1st Hour Bio A
Students will today be working on projects. We want to see some of these products done by Friday night to set one or several display booths out for Friday nights game. Students are reminded that their assignment from yesterday are due by the end of the hour on Wed., or tomorrow. As I was going through your Nutritional Projects document you began at the start of this project. Many of you have not added or put down additional information that you have found or projected ideas that you are planning on doing.
I want you to go back to these documents and put todays date and give a brief synopsis of how or what you are doing with your material. Be ready for a brief oral presentation of your ideas and projected dates for completion as I come around to each group today.
3rd Hour Bio B
We are beginning our preparation for State Assessments. Today we will be looking at Genetics as our focal topic. We will be watching several videos in class and presentations over the Genome web site. I am also going to include a couple site we will be working from over the next week to gain understanding of terms we need for the test. We will also be looking at some samples of questions that you may come into contact with as we take our test.
State Assessment Items- This document has some sample type questions covering information that may be relavent for the state assessment. There is also a link that provides us with terms that the KSDE has included as important to know or be aware of through our studies in biology.
Human Genome Information- This site allows you to look into various terms related with the genetics of humans and have information related to you as a reader through various forms.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
Jan. 7th, 2013
Bio A First Hour
As you begin today, I want you to remember that you still need to be working on your projects that we were given time on Friday to work on. Our goal date of the 11th of Jan. for some of our work to be viewed is still in reach. I want you to open the link below termed Idling Assignment, and read all three documents that are listed. Select one article to complete the assignment work on. It is important to read all three documents because they will give us a better understanding of the validity of the material. When you get this done, you need to submit this to me by Wed., as only parts of the hour may be used on Tue and Wed to get this completed.
Idling Assignment
Bio B 3rd Hour
As with first hour, you should continue to think about and be working on your projects, but I want you to as well look at the reading of automobile idling. You will have to complete the assignment as well as listed above for first hour.
A & P 4th Hour
We are going to be discussing answer to questions 25-31 on page 1568 of the reading assigned on Friday. We will be taking our quiz over this material on Wed. Today we will briefly talk about the answers to these questions and then I will post my answers to them on the blog at the end of the hour. They are listed below, but I have not made them accessible until after we get through with our discussion.
Answers to 25-31 questions.
As you begin today, I want you to remember that you still need to be working on your projects that we were given time on Friday to work on. Our goal date of the 11th of Jan. for some of our work to be viewed is still in reach. I want you to open the link below termed Idling Assignment, and read all three documents that are listed. Select one article to complete the assignment work on. It is important to read all three documents because they will give us a better understanding of the validity of the material. When you get this done, you need to submit this to me by Wed., as only parts of the hour may be used on Tue and Wed to get this completed.
Idling Assignment
Bio B 3rd Hour
As with first hour, you should continue to think about and be working on your projects, but I want you to as well look at the reading of automobile idling. You will have to complete the assignment as well as listed above for first hour.
A & P 4th Hour
We are going to be discussing answer to questions 25-31 on page 1568 of the reading assigned on Friday. We will be taking our quiz over this material on Wed. Today we will briefly talk about the answers to these questions and then I will post my answers to them on the blog at the end of the hour. They are listed below, but I have not made them accessible until after we get through with our discussion.
Answers to 25-31 questions.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Jan. 4th, 2013
Welcome Back !!!
I hope you had a wonderful break and got a lot of time to spend with your family and friends. I truly enjoyed the time I got to spend with my kids, wife and new puppies we have at our home. I also spent a considerable amount of time reflecting about the first half of the year and began to sketch out the plans for the 2nd half of my classes. We did a lot of great work but a lot of it was establishment of plan we intend to implement in the very near future. We have a lot of work to do and I hope you have come back to school ready to put our plans in action.
As many of us do as we age, ( you'll know what I mean in future years), we begin to look at our life with all of its virtues as well as flaws. We make New Years resolutions that promise to decrease our weight, increase the involvement in healthy habits and attempt to plan financially for the future of our lives. I know students in high school tend not to look into their life so in depth, but maybe we should. Maybe we should plan better study habits, challenge ourselves with more invigorating educational subjects, and look to see what effect we can have on our planet. I am hoping, if nothing else happened during the first half of our school year, that we looked into opening our eyes to the effects we have as a population on our planet. Many of you began good works with many environmental issues as well as nutritional studies that can benefit our school and living communities.
