Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Identifying Skin Cancer and Stories

ABCDEs - to identify melanoma
    A - asymmetrical

    B border

    C - color

    Ddiameter

    Eevolving

Monday, June 1, 2015

Resources for this week's quiz

Here is a link to the study guide key, including the skeletal system page we worked on in class today.

Here is a link to the Skeletal System Kahoot from today's class (you will need to open your own kahoot account to access)

Keep Studying!

Helpful Study Video for Muscular and Skeletal

Bill Nye - Muscular and Skeletal Video


Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Skeletal Muscular Study Guide

Topics to Study for the Assessment:
1. What are the structure and functions of the skeletal system?
2. What are the structure and functions of the muscular system?
3. What are the types of muscles and give and example and location of each?
4. What are the types of joints and give and example and location of each?
5. How do the muscular and skeletal system work together to allow your body to move?
6. What are diseases, disorders and injuries found in the skeletal and muscular systems?
7. Describe the difference and give an example of voluntary and involuntary muscles.
8. What is bone composed of?  Be specific of the different components, what they are made of and what their function is.

Click here to link to the study packet for the assessment.

Muscle System Text and Questions


Helpful Link to Muscle Pairs - Contracting and Relaxing.
Click here to access

Link to Muscle Reading

Link to Muscle Question Document

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The Skeletal System - Diseases, Injuries, and Bone Health

The Skeletal System - Diseases, Injuries, and Bone Health

Topic #1 - Taking Care of Bone/ Osteoporosis 
p. 18 and 19 in Green Text
Questions to answer: What is it? (cause, effect, treatment)

Topic #2 - Fractures, Dislocations and Sprains
p. 20 and 21in Green Text
Questions to answer: Kinds, effect on body and when do they happen?

Topic #3 - Identifying Injuries- X-ray
p. 21 in Green Text
Questions to answer: Be sure to answer the advantages and disadvantages, cost, and when is it used?

Topic #4 - Identifying Injuries- MRI
p. 22 in Green Text
Questions to answer: Be sure to answer the advantages and disadvantages, cost, and when is it used?

Topic #5 - Joint Replacement Surgery
p. 23 in Green Text
Questions to answer: What is it? Candidates for and advantages/disadvantages.

Topic #6 - Arthroscopic Surgery
p.23 in Green Text
Questions to answer: What is it? Candidates for and advantages/disadvantages.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

What is Bone Made of? - Online Webquest

Here are some links to some review items on the skeletal system:
Reading on Bones and joints- Sciencesaurus
Worksheet Labeling the Bones found in your body

Link to the Medtropolis - Skeletal System Online Webquest
Click here to access

We are going to cover the major structures and functions of you bones:
  • Periosteum
  • compact (hard) bone
  • cancellous (spongy) bone
  • bone marrow (red and yellow)



Download in Pages to type into

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Introduction to the Skeletal and Muscular System

Skeletal Systems Structure and Function:

Structure:
bones, ligaments, cartilage, tendons, joints (location not structure)

Function:
1. protection
2. support/ shape
3. create blood cells
4. storage
5. movement


Interactive Sites:
PHSchool.com
Webcode- CEP - 4012

Learn the Bones - ABCya

BBC - Joints Interactive

Inner Body - Joints and Skeleton of leg and foot

Wisc online- Skeleton



Friday, May 8, 2015

Circulatory and Respiratory Study Guide

A few more resources:


Study Guide

Standards Assessed:

In multicellular organisms, the body is a system of multiple interacting subsystems. These subsystems are groups of cells that work together to form tissues and organs that are specialized for particular body functions. (MS-LS1-3)

Topics Covered:
1. Structures and functions of the Circulatory System - Cover sheet and readings

2. Structures and functions of the Respiratory System - Cover sheet and readings

3. How do the circulatory and respiratory system work together to perform the gas exchange? - Work sheets, constructed responses, interactive links.

4. How do we breathe? - class simulation, worksheets, interactive links

5. How does the blood flow in the heart? - performance assessment, video on blog, worksheet

6. How do molecules of oxygen flow in the respiratory system from the outside air to the alveoli? - reading, questions.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Circulatory and Respiratory Review

Here is a link to the Review Guide.

Here is a link to the Answers on the Review Guide.


Here are links to two different note sheets we took in class that relate to constructed responses.

Gas Exchange- Click here to access

How we breathe - Click here to access


Connecting the circulatory and respiratory systems together!
The Gas Exchange - Interactive sites


Link - Wisc Online Gas Exchange

Monday, May 4, 2015

Circulatory and Respiratory System - Breathing and Gas Exchange.

Today we continue to explore the respiratory system and will look at how do the circulatory and respiratory system work together to produce energy in your body.


Access code: cep-4041

Here is an image of the respiratory system and its structures.


Here is an image of the gas exchange that occurs between the alveoli and the capillaries.



Thursday, April 30, 2015

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Flow of Blood Video

Use this video to review the flow of blood in the heart....or make your own!


Cardiac Disease Disorders

Flow of Blood -Heart Reading - Green Text

Here is the link to the Heart Reading p. 80-82 in the Green Text.
Questions are on p. 84 2a-c.



