vocabulary words. No homework.
10/18/11
We took the unit test today. No homework!
10/17/11
Students need to study for the unit test. Study your vocabulary words in your composition notebook, your pink radish seed lab, your blue graphing packet, your scientific method powerpoint and notes.Students need to go back to the beginning of the notes
10/14/11
Students need to complete 2 scientific method sheets about Redi,Spallanzani, and Pasteur. Unit test next Tuesday!
10/13/11
Students turned in the radish seed (pink) lab today, I handed back the blue graphing packet and the homework is to complete the graphing handout(miracle gro).
10/12/11
Students are to finish graphing the radish seed data into the pink lab packet. They should also complete writing the conclusion.
10/11/11
Students who did not finish the blue graphing packet need to complete it for tomorrow.
10/07/11
Students in period 2 class have no homework. Students in periods 8 and 9 should complete the data table in the blue packet as well as graph the data on the graph paper provided.
10/06/11
Students ( in period 2 class only) need to complete the data table in the blue graphing packett. There will also be a quiz tomorrow for all students. They should look over the bright green spongebob sheet that outlines different experiments. They should be able to recognize the control, independent and dependent variables, and be able to place the variables on the correct axis on a graph in addition to writing a good title for the graph. They can also use the graphing note packet from class to help them study.
10/03/11
Students have no new homework this evening. However, those students that have not gotten parent signatures on the progress report sent home Friday, still need to do so.
9/27/11
We added vocabulary words to our list. They are: Scientific Method, Variable, Controlled variable, Dependent variable, Independent variable, the control,experiment, conclusion,data, hypothesis. Definitions for homework.
9/26/11
Students need to make the corrections to the quiz #1 that were returned in class. (10 question blue quiz)
9/21/11
Students have 3 more words/names to add to the list in their composition notebooks. They are pasteurization, Francesco Redi and Louis Pasteur. They need to define or write the person's accomplishments.
9/20/11
Students have 10 words to define using the text book as well as with the blue prefix list. (2 definitions for each word) The words are : abiotic, biotic,homeostasis,biogenesis,spontaneous generation, biology, autotrophe, heterotrophe, nutrient, ingestion
9/19/11
Students need to complete the Redi sheet and read pages 19-21 in the green text book.
9/16/2011
No homework!
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