Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will use posters and timelines to distinguish geological time periods using the words Precambrian, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, and Cenozoic.

Question:
1) List the 4 eras in geological history.
2) What era did the dinosaurs live? First humans appear?
3) In what conditions are fossils most easily created?


Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) summarizing your era. Use the following sentence starter "The ___________ era included..."

Physical Science 2 Unit 4 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will diagram and distinguish Gas Law and the behavior of gases on posters and cornell notes and using the words Boyle’s Law, Charles Law, Ideal Gas Law, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, entropy.

Question:
1) Describe the movement of molecules in a solid, liquid, and gas.
2) List 5 phase changes matter can undergo.
3)What is latent heat?

Exit Ticket:
How is matter affected by changes in temperature? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic+2 details) using the following sentence starter "Temperature affects matter..." and at least 1 green word from the objective.

Biology 2 Unit 4 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and describe evidence and mechanisms for evolution on assignments and using the words homologous structures, vestigial structures, speciation, adaptive radiation, gene flow,  index fossils, cladogram.

Question:
1) What is the theory of evolution?
2) What is a theory?
3) How does natural selection relate to evolution?


Exit Ticket:
What evidence exists that supports the theory of evolution? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragarph (topic + 2 details) about evidence. Use the following sentence starter "The theory of evolution is supported by..." and at least 1 green word from the objective.

Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will explore evidence of geological time using the words index fossil, trace fossil, superposition, uniformitarianism, original horizontality, carbon-14 dating.

Question
1) What is an geological era? Give an example.
2) What geological era and period are we currently in?
3) Order the following from smallest to largest division: epoch, era, eon, period.

Exit Ticket:
What evidence is used to determine the age of Earth? Use the following sentence starter, "The geological age of Earth can be determined..." and at least 1 of the green words from the objective to write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic+2 details).

Physical Science Unit 4 PREVIEW

Day Starter:
Students will analyze and predict the outcomes of chemical reactions on unit 3 TST.

Questions:
1) What is temperature? What does it have to do with atoms?
2) What is thermodynamics?
3) List the 4 phases of matter. Give an example of each.

Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining temperature. How do you change temperature? Include the word kinetic energy or thermal energy in your response and use the following sentence starter: "In chemistry, temperature is..."

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 5

Day Starter
Objective: Students will analyze rock samples and use evidence to determine their origin.

Question: REVIEW!!!
1) What is dynamic metamorphism?
2) What is stratification?
3) List 4 ways sediments get deposited.

Physical Science Unit 3 Day 5

Day Starter
Objective: Students will recall and identify information learned to complete unit 3 CST.


Questions: (REVIEW!!!)
1) Is this chemical equation balanced or unbalanced? C₃H₈ + O₂  CO₂ + H₂O 
2) What type of chemical reaction is the reaction in question 1. Explain.
3) What would the products of a double-replacement reaction between Na₂S and MgF₂ be? Explain.


Exit Ticket:
Complete the self-evaluation at the bottom of the unit checklist.

Biology Unit 3 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will recall and restate unit 3 information on CST.


Question:
1) What is the aphotic zone of a lake? Photic zone?
2)  What causes exponential growth to stop?
3) How does biodiversity relate to natural selection?

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 4

Day Starter:

Objective: Students will recall and restate information on the unit 3 CST.

Question: (REVIEW!!!)

1) What causes large crystals to form in igneous rock? Small crystals?

2) How were the Maroon Bells formed? 

3) What are the 2 most common rocks found in colorado?

Physical Science 2 Unit 3 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will review and recall information to take their unit CST using all the words from word window.

Questions (REVIEW!!):
1) List 3 signs a chemical reaction has occurred.
2) List 3 ways to change the rate of a chemical reaction.
3) What is a heterogeneous mixture? What is a solution?

Exit Ticket:
Our TST lab tomorrow will be about acids and bases in neutralization reactions. What do you know about acids or bases? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) about acids OR bases. Include at least 1 of the following words in your paragraph: dissociate, dissociation, or ion.

Biology Unit 3 Day 3

Day Starter
Objective:  Students will examine video clips of various organisms and infer their adaptations using the words adaptations, natural selection, genetic diversity, biodiversity.

Question:
1) What is biodiversity? Why is this a good thing?
2) What are adaptations? Why are adaptations a good thing?
3) What is logistical population growth? How is it different than exponential population growth?


Exit Ticket:
How do adaptations and natural selection relate? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) using the following sentence starter, "Adaptation and natural selection are related because..." and 2 green words from the objective in your writing.

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 3

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will evaluate their knowledge on unit 3 CST using the words from the word window.

Question:
1) At what temperature does rock melt? At what depth of the Earth's crust does this occur?
2) What are intrusive igneous body's of rock called?
3) What is a mineral? Give 3 examples of minerals found in rocks.

Exit Ticket:
How do rocks compare and contrast? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) using the following sentence starter, "___________ and _____________ rocks are different because ..." and 2 words from the word window.

Physcial Science Unit 3 Day 3

Day Starter
Objective: Students will practice and interpret Law of Conservation of Mass by watching videos and taking notes using the words coefficients, products and reactants.

Question:
1) What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
2) What are the first 4 steps in balancing chemical reactions?
3) How do you know what type of chemical reaction is occurring?



Exit Ticket:
Why is it important to balance chemical reactions? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic sentence + 2 details) using the following sentence starter, "The Law of conservation of matter..."  and 2 green words from the objective.

Biology Unit 3 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and describe hardy-weinberg equilibrium theory on assignments and using the words exponential growth carrying capacity, density dependent factor, density-independent factor, homozygous allele (p), heterozygous allele (pq), and homozygous recessive allele (q), invasive c.

Question:
1) What is biodiversity?
2) What is a keystone species? How does a keystone species maintain a population?
3) What is a carrying capacity? What factors affect the carrying capacity of a population?

Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph about populations and species. Use the following sentence starter, "Biodiversity is..." and 2 green words from the objective in your paragraph.

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective:Students will diagram and describe types of rocks and their formation on posters and notes using the words contact metamorphism, lithification, stratification, rock cycle, cementation/compaction, recrystallization, extrusive igneous, intrusive igneous rock, dynamic metmorphism, minerals.
 Question
1) How are metamorphic rocks formed?
2) What is recrystallization?
3) What is lithification? How do rocks become lithified?


Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) about how rocks are formed. Use the following sentence starter, "Rocks are formed in many ways..." and use at least 2 green words from the daily objective in your writing. 

Physical Science Unit 3 Day 2

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will illustrate and explain types of chemical reactions on posters and notes and using the words soluble, precipitation (precipitate), dissociation, acid/base, pH, and activity series, neutralization reaction, combustion reaction, decomposition reaction, single replacement, double replacement.

Questions:
1) What is dissociation? During what type of reaction does dissociation occur?
2) What is an acid? Base? 
3) What does soluble mean? 

Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 supporting details) summarizing what you learned today. Use the following sentence starter, "These vocabulary words all relate because..." and use at least 2 green vocabulary words from the objective above.

Biology 2 Unit 3 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will illustrate and explain characteristics of biomes and ecosystems on posters using the words tropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, freshwater ecosystems (aphotic zone, photic zone), keystone species, primary disturbances, secondary disturbances, and invasive species.

Question: 
1) List 3 different biomes on earth. Where are they located?
2) List 3 different types of ecosystems on earth. Where are they located?
3) What is a keystone species?

Exit Ticket
Organisms live in different places on earth. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph using the following sentence starter "There are many different types of environments..." and at least 2 green words from the objective in your writing.

Earth Science 2 Unit 3 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective Students will define and describe types of rocks using assignments and the words igneous rock, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock

Question:
1) What are 2 types of igneous rock?
2) What are 2 types of metamorphic rock?
3) In what 2 ways sedimentary rock is formed?

Exit Ticket
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph about types of rocks using the following sentence starter, "There are 3 types of rocks..." and 2 words from the objective.

Physical Science 2 Unit 3 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will illustrate and explain types of chemical reactions by completing assignments and using the words single replacement, double replacement, neutralization, combination, decomposition, combustion.

Question:
1) What are the reactants in a chemical reaction? What are the products in a chemical reaction? Give an example.
2) What happens in a combustion reaction? Give an example.
3) What happens in a neutralization reaction? Give an example.

Exit Ticket
Compare and contrast 2 types of chemical reactions. Finish the following sentence starter, "Two types of chemical reactions are..." and include 2 types of chemical reactions from the objective (in green).

Earth Science 2 Unit 3 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and describe types of rocks by completing assignments using the words igneous rock, metamorphic rock, sedimentary rock.