Atherosclerosis Video - Click here to Play


Cardiac Disease Treatment/ Surgery


Interactive Bypass Surgery - Click here to Access

Monday, April 27, 2015

Interactive Heart Site for National Geographic and American Heart Association






On the provided Heart Diagram please label the:
1. 4 chambers of the heart
2. pulmonary vein and artery
3. 4 heart valves
4. sinoatrial nodes (S-A Node) and atrial-ventricular node (A-V Node)
5. septum
6. aorta
7. aortic arch

If done color code oxygen rich blood red and oxygen poor blood blue.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Circulatory System and the Human Heart

After break, we will begin our exploration of Body Systems. In our first unit, we will explore the Circulatory System, focusing on the heart. Here are some resources to get you started:

Here is a link to a good Kids Health Article on the Human Heart.


Please read through it and use the interactive links.


Chambers of your Heart Visual


Cutting Edge Science- Can you grow a human heart?

Popular Science - Human Heart Grown and Beats


Mayo Clinic - Video on the Heart

Monday, April 13, 2015

Reinforcement for the Quiz!

Here is a video on the processes of photosynthesis. Most of the stuff is "Want to know" rather than "Need to know". If you feel like you've got everything down and want to see the next level check it out! Hank Green is cool, but why does everyone talk so fast?


Be sure to spend some quality, focused time studying tonight!

Friday, April 10, 2015

Cell Energy Review

Click here to access a Quizlet on Cell Energy

This is a great review for Tuesday's Quiz!

Here is a helpful video on the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration:





Connecting Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration- from CK12.org

From Ck12.org

Connecting Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis


How do trees help you breathe?
Recall that trees release oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. And you need oxygen to breathe. Do you know why? So your cells can perform cellular respiration.

Connecting Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are connected through an important relationship. This relationship enables life to survive as we know it. The products of one process are the reactants of the other. Notice that the equation for cellular respiration is the direct opposite of photosynthesis :
  • Cellular Respiration: C 12 + 6O → 6CO + 6H O
  • Photosynthesis: 6CO + 6H O → C 12 + 6O 2
Photosynthesis makes the glucose that is used in cellular respiration to make ATP. The glucose is then turned back into carbon dioxide, which is used in photosynthesis. While water is broken down to form oxygen during photosynthesis, in cellular respiration oxygen is combined with hydrogen to form water. While photosynthesis requires carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, cellular respiration requires oxygen and releases carbon dioxide. It is the released oxygen that is used by us and most other organisms for cellular respiration. We breathe in that oxygen, which is carried through our blood to all our cells. In our cells, oxygen allows cellular respiration to proceed. Cellular respiration works best in the presence of oxygen. Without oxygen, much less ATP would be produced.
Cellular respiration and photosynthesis are important parts of the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle is the pathways through which carbon is recycled in the biosphere. While cellular respiration releases carbon dioxide into the environment, photosynthesis pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen during photosynthesis (Figure below ) and cellular respiration worldwide helps to keep atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide at stable levels.
Cellular respiration and photosynthesis are direct opposite reactions
Cellular respiration and photosynthesis are direct opposite reactions. Some of the ATP made in the mitochondria is used as energy for work, and some is lost to the environment as heat.


Here is a fun video on photosynthesis and cellular respiration.  Stop at time 3:32



Amazing Project by one of our past students!






Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Answer Keys

This week, we've completed two packets reviewing Photosynthesis, Cellular Respiration, and Fermentation. Below are links to answer keys to these two packets. Please check our answers against yours, make corrections and come to class with questions in preparation for next week's quiz.






Cellular Respiration Activity

Today in class we will review the chemical formula for cellular respiration.  Here is a simplified version.



Students will create a comic, job description or poem  depicting this process .  

Here are some examples from past years.



Monday, April 6, 2015

Cellular Respiration Review

Today in class, we will begin to shift our focus from photosynthesis to the process in which energy is made, cellular respiration. Let's start by reviewing the section in the Science Explorer text on the topic.





Friday, April 3, 2015

Chemical Formulas Notes and Interactive


Notes from class on chemical equations - click here to access.




Here is a Pages document for you to use in working with the equation of Photosynthesis.  Click here and Download the Document.  Then you will be able to manipulate the text boxes and images.  


Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Photosynthesis & Respiration Introduction

Today in science we introduced our new unit on Photosynthesis.  Photosynthesis is the process by which a cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make its own food (a type of sugar called glucose).


As a class we focused on a few key terms to know when learning about photosynthesis such as autotrophs, heterotrophs, pigments, chlorophyll, and stomata.

Tomorrow, we will start to dive deeper into the the process of photosynthesis.  The reading for tonight will help reinforce our new understanding of how organisms get energy.  The reading will also introduce the two stages of photosynthesis.

Here is the link for the reading from our Science Explorer text.

Here is a great three minute video from Discovery's "Greatest Scientific Discovery" series that will introduce the experiments that enabled Priestly and Ingenhousz to "discover" photosynthesis.