1. Daily Sponge

4. Why is it important to know safety symbols in the classroom?
8/27/2013 Daily Objective 7.4, 7.4B: We will learn about science safety and look at the safety contract.
Wrap Up:
Why is it important to know safety symbols in the classroom?

5. 8/27/2013 This is what your first warm up should look like:

6. Take out a new page and write “Homeostasis and Behavior” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.13: We will discuss internal and external stimuli and responses that lead to homeostasis.
Wrap Up:
List one example of an internal stimulus/response and one example of an external stimulus/response.

7. Take out your “Homeostasis and Behavior” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.13: We will discuss how the body maintains glucose levels in the blood.
Wrap Up:
Is glucose level maintenance in the body and example of a positive feedback or negative feedback loop?

8. How does fever and vomiting help your body maintain homeostasis?
Take out your “Homeostasis and Behavior” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.13: We will discuss maintaining homeostasis through fever and vomiting.
Wrap Up:
How does fever and vomiting help your body maintain homeostasis?

9. What would happen if you lost the ability to sweat or shiver?
Take out your “Homeostasis and Behavior” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.13: We will discuss temperature regulation in the body.
Wrap Up:
What would happen if you lost the ability to sweat or shiver?

10. Wrap Up: What is transpiration?
Take out your “Homeostasis and Behavior” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.13: We will sort through common stimulus and response scenarios.
Wrap Up:
What is transpiration?

11. Wrap Up: What is homeostasis?
Take out your “Homeostasis and Behavior” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.13: We will begin an essay about homeostasis.
Wrap Up:
What is homeostasis?

12. Why does your body try to maintain homeostasis?
Take out your “Homeostasis and Behavior” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.13: We will complete our essay about homeostasis.
Wrap Up:
Why does your body try to maintain homeostasis?

13. How does sexual reproduction differ from asexual reproduction?
Take out a new page and write “Types of Reproduction” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will compare results of offspring from sexual or asexual reproduction.
Wrap Up:
How does sexual reproduction differ from asexual reproduction?

14. Name one disadvantage of asexual reproduction.
Take out your “Types of Reproduction” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will continue learning about types of reproduction.
Wrap Up:
Name one disadvantage of asexual reproduction.

15. What four bases make up DNA?
Take out a new page and write “DNA” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will recognize that inherited traits are governed by genetic material found in the nucleus.
Wrap Up:
What four bases make up DNA?

16. What is the difference between dominant and recessive?
Take out a new page and write “Heredity” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will look at heredity and how traits are passed from parent to offspring.
Wrap Up:
What is the difference between dominant and recessive?

17. What does dominant mean? What does recessive mean?
Take out your “Punnett Squares” notes and write this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will predict the genotype and phenotype of organisms using Punnett Squares.
Wrap Up:
What does dominant mean?
What does recessive mean?

18. How many of your traits were dominant?
Take out a new page and write “Punnett Squares” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will look at genetics by looking at our own traits.
Wrap Up:
How many of your traits were dominant?
How many of your traits were recessive?

19. Is glucose broken apart by respiration a physical or chemical change?
Take out your “Punnett Squares” notes and write this objective - Daily Objective 7.12: Work on and turn in your binder, then complete any missing work!
Wrap Up:
Is glucose broken apart by respiration a physical or chemical change?

20. What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?
Take out your “Punnett Squares” notes and write this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will demonstrate what we have learned about inheritance by constructing a baby.
Wrap Up:
What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?

21. Take out your “Punnett Squares” notes and write this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will complete our babies.
Wrap Up:
How many homozygous traits did your baby have?
How many heterozygous traits did your baby have?

22. Why are pedigrees useful?
Take out a new page and write “Pedigrees” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.14: We will explore genetic inheritance using pedigrees and real historical situations.
Wrap Up:
Why are pedigrees useful?

23. List at least three animal adaptations that help survival.
Take out a new page and write “Adaptations” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.12: We will investigate and explain internal adaptations.
Wrap Up:
List at least three animal adaptations that help survival.

24. What role do traits have in natural selection?
Take out a new page and write “Natural Selection” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.11: We will identify changes in genetic traits over generations by looking at natural selection.
Wrap Up:
What role do traits have in natural selection?

25. Which design worked the best?
Take out your “Natural Selection” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.11: We will test adaptations in Island Strawling birds.
Wrap Up:
Which design worked the best?

26. What is one advantage to artificial selection?
Take out a new page and write “Artificial Selection” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.11: We will identify changes in genetic traits over generations by looking at artificial selection.
Wrap Up:
What is one advantage to artificial selection?

27. Why is it useful to be able to identify plants, animals or insects?
Take out a new page and write “Dichotomous Keys” as the title then write this objective - Daily Objective 7.11: We will learn how to identify organisms using a dichotomous key.
Wrap Up:
Why is it useful to be able to identify plants, animals or insects?

28. Take out your “Dichotomous Keys” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.11: We will learn how to identify insects using a dichotomous key.
Wrap Up:
Using the dichotomous key, identify the arachnid:
pincers smaller than head ……………………………….tarantula
pincers much larger than head………………………….camel spider
A daddy long legs
B wind scorpion
C camel spider
D both fit the description

29. Take out your “Dichotomous Keys” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.11: We will learn how to identify trees and spiders using a dichotomous key.
Wrap Up:
Using the dichotomous key, identify the following tree:
has a heart shaped leaf……………………………balm of Gilead
does not have a heart shaped leaf………………quaking aspen
A red oak
B juniper
C balm of gilead
D quaking aspen

30. Daily Objective: COUNSELOR LESSON Have a pencil ready.
Wrap Up:
None

31. Wrap Up: Turn in your spiral
Take out your “Dichotomous Keys” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.12: We will review what we have learned about genetics and adaptations.
Wrap Up:
Turn in your spiral

32. Describe the two types of digestion that occur when we eat food?
Take out your “Dichotomous Keys” notes and add this objective - Daily Objective 7.12: We will review what we have learned about genetics and adaptations.
Wrap Up:
Describe the two types of digestion that occur when we eat food?

33. Daily Objective 7. 11: FINAL Exam
Daily Objective 7.11: FINAL Exam! We will turn in our binders for the last time.
Your binder MUST go home with you TODAY!!!
Keep it for next year’s STAAR test.
Wrap Up:
Do you feel like you have learned new information this year?