Friday, August 20

Warm up: Name 3 pieces of lab equipment and describe their jobs

Lab Practical - 25 in-lab questions (50 points Gold)
This must be made up via a written assignment

Thursday, August 19

Warm - up: What is Love? (Featuring one of the worst songs ever recorded)

Corrected homework from Tuesday night
Standard 1.1 Quiz (20 points silver)

Fox 31 Liver Transplant video

Wednesday, August 18

Warm - Up: Identify independent and dependent variables from example experiment on projector (Summary question 2 from PowerPoint)

Instrument Lab: Use triple beam balance to determine mass of 3 laboratory instruments - notes on SI units and 7 lab instruments - determine the mass of the following volumes of water: 7 ml, 27 ml, 83.5 ml

Quiz tomorrow on Standard 1.1

Tuesday, August 17

Warm - up: Given observation and hypothesis, design an experiment and describe the control group, independent variable and dependent variable

Lecture - Conclude Standard 1.1 (Scientific Method)
Biology classes completed 1.2 Reinforcement and Study Guide
Honors classes used snail experiment on transparency to ID IV an DV and describe a control group

Biology Homework: Read Section 1.2 - Complete pg 18 # 1-4
Honors Homework: Read Section 1.3 - Complete pg 17 TTC # 2 and ATC #2

Lab Day Tomorrow!

Monday, August 16th

Text Books Assigned
Parent emails turned in

Standard 1.1 - Describe the steps of the scientific method

Biology: Section 1.2 Powerpoint - Observation, Hypothesis, Experiment, Control and Experimental groups

Honors: Section 1.3 notes on overhead projector - Natural causality, Natural laws and human perception - Observation and Hypothesis