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Class Schedule: 
 * Academic Year: 2012 – 2013 ||
 * Period || Time || Monday || Period || Time || Wednesday || Period || Time || Thursday ||
 * 4 || 10:40 - 11:25 || MYP 5 /209 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12:50 - 13:35 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 5 /209 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">11:25 - 12:10 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 5 /209 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">11:25 - 12:10 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 5 /209 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">13:35 - 14:20 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 5 /209 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12:50 - 13:35 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 5 /209 ||

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= = =<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Daily Agenda Trimester 03 =

Week 28, Class 3: Earth Day presentation preparation.

Week 28, Class 2: No class because of grade 5 exhibition

Week 28, Class 1: Practice REDOX reactions

Week 27, Class 3: Went over REDOX reaction sheet./ Retake of Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration TEST.

Week 27, Class 2: Absent, students had to work on REDOX reaction sheet. Focusing on oxidation number.

Week 27, Class 1: Cont REDOX reaction discussion/ Study for Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration TEST

Week 26, Class 2: Introduction to oxidation and reduction cont. Find the answer to the question: How does industry suffer from the process of oxidation.

Week 26, Class 1: Introduction to oxidation and reduction

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">-Understand the application of Redox reactions in industry || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Community and Service || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Communication || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Communicator and Risk Taker || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">-Understand the application of the electromagnetic spectrum and thermodynamics in technology today || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Human Ingenuity || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Information Literacy || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Principled ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Month ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Date ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Week ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Unit Topic ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Unit Question ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">AOI / GC ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ATL ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">LP ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">April ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">3 - 5 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">26 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Redox Reaction || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What price to we pay in terms of waste and energy by using iron in industry which is prone to oxidation?
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">April ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">3 - 5 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">26 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Redox Reaction || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What price to we pay in terms of waste and energy by using iron in industry which is prone to oxidation?
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">8 - 12 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">27 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">15 - 19 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">28 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">22 - 26 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">29 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">May ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">6 - 10 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">30 ||^  ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">13 - 17 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">31 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Electromagnetic Spectrum and Thermo Physics || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How has the world developed by using electricity, waves, and thermodynamics?
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">20 - 24 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">32 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">27 - 29 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">33 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">June ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">3 - 7 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">34 ||^  ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">10 - 14 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">35 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Green School ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">17 - 21 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">36 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Green School ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">24 - 28 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">37 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Reflection ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit 4: Organic Chemistry (4 Weeks) =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assessment Criterion: B and F

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">B:Uses where appropriate a range of information and communication technology applications to access, process and communicate scientific information.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">B:Communicates scientific information using a range of scientific language.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">B:Presents scientific information in a variety of formats, acknowledging sources as appropriate.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">F:Works effectively as member of a team, by being guided into collaborating, acknowledging and supporting others as well as ensuring a safe working environment.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">F:Shows respect for self and others, and deals responsibly with the living and non‐living environment.

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=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit 3: Organic Chemistry (7 Weeks) =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assessment Criterion: C and D

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">C:- Discusses and evaluates scientific information from different sources (Internet, newspaper articles, television, scientific texts and publications) and assesses its credibility. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">C:- Analyses scientific information by identifying components, relationships and patterns, both in experimental data and ideas. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">D:- Suggests improvements to the method <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">D:-Evaluates the method, commenting on its reliability and or validity.

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=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Daily Agenda Trimester 02 =

Week25, Class 3: House games

Week 25, Class 2: Book Party

Week 25, Class 1: Review Test, and Farewell to Miss Mignon.

Week 24, Class 3: TEST

Week 24, Class 2: Finish presentation, and present.

Week 24, Class 1: Library, finish research on photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

Week 23, Class 3: Library Research comparing Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Sport Respiration Rubric
 * __HW: Presentations due Wednesday, TEST on Thursday.__**

Week 23, Class 2: Anaerobic Respiration



Week 23, Class 1: Phases of Photosynthesis: Flower cultivator activity and introduction to Cellular Respiration





__**HW: Finish Lab Report by Midnight TONIGHT and send by email. Aerobic dissimulation questions due WEDNESDAY.**__ __**erik.bullock.wis@gmail.com**__



Week 22, Class 3: Elodea LAB:

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Week 22, Class 2: Introduction to Photosynthesis.



__**HW: Complete the Lab Write up by Monday, MARCH 11**__

Week 22, Class 1: Introduction to energy.







Week 21, Class 3: Finish TEST, Reflection of the Unit

Week 21, Class 2: TEST

Week 21, Class 1: Review for the test

Week 20, Class 3: More practice of organic reactions.

Week 20, Class 2: Practice organic reactions

Week 20, Class 1: Student reading and review for test next week.

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Week 19, Class 3-1: Independent work on organic chemistry worksheet. Most lessons lost to the ISA test.

Week 18, Class 3: Individual practice of organic compound reactions.

Week 18, Class 2: Explanation of organic reactions.

Week 18, Class 1: Introduction to organic reactions.

Week 17, Class 3: Practice naming compounds.

Week 17, Class 2: Practice naming compounds.

Week 17, Class 1: Review the naming rules of all organic compounds.

Week 16, Class 3: Project presentations on drug/organic compound.

Week 16, Class 2: Discussion of every day application of organic compounds such as aspirin and BO.

Week 16, Class 1: Lab: creating organic compounds. Silly putty reaction.

Week 15, Class 3: Research for organic project.

Week 15, Class 2: Research for organic project.

Week 15, Class 1: Project on drug/organic compound.

Week 14, Class 3: Practice naming constituent groups.

Week 14, Class 2: Practice naming: alkeynes

Week 14, Class 1: Practice naming: alkenes.

Week 13, Class 3: Practice naming compounds alkanes.

Week 13, Class 2: Continue notes on Organic Chemistry

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 13, Class 1: Continue notes on Organic Chemistry <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Trimester 02 Curriculum <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand reversible reactions || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Environment || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Collaboration || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Caring || = = =<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit 2: Genetics (7 Weeks) = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assessment Criterion: A and C <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A:-Describes and discusses ways in which science is applied and used to solve local and global problems. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A:- Describes and evaluates the benefits and limitations of science and scientific applications as well as their effect on life and society. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">C:- Recognizes and recalls scientific information. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">C:-Explains and applies scientific information to solve problems in familiar and unfamiliar situations.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Month || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Date || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit Topic || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit Question || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">AOI / GC || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">ATL || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">LP ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">December || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 - 7 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">13 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Organic Chemistry || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How can Carbon be used in society? || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Human Ingenuity || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflection || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflective and Open Minded ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10 - 14 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">14 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  |||||||||||||| <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Winter Holiday! ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">January || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7 - 11 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">15 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">14 - 18 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">16 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">21 - 25 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">17 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">28 – 1 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">18 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">February || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4 - 8 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">19 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">|How are plants and humans similar?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">February || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4 - 8 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">19 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">|How are plants and humans similar?
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">11 - 15 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">20 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">25 - 1 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">21 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">March || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4 - 8 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">22 ||^  ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">11 - 15 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">23 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Redox Reaction || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What price to we pay in terms of waste and energy by using iron in industry which is prone to oxidation? || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Community and Service || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Communication || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Communicator and Risk Taker ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">18 - 22 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">24 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
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=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit 1: Scientific Discoveries (4 Weeks) = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assessment Criterion: D and E <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion D: Inquiry in Science <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Designs scientific investigations that include variables and controls, materials/equipment needed, a method to be followed, data to be collected and suggestions for its analysis. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Defines the problem or research question to be tested by a scientific investigation. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Formulates a hypothesis and explains it using logical scientific reasoning.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion E: Processing Data <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Collects and records data using appropriate units of measurement. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Organizes and transforms data into numerical and diagrammatic forms, including mathematical calculations and visual representation (tables, graphs and charts). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Draws conclusions supported by scientific explanations and a reasoned interpretation of the analysis of the data. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Daily Agendas Trimester 01: =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 12, Class 3: Begin unit on Organic Chemistry <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 12, Class 1-2: The students will watch the movie "The Island" and write an essay comparing the movie to the book.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 11, Class 1-3: Class discussion about the science involved in Unwind. Students had time to work on their project. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Project Due Friday, November 23