Question:
1) List 3 types of rock. Give an example of each.
2) How is sedimentary rock formed?
3) How is metamorphic rock formed?

Physical Sceince 2 Unit 3 Day 1

Day Starter

Objective: Students will diagram and distinguish types of chemical reactions on posters and cornell notes and using the words single replacement, double replacement, neutralization, combination, decomposition, dissociation.

Question:

1) List 6 types of chemical reactions.

2) What is a chemical reaction?

3) What are 3 signs a chemical reaction has occurred?

Exit Ticket:

What is a chemical reaction? Use the following sentence starter, "There are 6 types of chemical reactions..." and write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph. Explain at least 1 green word from the objective in your paragraph.

  

Biology 2 Unit 2 Day 6

Day Starter
Objective: Students will construct models and demonstrate learning on TST and CST using all the words green words from the unit tracker.

Question: (REVIEW!!)
1) What are four steps in using DNA to make proteins?
2) What is transduction?
3) What is DNA replication?

Exit Ticket
Finish the following sentence on the whiteboard, "I wonder..." or "Protein synthesis is..." and use 1 green word from the unit tracker.

Earth Science 2 Unit 2 Day 6

Day Starter

Objective: Students will analyze and extrapolate data on graphs and maps and demonstrate their learning on TST and CST using all the words from the word window.

Question: (REVIEW!!!)

1) Each step on the richter scale is __________ times stronger. 

2) What is a gouyot? 

3) Where do ocean trenches form?

Exit Ticket

Finish the following sentence on the whiteboard "I wonder..." OR "Mountains form because..." Use at least 1 word from the word window.

Physical Science 2 Unit 2 Day 6

Day Starter
Objective: Students will draw conclusions and demonstrate learning on unit TST and CST using all the vocabulary from the word wall.

Question: (REVIEW!!)
1) What role does electronegativity play in creating bonds?
2) What is a polyatomic ion or compound? Give an example.
3) How many bonds does carbon form? 


Exit Ticket
Finish the following sentence on the whiteboard "The periodic table..." OR "I wonder...". Include at least 1 word from the word window.

Biology 2 Unit 2 Day 6

Day Starter
Objective: Students will predict and produce the outcomes of transcription and translation using a lab activity and the words codons, amino acids, tRNA, mRNA, frameshift mutation, missense mutation, silent mutation, point mutation.

Question:

1. What is a frame-shift mutation?

2. What’s the difference between a silent mutation and a frame-shift mutation?

3. Are amino acids affected by point mutations? Explain.

Exit Ticket:
Finish the following sentence on the white board, "I wonder..." OR "Protein synthesis is a process that..." Sign your initials next to your sentence.

Earth Science 2 Unit 2 Day 5

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will analyze and extrapolate topographic data on the unit TST.

Question:
1) What is the Richter scale?
2) What causes eskers?
3) What causes horn peaks?


Exit Ticket:
Finish the following sentence on the white board: "I wonder..." or "Mountains form because...". Sign your initials after your sentence.

Phsysical Science 2 Unit 2 Day 5

Day Starter
Objective: Students will construct and compare compounds and molecules on a TST.

Question:
1) List the oxidation state of the following elements carbon, oxygen, flourine.
2) Carbon will form covalent bonds because ....
3) Water is a polar molecule because ...

Exit Ticket
Finish the following sentence on the board, "I wonder..." or "The pattern I've noticed..." Write your initials after your sentence. 

Biology 2 Unit 2 Day 4

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will diagram and describe viruses and bacteria on vocab charts and notes using the words capsid, pilus, transduction, transformation, conjugation, lytic cycle, lysogenic cycle, bacteriophage. 


Question: 
1) What is a virus? Give an example.
2) What is a bacteria? Give an example.
3) How do viruses and bacteria transfer DNA and genetic information?

Exit Ticket:
How do viruses and bacteria compare and contrast? Use the following topic sentence starter "Viruses and bacteria are different because..." and 2 green words from the objective in your perfect 3 sentence paragraph.

Earth Science 2 Unit 2 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will analyze and interpret glacial landforms by completing the TST using the words horn peak, terminal moraine, kettle, drumlin, esker glacial valley, cirque, u-shaped valley, physical weathering.

Question:
1) What is physical weathering?
2) What is a u-shaped valley? How do they form?
3) What is a kettle lake? Give an example of a kettle lake in the U.S.

