Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Biology Unit 4 Day 5

Learning Objective: Students will learn about cell membranes by doing a 

simulation  and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical 

vocabulary 

(transport 

proteins, semipermeable, lipid bilayer, diffusion, osmosis, homeostasis, passive 

transport, active transport) and science ideas (structure and function).


Questions:

  1. How do you think cells maintain homeostasis? (book or brain)
  2. What is passive transport? (book)
  3. What is it called when a molecule uses energy to move across a semipermeable membrane?


Answer choices for number 3:
 
  • A. Osmosis
  • B. Diffusion
  • C. Active transport
  • D. Passive transport

Chemistry Unit 3 Day 5

Learning Objective: Students will learn about thermodynamics in chemical reactions by conducting a lab and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary (exothermic, endothermic, spontaneous, enthalpy) and science ideas (energy transfer).


Questions:

  1. What determines if reactions will be endothermic or exothermic? (brain)
  2. What does the H of a reaction tell us? (book)
  3. Which statement describes the potential energy diagram of an exothermic reaction?

Answer Choices for number 3:
 
  • A. The potential energy of the products is equal to the potential energy of the reactants.
  • B. The potential energy of the products is greater than the potential energy of the reactants.
  • C. The potential energy of the reactants is greater than the potential energy of the products.
  • D. The activation energy of the reactants is greater than the activation energy of the products.

Monday, December 7, 2015

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 4

Learning Objective: Students will learn about scientific classification by doing a lab activity and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary (plate tectonics, cementation, deposition, minerals, compaction, clastic) and science ideas (rock cycle).


Questions:
  1. What is a clastic rock? (book)
  2. Which do you think is a more dense and solid rock metamorphic or sedimentary rock? (brain)
  3. What is the first step of the lithification process?

Answer choices for number 3:
 
  • A. Cementation
  • B. Compaction
  • C. Recrystallization
  • D. Evaporation

Biology Unit 4 Day 3

Learning Objective: Students will learn about cell membranes by watching videos and will describe them in writing using technical vocabulary (transport proteins, semipermeable, lipid bilayer, diffusion, osmosis, homeostasis, passive transport, active transport) and science ideas (structure and function).


Questions:

  1. What is homeostasis? (book)
  2. List 3 functions of the cell membrane (book)
  3. What would happen to a cell if the fatty acids in the cell membrane became soluble in water?

Answer Choices for Number 3:


  • A. It would increase the rate of cell division.
  • B. It would stop all substances from passing through.
  • C. It would decrease the ions needed by a mitochondrion.
  • D. It would cause the cell to lose all its contents to the outside.

Chemistry Unit 3 Day 4

Learning Objective: Students will learn about energy transfer by doing a lab 

and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary 

(endothermic, thermodynamics, spontaneous reaction, entropy, enthalpy) and 

science ideas (energy transfer, cause and effect).


Questions:

  1. Does the amount of reactants (baking soda or vinegar) change the amount of heat exchanged in a chemical reaction? (brain)
  2. What is thermal energy? (book)
  3. Which statement describes the potential energy diagram of an endothermic reaction?

Answer choices for number 3:
 
  • A. The potential energy of the reactants is greater than the potential energy of the products.
  • B. The potential energy of the products is equal to the potential energy of the reactants.
  • C. The activation energy of the reactants is less than the activation energy of the products.
  • D. The potential energy of the products is greater than the potential energy of the reactants.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 2 Part 2

Learning Objective: Students will learn about characteristics and properties of rocks by doing a lab and will analyze and interpret data in writing using technical vocabulary (metamorphic, heat, pressure, igneous, lithification, foliation, folding, recrystalization) and scientific ideas (rock cycle).

Questions:

  1. What materials make up metamorphic rocks? (book or brain)
  2. Give 3 examples of metamorphic rocks. (book or brain)
  3. Match the type of metamorphism to its best definition.

Answers for 3:
 
A.Contact metamorphismThe process in which buried rocks in a large area are changed by heat, pressure, and fluids.
B.Dynamic metamorphismThe process in which a rock changes because of extreme heat and pressure caused by a meteorite collision with Earth.
C.Impact metamorphismThe process in which a rock changes as a result of heat generated from magma.
D.Regional metamorphismThe process in which a rock changes due to pressure directed on it.

Biology Unit 4 Day 2

Learning Objective: Students will learn about cell membranes by building a model and will describe their learning in writing using technical vocabulary (membrane proteins, lipid bilayer, receptor protein, transport protein) and science ideas (structures connect to functions).