I am looking at doing several things differently in the next few months and mostly because of the work that you as students put in during 2012. I have several articles for you to read on Monday and begin doing some analysis of how we are impacting our planet. We are no longer purchasing water bottles at our house due to the plastic oceans we studied about in December. We will look at other alternatives as I hope you will as well on how we can use water more effectively. You may notice me walking to or from school as we return mainly due to the problem that I have in the cold weather of it taking longer to thaw my windshield and let the car warm than it does to actually drive to school. My health and our environment will be better off with me walking although I know this is not an option for many of my students.
Lets just keep challenging ourselves to see how great of an effect we can have on our school, community and our personal lives over the next few months.
Bio A- 1st Hour
Today I will be handing back your diagrams you began in December as I want you to either get them into an electronic media or continue working on them in your colored pencil form. Lets get the plans put together and get these projects operational in the next several weeks.
Bio B- 3rd Hour
As with first hour, I will be giving you back your project works and have you continue working with the concepts until they are competed. I want them to get into the public eye soon.
A & P 4th Hour
Today I want you to look into a short system we will be covering prior to getting into the muscles. I want you to read on your iPad the textbook Biology by Pearson over the chapter 32.3 Skin- The Integumentary System, pages 1554- 1558. Answer the questions on page 1559, 1-5, 6a., 6b., 7a., 7b., and 8 a & b. Create the questions 6-8 on a google document and make your answers there. When you complete the assignment, submit it to me. This will be due by the end of the hour on Monday, but we will spend little time working on them during class. We will also be looking at answering some of the questions on page 1568 during class on Monday, as you might want to take a look at them prior to class on Monday.
I hope you had a wonderful break and got a lot of time to spend with your family and friends. I truly enjoyed the time I got to spend with my kids, wife and new puppies we have at our home. I also spent a considerable amount of time reflecting about the first half of the year and began to sketch out the plans for the 2nd half of my classes. We did a lot of great work but a lot of it was establishment of plan we intend to implement in the very near future. We have a lot of work to do and I hope you have come back to school ready to put our plans in action.
As many of us do as we age, ( you'll know what I mean in future years), we begin to look at our life with all of its virtues as well as flaws. We make New Years resolutions that promise to decrease our weight, increase the involvement in healthy habits and attempt to plan financially for the future of our lives. I know students in high school tend not to look into their life so in depth, but maybe we should. Maybe we should plan better study habits, challenge ourselves with more invigorating educational subjects, and look to see what effect we can have on our planet. I am hoping, if nothing else happened during the first half of our school year, that we looked into opening our eyes to the effects we have as a population on our planet. Many of you began good works with many environmental issues as well as nutritional studies that can benefit our school and living communities.
I am looking at doing several things differently in the next few months and mostly because of the work that you as students put in during 2012. I have several articles for you to read on Monday and begin doing some analysis of how we are impacting our planet. We are no longer purchasing water bottles at our house due to the plastic oceans we studied about in December. We will look at other alternatives as I hope you will as well on how we can use water more effectively. You may notice me walking to or from school as we return mainly due to the problem that I have in the cold weather of it taking longer to thaw my windshield and let the car warm than it does to actually drive to school. My health and our environment will be better off with me walking although I know this is not an option for many of my students.
Lets just keep challenging ourselves to see how great of an effect we can have on our school, community and our personal lives over the next few months.
Bio A- 1st Hour
Today I will be handing back your diagrams you began in December as I want you to either get them into an electronic media or continue working on them in your colored pencil form. Lets get the plans put together and get these projects operational in the next several weeks.
Bio B- 3rd Hour
As with first hour, I will be giving you back your project works and have you continue working with the concepts until they are competed. I want them to get into the public eye soon.
A & P 4th Hour
Today I want you to look into a short system we will be covering prior to getting into the muscles. I want you to read on your iPad the textbook Biology by Pearson over the chapter 32.3 Skin- The Integumentary System, pages 1554- 1558. Answer the questions on page 1559, 1-5, 6a., 6b., 7a., 7b., and 8 a & b. Create the questions 6-8 on a google document and make your answers there. When you complete the assignment, submit it to me. This will be due by the end of the hour on Monday, but we will spend little time working on them during class. We will also be looking at answering some of the questions on page 1568 during class on Monday, as you might want to take a look at them prior to class on Monday.
Friday, December 21, 2012
December 21, 2012
To: All CGHS Students especially those in Biology and Anatomy classes.
I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and I hope you have a Happy and Safe New Year!
Remember to tell those around you over the break how important they are to you and remind them of the great influence they have had on your life. I look forward to the break and will equally look forward to seeing you as we return January 4th.
Reminders: We have been working on projects and presentations prior to the break. Continue your thoughts on these projects over the break and come prepared to put your plans into action during January.
