Introduction to Enzymes

Announcements and Plan for the week

Today we wrote down some background information on Enzymes.  Tomorrow and Wednesday we will continue through enzymes with some labs and activities.

I'm looking to review then on Thursday with our first unit test on Friday.

To start us off, here were the daily questions:

 Then into our Intro Notes on enzymes:

 

GO BLUE!!!!

Big game tonight!!!!!

Other than having our own little pep rally.......

Today you turned in your Rocky Speeches:

Then we took our Daily Question Quiz

Next up..... Enzymes!!!!  We will spend a couple days on that next week, then have our first major unit exam.

Well....... it's been a while..... Guess I will update you now!!

Well this week has pretty much been a BLUR - Friday  we just took our daily question quiz since you guys had a half day - Monday I was out and had you guys watch a crash course video as a review.

Here are some of the notes and daily questions we have gone through this week.

Monday's Daily Questions:

 Monday you also watched the following crash course and answered questions about it.

Missed lectures?  Here is a good video that discusses lipids in detail

We listened to the following podcast

Other examples of proteins:

Wednesday we also watched the following two clips from Rocky and Started our "How to Be Like Rocky" assignment:

Today's Daily Questions:

Discussion that accompanied these daily questions:

And the rest of the period I gave you time to work through you "coaching speeches"

Intro to Lipids

Tuesday / Wednesday September 16th / 17th

Tuesday September 16th  went straight into organic compounds, how they are formed and the basic structure of Glucose 

Wednesday's Daily Question:

oxygen only can bond with 2 other
atoms

Hydrogen can only bind with ONE
other atom

CARBON, on the other hand... Can bind with FOUR other atoms!!!

Then we started to build Glucose!!!

We don't "BUILD" glucose molecules in our cells but PLANTS do.  It is important to understand HOW they do this to fully understand then how we break complex carbohydrates down.  The BUILDING of Polymers from monomers is described below:

Done with CDTs on to Organic Chemistry!!!

Thursday and Friday we took our first round of CDTs to get a baseline for me to guide my instruction in order to maximize class time and ultimately insuring success on the Keystone Exam!

Friday we also took our Water Daily Question Quiz:

Today some of you still needed to finish your CDT and /or take your daily question quiz so we started the class period off with that.

Then came today's Daily Questions which were an introduction to the next section of this unit:

We then watched a GREAT introduction about Carbon.PLEASE WATCH THIS IF YOU WERE ABSENT - THIS HAS A TON OF GREAT INFORMATION!!!!

That led us into our notes for this chapter: