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This week will be filled with important scientific concepts.
Monday
Today, students will be writing in their Science Lab notebooks in the glossary section. They’ll get an overview of all of the new vocabulary. We’ll do a demonstration to show the process of osmosis using a celery stalk.Vocabulary is listed in another section of this blog.
Tuesday
Energy and the Cell
Today we’ll talk about photosynthesis, respiration and fermentation. We’ll do illustrations in class to show the relationship between the processes.We’ve been discussing ATP since the beginning of school, and now we’ll have the chance to see the part it plays in these processes.
Wednesday
Today, we’ll finish the projects we began on Tuesday.Students will do the section review on page 93 of the text.
Thursday
Today, students will receive an introduction on the life cycle of the cell. We’ll discuss cell cycles ( the life cycle of the cell). We’ll talk about chromosomes, binary fission, homologous chromosomes, chromatids, the centromere and last ( but certainly not least)mitosis.
Friday
Today, students will have an assessment on all of the concepts covered this week during the first half of the class. The second half of the class will be dedicated to an introduction on mitosis, a concept that we will work on for the next week.
Homework is due today.
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