Exit Ticket:
How do glaciers shape the landscape? Use the following topic sentence starter, "Horn peaks, moraines, and cirques are all..." and the following vocabulary in your perfect 3 sentence paragraph physical weathering.

Physical Science 2 Unit 2 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will diagram and describe Lewis Dot Structures and bonding on a group 3,2,1 chart using the words ionic bond, covalent bond, oxidation number, valence electrons, electronegativity.

Question:
1) What is oxidation number? Give an example.
2) When do ionic bonds form? Between what elements?
3) When do covalent bonds form? Between what elements?

Exit Ticket:
What do oxidation numbers have to do with chemical bonding? Use the following topic sentence starter "Oxidation numbers are related to bonds because...." and the words valence electrons and Lewis Dot Structures to write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph.

Biology 2 Unit 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will summarize the steps of transcription and translation using a step-by-step decoding/recoding worksheet and the words condon, anti-codon, amino acids, mRNA, tRNA.

Question:
1) What does transcription do?
2) What does translation create?
3) What is the role of codons and anti-codons?

Exit Ticket
Finish the following sentence starter "Transcription and translation, the process of making proteins, is..." Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph. Use 2 of the following words condon, anti-codon, amino acids, mRNA, tRNA.

Earth Science 2 Unit 2

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will explain and illustrate volcanoes and glacier landforms by watching video clips and taking notes using the words caldera, pelean, pyroclastic, subduction zones, plinian eruption, cone volcanoes.

Question:
1) List 4 types of volcanic eruptions.
2) Which type of volcanic eruption is the most violent? Least violent?
3) List 4 landforms formed by glaciers.

Exit Ticket:
Today in class we talked about fire and ice. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph by finishing the following sentence "Volcanoes, a product of plate movement, are...". Use the words pyroclastic flow and Hawaiian eruption in your paragraph.

Physical Science 2 Unit 2

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will diagram and describe Lewis Dot structures and bonding on practice charts in groups using the words ionic bond, covalent bond, valence electrons.


Question: 
1) What are Lewis Dot Structures?
2) Give an example of a Lewis Dot structure.
3) What do Lewis Dot Structures have to do with valence electrons?

Exit Ticket:
Describe Lewis Dot structures. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining what they are and what information they show. Use the sentence starter "Lewis Dot Structures, diagrams of valence electrons, show..." and the words ionic bond and molecules.

Biology 2 Unit 2

Day Starter:
Students will describe DNA replication, transcription and translation using videos and notes and using the words proteins, RNA polymerase, protein synthesis, amino acids, tRNA, complementary base pairs, transcription, and translation and codons.

Question:

1. What is DNA replication?

2. Why do cells undergo DNA replication?

3. What occurs during protein synthesis?

Exit Ticket: 
How is DNA used to make you? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph and use at least 2 green words from the objective in your writing. 

Earth Science 2 Unit 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and distinguish mountain and ocean formation by completing posters and notes and using the words fault-block mountains, faulting/folding, arc-continent mountains, passive margins, active margins, terrane accretion, ocean trench, abyssal plain, and seamount, Andean Mountains, Alleutian Mountains. 

Question:
1) How were the Himalayan Mountians formed?
2) What occurs at passive margins?
3) What causes ocean trenches to form?

Exit Ticket:
How are mountains formed? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph, incorporate at least one of the green vocabulary words from the objective in your response.

Physical Science 2 Unit 2

Day Starter 
Objective: Students will illustrate and explain chemical bonding by completing assignments using the words ionic bond, covalent bond, polar molecule, metallic bond, electronegativity, valence electron, compounds, ions, cations, anions.

Question:
1) What is the difference between and ionic bond and a covalent bond?
2) If an atom has 6 valence electrons will it gain electrons or lose electrons to make 8? What will its charge be?
3) What is an anion? Cation?


Exit Starter
What is an ionic bond? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph and use 2 of the following words in your response: cation, anion, ion, electronegativity.

Biology 2 Unit 2

Day Starter:

Objective: Students will define and describe the structure and function of DNA and RNA by completing assignments of their choice and using the words adenine, thymine, uracil, nucleotides, nucleic acids, cytosine, guanine, mRNA, tRNA, complementary base pairs.

