Life Science
September---What is an ecosystem? How biotic and abiotic factors influence an ecosystem? Comprison of Unquowa's woods and brook ecosystem. Food webs and natural cycles.
9/3--9/5 Ecosystem definitions of parts.. Reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone National Park.
9/8--9/12 Estimating populations. Data collection of Unquowa's field, brook and woods habitats. Making food chains and food webs.
9/15--9/19 Presentations of food webs. Introduction to life cycles. Vocabulary quiz 9/22.
9/22--9/26 Cycles continued. Cycle, habitat, food web project. Introduction to cells, Aquarium educator visit for preparation for creature cruise..
October Cells, Cell Division, DNA, Cloning
9/29--10/3 Cell organells, cell organization, Creature Cruise 10/1
10/6--10/8 Habitat project presentation, Cell organelles.
10/14--10/17 Cell model introduction.
10/20--10/24 Cell model constuction and presentation.
10/27--10/31 Presentations continued, cell division
November Cloning, DNA Extraction, Jurassic Park
11/3--11/7 DNA replication, DNA extraction (real and virtual)
11/10--11/14 Punnett Squares (predicting genetic results)
11/17--11/21 Cloning (Dolly the Sheep) other cloned animals, cloning debate.
11/24--11/25 Jurassic Park (Chaos Theory)
December-- Scientific Naming, Bacteria
12/1--12/5 Levels and history of classification, Clasification of specific animals
12/8--12/12 Criteria of 5 kingdoms, Bacteria(Helpful and Harmful)
12/15--12--19 Characteristics of protists
January Monerans, Protozoa
1/5--1/9 Review monerans, Introduce types of protozoa
1/12--1/15 Compare different protozoa. Look at live spcimens with the microscope
1/20--1/23 Introduction to vertebrates 1/23 In school backboard assembly for academic fair
1/26--1/30 Compare classes of fish. 1/26, 1/27 in school model building for academic fair 1/28 academic fair set up 1/29 academic fair