Week 8, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2

Goals: (Continued from week 7)
1. Be able to describe the basic structure, properties and common names and uses of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nucleic acids.
2. Describe what a chemical reaction is.
3. Describe the law of conservation of mass.
4. Describe the law of conservation of energy.
5. Know that enzymes are proteins (or RNA) that speed up a chemical reaction by lowering the activiation energy.

Activities:
Monday: Finish Chemistry of Foods lab. Get Flashcards. Homework - Study flashcards 10 minutes.
Tuesday: Notes on Chemical Reactions. Work with reading assignment in class. Homework - Read p 64-67 Answer questions 1-5 on p. 67. Flashcard work.
Thursday: Lab - Measurement of Food Energy. Homework - Study Flashcards.
Friday: Wrap up and review. Quiz an d Notebooks.

Notebook:
1. Carbon Compounds (notes)
2. Review Questions
3. Chemistry of Foods lab.
4. Notes on Chemical Reactions
5. Interactive Reader (handout with questions)
6. Questions from book p.67 1-5
7. Measurement of Food Energy Lab

Two Notes Oct. 22

I am encouraging students with reliable internet access at home to use the online version of the book.
They log in at http://my.hrw.com/and use a user name and password that I gave them last week. I can easily provide these by email if one has been lost. The online book still has all of the text and questions, but it also has interactive features such as animations of difficult concepts and processes.

I am also encouraging those students that expect to use the online version at home exclusively to return their textbooks to me. I will check them out in my name and keep a class set in my room so that no one will have to carry their textbooks back and forth to school.

Part two
I wasn't at school on Friday so I didn't get their notebooks. This means that grades won't be updated until Tuesday. Students who did poorly on the first unit test have until Tuesday to retake the test.

Week 7 - Oct. 22-25

Goals:
1. Be able to describe the basic structure, properties and common names and uses of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nucleic acids.

Activities:
Monday: Guest Presentation from the Teen Health Clinic. Start Carbon Compounds Groupwork. Homework: Read section 3.1 pp 59-63 and finish the one assigned part of the group project.
Tuesday: Finish group project. (All columns filled.) Answer review questions on handout.
Wednesday: Food Chemistry Lab

Notebook:
1. Carbon Compounds
2. Review Questions handout.
3. Lab data Table
4. Lab questions.

Week 6, Oct 15 - 19

Goals:
1. Correctly use the vocabulary: atom, element, molecule, compound, electron, proton, chemical bond and polar.
2. Draw particle pictures for chemical formulas.
3. Interpret and write chemical formulas.
4. Be able to describe several ways in which water is an unusual and important molecule.

Activities:
Monday: Go over Test. Peer edit lab conclusions.
Tuesday: Notes on Vocabulary and section 3.1. Homework: Read section 3.1, Finish questions on Notesheet. Drill with Flashcards
Wednesday: Review and Practice Game. Homework: Read section 3.2 Answer questions 1-3, p. 57
Friday: Film: Elements, Compounds and Mixtures.

Notebook Contents
1. Cell Biology review sheet.
2. Mitosis Lab Data Table.
3. Major Themes of Biology Practice.
4. Mitosis Lab Conclusion.
5. Notes on Section 3.1
6. Sec 3.2 questions p.57
7. Film Notes - Elements, Compounds and Mixtures

Unit 2 The Chemistry of Life

Students will start the second unit of the year this week: The chemistry of life. It roughly follows chapters 3, 8 and 9 from the text and will probably end around Nov 30 with their next big test.

Some of the big questions on which we'll be focusing this unit are
1. What are ATP, sugar, protein and DNA molecules?
2. How are they made and used in a cell?
3. What are molecules and chemical reactions in general?
4. How can chemistry explain how the celll membrane lets some chemicals in and out of the cell?
5. Atoms are cells are both "building blocks." What's the difference? Which is smaller?
6. What chemicals are essential for life?
7. Homeostasis is the maintanance of controlled conditions in living things. What roles do chemistry play in this?

Week 5 Oct. 8 - 11

Goals:
1. Organize a lab procedure and data table.
2. Support a conclusion with data.
3. Organize cell biology topics around major themes in biology (structure/function, homeostasis, evolution, levels of organization, energy flow)

Note : These goals are not tested on htis weeks unit test.

Activites:
Monday: Start Mitosis Lab. Homework: Review for test.
Tuesday: Finish Mitosis Lab and review for test.
Wednesday: Review. Discuss writing a conclusion for the lab. Unit Test. Homework: Finish writing conclusion for lab.

Notebook:
This week's notebook will be combined with next week's, so it will not be collected Wednesday.
1. Review sheets.
2. Mitosis Lab Data Table.
3. Major Themes of Biology and Cell Review.
4. Mitosis Lab Conclusion.