Question:

1. What are nucleotides?

2. What nucleotides are found in DNA?

3. Describe what DNA looks like.

Exit Ticket:
Today we introduced DNA. What does DNA look like? Draw a diagram and write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph describing what DNA looks like. Use 2 of the green words from your day starter in your paragraph.

Earth Science 2 Unit 2

Day Starter:

Students will define and distinguish types of mountains and ocean features by completing assignments and using the words fault-block, Aleutian, faulting, arc-continent, passive margins, active margins, terrane accretion, ocean trench, abyssal plain, and seamount. 

Question:

1) How do mountains form? 

2) What is a fault-block mountian?

3)  What is a arc-continent mountain?

Exit Ticket:
Today we introduced the formation of mountains. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining what causes mountains to form. Use 2 green words from the day starter in your paragraph.

Physcial Sicience 2 Unit 2

Day Starter

Objective: Students will diagram and describe chemical bonding on posters and notes and using the words ionic bonds, covalent bonds, polar molecules, compounds, metallic bond, valence electrons, and ion/anion/cation.

Question:

1) What is the octet rule?

2) What is electronegativity?

3) What causes bonds to form in molecules? Compounds? 

Exit Ticket
Today in class we introduced  chemical bonding. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining why bonds form. Use 2 blue words from the day starter in your paragraph.

Biology 2 Unit 1

Day Starter


Question: (REVIEW!!)
1) What is independent assortment?
2) How do nucleiotides and DNA relate?
3) How do haploids, sex cells, and gametes and meiosis relate?

Exit Ticket:
Complete the self-evaluation portion of your unit tracker. Include 2 new words you learned. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph.

Earth Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will make connections between faults/boundaries and earthquakes and volcanic activity on the CST and TST using the words S waves, P waves, subducted, strike-slip fault, normal fault, reverse fault, convergent boundary, divergent boundary, ocean ridges, and ocean trenches.

Question: (REVIEW!!!)
1) Why does ocean plate subduct under continental plate?
2) Where do ocean ridges form? Trenches?
3) Why do plates move?

Exit Ticket: 
Complete the self-evaluation portion of your unit tracker (checklist).

Physical Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will apply patterns and trends on the periodic table to take the CST and TST using the words atomic number, atomic mass, atomic radius, valence electrons.

Question: (REVIEW!!)
1) List 3 patterns or trends in the periodic table.
2) How do valence electrons and energy shells/orbitals relate?
3) What is shielding?


Exit Ticket:
Complete the bottom, self-evaluation portion of your unit tracker (checklist). Incorporate at least 2 new words you've learned in this unit in your perfect 3 sentence paragraph.

Biology 2 Unit 1

Day Starter:
Students will interpret and analyze inheritance patterns in order to determine traits in offspring using a CST and TST and the following vocabulary: dominant trait, recessive trait, genotype, phenotype, heterozygous and homozygous.

Question:
1) What is DNA made of?
2) What are chromosomes made of?
3) What's the difference between homozygous and heterozygous alleles?

Earth Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will make connections between faults/boundaries and earthquakes and volcanic activity on the CST and TST using the words S waves, P waves, subducted, strike-slip fault, normal fault, reverse fault, convergent boundary, divergent boundary, ocean ridges, and ocean trenches.

Question: 
1) What causes earth's magnetic poles?
2) How often do earth's magnetic poles reverse?
3) What's the difference between geographic north and magnetic north?

Physical Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will apply patterns and trends on the periodic table to take the CST and TST using the words atomic number, atomic mass, atomic radius, valence electrons.

Question:
1) What do atoms have to do with matter?
2) What are properties of metals?
3) What information does the atomic number tell us?


Exit Ticket

Biology 2 Unit 2

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will interpret and analyze inheritance patterns in order to determine traits in offspring using a lab activity and punnett squares and the following vocabulary: dominant trait, recessive trait, genotype, phenotype, heterozygous and homozygous.

Questions: 
1) What is produced by mitosis? Meiosis?
2) What is a monohybrid cross? Give an example.
3) What is a dihybrid cross? Give an example.

Exit Ticket:
What can punnett squares tell us? Draw a sample and write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining your answer. Include 2 of the following terms in your response: homozygous, heterozygous, phenotype, genotype, dominant allele, recessive allele.

Earth Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will make connections between faults/boundaries and earthquakes and volcanic activity on a lab inquiry activity using the words S waves, P waves, subducted, strike-slip fault, normal fault, reverse fault, convergent boundary, divergent boundary, ocean ridges, and ocean trenches.

