Week 11: November 26 - 30

Goals:
1. Describe the basic steps of energy flow in living things, including photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
2. Name the reactants and products for photosynthesis and respiration.

Activities:
Monday: Go over returned work. Short lecture on section 9.1. Homework: read 197-200, questions 1-6 on page 201.
Tuesday: National EXPLORE test.
Wednesday: Review for unit test.
Friday: Unit Test

The unit test is over chapters 3, 8, and section 9.1, the chemistry behind cellular processes. Students should review the goals and work from weeks 6-10, including the two sets of flashcards that included atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, reactions, enzymes, carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids and lipids.

Weeks 9-10, November 5-16

Goals:
1. Describe the structure of the cell membrane.
2. Explain the terms concentration and equilibrium.
3. Describe the processes of diffusion and osmosis.
4. Describe two forms of active transport.

Activities:
Monday: In class read p175-177 Answer Questions 1-5, p 177. Finish as homework.
Tuesday: Demonstrations, start grape lab, work on interactive reader sec 8-2. Finish as homework.
Wednesday: Finish grape lab. Make flashcards. Film? Homework: read p. 178-183. Questions - p. 183, 1-3; p191, 3-8, 11-14 Due Wednesday, 11/14
Friday: no school
Monday: no school
Tuesday: Lecture Active Transport
Wednesday: Plasmolysis Lab
Friday: Review and Quiz

Notebook:
1. Questions p 177, 1-5
2. Interactive Reader sec. 8-2
3. Conclusion for grape lab
4. Questions p. 183, 1-3; p191, 3-8 and 11 - 14
5. Lecture Notes
6. Plasmolysis Lab.

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?