A little bit of Thanksgiving fun!!

Today you guys walked in to my hand Turkey's giving thanks for all my classes!

You then had a couple options today.  There was an extra credit assignment available to work on about the myth of tryptophan.  You also had time to work on the into book work to bioenergetics.  Or you could do all of the above AND draw hand turkeys. I guess it doesn't matter HOW old you are.... get the chance to color hand turkeys on construction paper NEVER gets old :)

I then showed you guys the Hoops and Yoyo Thanksgiving card and wished you a nice relaxing Thanksgiving!!

Thursday and Friday November 21 and 22

After finishing your CDT Review sheets you started into the CDT's and you will finish those tomorrow.  Thank you for being patient with the computers as they continue to be very glitchy on us!!!

You also received your Cell membrane and cell transport exams back.  Congrats to the following top scorers!!!!

For those that would like to retake it, please check Edline for a copy of the exam to review.  I will also be having a review session after school Monday to go through the entire test.

Wednesday November 20th CDT Review

Tomorrow and Friday you will be taking the second round of CDTs.  This time around I am looking for an increase of scores in the first quadrant. 

Today you used your notes/the book/or the blog to answer questions from this first quadrant.
Here are the Keystone Exam Anchors that you tore apart today.

 

Tuesday November 19th

Review for Cell Membrane and Cell Transport Exam

Monday November 18th

Today you got back your daily question quizzes and critical thinking worksheets from last week.  We went over those and discussed some areas that many of you struggled through, particularly on the Analyzing Experiments worksheet.  See my explanation below.

We then went over the daily question quiz and again focused on questions that seemed to be difficult for many of you. 

Finally we started to review using the following Jeopardy Game.  I have included links to a couple cell membrane and cell transport review games, I also placed a "test" and "review" on study island that would be beneficial when studying for this exam.

This link is the one we went through
https://jeopardylabs.com/play/biology-cell-membrane-and-transport2
***NOTE:  These are not GREAT questions - many I skipped over but at least it gives you an idea :)

Here are a couple other ones you could try as well.
https://jeopardylabs.com/play/chapter-7-cell-transport

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/cell-transport47

Cell Transport DQQ

Today you turned in your Critical Thinking worksheet and took your beloved:

 

Active Transport and Cell Signaling Wrap Up

Finally, we watched the following crash course as a wrap up and your critical thinking worksheet is due tomorrow.

Active Transport continued

passive transport wrap up

we started with the following daily question that acted as a summary of passive transport and an introduction to active transport.

after going through these you worked through an analysis of a passive transport experiment.  This forced you to really think through the processes of both simple diffusion and osmosis.  tomorrow you will be starting into active transport.

For this side i also had you explain
what type of solution each would be considered,
 (hyper, hypo, or isotonic)

Osmsosis an lab wrap up

Since we worked through this lab all week we did not have a daily question quiz today but instead started the class with some daily questions.

 

 

Then we took notes on the different types of solutions.

 

Then you finished up your lab application questions.



Rest of egg lab

Well you all became pretty attached to your eggs this week.  Here are some pics from the rest of the lab.   



Taking the shell off the egg.

 

Into the syrup it went!

Out it came - and we drew on a face!!



 

Into WATER it went.... and then.....

We had a big bouncy egg filled with water!

 

Day 1 of Egg Lab

Today we started with the following daily question:

Then we started into day 1 of our Egg Lab.  Not too much to today's lab... you got to know your egg, named your egg, weighed your egg and put it in a bath of Vinegar!!