Class Happenings

CLASS HAPPENINGS May 13th – May 17th , 2013

FORENSIC SCIENCE MONDAY, MAY 13TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

A completely black horse jumped over a tower and

landed on a small man, who then disappeared. In what

situation could this be possible?

FORENSIC SCIENCE – MONDAY Grade check ins – Hand graded work back

Begin Death powerpoint. There will be a quiz on Friday – TAKE NOTES!!!

BIOLOGY MONDAY, MAY 13TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

What was the most interesting thing you learned about the

theory of evolution?

BIOLOGY – MONDAY Computer Lab

Practice MCA Tests Click on the Minnesota secure browser tab on the

computer lab computers Choose go to online sampler instead Complete practice High School Science test

STEM MONDAY, MAY 13TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

Name as many different types of boats as you can.

STEM – MONDAY Grade Check-ins – Hand Graded work back

To the computer lab Begin work on boats research

FORENSIC SCIENCE TUESDAY, MAY 14TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

What is the closest relation that your father’s sister’s

sister-in-law could be to you?

FORENSIC SCIENCE – TUESDAY Bloom’s Word of the Week: Interpret:

Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)

Secrets of the Body Farm Video Clip

Finish Death Powerpoint – TAKE NOTES!!

BIOLOGY TUESDAY, MAY 14TH , 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

What are some common physical features of insects?

BIOLOGY – TUESDAY Bloom’s Word of the Week: Interpret:

Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)

Grade check-ins – Hand back graded work During this time, several of you have Evolution quizzes

to either start or finish. Dissection video clip Go over dissection

tools/procedures/expectations Begin discussion on honeybee lab

STEM TUESDAY, MAY 14TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

What were some of the advantages and disadvantages

that you found in your boat types you chose to research

yesterday?

STEM – TUESDAY Bloom’s Word of the Week: Interpret:

Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)

Continue and finish boat research in the computer lab

FORENSIC SCIENCE WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH, 2013

Bell Work Question of the Day:

Sam Slug and a few of the boys were playing cards when Sam

posed a question. “In an ordinary deck of playing cards, two of the

Jacks have two eyes and two of the Jacks have one eye. How many

eyes are on the four Jack cards?”

FORENSIC SCIENCE – WEDNESDAY Finish looking at stages of Decomp Estimating height using long bones

Go over equations together – Page 275 Estimate own height using long bone length

calculations Estimate a partners height using long bone

length calculations Page 275 – Questions #1 – 7 (For the classroom

skeleton, we will use our mini skeleton)

BIOLOGY WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

All insects have 3 body regions. Name them.

BIOLOGY – WEDNESDAY

Honeybee Dissection

STEM WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

What type of hull are you going to use for your boat? Why?

STEM – WEDNESDAY Complete sketch of the boat you are

going to build. Sketch must include:

Detailed DrawingDimensionsReasoning behind design

Once you have shown me a completed sketch, I will begin to have discussions with you to complete step #5, and hand out materials

FORENSIC SCIENCE THURSDAY, MAY 16TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their

religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth?

FORENSIC SCIENCE – THURSDAY

Bones EpisodeFollow Forensic Friday write-up guidelines

BIOLOGY THURSDAY, MAY 16TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

Name some of the features you found in your honeybee

yesterday that differ from the features found in/on the human

body.

BIOLOGY – THURSDAY

Fish Dissection – Pre-lab questions

In the computer lab

STEM THURSDAY, MAY 16TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

Which construction type that you researched do you think is the most efficient? Justify your

choice.

STEM – THURSDAY

Modern Ship Building video At the end of the video you must turn in one

page of writing. It can be a page of notes, a page of thoughts, or just a one page response to the ideas presented in the video. It has to be one page. Turn it in to the black bins on my desk.

FORENSIC SCIENCE FRIDAY, MAY 17TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

Ben can never tell a lie. George can never tell the truth. One of them said, “The other one said he is George.” Which

one said that?

FORENSIC SCIENCE – FRIDAY Quiz Sex determination using skeletons

Reading on own page 276 – 277Complete activities on pages 278 - 279

BIOLOGY FRIDAY, MAY 17TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

What major differences did you notice between the body of a honeybee and the body of a

fish?

BIOLOGY – FRIDAY

Fish Dissection

STEM FRIDAY, MAY 16TH, 2013 Bell Work Question of the Day:

What was one thing that found interesting in the video from

yesterday?

STEM – FRIDAY Begin construction of boats!

We will be going to the middle school on the 29th to test our boats, that gives you SIX DAYS to completely finish your boat. Get moving!!