As you can see our business cards are in and we will be working on our Soup Supper flyer today in class. The date has been set in conjunction with Senior Night wrestling on the 31st of January. Our board of officers will be meeting when we come back after the break to establish prizes and set up teams for distribution of tickets.
Soup Flyer- This is not a finished product but yet a start to our flyer for our soup supper. I hope to have student input on how we want to present this and then get the flyers up in our community and school as we come back from break. We also need to develop our tickets so we can begin selling them for our fundraiser.
Prezi for Garden Growers- Give credit where it is due. Megan Goeckel created this prezi for our Growers Group presentation. This will be up and running during our soup supper as well as other events in January. The great thing about this prezi is that as it is an electronic venue, it can be continually modified and enhanced as we continue with our project work. Great Job Megan!!!!
I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and I hope you have a Happy and Safe New Year!
Remember to tell those around you over the break how important they are to you and remind them of the great influence they have had on your life. I look forward to the break and will equally look forward to seeing you as we return January 4th.
Reminders: We have been working on projects and presentations prior to the break. Continue your thoughts on these projects over the break and come prepared to put your plans into action during January.
As you can see our business cards are in and we will be working on our Soup Supper flyer today in class. The date has been set in conjunction with Senior Night wrestling on the 31st of January. Our board of officers will be meeting when we come back after the break to establish prizes and set up teams for distribution of tickets.
Soup Flyer- This is not a finished product but yet a start to our flyer for our soup supper. I hope to have student input on how we want to present this and then get the flyers up in our community and school as we come back from break. We also need to develop our tickets so we can begin selling them for our fundraiser.
Prezi for Garden Growers- Give credit where it is due. Megan Goeckel created this prezi for our Growers Group presentation. This will be up and running during our soup supper as well as other events in January. The great thing about this prezi is that as it is an electronic venue, it can be continually modified and enhanced as we continue with our project work. Great Job Megan!!!!
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
December 18, 2012
1st and 3rd Hour Bio
Congratulations to the following biology students as being selected to officer positions for the CGHS Garden Growers Group. Names and positions are attached in the document linked below.
Garden Growers Officers
At present, we have 8 students who have selected to be on the Envirothon Team. The team actually consist of 5 team members, and if we gain more interest we may have two teams. At present, I am taking the 8 members and evaluating their participation over our post vacation activities. We will select the 5 members to participate and have the other two as alternates in case of sickness or absence on competition day.
Congratulations to John Smith, Randy Phillips, Nadine Armstrong, Travis Garrett, Corinna Bishop, Caleb Thibodeaux, Logan Marsh and Brody Sherman as team members.
Students will be working outside to clear the planting beds of mulch and weeds. We are preparing them for planting in the spring. It will depend on the weather for tomorrow, but our plan is to go outside again, unless it is raining or snowing. The snow is not to come in until the afternoon, but it may be raining in the morning.
4th Hour A & P
Students are review for the test tomorrow. I have included several different items to help them prepare for the test.
pneumonic device- This is a document that has several pneumonic devices to help remember the carpal bones of the wrist.
Ligaments of the wrist. - I did not want to get too involved with all the ligaments that help to stabilize the carpal bones, metacarpal and phalanges, but I thought this diagram was definitely interesting to look at.
Notes for carpals and functions
Congratulations to the following biology students as being selected to officer positions for the CGHS Garden Growers Group. Names and positions are attached in the document linked below.
Garden Growers Officers
At present, we have 8 students who have selected to be on the Envirothon Team. The team actually consist of 5 team members, and if we gain more interest we may have two teams. At present, I am taking the 8 members and evaluating their participation over our post vacation activities. We will select the 5 members to participate and have the other two as alternates in case of sickness or absence on competition day.
Congratulations to John Smith, Randy Phillips, Nadine Armstrong, Travis Garrett, Corinna Bishop, Caleb Thibodeaux, Logan Marsh and Brody Sherman as team members.
Students will be working outside to clear the planting beds of mulch and weeds. We are preparing them for planting in the spring. It will depend on the weather for tomorrow, but our plan is to go outside again, unless it is raining or snowing. The snow is not to come in until the afternoon, but it may be raining in the morning.
4th Hour A & P
Students are review for the test tomorrow. I have included several different items to help them prepare for the test.
pneumonic device- This is a document that has several pneumonic devices to help remember the carpal bones of the wrist.
Ligaments of the wrist. - I did not want to get too involved with all the ligaments that help to stabilize the carpal bones, metacarpal and phalanges, but I thought this diagram was definitely interesting to look at.