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 10, Class 3: Class discussion about the science involved in Unwind. Students had time to work on their project.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 10, Class 2: Class discussion about the science involved in Unwind. Students had time to work on their project.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 10, Class 1: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students finished essay and started research assignment about Unwind. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 9, Class 3: Students had to complete an essay on should we use human parts why or why not using evidence from the book Unwind and the current research we read and talked about in the previous classes.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 9, Class 2: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Arm Transplant]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 9, Class 1: Unwind discussion (science aspect)

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|PBS: Scientists Grow Spare Parts]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 8: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students are involved in model UN.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 7, Class 1: Project Presentation on comparing Protein Synthesis vs. DNA Replication <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Protein Synthesis Project Presentation due: Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 6, Class 3: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Online Test Protein Synthesis]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 6, Class 2: Practice Protein Synthesis using works instead of amino acids.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 6, Class 1: Notes: Protein Synthesis.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 5, Class 3: Library: work on lab report. DNA Origami.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 5, Class 2: Students were allowed to work on their written lab reports. DNA Replication notes were finished. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: FINAL LAB Report DUE THURSDAY OCT 04.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 5, Class 1: Students were allowed to perform their lab of choice and Notes given on DNA Replication. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: FINAL LAB Report DUE THURSDAY OCT 04.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 4, Class 3: Students were allowed to perform their labs in class. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: FINAL LAB Report DUE THURSDAY OCT 04.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 4, Class 2: Library, students were allowed to work on their two lab reports.. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Finish Lab Reports, and email supplies needed for the labs to perform tomorrow.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 4, Class 1: Reviewed Genetics. See packet below. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Finish Lab Report, and Monthly reflection of the class for the Newsletter. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 3, Class 3: Students had the opportunity to work on their lab report and complete research on the experiment they wanted to complete next week in class. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Finish Lab report on What is the effect of type of music on memorizing lyrics. DUE: WEDNESDAY. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">FINAL LAB report on an experiment of your choice: DUE: Thursday Oct. 04. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 3, Class 2: Scientific Method: Reviewed Scientific Notation, Signifigant figures, Science Math. We worked on the lab: What is the effect of type of music on memorizing lyrics. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Start working on analysis of lab.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 3, Class 1: Scientific Method: We worked on the lab: What is the effect of type of music on memorizing lyrics. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Signifigant figures Worksheet

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 2, Class 3: Class discussion about lab to carry out in class. Idea: What it the effect of type of music on memorizing song lyrics? We started setting up the experiment. The following genres were chosen: Rock, Rap, Hip Hop/Pop, Ballad, Metal (One song from your native tongue). We discussed how to make this as scientific as possible. We are going to listen to a total of 30 seconds of a song once they start singing and then write what lyrics they remember.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 2, Class 2: Review DV, IV, constant, and control. Class discussion about how to properly carry out an experiment. Library time to finish scientific journal analysis. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">DV: The variable that you observe or measure in an experiment. (Responding variable) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">IV: The variable that you change in an experiment (Manipulated variable) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Control: The standard used for comparison <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Constants: Things kept the same in an experiment to make sure that the IV is the only factoring influencing the results. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Journal Analysis

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 2, Class 1: Scientific Method: 1st period the students will have time to work on their assignment that is due on Thursday in the library. The students will also have time to find an experiment they can do in class to write their first scientific report. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2nd period: the students will develop a rubric to use for grading their scientific report using the objectives that have been identified for the unit. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will discuss a scientific experiment they can do in class to demonstrate how to properly write a scientific report. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Finish journal analysis, choose a scientific experiment to perform in class

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 1, Class 2: Scientific Method: reviewed a scientific journal and discussed what is included in each section. See notes below. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assignment: Choose a scientific journal and identify the following in each section. DUE Sept 13


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Abstract
 * What they did?
 * What they found out?
 * What needs to be done now?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Introduction
 * Basic Information
 * Other research
 * Purpose
 * Hypothesis
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Material/ Methods
 * procedure of what they did
 * what equipment they used
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Results/ Discussion
 * explain the data collected
 * Explain how they did the calculations
 * were there any problems
 * Conclusion can be in this section
 * must be supported with the results found in the experiment
 * Future:
 * What still needs to be done? What other experiments can be done?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 1, Class 1: Introduction: reviewed material studied last year, reviewed planned units for this year and discussed how it relates to the DP program.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Trimester 1 Science Curriculum

