Monday:
Procedures:
Class communication
Weebly: mshsbiology.weebly.com
Part II
The mission is called TESS, short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, and it will spend two years scanning almost the entire sky to search for alien worlds.
Directions: You are a member of an astrobiology team commissioned by NASA to to come up with a comprehensive list of characteristics that you think defines life as a whole. This list would help guide the development of an interplanetary probe to explore life beyond this pale blue dot.
Now, if you are searching for life you need to know what you are looking for…right? Let’s start first by our only frame of reference at this time, life on our home planet-Earth.
Now to help you with this task refer to the table of 18 objects that you made. On this table you committed yourself to the determination of whether an object was alive, had once been alive or is part of a living organism, or not.
When formulating your list ask yourself the following two questions:
1. Do your characteristics apply to all living things on Earth?
2. Does every living thing on earth have to have each characteristic in your list to be considered a living organism?
If the answer is “no”, to either of these two questions, then your list is too narrow. In other words: If there are any living things on earth that don’t have a specific characteristic that is on your list, then your characteristic is too narrow and you must revise it to be more broad. For instance, do all living things have to eat or breath? Think about it.
Assignment: Scientific investigation packet- complete by next class meeting BOP (beginning of the period)
Tuesday/Wednesday
What characteristics or properties do all living things have?
Come up with a list of characteristics that all life has individually- 10 min/then
Share your list with your assigned group of carbon units and then write a "consensus" list on the whiteboard and be ready to share with the entire class-
Experimental design:
Period 4: class planning/brainstorming sheet
Period 5: class planning/brainstorming sheet
Introduction: Investigation PLF (click on "Labs" tab)
Thursday
As an investigation team (4 carbon units) design a valid and reliable investigation to answer the following question: Do sow bugs have a preference when given a choice of varying habitats?
Be sure to complete the team sign-up Google Sheet- and include materials needed (next lab block Tuesday/Wednesday) (links posted above)
Friday
Quiz: Experimental Design/Chapter 2
Mark final answer on Scantron sheet, Make sure name is on quiz form for short answer/matching questions.- May your fountains of knowledge flow!
There is a quiz correction option to regain quiz points - see "class procedures" tab on Weebly site.
Make sure you are finished with your group's PLF Monday BOP
Chapter 41 Review- next Thursday- EOD
Procedures:
- Check side book shelf for daily handouts/assignments
Class communication
Weebly: mshsbiology.weebly.com
- 2019/2020 Daily Adventure (daily/weekly record (blog) of what we are doing in class + links to course materials, apps, etc.).
- Class calendar (assignment due dates /assessment dates)
- Class assignments /assessments
- Updated announcements
- more to come:)
Part II
- Young Astronomer Uses Artificial Intelligence To Discover 2 Exoplanets (NPR) A team of astronomers led by an undergraduate student in Texas has discovered two planets orbiting stars more than 1,200 light-years from Earth.
- Get Ready For the Next Big Thing In NASA's Search For Earth's Twin
The mission is called TESS, short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, and it will spend two years scanning almost the entire sky to search for alien worlds.
Directions: You are a member of an astrobiology team commissioned by NASA to to come up with a comprehensive list of characteristics that you think defines life as a whole. This list would help guide the development of an interplanetary probe to explore life beyond this pale blue dot.
Now, if you are searching for life you need to know what you are looking for…right? Let’s start first by our only frame of reference at this time, life on our home planet-Earth.
Now to help you with this task refer to the table of 18 objects that you made. On this table you committed yourself to the determination of whether an object was alive, had once been alive or is part of a living organism, or not.
When formulating your list ask yourself the following two questions:
1. Do your characteristics apply to all living things on Earth?
2. Does every living thing on earth have to have each characteristic in your list to be considered a living organism?
If the answer is “no”, to either of these two questions, then your list is too narrow. In other words: If there are any living things on earth that don’t have a specific characteristic that is on your list, then your characteristic is too narrow and you must revise it to be more broad. For instance, do all living things have to eat or breath? Think about it.
Assignment: Scientific investigation packet- complete by next class meeting BOP (beginning of the period)
Tuesday/Wednesday
What characteristics or properties do all living things have?
Come up with a list of characteristics that all life has individually- 10 min/then
Share your list with your assigned group of carbon units and then write a "consensus" list on the whiteboard and be ready to share with the entire class-
Experimental design:
Period 4: class planning/brainstorming sheet
Period 5: class planning/brainstorming sheet
Introduction: Investigation PLF (click on "Labs" tab)
Thursday
As an investigation team (4 carbon units) design a valid and reliable investigation to answer the following question: Do sow bugs have a preference when given a choice of varying habitats?
Be sure to complete the team sign-up Google Sheet- and include materials needed (next lab block Tuesday/Wednesday) (links posted above)
Friday
Quiz: Experimental Design/Chapter 2
Mark final answer on Scantron sheet, Make sure name is on quiz form for short answer/matching questions.- May your fountains of knowledge flow!
There is a quiz correction option to regain quiz points - see "class procedures" tab on Weebly site.
Make sure you are finished with your group's PLF Monday BOP
Chapter 41 Review- next Thursday- EOD
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