Questions:

  1. What does the cell membrane look like? (book)
  2. List 3 structures that make up the cell membrane. (book)



Chemistry Unit 3 Day 3

Learning Objective: Students will learn about energy transfer by doing a lab and will analyze and interpret thier data in writing using technical vocabulary (endothermic, thermodynamics, spontaneous reaction, entropy, enthalpy) and science ideas (energy transfer, cause and effect).


Questions:

  1. Why do you think endothermic reactions happen? (brain)
  2. What is thermodynamics? (book)
  3. Which phase has the lowest entropy?

Answer Choices for number 3:


 
  • A. Liquid
  • B. Gas
  • C. Aqueous
  • D. Solid

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Biology Unit 4 Day 1 Part 2

Learning Objective: Learning Objective: Students will learn about cell organelles by making a product and will summarize their learning in writing using technical vocabulary (cell membrane, golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, nucleus, ribosomes, mitochondria, lysosomes) and science ideas (structure and function).


Questions:

  1. why do you think the golgi apparatus is shaped the way it is? (brain)
  2. describe the structure of the nucleus. (book or brain)
  3. The male Japanese beetle breaks down female pheromones. What structure inside the cell of the male beetle breaks down the pheromone?

Answer Choices for number 3:
 
  • A. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
  • B. Rough endoplasmic recticulum
  • C. Lysosomes
  • D. Mitochondria


Chemistry Unit 3 Day 2 Part 2

Learning Objective: Students will learn about the causes ad details 

of spontaneous chemical reactions 

using an inquiry simulation and will analyze and interpret data in writing using 

technical vocabulary (entropy, enthalpy, energy diagram, reactants, products, 

activation energy) and science ideas (transfer of energy, cause and effect).


Questions:

  1. What is an exothermic reaction? Give an example. (book)
  2. What is an endothermic reaction? Give an example. (book)
  3. Which of the following best describes H2(g) + Cl2(g 2HCl(g), H = -184.6 kJ/mol?

Answer Choices for number 3:
 
  • A. The reaction requires heat.
  • B. The reaction produces heat.
  • C. The reaction is endothermic.
  • D. The reaction has no activation energy.

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 2

Learning Objective: Students will learn about characteristics and properties of rocks by doing a lab and will analyze and interpret data in writing using technical vocabulary (metamorphic, heat, pressure, igneous, lithification, foliation, folding, recrystalization) and scientific ideas (rock cycle).


Questions:
  1. What is lithification? (book)
  2. How are metamorphic rocks formed? (book or brain)
  3. Grain size of metamorphic rock increases in the process of _____.

Answer Choices for Number 3:
  • A. lithification
  • B. compaction
  • C. foliation
  • D. recrystallization

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 1 Part 2


Learning Objective: Students will learn about the physical changes that happen


 on Earth by watching a video and doing an online interactive and 

will summarize their learning in writing using technical vocabulary: plate 

tectonics, heat, pressure, igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, weathering, 

geology

Questions:
  1. What do you think are the oldest types of rocks? Why do you think so? (brain)
  2. What creates rocks? (brain)
  3. In what location does rock melt, allowing for igneous rock formation?

Answer Choices for number 3:
  • A. Between 50 and 200 km below Earth's surface
  • B. Between 1000 km and 2000 km below Earth's surface
  • C. In Earth's outer core
  • D. in Earth's inner core

Biology Unit 4 Day 1

Learning Objective: Students will learn about cell organelles by making a product and will summarize their learning in writing using technical vocabulary (cell membrane, golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, nucleus, ribosomes, mitochondria, lysosomes) and science ideas (structure and function).


Questions:

  1. What do cells look like on the inside? Outside? (brain)
  2. Are all cells in your body alike? Explain why you think so. (brain)
  3. What do prokaryotes have in common with eukaryotes?

Answer choices for number 3:
 
  • A. They both have mitochondria.
  • B. They both have a Golgi apparatus.
  • C. They both have a liquid cytoplasm.
  • D. They both have a nuclear membrane.

Chemistry Unit 3 Day 2

Learning Objective: Students will learn about spontaneous chemical reactions using an inquiry simulation and will analyze and interpret data in writing using technical vocabulary (entropy, enthalpy, energy diagram, reactants, products, activation energy).

Questions:

  1. What makes a chemical reaction spontaneous? (book)
  2. Would a spontaneous reaction happen faster or slower? why do you think? (brain)
  3. What does the entropy of a reaction describe?
Answer Choices for number 3:
  • A. The amount of heat present in the system
  • B. The amount of randomness in the system
  • C. The amount of usable energy in a reaction
  • D. The number of molecules in a system