1. Tuesday 8/27/13 Bellringer: Find Someone Who… 8th period: Goals!
Go over Syllabus
Notes: Characteristics of Living Things
Spot the Characteristic
Homework: Google form/Signature & 3 Pictures

2. Find Someone Who…
From your activity yesterday…name three people and something new you learned about them
Try to use people you didn’t know before the activity!

3. Venn Diagram Fill in the Venn Diagram that has the following:
Characteristics they share
Non-Living Things Characteristics
Living Things Characteristics

5. Wednesday 8/28/13 Bellringer: Draw a Scientist
Finish Characteristics of Life Notes
Characteristics of Life Matching Activity
Diversity of Life Notes
HW: VIRUSES! Living or Non-Living

6. Draw a Scientist
Seriously, draw a scientist.

8. BBC December 16, 2000
Children as young as eight see scientists as "middle-aged white males who never have fun"
Many children also see scientists as medical doctors

9. Agriculture
Agronomy
Animal Behavior
Animal Science
Anthropology
Aquatic Science
Astrobiology
Bacteriology
Biomechanics
Biodiversity Studies
Bioethics
Bioinformatics  
Biological Systems Engineering
Biological Materials Supply
Biometry
Biophysics
Biotechnology
Botany
Conservation
of Natural Resources
Curator of Museums
Dairy Science
Developmental Biology
Ecology and Environment
Endocrinology
Entomology
Environmental journalism
Environmental Law
Ethology
Fisheries Biology
Food Science
Forensic Science
Forestry
Genetic counseling
Genetics
Genomics
Health Fields
Herpetology
Horticulture
Ichthyology
Immunology
Laboratory Animal Science
Limnology
Marine Biology
Microscopy
Mycology (Study of Fungi)
Neuroscience (Neurobiology)
Oceanography
Ornithology
Paleontology
Physiology (Animal)
Plant Pathology
Proteomics
Science writer
Soil Science
Systematics
Teaching Biology
Veterinary Medicine
Virology
Wildlife Conservation
and Management
Zoology

10. Characteristics of Living things
Made of Cells: All organisms are made of cells that are organized with cells/parts having particular function
Homeostasis: The organism works to maintain ideal conditions (I.e. body temp)
Heredity/Reproduction: All animals reproduce (includes cell division), and when they do, DNA is passed on to offspring

11. Characteristics of Living things
Response to Stimuli: All organisms respond to stimuli from the environment
Growth and Development: Organisms grow and develop following the pattern of their species
Metabolism/Energy Usage: All organisms require energy for their various functions

12. Activity: Make a List from 1-11 Look at the following pictures
Which of the six characteristic of life is each pictures showing (can often be more than one!)

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23. 11

24. Lets discuss our answers!!!!!

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35. 11

36. Homework: Write this info down
Find three different pictures of organisms
The pictures can be printed from the internet, or from any magazine, book, newspaper, etc
One picture has to be an organism that isn’t a plant/animal
DESCRIBE 3 characteristics of life the organism is showing PER PICTURE
The descriptions must be written out in full, not just listed!!!

37. Homework Example
Response to Stimulus: The dog sees the cupcake, its eye’s get wide and it tries to eat it!
Maintain Homeostasis: The dog is eating to maintain the body conditions it needs
Metabolism/Energy Usage: The dog is using energy to get to the cupcake to eat it

38. Agenda: Objective: To explore life’s diversity Agenda:
Bellringer/Discussion
Notes on Diversity and Biological Levels
Start diversity activity
Homework:
Animal Diversity Activity due tomorrow
Quiz Monday

39. Diversity of Life
Life on earth is sssoooooo diverse, that Biologists have divided into separate classes and groups
Domains: The largest groups. There are 3.
Bacteria:
Archaea:
Eukarya:
Prokaryotic: Cells have no nucleus or organelles
Eukaryotic: Have a nucleus and organelles
Prokaryotic
Eukaryotic

40. Diversity of Life Eukarya Domain
Kingdoms:The next largest group of classification. There are 6.
Eubacteria: Bacteria Domain
Archaebacteria: Archaea Domain
Protista:
Fungi:
Plantae:
Animalia:
Eukarya Domain

41. The trees Woese’s genetic sequence data generated had some big surprises.
First and foremost, the sequences revealed that the biggest division in the diversity of life on earth was not between plants and animals. It wasn’t even between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
The new trees revealed instead that the diversity among the microbes was dramatically greater than ever imagined—particularly because of the discovery of a completely new group of prokaryotes called archaea, which thrive in some of earth’s most extreme environments and differ greatly from bacteria. The tree of life was revised to show three primary branches called domains: the bacteria, the archaea, and the eukarya (Figure All living organisms are classified into one of three groups). 41

42. Homework!! **Viruses**
Use the internet to research whether viruses are living or nonliving.
List 2-3 reasons (use your six characteristics of life as a guide) that viruses are considered LIVING and 2-3 why viruses are considered NON-LIVING.
End with a statement of whether you feel they should be considered living or non-living and why.

43. HOMEWORK!!! Use the same 3 pictures you used for homework today
List the top 4 levels of Biological Organization do the following for each:
Organism: Give its scientific and common name
Population: Name a real place where a population of them is found
Community: List at least 3 other populations found around them in that ecosystem
Ecosystem: For that real place they are found, list and describe 5 specific non-living factors and how they affect them (i.e. desert: Very dry, so they have to…)

44. 8/29/13 Bellringer: Diversity of LIFE Diversity of Life Review
Biological Diversity Stations

45. Diversity of Life
Here are 3 living things. What is similar about them?
What is different about them?
What domain/kingdom do each belong to?
Bacteria

46. Levels of Biological Organization
Starting Big…
Ecosystem: Consists of every organism in an area, and all non-living factors (Ex: Rain Forest)
Community: Only the organisms in an area
Population: All the organisms of one species in an area
Organism: One individual living thing

48. Levels of Biological Organization
Organ System: Groups of organs within an organism working towards one purpose
Organ: A structure made of tissue that has a specific function
Tissue: Groups of similar cells that perform a specific function
Cell: Fundamental unit of life separated from other cells by a membrane
Molecule: A cluster of atoms (Example: DNA)