Wednesday February 28th, 2018

Happy Wednesday!!!

Today's objectives:

• Be able know facts about the human body and explain connections between the body systems.

Question of the Day:

• What is the path blood takes through the body starting in the heart with deoxygenated blood?
• What is absorbed into the body from the small intestines?  What is absorbed into the body from the large intestines?

Today's activities:

• Review for our Human Body Unit Test which is TOMORROW!!!

Homework:

• Study for your test, make sure your study guide is complete
• Your Human Body Project is due tomorrow!!!!

Tuesday February 27th, 2018

Happy Tuesday!!!

Today's objective:

• Be able to explain how the body systems work when competing in an Olympic Sport.

Question of the Day:

• What are the three types of blood vessels and what does each one do?
• What are the four accessory organs in the digestive system and what does each do?

Today's Activities:

• Work on your Human Body Project - to turn in, attach it to the directions in google classroom
• Work on your Human Body Study guide in google classroom
• If all other work is finished, study for our test which is THIS THURSDAY!!

Homework:

• Project due Thursday
• Study guide due Thursday 
• Test Thursday

Monday February 26th, 2018

Happy Monday!!!!

Today's objectives:

• Be able to read scientific text and use the information to write an essay

Question of the Day:

• What are two things you have learned from your research?
• What are the three functions of the digestive system?

Activities:

• Monday Writing - Essay on the Flu - this essay will be graded and used for the school wide writing goal so do your best!!
• Keep working on your Human Body Project
• If you finish the project, the study guide for our unit test (Thursday March 1st) is in google classroom and you can work on filling that out to study 

Homework:

• Human Body Project is due Thursday
• Study Guide and Unit Test are also Thursday, make sure you plan your time out so you don't have way too much to do Wednesday night!

Friday February 23rd, 2018

Happy Friday!!!!

Today's objective:

Students will be able to explain how the body systems work individually and together while competing in an Olympic sport.

Question of the Day:

• What are your five senses?
• How much blood is filtered by the kidneys every day? 

Today's Activities:

• Today is the last in class day to work on your Human Body Project

Homework:

• Human Body Project is due March 1st.  Even if you miss a day of school, this has been on the blog and the directions are in google classroom.  It is due for EVERYONE on March 1st.

Thursday February 22nd, 2018

Happy Thursday!!!

Today's objective:

• Students will be able to explain how the body systems work individually and together while competing in an Olympic sport.

Question of the Day:

• What are the 4 main parts of the excretory system and what waste does each remove?
• What are the 4 main parts of the urinary system?

Today's activities:

• Continue working on the Human Body Project

Homework:

• Your project is due March 1st!!!!!

Wednesday February 21st, 2018

Happy Wednesday!!

Today's objective:

• Understand how body systems work together to help a person train for an Olympic event.

Question of the Day:

• What are the three parts of the brain and what does each part do?
• What are the two main parts of the nervous system and what is included in each?

Today's activities:

• Finish notes on the excretory system
• Go over the directions for the Human Body Project
• Start the Human Body Project

Homework:

• The Human Body Project is Due next Thursday, you will not get to participate in frog dissections of your project is not complete

Tuesday February 20th, 2018

Happy Tuesday!!! I hope you all had a relaxing mini-break:)

Today's Objective:

• Know the structure and function of the nervous system
• Know the structure and function of the excretory system

Question of the Day:

• What was the best part of your break?
• What are two things you have learned about the human body so far that is most interesting to you?

Today's activities:

• Nervous system notes
• Excretory system notes
• Scenario writing for musculoskeletal system is time allows

Homework:

• None

Wednesday February 14th, 2018

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Today's objective:

• Know the muscles that work in the body and how they work together.
• Know the structure and function of the nervous system

Question of the Day:

• List the layers of the bone from the outside to the inside
• Name 3 muscles found in your leg.

Activities:

• Finish muscles stations
• Nervous system notes

Homework:

• none

Tuesday February 13th, 2018

Happy Tuesday!!!

Today's objective:

• Show understanding of the respiratory and digestive systems
• Work through how the musculoskeletal system works in different situations

Question of the Day:

• What are the two types of marrow and each of their functions?
• List 3 functions of the skeletal system.

Today's activities:

• Review for quiz
• Quiz
• Musculoskeletal system stations lab

Homework:

• none

Monday February 12th, 2018

Happy Monday!!!

Today's objective:

• Read and write like a scientist, being able to answer questions using scientific data
• Be able to read a data table

Question of the Day:

• What are the 4 types of movable joints?
• What are the 3 types of muscles?

Activities:

• Monday Writing Like a Scientist
• Reading data tables

Homework:

• Make sure the 4 questions for the reading are done (we will do the essay next week)
• Study for a quiz on the digestive/circulatory/respiratory systems tomorrow

Friday February 9th, 2108

Happy Friday!!!!

Today's objective:

• Know the structure and function of the musculoskeletal system

Question of the Day:

• What is one thing you are excited to do this weekend?
• How many bones do you have in your body?

Activities:

• Notes
• Review games

Homework:

• None

Thursday February 8th, 2018

Happy Thursday!!!

Today's objective:

• Understand how systems work together to perform cellular respiration

Question of the Day:

• Explain one link between the digestive and circulatory systems
• Explain one link between the circulatory and respiratory systems

Today's activity:

• Work on scenario writings

Homework:

• Make sure your scenario writings for the circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems are complete

Wednesday February 7th, 2018

Happy Wednesday!

Today's Objective:

• Students will show an understanding of how body systems work together

Question of the Day:

• List three things you learned from the Pushing the Limits video you watched yesterday.

Today's Activities:

• Continue working on the three body system boards.  The respiratory system, the digestive system, and the circulatory system.  Turn each one in as you complete it.

Homework:

• Any board questions from the three techbook board questions (respiratory, circulatory, digestive) you have been working on over the past week.

Tuesday February 6th, 2018

Happy Tuesday!!!

Today's objective:

• Students will understand how amazing the brain is and how it works with the rest of the body.

Question of the Day:

• How are the circulatory and digestive systems connected?
• How does nutrients get from the food we eat to our brain?

Activities:

• Video - Pushing the Limits
• When the video is done, continue with board questions

Homework:

• None

Monday February 5th, 2018

Happy Monday:

Today's objectives:

• Be able to cite text from a scientific article to support your answer.
• Be able to graph given a table table, be able to write a data table, be able to answer questions from reading a graph and data table.

Question of the Day:

• What are three things you must put on a graph so it is correctly written?

Today's activities:

• Essay part of the article about Wildfires
• Finish graphing practice packet
• If you finish the graphing packet work on the table data practice

Homework:

• Essay if not finished in class
• Graphing Practice Packet if not finished in class

Friday February 2nd, 2018

Happy Friday!!!

Today's objective:

• Understand how the circulatory, respiratory, and digestive system work to keep the body functioning

Question of the Day:

• Name three places chemical digestion occurs.
• What is the name of the finger-like structures in the small intestine that absorb nutrients?

Today's Activities:

• Work on your techbook board questions for our three systems: Digestive, Circulatory, and Respiratory

Homework:

• None

Thursday February 1st, 2018

Happy Thursday!!!!

Today's objective:

• Understand how food moves through the digestive system and nutrients move through the body

Question of the Day:

• What is the difference between digestion and absorption?
• Name two accessory organs.

Today's Activities:

• Magic School Bus For Lunch video
• Begin Digestive System board questions

Homework:

• none