MARINE BIOLOGY CALENDAR OF DAILY AGENDAS SPRING 2010
February 2010
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 1 | 2 | 3 -Welcome -Spiral notebook -Class Syllabus -Begin "Finding Nemo" activity HW: 1. Get syllabus signed 2. Decorate cover of notebook |
4 - Get texts -Turn in signed syllabus -Finding Nemo activity (p.4) reflect (p. 3) Hw: Describe an object with good observation and detail (p. 3) |
5 -Share homework -Revisit Finding Nemo activity--Reflect (p.4) -Eyewitness Oceans (p.6) HW: 1.2 and 1.4 section reviews (p.7) |
| 8 -Stamp/review hw -Mapping activity (p. 5) HW: Study map for quiz on Thursday |
9 -Finish/review Mapping activity -Check lab activity-discuss HW: Check lab questions (p.9) |
10 -Stamp/review HW -Scientific Method notes (p8) -Begin Marine Environment project HW: Study map for quiz on Thursday |
11 **Quiz on Map** -Finish/Share Marine Environment Project/Notes (p. 12) -"Blue Planet" (p. 11) HW: 20.1 (p. 13) |
12 No school President's Day |
| 15 No school President's Day |
16 WU: questions (p.10) -Stamp/review HW -Share Marine Environment poster (notes on p.12) -Blue Planet (notes on p. 11) HW: 20.3 (p13) Write out heading as a question and then answer it. |
17 WU: Brainpop-Currents vocab (p.14) *added notes too -Stamp HW -Cont. Environment presenations HW: In text p. 350, Write out answers to fill in #'s 1-10 using attached vocab. AND do free response #'s 11-13 **you will have to look up these answers in the text Ch. 15** (put on p.15 in notebook) |
18 -WU: Environment quiz/review (p.12) -Stamp/review HW -Finish Environment presentations (p. 12) -Blue planet: Ocean World (p.13) HW: Read over notes-Catch up on any incomplete homework |
19 Minimum Day WU: root word definitions (p. 16)-Brainpop handout (p16) -Energy flow and matter recycling notes (p.18) HW: 21.2 answer in complete sentences (p.17) |
| 22 -Finish Ocean World (p.17) -Stamp/review HW -Food energy pyramids (p18) *See notes on 2/19 -Make food web for your environment HW: Do section 21.3 (p17) |
23 -Stamp/review HW -Finish/turn in food web HW: 21.1 (p. 19) **Test on Friday** **Notebook check on Monday** |
24 -Warm-up (p.21) -Stamp HW -Biogeochemical cycles handout (p.20) -Test #1 study guide HW: 21.4 (p19) |
25 -Warmup -Stamp/review hw -Finish cycles worksheet and work on test notes and organize notebook HW: Prep test notes |
26 **Test** Notebook check grade sheet **Due Monday** |
March 2010
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 1 -Turn in notebook -Work on Research paper (decide on topic) (outline sample) HW: Decide on topic for paper |
2 -Classification notes (p.24) -Research in computer lab (begin organizing info as you find it) HW: 1) Read over notes 2) Work on Research paper *topic due tomorrow* |
3 -Warm-up quiz -Handback notebook and test/review -Research guidelines and due dates handed out *attach gradesheet to inside back cover* -Classification notes: sub groups (p24) -Begin Shark naming activity (p.23) HW: 4.1 and 4.2 (p.25) |
4 -Warm-up (p.23) -Stamp/review hw (p.25) -Finish Shark naming activity/review (p.23) -Begin Fish ID (p.26) HW: 1) Read over notes, homework, warmups 2) work on research paper * References due tomorrow*! |
5 *Research references due* -Fish ID activity (p.26) -Computer time for research paper -Blue Planet HW:1) 4.3 and 4.4 (p.25) 2) Outline for 5 section due Monday |
| 8 *Research outline with 5 sections completed due* -Stamp/review 4.3 & 4.4 -Cell notes (p.28) HW: 1) Finish coloring animal and plant cell 2) Research outline |
9 *Turn in outline (if you didn't yesterday) -Work on Cell model (color, cut, fill in) Cell organelle ID -Begin Marine Plankton microslides HW: 1) Complete animal and plant cell models by filling in functions. 2) finish 4.4 (if not done yet) 3) Research outline part 2 |
10 -Stamp plant and animal models (p.27) **Quiz on organelles and function on Friday** -Finish Marine Plankton microslides (p.29) -Begin Shark ID (p.26) -Review 4.4 homework -Notes on Plankton and Protists (p.30) HW: 1) 4.5 (p.31) 2) Finish Shark Id 3) Study cell parts |
11 -Stamp/review 4.5 and shark ID -Red Tides articles reading w/ questions (p.33) -"Ocean Drifters" (p.32) HW: 1) Read over notes 2) Study cell organelles and functions **quiz tomorrow* 3) Research outline sections 8-10 |
12 -Notebook check due Monday **Bonus if ready today** **Quiz on Cell organelles and function** *Turn in Research outline with 8-10 sections completed due* -"Ocean Drifters" (p.32) HW: 1) Read over notes 2) Research Paper |
| 15 -Intro to microscopes (p.34) -Find a pond water critter (p.35) **Test on Friday** HW: 1) Read over notes 2) Research Paper |
16 **Rough draft due** -pass back cell quiz and -**Test Study guide** -WU: Microscopes (p.35) -Algae reading with questions (p.36) HW: 1) Finish Algae article questions 2) Read over notes 3) Research Paper rough draft due Thursday 4) Study for test on Friday |
17 CAHSEE Testing Only period 3 & 4 meet |
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**Rough draft due** WU: -Stamp/Review Algae questions -Algae lab? -Seasons of the Sea (p.37) |
19 **Test on Classification, Cells, Kingdom Protista/Plankton and Algae, & microscopes** |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 ***Research Paper Due*** |
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April 2010
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