Chemistry Week 4 Tuesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What were your results in your lab?
2. What did your results tell you about solutions?
3. What do you know about plastics?

Chemistry Week 4 Tuesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did we do in lab yesterday?
2. What was the purpose of the lab? What were we trying to find out?
3. How would you draw/describe how soap works?

Week 7 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What were you most proud of during this class?
2. What was most frustrating to you about this class? How could we deal with this frustration?
3. How did I help you? How did I hinder you? What could I do differently next time?

Chemistry Week 4 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. How did the author of your article describe plastics?
2. Knowing that plastics are just large molecules, what do you think could be done to solve the ocean plastic problem?
3. What is the difference between a saturated solution and a super-saturated solution?

Chemistry Week 4 Monday Part 1

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about solutions?
2. How would you draw/describe molarity?
3. What do the molecules look like in a saturated solution? (draw or describe)

Week 7 Monday

Questions:

1. Looking back at the work you've completed so far, what do you think our learning objective(s) were for this class?
2. What stands out to you most from this class?
3. Looking back at your work, what science language will stick with you most?

Chemistry Week 3 Wednesday Part 2

Learning Objective: Learn about properties of matter (factors that affect solubility and solutions, concentration/molarity) by designing a lab, gathering and analyzing data and drawing conclusions using scientific language and concepts.

Questions:

1. What have you done so far this week to meet our learning objective (above)?
2. What is molarity?
3. How did our simulation talk about molarity? (draw or describe)

Biology Week 6 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What did our simulation represent yesterday?
2. Do you think this is an accurate way to simulate adaptations and survival? Explain your thinking.
3. Suggest one change you could implement into the simulation in order to make it more accurate or collect more reliable data.

Chemistry Week 3 Wednesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What was our lab about yesterday?
2. If you could test another variable about factors that affect solubility, what would you test and how would you do the lab?
3. Why does temperature affect solubility?

Human An Week 3 Wednesday

Questions:

1. How has your perspective changed (or not) about the reproductive system? Explain your thinking.
2. What new learning did you gain yesterday about other reproductive system diseases/disorders?

Human An Week 6 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What do you think makes reproductive system diseases/disorders different from each other?
2. What do you think would be the long term impacts of amennorhea or dysmennorhea?
3. What do you think is the most important point to remember about your disorder/disease? Explain your thinking.

Biology Week 6 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What did you find out through your data collection yesterday?
2. Do you think your data is reliable? What makes you sure or unsure?
3. If you could do this lab again, what would you do differently next time to obtain more reliable data?

Chemistry Week 3 Tuesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What is the most difficult part about designing a lab?
2. What errors could effect your data for this lab? 
3. What factors affect the solubility of a substance? List at least 4.

Chemistry Week 3 Tuesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What was your article that you read yesterday about?
2. What did your article have to do with solutions.
3. On a molecular level, what do solutions look like?

Research Links

1. Factors that Affect Solubility
2. Solubility Video
3. Solubility Lab Sample Procedures
4. Solubility Lab Ideas

Human An Week 6 Monday

Questions:

1. How can the homeostasis in the reproductive system affect other organs?
2. What new learning have you gained about your reproductive system disease?
3. Write 2 questions you have about your reproductive system disease.

Chemisty Week 3 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What did you notice about the labs from looking at your classmates work?
2. What would you change/improve about your own lab poster after looking at your classmates work?
3. Based on the gallery walk, how would you define scientific thinking?

Chemistry Week 3 Monday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did you learn from our labs last week? Describe 2 pieces of new learning.
2. What does adhesion/cohesion look like? Draw or describe.

Biology Week 6 Monday

Questions:

1. What were your articles from Thursday about? Summarize each one in 1-2 sentences.
2. What did your articles say about animal adaptations?

Biology Week 5 Thursday

Questions:

1. What did we do in our lab yesterday?
2. What do you think about the behaviors of the isopods so far?
3. Do you think your results are reliable? Explain what makes you sure or unsure.

Chemistry Week 2 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. What were our labs about this week?
2. How did your bug use (or not use) surface tension, adhesion and cohesion?
3. What things would you do differently next time to get better results in our labs this week?

Human An Week 5 Thursday

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained so far about diseases and disorders of the reproductive system?
2. How do you think the reproductive system could impact other organ systems?
3. What do you know about cancers of the reproductive system?

Biology Week 5 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What are we doing in the lab with the bugs?
2. What did you notice about the bugs physical and behavioral adaptations so far?
3. Write 2 questions you have about the bugs physical or behavioral adaptations.

Human An Week 5 Wednesday

Objective: Students will learn about the physiology of maintaining homeostasis in the reproductive system by analyzing and interpreting information about structures and diseases.

Questions:

1. What have you done so far to make progress toward our learning objective (above)?
2. What have you been most successful at so far in this class?
3. What do you need more of in this class in order to learn more?