Question: 
1) What is a p-wave? s-wave?
2) Which type of waves causes the most damage? why?
3) What's the difference between p-waves and s-waves?

Physcial Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will interpret and label periodic table trends on a periodic table using the words reactivity, valence electrons, ionization energy, electronegativity.

Question:
1) How many protons, neutrons, and electrons does 1 atom of Carbon contain?
2) What subatomic particle determines the charge on an atom?
3) What is the charge on an atom if it has 12 protons, 13 electrons and 12 neutrons? What is this element?



Exit Ticket
Which element is more reactive, carbon or flourine? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining how you know. Use the word valence electrons or atomic radius in your response. 

Biology 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will interpret and analyze inheritance patterns in order to determine traits in offspring using a lab activity and punnett squares and the following vocabulary: dominant trait, recessive trait, genotype, phenotype, heterozygous and homozygous.

Question: 

1. Describe what determines someone's genotype and phenotype.

2. How are genes and alleles related?



Exit Ticket
Today we talked about why you look the way you do. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining this; use at least 2 of the following words in your response: heterozygous, homozygous, recessive allele, dominant allele, genotype, phenotype.

Earth Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will make connections between plate movement and volcanoes and earthquakes on TST using the words subduction, strike-slip fault, normal fault, reverse fault, convergent boundary, divergent boundary, continental crust, oceanic crust.

Question:
1) What is the theory of continental drift?
2) Why do plates move?
3) What causes volcanoes to form? Earthquakes?

Exit Ticket:
Why do plates move? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph; use at least 2 of the following terms in your explanation: plate boundaries, faults, asthenosphere, lithosphere, mantle, crust.

Physical Science Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will diagram and distinguish periodic table properties on posters and notes.

Question:
1) What is electronegativity?
2) What is ionization?
3) Where is ionization highest on the periodic table?

Exit Ticket:
Summarize what you have learned about the patterns on the periodic table. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic sentence plus 2 details). Use at least 2 of the following terms in your summary: valence electrons, electronegativity, ionization energy, metals, non-metals.

Biology 2 Unit 1

Day Starter

Objective: Students will explain how DNA passes from one cell to another during mitosis and meiosis through posters and notes using the words diploid,  haploid, interphase, metaphase, prophase, anaphase, and telophase. 

Question:

1. What is the purpose of mitosis?

2. What occurs during mitosis?

3. What is the purpose of meiosis?

Exit Ticket
Today in  class we talked about the processes of making new cells. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph summarizing what you learned about mitosis and meiosis. 

Earth Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Make connections between faults/boundaries and earthquakes and volcanic activity through class notes/posters using the words convergent boundary, divergent boundary, transform boundary, subduction, strike-slip fault, normal fault, reverse fault, ocean ridge, ocean trench.

Question:

1. Name three types of plate boundaries.

2. Describe what occurs one of these boundaries.

3. What’s the difference between a boundary and a fault?

Exit Ticket
Today in class we discussed boundaries and faults. Not all boundaries and faults are created equal; why not? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph. Use at least green 2 words from the day starter in your explanation.

Physical Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will diagram and distinguish periodic table properties on posters and notes.

Question:
1) How is the periodic table organized?
2) List 3 pieces of information a periodic table can tell us.
3) List 3 pieces of information found in one box for one element.

Exit Ticket
Today we discussed how the periodic table is arranged. How is the periodic table organized? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph. Use at least 2 of the following words in your paragraph: metals, non-metals, reactivity, ionization energy, electronegativity, metalloids, groups, periods.

Biology 2 Unit 1 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will describe the structure and function of DNA by completing assignments using the words nucleic acids, tetrad, sister chromatid, chromosomes, alleles, genes, gamete, and sex chromosomes.

Question:

1. Write 3 sentences about DNA.

2. What are chromosomes?

Exit Ticket
Today in class we talked about chromosomes. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph describing chromosomes. Use at least 2 of the following terms: genes, alleles, DNA, traits, sex chromosomes.

Earth Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter

Objective: Students will describe the layers of the earth using assignments and the words outer core, inner core, oceanic crust, continental crust, mantle, lithosphere, asthenosphere, and mesosphere.

Question:

1. Draw a diagram of the layers of Earth’s foundation…label the layers with the words outer core, inner core, mantle, lithosphere, asthenosphere, and mesosphere.

