Unit C Review

Today students reviewed Unit C: Micro-life. They reviewed important concepts and ideas. Review activities 30-53 in your notebooks. You will also be answering the guiding question for your One World Essay tomorrow. Test test has 30 questions including 4 short constructed responses. Please review: the five kingdoms, infectious diseases, microbe, antibiotics, vaccines, timeline, and cell characteristics.

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Activity #53 Maracondo Fever

For the next three days in life science students will be investigating a mysterious disease called Maracondo Fever. Each group of four will have a game board and will be collecting evidence of the disease. There is a doctor, veterinarian, ecologist, and epidemiologist in each group who are in charge of specific evidence and data. Teams will make their final hypothesis of what is transmitting this disease.

Thank you for everyone who attended science fair last night....it was a huge success!

You all did an awesome job!

Activity 51-52 Antibiotic Resistance

Today students read about bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. While students read, they took Cornell notes about the reading and then wrote a summary about why bacteria are resisting antibiotics. The three reasons we discussed are:
1. People are not finishing their full course of medication
2. People are taking antibiotics when they are not sick
3. People are taking antibiotics for the wrong microbial disease

Reminder: Science Fair tonight at 6 tonight in the cafeteria

Activity #49-50 Penicillin

Welcome Back....I hope you all had a great break! Today students started off class by discussing their Science Fair grades and January 10th which is next Monday were we will hold a school wide science fair from 6-7 pm. Judges will score all the projects and awards and winners will be announced at 6:30. Next students watched a video and answered questions about the discovery of penicillin and how it has effected us today. Then students compared vaccines and antibiotics. Finally students wrote a persuasive letter to Ms. Lanier or Mr. T about our bacteria experiment and asked them to clean specific areas in our school where bacteria grew the most.

Hint: There will be a quiz tomorrow over unit C!

Science Fair Celebration

Today students had a party to celebrate their hard work on science fair in the last couple months. I am so proud of the hard work everyone put into this project. It was a great success and I can't wait to see everyone on January 10th for the school wide science fair. Today the signed progress report and five kingdom flip chart was due today. Have a great break!

Bacteria in Henry

Today students observed and recorded bacteria growth in Henry World School. On last Friday, students went around Henry and swabbed areas to see which areas would grow the most bacteria. Today we are calculated the number of large, medium, and small colonies as well as the color and shape of each colony. We then ranked growth from the most growth to the least growth. We will finalize the results in the first week of January.

Homework: SCIENCE FAIR DUE TOMORROW!!!!!!

Due Friday: FLIP CHART/ PROGRESS REPORTS SIGNED

Activity #48 Handwashing

Today students simulated hand washing. Before we did this, students took quiz 5 over last week's content. The answers to the quiz are:
1-2: Viruses are non-living, not made of cells, and can't reproduce on their own. Bacteria are living, have a cell wall and no nucleus.
3: Two diseases in the Fungi Kingdom are athlete's foot and ring worm.
4: The kingdoms that have a nucleus are Protists, Plant, Animal, and Fungi.

Due on Block Days this week: SCIENCE FAIR!!!!!
Due on Friday: Flip Chart