Biology Week 5 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What do you feel like is going well for you in this class?
2. What do you think you need more of in this class in order to be successful?
3. Give an example of an animal's ecological niche.

Chemistry Week 2 Tuesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What did we do in our first lab today?
2. What did your results tell you about molecules?
3. What errors could have affected your data? Explain your thinking.

Chemistry Week 1 Tuesday Part 1

Learning Objective: Students will learn about structure, properties and behavior of matter by analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What was our lab about yesterday?
2. Draw what the molecules look like in a beaker of water with staples floating.
3. Why do you think oil has high viscosity but low surface tension?

Human An Week 5 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What is involved in maintaining homeostasis in the reproductive system?
2. Do you think male and female reproductive systems respond similarly to changes in hormones? Explain your thinking.
3. How do you think the male and female reproductive systems differ in the way they maintain homeostasis?

Questions: 1.       What organs/tissues are affected by the disease? 2.       Who gets this disease? What time during lifetime does it usually occur? 3.       Statistics. 4.       What treatment or cures are there? 5.       What are the long term affects on tissues/organs? 6.       What happens when you have this? (signs/symptoms) 7.       How do you get this disease? 8.       What is the effect on hormones and homeostasis? Fertility?

Cervical Cancer Amenorrhea/dysmenorrhea Endometriosis PCOS PID Prolapsed Uterus Prostatitis Salpingitis Testicular Cancer HPV Prostate Cancer Klinefelter Syndrome Erectile Dysfunction

Biology Week 5 Monday

Learning Objective: Students will learn about adaptations and ecological niches by creating and analyzing adaptations. 

Questions:

1. What did we do in class on thursday? 
2. Why did we do this activity?
3. How would you explain an ecological niche?

Chemistry Week 2 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What were the articles you read during part 1 about? Write a 1 sentence summary about each.
2. What is electronegativity?

Chemistry Week 2 Monday Part 1

Questions:

1. What was the focus (purpose) for the labs last week?
2. What was the most difficult part of these labs?
3. What did you find out about molecules based on these labs?

Human Anatomy Week 5 Monday

Questions:

1. What did you find most difficult about making your infograhic (piktochart)?
2. What new learning have you gained so far about reproductive system physiology?
3. What do you think is the most important structure or concept of the reproductive system? Explain your thinking.

Chemistry Week 1 Thursday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did we do in lab yesterday?
2. What does viscosity look like (the molecules)? Draw or describe
3. What does surface tension look like (molecularly-speaking)? Draw or describe.

Chemistry Week 1 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. What is our second lab about?
2. Who do you think would need to know about the viscosity of a substance?
3. What other ways can you think of to measure viscosity?

Biology Week 4 Thursday

Questions:

1. What traits make birds unique?
2. Why do birds have these traits?
3. Write 2 questions you have about animals/animal's behavior.

Human An Week 4 Thursday

Questions:

1. What role do hormones play in the reproductive system?
2. What do you think happens if hormone levels are not normal in females or males?
3. Write 2 questions you have about reproductive system function/physiology.

Make an Informational Infographic Using Piktochart

• Login or create an account using your Google account.

A successful Informational infographic has four key factors:

• An established hierarchy, using icons or bullet points.
• Header points that introduce steps or parts of a topic that have icons, images or fonts or colors to help them stand out.
• Concise body text that explains each header point.
• Diagrams, charts, pictures or graphs to help explain important points.

Biology Week 4 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What is the light reaction?
2. What sticks with you most about the process of photosynthesis?
3. What would be the most difficult part to explain about photosynthesis?

Chemistry Week 1 Wednesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did we do on Monday during class?
2. Why did we do these activities?
3. What sticks with you most from class on Monday?

Chemistry Week 1 Wednesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What have you learned so far about polarity?
2. What was the most difficult part about building your models?
3. What does polarity have to do with electrons?

Human An Week 4 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What new learning did you gain about testosterone or estrogen?
2. What new learning did you gain (Monday) about structures and physiology of the reproductive system?
3. What is the function of luetenizing hormone?

MINI-Lesson: Effects of Hormones

Chemistry Week 1 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What did you learn from your studying during part 1?
2. Which of the concepts that you studied would be the most difficult for you to explain? Tell why you think this is so.
3. How would you describe polarity to a classmate?

Link for Activity

Chemistry Week 1 Monday

Students will learn about the structure and properties of matter by analyzing and interpreting information and data.

Questions:

1. What do you know already about the structure and properties of matter? 
2.  Describe two things you need in order to be most successful (learn the most).
3. What is one thing you want Ms Friedrich to know about you?

