Happy Monday!
6th grade
We will be studying chapter 7 section 3 this week, which is about magnetism. We will also be wrapping up chapter 7 and there will be a chapter test next Monday, 1 week from today.
Here is the link to your homework page in case you ever find yourself without it.
I would like you to watch this video tonight. It is a great review of ohm's law and we will have a miniquiz on ohm's law and calculating I=RV tomorrow at the beginning of class.
Physical Science 6.4a - Ohm`s Law
More science lessons on Electricity at NeoK12.com
7th Grade!
We will continue to study Mitosis and Meiosis.
Please watch these two videos! They are a simple and clear demonstration of how the chromosomes are duplicated and divided and also show crossing over and independent assortment.
Meiosis demonstration
More educational videos on Cell Division at NeoK12.com
After viewing the two videos please complete these two quizzes:
Once you have completed both quizzes, comment on the blog to let me know what your score was and describe the pictures that appeared at the end of the quiz. This is how I will know that you completed the quizzes, which is your homework, so don't forget!
8th Grade
We are continuing to study ecology and more specifically ecological relationships. Your homework tonight will be to play the mosquito game and the parasite game on this website http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/malaria/
While playing the games, you will be learning about the life cycle of the malaria parasite and you will complete the handout that was given to you in class today. After playing the games, please visit this website:
and view the interactive tour. This is a great resource for understanding the malaria life cycle and will help you finish your handout if you were unable to find some of the answers in the mosquito and parasite games.
Either tomorrow or the next day, you will receive your research project assignment. I will give you the full assignment in class, but I would like you to start thinking about topics. The assignment will take about a week to complete and you will be presenting in class, so make sure you pick something you are interested in. This is an individual assignment and each topic can only be done by one person. Here is a list of possible topics:
- What’s happening to frogs? (What is causing amphibian populations to decline worldwide?)
- Where have all the wild fish gone? (How is the fishing industry affecting populations of wild fish?)
- What’s wrong with a fish farm? (What are the effects of factory fish farming on ocean ecosystem health?)
- Uh oh, I lost my way! (How is increased development harming migratory birds and butterflies?)
- Romeo, Romeo, I can’t hear you. (What effect are changing undersea sound levels having on ocean species?)
If there is a topic that you think fits the theme of these topics that you are really interested in, you may ask me if it is something you may research and we will discuss it.
PE
There is no PE on Wednesday because of the field trip. Girls will have games on Tuesday and Yoga in the park on Thursday. It is the Girls' week to have two classes and there have been weeks when girls did not have PE due to field trips. It all evens out in the end.
*Please dress appropriately!
RUN FOR THE ZOO!
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REMEMBER, if you participate you get a free homework or 2pts on a test or quiz. If you recruit friends and family, you get another free homework or extra points for each of them!
Its a good deal, and it is going to be FUN!!!
Hi Mrs.Maggi this is Rinad I got 88/8 om both the mitosis and meosis quiz
ReplyDeleteI got a perfect grade on both quizzes. On the mitosis quiz, the picture was of the stages of mitosis, including one we didn't talk about yet: prometaphase. On the meiosis quiz, it was a zygote turning into an embryo.
ReplyDelete-Odey
On the mitosis quiz, I got an 8 out of 8. I actually guessed the picture before I finished the puzzle. It was the stages of mitosis. On the meiosis quiz, I got an 8 out of 8. I had no idea what the picture was but it sort of looked like one of the pictures that we had on one of our homeworks. Apparently, it was a part of a larva's epidermis. :)
ReplyDeleteI got 8/8 in mitosis and the picture was a section of epidermis of a larva with cells in early prophase, anaphase, and telophase.
ReplyDeleteI got 7/8 in the meiosis with pictures showing a fertilized cell going through 2-cell, 4-cell, 16-cell, and 32-cell stage to form an embryo.
Okay so i did the meiosis quiz and i got a 8/8, i did it twice. The mitosis one i got 7/8, i did both of them twice. :) Gnasher is adorable! <3
ReplyDelete-Gada Khalaf
I got 8/8 on my mitosis quiz. And I got 7/8 in my meiosis quiz. The mitosis picture looks kind of like the poster that Marwa did; we had that homework over the break.
ReplyDeleteI got 8/8 on my Mitosis quiz and I got 7/8 on my Meiosis quiz. I couldn't tell what the pictures were.
ReplyDeleteHi this is Amina. I got a 8/8 on my meiosis quiz, and on my mitosis quiz i got a 8/8 also. in the mitosis quiz the picture was of a onion root tip preparing for mitosis,the picture in the meiosis quiz was of a zygote.
ReplyDelete~ Amina
Subhanallah, everyone got good grades. And Gnasher is so cute, Mashallah.
ReplyDeleteHi this is Taha. I got an 8 out of 8 on both quizzes. I was excited to see the meiosis picture after seeing the mitosis picture on the first quiz but then it turned out to be the mitosis picture again. And I was hoping to be surprised.
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