Notes for carpals and functions
Monday, December 17, 2012
December 17, 2012
1st Hour Bio A
As many of you have noticed we had no blog posting last week. We spent the week working on researching information about nutritional awareness throughout the week. Students were given specific areas of nutrition to choose to research. As we progressed through the week, we began to collect this information and develop a plan to present this information to the student population of CGHS as well as the community of USD 417. We are planning to have projects done and reading to bring into the public eye during our home basketball games in January and February.
Water & Plastic Bottles- This site gives a great explanation of how plastics are used in products today. This allows us to understand some of the ideas that are out there and how big of a problem plastics are becoming.
We will be going outdoors tomorrow and Wed. to continue work on the planting beds.
1st Hour Bio B
We worked on the same thing that 1st hour had done as we have done over the past week.
We will be going outdoors tomorrow and Wed. to continue work on the planting beds.
A & P 4th Hour
Today time was spent on developing our projects as we were limited in time on Friday due to the taking of our test. As was reflected in class, many of the students just have vague concepts or ideas about their projects and many need to spend a greater amount of time in discovery of their subject in order to fully be able to design a project that will give us information as a result.
I have also included a web site below that may help students gain a better understanding of joints in the human skeleton and how they are held together.
Joints of the Upper Arm- This site allows you to look at the various joints of the upper arm, some we have already covered and others that we are now covering with the hand. Take a look at the ones that are applicable to our present studies and see if the rest are usable for you at a later time.
As many of you have noticed we had no blog posting last week. We spent the week working on researching information about nutritional awareness throughout the week. Students were given specific areas of nutrition to choose to research. As we progressed through the week, we began to collect this information and develop a plan to present this information to the student population of CGHS as well as the community of USD 417. We are planning to have projects done and reading to bring into the public eye during our home basketball games in January and February.
Water & Plastic Bottles- This site gives a great explanation of how plastics are used in products today. This allows us to understand some of the ideas that are out there and how big of a problem plastics are becoming.
We will be going outdoors tomorrow and Wed. to continue work on the planting beds.
1st Hour Bio B
We worked on the same thing that 1st hour had done as we have done over the past week.
We will be going outdoors tomorrow and Wed. to continue work on the planting beds.
A & P 4th Hour
Today time was spent on developing our projects as we were limited in time on Friday due to the taking of our test. As was reflected in class, many of the students just have vague concepts or ideas about their projects and many need to spend a greater amount of time in discovery of their subject in order to fully be able to design a project that will give us information as a result.
I have also included a web site below that may help students gain a better understanding of joints in the human skeleton and how they are held together.
Joints of the Upper Arm- This site allows you to look at the various joints of the upper arm, some we have already covered and others that we are now covering with the hand. Take a look at the ones that are applicable to our present studies and see if the rest are usable for you at a later time.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
December 12, 2012
Bio A 1st Hour
Today students are working on documents they began yesterday in class. They should look at yesterdays post to remind them of some of the topics of nutrition and continue research for the first half of the hour over some of the information they can obtain through their research and add it to yesterdays document. They then need to use the second portion of class to design a strategy to display this information to the student body of CGHS and our community. They can use a variety of electronic fashions to display nutritional information as well as we will be using a poster campaign to bring forward this information to the public.
These students should also be attempting to research information about raised bed gardens, which is a project we will be working on during April in our community.
Bio B 3rd Hour
Students in this class should read the blog posting for first hour and do the same.
A & P 4th Hour
Anatomy students will be taking a test today. After they finish the test, I want them to construct a document as I gave to them yesterday for study of the Ulna and Radius. This will be their homework assignment for this unit. They are to create a google document and list out the structures of the ulna and radius. They will then need to research information over the functions of the structures listed in their packet.
Today students are working on documents they began yesterday in class. They should look at yesterdays post to remind them of some of the topics of nutrition and continue research for the first half of the hour over some of the information they can obtain through their research and add it to yesterdays document. They then need to use the second portion of class to design a strategy to display this information to the student body of CGHS and our community. They can use a variety of electronic fashions to display nutritional information as well as we will be using a poster campaign to bring forward this information to the public.
These students should also be attempting to research information about raised bed gardens, which is a project we will be working on during April in our community.
Bio B 3rd Hour
Students in this class should read the blog posting for first hour and do the same.
A & P 4th Hour
Anatomy students will be taking a test today. After they finish the test, I want them to construct a document as I gave to them yesterday for study of the Ulna and Radius. This will be their homework assignment for this unit. They are to create a google document and list out the structures of the ulna and radius. They will then need to research information over the functions of the structures listed in their packet.
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