Instructions for Activity:

1. Choose 7 concepts from the list below.
2. Create a foldable by putting the following information:

• 2-3 details 
• 1 diagram or labeled picture
• use the following resource to help you (CK12 textbook) by searching for your concept in the search box.

solution

polarity

cohesion

viscosity

intermolecular forces

Bernoulli's Principle

surface tension

capillary effect

non-polar molecules

elasticity

adhesion

crystals

Biology Week 4 Monday

Questions:

1. What did chlorophyll have to do with our lab?
2. How do you know if your data is reliable? Give at least 2 reasons.
3. What do you think would be the results of a photosynthesis lab if we changed the temperature of the water? Explain why you think this is so.

Human An Week 4 Monday

Questions:

1. What do you know about the reproductive system?
2. What do you know about estrogen and testosterone?
3. What do you know about diseases of the reproductive system?

Link for Notecards

• Create a notecard for 10 different structures or concepts of the male/female reproductive system using the link above.
• On each notecard write 2-3 important details
• How does it work?
• What is it connected to?
• What is it's function?
• Why is it important?

Earth Science Week 3 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. What was your biggest strength in this class? Explain why you think this is so.
2. What did you struggle most with in this class? Explain why you think this is so.
3. What would you tell other ACE students about this class? 

Earth Science Week 3 Thursday Part 1

Questions:

1. What does sustainable use of a natural resource look like? (describe)
2. What new learning did you gain yesterday about water as a natural resource?
3. Do you think water is a renewable or a nonrenewable resource? Explain your thinking.

Biology Week 3 Thursday

Questions:

1. What do your results tell us so far about photosynthesis?
2. What other variables could you change in this lab to measure the rate of photosynthesis? Explain how you would test these.

Human Anatomy Week 3 Thursday

Questions:

1. What do you know about stem cells?
2. How do you think new cells are made in the human body?
3. Do you think all types of cells live the same amount of time? Explain your thinking.

Earth Science Week 3 Wednesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What was your article about from part 1?
2. What do you think about water as a natural resource? 
3. Write 2 questions you have about water as a natural resource? --think about sustainability, sources, how it's used and explored.

Earth Science Week 3 Wednesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part of creating your solar-heated water system?
2. How did your system compare to your classmates? Explain your thinking.
3. Write 2 questions you still have about natural resources (renewable and nonrenewable).

Biology Week 3 Wednesday

Questions:

1. Describe the lab you started yesterday.
2. Do you think your results so far are reliable? Explain your thinking.
3. What were we trying to find out by doing this lab?

Human An and Physiology Week 3 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part of creating your tissue inspired art?
2. How can cells be used to create tissues?
3. Write 2 questions you still have about tissues.

Earth Science Week 3 Tuesday Part 2

Learning objective: Learn about the cost/benefits (pros/cons) of natural resources and be able to analyze and interpret data regarding their use and efficiency. 

Questions:

1. What have you done so far to meet our learning objective (see above)?
2. What factor do you think has the greatest impact on your solar-heated water system? Explain your thinking.
3. What other materials or equipment do you think would make your solar-heated water system more efficient?

Earth Science Week 3 Tuesday Part 1

Questions:

1. Do you think solar panels are an efficient way to gather and use energy? Explain your thinking.
2. How could we make solar panels more efficient?
3. What factors impact how much energy is from solar sources?

Biology Week 3 Tuesday

Learning focus: Students will learn about the process of photosynthesis by gathering and analyzing data in a lab.

Questions:

1. What did you do yesterday to make progress toward our learning focus (see above)?
2. What are we going to do in the lab with the leaf disks?
3. Why do plants produce oxygen?

Human An Week 3 Tuesday

Questions:

1. How do tissues help maintain homeostasis?
2. How do you think connective tissue looks differently than epithelial tissue?
3. Why is it important to understand and know about tissues?

Earth Science Week 3 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What did you learn during part 1 about solar panels?
2. What are the cost/benefits of using solar panels?
3. What do you think would make solar panels more efficient to use and make energy?

Earth Science Week 3 Monday Part 1

Learn about the cost/benefits (pros/cons) of natural resources and be able to analyze and interpret data regarding their use and efficiency. 

Questions:

1. What have you done so far in this class to study natural resources. Describe at least 3 things.
2. What do you know about solar energy?
3. What do you want to accomplish in school before the end of this quarter (one month away!)? What do you need in order to make this happen?

Human Week 3 Monday

Questions:

1. What are tissues?
2. How are tissues organized using cells?
3. What is one thing you'd like to accomplish in school before the end of this quarter (one month away!)? What do you need in order to make that happen?

Biology Week 3 Monday

Questions:

1. Describe the process of photosynthesis.
2. What does photosynthesis look like? (draw or describe)
3. What is one thing you'd like to accomplish in school before the end of this quarter (4 weeks away!)? What do you need in order to make this happen?

Video Links for Lab

Link 1

Link 2