1. Welcome to Biology!

2. Objectives for August 23/24, 2016
Discuss classroom procedures and expectations.
Identify characteristics of living things.

3. Warm Up Put your name on your notebook and folder.
Use each page wisely and effectively.
Don’t leave blank pages, use up each page entirely including the back, multiple days can go on one page.
This needs to last you all year.
Put handouts I give you in folder prongs (middle).

4. Let’s Talk About Me

5. Hiking/Camping

6. Portland

7. Football/Sports

8. Biking

9. Never Liked School!

10. Tips for School Don’t compare yourself to others
Figure out how you learn and what helps you focus
Think about what you want in life
PLEASE know that Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat are not the only important things right now
Nothing will work unless you do = which means you will always have work to do, so why not make sure you’re doing it for a good reason

11. GAME TIME – Get out your cell phones

12. Class Rules & Syllabus No Cell Phones
Silence and Respect When I’m Speaking
Respect Others
Use Appropriate Language

13. Class Agenda Objectives – SIGN TARDY LOG WHEN TARDY Warm Up Activity
Notes/Lecture
Cell phone time – 5 minutes
CotD – Creature of the Day
Discussion/Assignment
Exit Slip

14. Your Turn!

15. Turn in your get-to-know-you worksheet (DON’T FORGET ABOUT PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM)
Extra time? = Start Characteristics of Life and Levels of Organization Pyramid

16. Handout (hole punch)
I show a picture – you guess what the characteristic is.
Write the answer on your handout in the blank.

17. Living things are made up of Cells.

18. Living things reproduce.

19. Living things are based on a genetic code.

20. Living things grow and develop.

21. Living things obtain and use energy. (metabolism)

22. Living things respond to a stimulus (something that causes a reaction)

23. Living things maintain a stable internal environment (homeostasis).

24. Taken as a group, living things adapt to their environment.

25. Exit Slip Cut out the picture boxes Glue them in your journal
Label the characteristic (from the handout today)
PUT NOTES IN FOLDER BRADS – 3 hole punch