Today's class was in the library. We learned how to find information using encyclopedias and the Gale databases that are accessible through the library website. If you were in class today you were assigned an infectious disease and looked for information about it. If you were not in class you will be assigned a disease on Monday.
More details of the assignment to follow, but here are some details: - information to look for: what is the pathogen (virus, bacteria, parasite), how is it spread? how does the disease affect the body (symptoms), are there any complications?, how common is this disease? Is there a geographical area or population group that has a higher risk of contracting it? how is it treated? is there a vaccine? - you will present your research to a small group of your classmates and learn about each other's diseases - format of the presentation is to be decided, but there will be some visual component and I will also be checking on your research/notes/outline (this will be for marks). Due date will be before the break, date to be determined.
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Today in class we did a brief introduction to the germ theory of disease. Complete the notes and start to fill in the vocabulary (back of last day's notes). You don't need to know "T cell" and "B cell".
Thursday we will meet in the library. Go straight there at the beginning of class. You will be assigned a disease to research. In class today we learned a little about the immune system and the "lines of defense" that (usually) keep us healthy. Review your notes and, if you feel like getting a head start, begin to fill in the definitions on the back of the page.
Read the handout on viruses and answer the questions
If you were not in class today to write the test I will need an email from a parent before you can write the test here are the group review pages we did in class yesterday
online review - the following questions are relevant to what we have done: 1, 2, 4, 6, 13, 14, 15, 18 quizlet review cards another online quiz - ignore numbers 3-5, 27, 31 - oops, I just realized that this one scrambles the questions if you actually do the quiz. Ignore the ones about organs, tissues, and systems. Unit test - cells, microscopes, characteristics of life - Tuesday Nov. 19
- know the parts of the cell and their functions (nucleus, chloroplasts, cell membrane, cell wall, mitochondria, ribosomes, vacuoles) - be able to compare and contrast animal and plant cells as well as prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells - know the inputs and outputs for both photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Where do these processes occur? Why are they important? - know the parts of the microscope - be able to calculate the size of an object in a microscope picture given the size of the field of view - know the characteristics of life - know the parts of cell theory cell analogy assignment - due Friday Nov. 8 - you will NOT have class time to work on this on Friday
if you were absent today, either get the notes from someone or make yourself some notes about the processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis - how they are related to each other and where (in which organelles) they occur - onion cell lab - needs to be finished for Monday if you did not hand it in
- cell analogy assignment - due Friday Nov. 8. You will have one class period to work on it next week - characteristics of life + microscope + cells unit test coming up the week of Nov. 12 |
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