11-12 Science Homework

Date Assigned

Date Due

Description of Class, Assignment, and Any Important Handouts

(note: the top of the table has the most recent descriptions)

Agenda

• Hand out Junior Seminar Syllabus
• Brainstorm project topics
• Example proposal
• Example oral presentation notes

HOMEWORK: Work on project proposal and draft of portfolio essay.  Proposal DUE this Friday, April 30th.  First draft of essay DUE Thursday April 29th.

Agenda

• Peer editing OR "I am" peer discussions.  Where are you in your writing process.  Pair up and talk with your partner about how you're feeling, where you're going with your article, where you'd like to be, etc. 
• Write a 4-5 sentence reflection about this discussion

TO DO:  E-MAIL BETH AND AMIR DRAFTS OF ARTICLE, SHORT AND BIO!!! Even if you don't feel as though you're ready for edits, its time to start turning over some drafts.  You all are really making good progress.  This is not an easy process, but just think...in one week you will be a published author!!!

REMINDER: Check your e-mail and the website daily!

Agenda

• Read an example bio
• Visitor, Peter Davenport, came to talk about editing and peer editing.  He gave us a handout related to do's and don'ts with writing scientific journal articles. 
• Write, research, edit

TO DO: Have something that you're working on peer edited by a classmate or teacher.  Spend 20 minutes editing and then talking about the edits and how you can incorporate them into your piece.  BE OPEN TO SUGGESTION!  Keep in mind how many people will be reading your articles.  It is great practice to change your writing as well as edit the work of others. 

**NOTE- Peer editing will count as a homework grade.  Please turn in a copy of your summarization of the edits you received as well as how you might incorporate them into your writing/ 

Agenda

• Questions about bio?
• Update progress chart
• Write, research, edit:)

In need of inspiration??  Remember to take breaks from your work.  Take a walk, swing on a swing, hang out with a friend or meditate.  Try setting yourself time outlines.  (ie: I will work for 30 minutes, take a 5 minute break, work for 30 minutes, eat a snack, etc)

REMEMBER to check your e-mail daily and if you find good resources, share them with the class!  Keep up the good work!

Agenda

• NO POWERPOINT required!  :)
• Check off what you've accomplished on an in-class progress chart.  What do you need to do next?
• You will each be writing a bio for yourself.  Check your e-mail for an assignment description or download THIS

HOMEWORK:  Familiarize yourself with what a bio is and what you might include in your bio.  WRITE ROUGH DRAFT!  Remember, this is may be a VERY rough draft.  That's Ok!  Its important to start writing so that you can continue to add and modify.  We will do peer edits on Thursday.

REMINDER:  Check your e-mail every day for class reminders.  E-mail Jess, Beth and Amir questions and drafts so that we can start getting some edits back to you. 

THANKS FOR ALL YOU HARD WORK!!

Agenda

• Continue editing hook
• Continue developing a solid outline
• Be sure you've starting contacting "experts" by now! 
• Continue to focus the research and writing

HOMEWORK:  E-mail any documents to Beth, Amir or Jess for edits.  ASK QUESTIONS!  We're getting down to the wire now.  Keep your heads up!:)

Agenda

• Turn in "hook" or organized notes page/outline
• Research and continue to develop your outline. 

HOMEWORK: Either your hook or your notes/outline (whichever you did not turn in today)

Agenda

• Set goals for the day
• Work independently on hook, research or powerpoint
• Check out the great article in the Harvard Gazette about our SOTM Field Trip!

Agenda

• Re-visit classroom expectations.  If class time is missed or mis-used, the time will need to be made up during lunch or study hall.  When working independently, write where you are going on the board and be there. 
• Review SOTM Journal expectations
• Work independently

Positive Introductions:  Students have been asked to start the 5 minutes of class with something that they think will create a positive atmosphere.  Each were assigned to a day. 

Wed 3/31: Jess

Thurs 4/1: Kyle

Fri 4/2: Caitlin

Mon 4/5: _____

Tues 4/6: Aliana

Wed 4/7: Meghan

Thurs 4/8: Josh

Fri 4/9: Lena

GOAL: Have a 1st draft of a Letter to an Expert to Beth, Jess and Amir today.  Have topic ok'd by Jess, Beth or Amir today

Agenda

• Highlights from trip
• Layout tasks that need to be completed over the next few weeks:

SOTM journal
Drawing (cover): Aliana
Drawing (back cover): Lena?
Harvard brain bank: Sara
Albert Erives (evolutionary biologist):________
Josh Greene's lab: Lena
Project Zero: Meghan
Social cognitive & affective neuroscience:________
Visual perception lab: Ariel
Photo processing: Josh & Kyle  
Other Jobs
Editor: Meghan
Layout: Josh (?)
Proofreader: Meghan (?)