2. Which layers are liquid? Solid?

Exit Ticket
Today in class we discussed the earth beneath your feet. Discuss the earths layers in a perfect 3 sentence paragraph with a sentence starter. Use at least 2 unit 1 vocabulary words in your paragraph. 

physical science 2 unit 1

Day Starter

Objective: Students will illustrate and explain elements on the periodic table using the words: neutrons, protons, electrons, valence electrons, octet rule, energy shells/levels, atomic number, atomic mass.

Question:
1) What was Dimitri Mendeleev's contribution to science?
2) What did Rutherford think about the atom?
3) What did Dalton think about matter?

Exit Ticket

Draw a diagram of an atom. Include the following terms in your diagram: neutron, proton, electron. Describe (perfect 3 sentence paragraph) your diagram.

Biology Unit 5 for Thursday

Objective Students will define, describe and diagram human body systems using posters and notes.
Day Starter 

1. List 4 parts of the female reproductive system.
2. List 4 parts of the male reproductive system.
3. Where does sperm mature? Where are eggs stored?

Exit Ticket 

Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph describing how the immune system protects your body. Include one of the following terms in your description: helper T cells, killer T cells, b cells, antibodies, memory T cells, immunity. 

Earth Science Unit 5 for Thurs

Objective Students will review and evaluate their knowledge of the Earth's energy resources on unit cst.

Day Starter 

1. What are renewable resources? Give 3 examples.
2. Where do fossil fuels come from? Give 2 examples.

Exit Ticket

Physical Science Unit 5 for Thursday

Objective Students will define, describe and diagram the motion of waves on posters and cornell notes.

Day Starter 
1. What is amplitude of a wave?
2. What is speed of a wave? How do you calculate it?
3. What is frequency of a wave? 
Exit Ticket
Draw a diagram and label 4 parts of a wave. Describe waves. (Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph).

Biology Unit 5 Day Starter and Exit Ticket for Wed

Day Starter
1) List 5 organs in the digestive system.
2) List 5 parts of the brain.
3) List 5 parts of lungs and/or heart.

Exit Ticket
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (at least) describing the parts and functions of one body system you learned about in class today.

Earth Science Unit 5 Day Starter and Exit Ticket Wed

Day Starter

1) What is logistical population growth?

2) What is exponential population growth?

3) What causes populations to reach carrying capacity?

Exit Ticket
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph analyzing sustainability--what is it? How do we increase it? 

Physical Science Day Starter and Exit Ticket Wed

Day Starter
1) What is kinetic energy?
2) What is potential energy?
3) How do you calculate kinetic and potential energy?

Exit Ticket
Machines make work easier, this is called mechanical advantage. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (or more) reflecting on simple machines you use in your everyday life. Discuss at least 3 and justify how they make your life easier.

Physical Science Unit 4 Exit Ticket 4

What is mechanical advantage? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph including the equation to calculate mechanical advantage.

Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Exit Ticket 2

In order to figure out how old our Earth is we use radioactive isotopes. How do we use radioactive isotopes to figure out the ages of fossils and rocks?

Physical Science 1 Unit 4 Exit Ticket 3

What is power? How does power relate to work? Draw a diagram of work and power.

biology 2 unit 4 exit ticket 2

Classification of living things is based on similar traits and DNA evidence. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph elaborating on the ways in which scientist classify organisms. Use at least 1 of the following words: Linnean Classification, domains, cladistics, cladogram.

Physical Science Unit 4 Exit Ticket 2

A compact car with a mass of 1,000 kg, traveling at 15 m/s, run into - and sticks to - an at-rest SUV of 2,200 kg. What is the final velocity of the 2 cars? Give the equation you used, explain why you used this equation, then solve.

Biology 2 Unit 4 Exit Ticket 1

Unit 4 is all about evolution, change in populations over time. What causes evolution? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph describing why evolution happens. Use 2 vocabulary words in your response.

Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Exit Ticket 1

In unit 4 we've talked about having an old Earth. How do we know our Earth is old? Write a 3 sentence paragraph and include 2 vocabulary words you took notes on today.

Physcial Science Unit 4 Exit Ticket 1

So far in unit 4 we have discussed momentum and collisions. Write a perfect 3 sentence (at least) paragraph describing why we should care about momentum. Include the word velocity, collisions and an example in your description.