How at access the Green and Red books online

 I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day and President's Day Holiday! we are still working on Mitosis and Osmosis and the parts of the cell. We will be having several quizzes this week on these subjects. I have provided the students with copies of the Red Book to use in class. They have also been given almost an hour each class to get the questions assigned done in class. We have gone over the assigned questions and seen several videos about cells, mitosis,and osmosis. The study skill we have been working on is: the more you see material in different ways the easier to remember it.
I have also added all of the students to http://www.my.hrs.com/ to have access to the red and green books online. The students will be getting a personal sign in and password for this site.
Please remember to allow the teacher time to grade papers and post them on line. I know you would like immediate feed back on whether or you child turned  in their work. I am grading for the proper way a paper is done and not just turn in. Please ask your child to show the rubric I  use when grading their papers. i usually update online grades once a week. When there are only a few assignments, one missing assignment can count a lot. The same with test grades.

Cell Theory and when is that test?

Well, things have been moving right along! We have now done passive transportation with potatoes and carrots. The students have not one but two lab reports due. They have potato #1 and potato #2. They should have the following form:





Question-( What are we finding out about?)

Hypothesis-( Must relate to the question)

Prediction-(What do you think will really happen?)

Experiment-

Materials-( What did we use)



Procedure-(how did we do it)



Conclusion- (conclusion should be at least a paragraph and should have a data table or graph)



The following pages in the Table of Contents:

1/25-1/26- Microscope ( Gizmo- Cells)

1/27-1/28- Doing Plate Drawings

1/29-2/1-Osmosis ( Gizmo Osmosis)

2/2-2/3-Potato (e)s and Carrots --Lab report #1 about potato(e)s

2/4-2/5-Oh No!!! Potato(e)s again! Lab Report #2

2/8-2/9- Diffusion ( Red Book p 106-109 and do questions p 109, 1-5 in class) video Cells

2/10-2/11-Mitosis



The questions and text we are using is from the seventh grade Red Science Text Book. The students have been given copies to use in class and given time in class to use the materials.

The students will in Homeroom tomorrow for a practice for FCAT Writing.

There will also be a screening February 11,2010 for scoliosis. The boys will just need regular clothes for the screening, BUT............. the girls will need halter or bathing suit tops under their regular tops.

Osmosis and leadership: can they go together?

We have begun the new nine weeks with many hands on projects. We have looked through microscopes, drawn plate drawing s of onion cells and cheek cells. We learned potatoes don't let salt and sugar disappear into the potato(e)s but sugar and salt draw water out of the potato(e)s.
The students have been given another Gizmo. This is two so far this nine weeks. They are cells and Osmosis. The students did very well on their county science test. The next test will be Cell Theory for the county and for me also. I hope to have the test next week so we can move into body systems. There will be a letter coming home about discussing the Reproductive system.

Here is the table of Contents so far for this nine weeks.

1/25-1/26-microscopes p 6-7
1/27-1/28- Doing plate Drawings p 8-9
1/29-2/1-Osmosis (two activity sheets) p 10-11
Gizmo cells due