Brain Anatomy PowerPoint- everyone will be working on a few slides to compile.  This assignment will be posted tomorrow

Article- Continue with research.  Begin to narrow down your topic.

Letter to an expert- Find a handful of people that you can e-mail questions about your topic.  These should be sent this week! Bring drafts to class for peer editing

HOMEWORK: Write in a few sentences...

-One thing that you’re coming away with from this trip (learned, experienced, a revelation, a class connection)

-One thing that you would change about the trip or the lab presentations and how (recommendations)

Agenda

• Sheep Brain dissection
• Visitor: Albert Erives, an evolutionary biologist from Darthmouth College, will come to participate in dissecting brains and will speak about the evolution of the human brain. Check out his website!
• Here's an interesting blog of Deric Bownds discussing the Biology of the Mind

Agenda

• Mindfulness Activity
• Brain Anatomy and Function make-up Quiz
• Begin compiling photos for Brain PowerPoint

1st Draft of Letter to the Expert: DUE MONDAY March 28th

Agenda

• Review Brain Communication
• Fetal Pig Brain Dissection

Assignments:

TOMORROW is the Brain Anatomy and Function make-up quiz

DUE Friday, April 2nd: Brain anatomy comparison PowerPoint

Note: This powerpoint assignment can be found within the Pig Dissection handout.  There will be class time to work on assembling the photos from our various dissections. 

Agenda

• Brain communication group activity
• Brain evolution, structure and communication powerpoint

NOTE: We made it through the slides up to the structure of a neuron and the general description of how a message is received by a neuron and passed on to another neuron. 

Reminder: QUIZ retake next TUESDAY, MARCH 23rd

• The quiz will take questions directly from the original quizzes, including one question about the transmission of a signal within and between neurons.  A word bank will be provided. 

Agenda

• Cover Letter to the Expert (Word Version) and Letter to Expert (pdf version)
• Research
• FYI: Retake quiz on Tuesday (compliation of 3 quiz questions... if you got an 80% or below)

Goals for today's research--have a page open and start pasting in references (names/urls of websites, experts, research facilities, books, etc.)

1. Gain a basic understanding of your topic.  Who are the top researchers in this field right now?  What is currently happening within this field?  What is the overview of this topic?
2. Generate a list of questions that cannot be answered by your own research.  Some that you would need to ask an expert about.
3. Get 3-4 names of people doing research in this field.

Agenda

• Quiz (1-3)
• Correct Quiz
• Reflection and Discuss
• Resource from Kyle:A pdf of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, and is one of the foremost sources on all kinds of psychological disorders.

Agenda

• Brain Boggle Anatomy with Highlights (that's what you have to know)
• Sensory v. motor cortex
• Movement Memorization
• Study for Quiz
• Think about what you want to choose for your topic.
•  *If you don't know, please provide with a) narrowing it down to 3 choices and provide us with an annotated bibliography on those choices.
• Brain anatomy website: Great overview

What's to come?

Week of 3-15: Disorders, communication, applying knowledge, picking a topic and writing letters to experts

Week of 3-22: Dissections & Field Trip to Harvard

Week of 3-29: First and Second Drafts of Journal Research and Articles

Week of 4-5: Journal Compilation

 Agenda

• Freewrite: Do you control your brain or does your brain control you?  How have your opinions changed since the beginning of this class?
• Brain Boggle (in partners and then as a class)  Goal: identify anatomy and function.  Develop some way to remember this material
• Make Neural Connections (as a class).  Record Brain Boggle Master
• HWK: Review terms for quiz and come up with 3 study strategies for memorizing this information

Agenda

• Reflex Activity: Diagram what is happening in the brai
• Research for Brain Boggle

Agenda

• Watch and take notes on PBS Episode on A Baby's Brain
• Research for Brain Boggle

Agenda

• Discussed Topics for Journal
• Free Write about Topics (Taking two of them, write questions and topics that you have about this)
• Note: Please do some preliminary research on your topic... is there enough research to continue?  Are there any scientists/researchers doing work in this field to contact and interview?
• TED Talk on a brain scientist's experience having a stroke watch and discuss
• Brain Boggle Assignment Explanation
• 2000-2010 Timeline Presentation (Meghan)

Agenda

• Group vs. Individual Commitment to Class
• Collect Homework reflection on Moral Dilemma
• Finish Timelines
• 1100-1800 (Sara)
• 335-1100 BC (Caitlin)
• 1925-1950 (Kyle)
• Brain, Mind & Consciousness Questions in Prep for Adi's Class

Agenda

• Intro Activity (Article from Newspaper on Cell Phones & Health, Moral Dilemma)
• Timeline Presentations
• 4000 BC (Josh)
• 1100-1711 (Ariel)
• 1800-1900 (Lena)
• 1950-2000 (Jess)

Agenda

• Memory Brain Teasers
• Work on Neurology Timeline Assignment

DUE Wednesday, March 3rd:

• Neurology Timeline handout and presentation
• Memory Brain Teaser Reflection

Agenda

• Activity and Discussion
• Introduce Neurology Timeline Assignment
• Overview of the next two weeks

Your patient's complaints...

• Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
• Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
• Sudden, severe headache with no known cause

People with very high, uncontrolled blood pressure may have one or more symptoms including:

• Severe headache in the back of the head or top of the neck.
• Dizziness or fainting.
• Tingling or numbness in an arm or leg or an inability to move an arm. These symptoms may come and go.
• Periods of confusion and disorientation.

Time period sign up:
4000 BC-335 BC Pre-history: Josh
335 BC -170 BC Antiquity: Caitlin
170 BC-1100 Middle Ages: Ariel
1100- 1800 Renassaince: Sarah
1800-1900: Lena
1900-1925: Ali
1925-1950: Kyle T
1950-2000: Rita
2000-2010: Meghan

Great Websites to Check Out
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/history/
http://www.wiredtowinthemovie.com/centurytour.html

Some links to history in textbooks from class
History of Diagnosis of Disorders

The Search for the Mind's I

Agenda

• Tea Demo with Reflection Time
• Introduction to Science of the Mind Powerpoint and Discussion
• Overview-the jist of what to expect this trimester (chose a topic, letter to an expert, journal article with 3 primary resources and one original piece of art, work on the journal/write a short column, fieldtrips and reflections, PBS film, dissections, and lots of fun!)
• Brainstorm of possible topics to study this trimester

• Understanding the Respiratory System: Create a Working Model of the Lung Activity
• Check out the Pig Lung
• Work on your Board Games

• Heart Dissections
• Here's a great website link that Amir forwarded to me: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/13/health/20080513_WELLGUIDE....

10/05
&
10/06

Bill Nye Blood and Circulation Film

Introduce Respiratory/Circulatory System Board Game Challenge

Root Word # 4 Handout (Due on 10/12 & 10/13 and quiz on Wednesday 10/14)

Mid-Trimester Course Evauations

Review the rest of the trimester (See calendar)

Give handouts to help students with their board games

• Calendar
• Circulatory system of an fetus
• Heart diagram with labels
• Heart diagram without labels
• Circulatory conditions
• Structure of the lung
• How to do the Heimlich maneuver
• Understanding asthma
• Ch 11 and 13 Study Guides with Answer Keys

10/02

** Note we have a schedule change for this day because of no school on 9/30 and Mountain Day on 10/2 so 10/1 will be treated as if it were a Wednesday Schedule for Eric/Beth's Science classes.  Therefore, you will be having a:

• Root Word Quiz

9/28
&
9/29

• Neuron Presentations
• Nervous System Lab: Reach Out and Touch Someone
• Chapter 8 Study Guide Due
• Root Word Vocab List #3 Due

• Root Word Quiz
• Neurons Due
• Take Home Tissue Quiz Due
• Please hand in your eye dissection packets!
• Read Chapter 8 and complete the study guide due 9/28 or 9/29

9/23
&
9/24

• Eye Dissections.  This was a very useful site: http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/index.html.  If you've been absent and missed the dissections, please do it virtually through this website and submit the packet when you return to school.

• Collect/review root word homework and check off study guide hwk
• Finish watching Awakenings and collect 4 question blue sheet
• Work on Neuron Model—due on Friday
• Take Home Tissue quiz—due on Friday
• Reminder—Root Word Quiz on Friday
  
  

**Note schedule change: the week of Sept. 21-25, the school will have a Wednesday'style schedule on Friday to accomodate a musical performance, and we will have a Friday-style schedule on Wednesday. So 11th-12th science classes will meet as per normal on Monday and Tuesday, but then they will meet again for full classes on Wednesday and Thursday. We will have our combined flex science period on Friday this week.

9/10
&
9/11

1. The atom is the smallest particle of a chemical element that can not be cut.
2. Anthropology is the study of mankind, especially of its origins, development, customs and beliefs.
3. The population of the same town was homogeneous, mostly made up of the same types of people--merchants and laborers.
4. The car, which was made before 1800, is now regarded as an antique.

• Next chapter of reading is Ch 2 Cells and Tissues—you can review cells if you don’t remember much about that, but we’re only going to focus on tissues because we’ve covered cells in previous years. Read (p. 37-46) and complete study guide (see uploaded guides at http://compass-school.org/beth/anatomy-and-physiology)  Due Monday/Tuesday (9/14-9/15)
• Tissue PowerPoint Presentations with A & P Tissue Notes(we stopped at connective tissue and will continue that on Monday!)