Mr. Bursch's Science Site

Monday, September 8, 2014

Daily Summary 09-08

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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: (1) Submit your Seed Germination Lab, (2) earn 70% or better on ESS Unit Quiz, (3) transplant your seedlings

- Warm-up: Take out a pencil and listen carefully to instructions for setting up

- Essential Science Skills quiz answer sheet [4]

- Essential Science Skills Unit Quiz [20]

- Turn in Seed Germination Lab [2]

- Transplant your seedlings into flats of soil AND work on textbook scavenger hunt [25]

- Hand out planners (period 3 only) [~5]

HOMEWORK:

- Textbook scavenger hunt (DUE next class day)

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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Continue your team’s seed germination experiment, work on setting up TSOTS team blog

- Warm-up: Can you name at least one farm or farmer directly responsible for producing some of the food you eat? Why do you think it might be important for us to know who manages the production of our foods? In what ways do you think farmers might behave/work as biologists (scientists)? [10]

- Breaking Down the Walls schedule, Monday 9/15 [1]

- Tutorial policy (for Mr. Bursch) [5]

- Work on Germination of Seeds lab with TSOTS teams [25]

- Begin ESLP signups [~25]

HOMEWORK:

- Continue working on your seed germination labs

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Friday, September 5, 2014

Daily Summary 09-05

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Daily Summary 09-04

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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Finish your team’s seed germination experiment, create TSOTS team blog, earn 70% or better on ESS Unit Quiz

- Warm-up: Take out Essential Science Skills (ESS) Unit Pre-Test; compare answers with your seat neighbors and note differences in any of your answers; bring unresolved questions to the attention of Mr. Bursch during pre-quiz review session [8]

- Pre-quiz review session: go over metric conversion practice and Essential Science Skills Unit Pre-Test [15 - 20]

- Essential Science Skills Unit Quiz [25]

- Work on Seed Germination Lab: collect final data and graph it [40]

- TSOTS blog creation (instructions: storyoftheseed.blogspot.com) [~40]

- LINK TO UNTAMED SCIENCE VIDEOS ON BRASSICA OLERACEA:
http://www.untamedscience.com/biodiversity/wild-cabbage/

HOMEWORK:

- Continue setting up TSOTS blogs

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

-Objectives: Continue your team’s seed germination experiment, create TSOTS team blog, earn 80% or better on ESS Unit Quiz

- Warm-up: Take out Essential Science Skills (ESS) Unit Pre-Test; compare answers with your seat neighbors and note differences in any of your answers; bring unresolved discrepancies to the attention of Mr. Bursch during pre-quiz review session [8]

- Pre-quiz review session [10]

- Essential Science Skills Unit Quiz [35]

- Work on Germination of Seeds lab with TSOTS teams [50]

- TSOTS blog creation (instructions: storyoftheseed.blogspot.com) [~50]

- Begin ESLP signups [~50]

- More information on Brassica oleracea (5th period only) [10]

- LINK TO UNTAMED SCIENCE VIDEOS ON BRASSICA OLERACEA:
http://www.untamedscience.com/biodiversity/wild-cabbage/

HOMEWORK:

- Continue working on your seed germination labs

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Daily Summary 09-03

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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to accurately (1) relate graphs and the data from which they are generated, (2) convert between SI units

- Warm-up: What is a unit of measure? I don’t mean for you to just name specific units (like grams, for example), I also mean what purpose or function do units of measure serve for humans? [8]

- Stamp Graphing and SpongeBob scientific methods practice [~8]

- Check on Seed Germination Lab seeds, collect data [15]

- Answer questions on Seed Germination Lab, graph data [25]

- Metric Conversion and beginning of practice [25]

- Essential Science Skills Unit Review [20]

- ESSENTIAL SCIENCE SKILLS QUIZ THIS THURSDAY/FRIDAY

HOMEWORK:

- Metric conversion practice AND Essential Science Skills Unit Review, DUE NEXT CLASS DAY

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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NO CLASS TODAY (SEE YESTERDAY'S POST)

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Daily Summary 09-02

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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to accurately (1) relate graphs and the data from which they are generated, (2) convert between SI units

- Warm-up: What is a unit of measure? I don’t mean for you to just name specific units (like grams, for example), I also mean what purpose or function do units of measure serve for humans? [8]

- Stamp Graphing and SpongeBob scientific methods practice [~8]

- Check on Seed Germination Lab seeds, collect data [15]

- Answer questions on Seed Germination Lab, graph data [25]

- Metric Conversion and beginning of practice [25]

- Essential Science Skills Unit Review [20]

- ESSENTIAL SCIENCE SKILLS QUIZ THIS THURSDAY/FRIDAY

HOMEWORK:

- Metric conversion practice AND Essential Science Skills Unit Review, DUE NEXT CLASS DAY

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Continue your team’s seed germination experiment

- Warm-up: Make a T-chart in which you list observations from your seed labs—qualitative on the left, quantitative on the right. [10]

- Work on Germination of Seeds lab with TSOTS teams [25 - 30]

- Introduction to the Ecology Service Learning Project (ESLP) [10]

- WGHS GOLD gardens tour [20 - 35]

- More information on Brassica oleracea [10]

- Essential Science Skills Unit Review [15]

- Begin ESLP signups [~15]

HOMEWORK:

- Complete Essential Science Skills Unit Review and study it to prepare for unit quiz (UNIT QUIZ ON THURSDAY, 9/4) Research Brassica oleracea to see if you can explain some of the observations you have made during your experiments

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