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand how scientists communicate || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Human Ingenuity || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Organization || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Balanced and Inquirer || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand how genes are passed from one generation to the next || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Health and Social Education || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Transfer and Thinking || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Thinker and Knowledgeable ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Month ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit Question || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">AOI || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">ATL || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">LP ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">September || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 - 7 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Scientific Discoveries || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How is communication similar between countries?
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10 - 14 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">17 - 21 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">24 - 28 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">October || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 - 5 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Genetics || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How can the world benefit from experimentation?
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">8 - 12 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">15 - 19 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">22 - 26 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">8 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">November || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5 – 9 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">9 ||^  ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12 - 16 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">19 - 23 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">11 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">26 - 30 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Organic Chemistry || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How can Carbon be used in society? || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Human Ingenuity || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflection || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflective and Open Minded ||

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">IB Sciece Objectives: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(One World) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- refers to enabling students to understand the interdependence between science and society. Students should be aware of the global dimensions of science, as a universal activity with consequences for our lives and subject to social, economic, political, environmental cultural and ethical factors. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion B (Communication in Science) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to enabling students to develop their communication skills in science. Students should be able to understand scientific information, such as data, ideas, arguments and investigations, and communicate it using appropriate scientific language in a variety of communication modes and formats as appropriate. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion C <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Knowledge and Understanding of Science) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to enabling students to understand the main ideas and concepts of science and to apply them to solve problems in familiar and unfamiliar situations. Students are expected to develop critical and reflective thinking and judge the credibility of scientific information when this is presented to them. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion D <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Inquiry in Science) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to enabling the students to develop scientific inquiry skills to design and carry out scientific investigations. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion E <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Processing Data) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to enabling students to record, organize and process data. Students should be able to collect and transform data by numerical calculations into diagrammatic form. Students should be able to analyze and interpret data and explain appropriate conclusions. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion F <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Attitudes in Science) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to encouraging attitudes and disposition that will contribute to students’ development as caring and responsible individuals and members of society. Students will learn about safety and responsibility when working in science as well as respect for and collaboration with others and their shared environment. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Describes and evaluates the benefits and limitations of science and scientific applications as well as their effect on life and society. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Discusses how science and technology are interdependent and assist each other in the development of knowledge and technological applications. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Discusses how science and its applications interact with social, economic, political, environmental, cultural and ethical factors. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Communicates scientific information using a range of scientific language. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Communicates scientific information using appropriate modes of communication. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Presents scientific information in a variety of formats, acknowledging sources as appropriate. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Demonstrates honesty when handling data and information, acknowledging sources as appropriate. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Uses where appropriate a range of information and communication technology applications to access, process and communicate scientific information. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Recognizes and recalls scientific information. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Explains and applies scientific information to solve problems in familiar and unfamiliar situations. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Analyses scientific information by identifying components, relationships and patterns, both in experimental data and ideas. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Discusses and evaluates scientific information from different sources (Internet, newspaper articles, television, scientific texts and publications) and assesses its credibility. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Defines the problem or research question to be tested by a scientific investigation. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Formulates a hypothesis and explains it using logical scientific reasoning. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Designs scientific investigations that include variables and controls, materials/equipment needed, a method to be followed, data to be collected and suggestions for its analysis. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Evaluates the method, commenting on its reliability and/or validity. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Suggests improvements to the method. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Collects and records data using appropriate units of measurement. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Organizes and transforms data into numerical and diagrammatic forms, including mathematical calculations and visual representation (tables, graphs and charts). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Presents data in a variety of ways using appropriate communication modes and conventions (units of measurement). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Analyses and interprets data by identifying trends, patterns and relationships. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Draws conclusions supported by scientific explanations and a reasoned interpretation of the analysis of the data. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Carries out scientific investigations using materials and techniques safely and skillfully. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Works effectively as member of a team, by being guided into collaborating, acknowledging and supporting others as well as ensuring a safe working environment. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Shows respect for self and others, and deals responsibly with the living and non‐living environment. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion A
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Describes and discusses ways in which science is applied and used to solve local and global problems.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP5 2011-2012