Tuesday, August 19, 2008

We are moving!!

Due to firewall and some other issues we are moving from blogspot to edublogs.
Please visit us at http://cchsbio.edublogs.org
The same kinds of info will be available there, including ALL of the lectures from class (I promise this time)

Hope to see you there!
Leslie Smith!

Friday, April 18, 2008

Genetics Review Question Answers

The answers to the review questions you received today in class are below.
Study hard for the test and continue to practice your genetics problems.

Genetics Review Question Answers

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

OK Charts with answers

The answers to the OK charts are here please check your below. I will be updating them as they are due in class.

CP OK Charts
10.1
10.2
10.3
11
13

TC OK Charts
Ch 9
Ch 10
Ch 11

Thursday, March 20, 2008

DNA Lecture

The Lecture for DNA is embeded below. It has a little different format bevcause I made it last year. It should be pretty easy to work from though. If you missed Thursday or Friday go here to get the info.

Blank OK Charts for DNA

All of the blank Ok chats for DNA are below.

TC OK Charts
CH 9
CH 10

CP OK Charts
CP 10.1
10.2
Ch 13

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

DNA, RNA, Protein Project

Our first project of the nine weeks is now avalible. This project is a little difficult to put together, but it really allows for student choice. There is a copy of the rubric here. The student needs to first choose one of the five topics from the first list. This will be what the project is over. The next list is a list of the products they can choose to make. They only need to choose one product and one project. For instance, You can choose to make a children's book over translation. Or a Timeline of the events of transcription. If you have another product or topic that you think is appropriate run it by me and I'll think about it and let you know if it is OK.


Post any questions about the project here on this post and I will get back to you ASAP.

MS. SMith

DNA Vocab Matrix

We are changing the way we do vocabulary in our class. Instead of making a vocab book the way you have been doing we are going to do a vocab matrix. These do not make you look up the words, but allow you to work with the words on your own terms more. These will be due with the chapter work on the day of the test as usual. However NO partial credit will be given you must complete all columns for a word for it to count.

The content map for this unit can be viewed here. Please complete the words for DNA (Vaccine-DNA Polymerase) on your matrix. They will be due in class tomorrow 3/20/08.

Please look at your first example here.

Thanks and keep up the hard work!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Week 12 Agenda

The link to this week's agenda is located below:
Week 12 Agenda

Info for the Next Semester

Right now every one is in a position where they can still pass. EVERYONE needs to be taking advantage of the re-take policy and making up their labs that they miss. Those two things account for 60 % of you nine weeks grade. Another thing to keep in mind is we are much closer to the EOCT! That one test, which I don't write, counts for 15% of your total grade. All that being said, no matter what your grade is right now the pressure is on you to take advantage and pass this class.

As a reminder we do make up tests any day of the week except Friday. We do Tutoring for re-takes on Tuesday and Thursday. and you can take re-takes on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. If you know you are coming please tell us so that we can prepare for you or make arrangements if we need to.

Keep working hard and let us know how we can help you succeed!
Ms. Smith

Friday, March 7, 2008

Make up Osmosis Lab

The link below has the Make up Lab for osmosis

Osmosis Data

Nine Weeks Exam Review Guide

The link below is to the nine weeks exam review. While I will not be posting answers to these questions directly, they are all old review questions that you can look up the answers to here. If you cannot find something please comment here and I will lead you in the right direction.

Nine weeks review guide

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Cells Presentations

Both of these are on Voicethread and the links are below

Organelle Frayer Models

Cell Presentation

Chemistry of Life Review Guide answers

The link below has the answers to the cell review guide. Use it to check your answers and if you have questions e-mail me or comment here.

Cell Review Guide Answers

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Monday, February 25, 2008

Cell Organelle Project Rubric

The link below is to the Cell organelle rubric. Remember that the end product is a symbol for /of the function of the organelle. NOT HOW IT LOOKS. There are a few other things to keep in mind like size, creativity and how you will present. Presentations are required for this project and as such we will not be accepting late projects.

Cell Organelle Rubric

Week 8 Agenda

The Agenda for the week is below. Please note that there is a project due on Friday. This will count as a test grade and is a very good chance to bring up your grade. We will also be in the lab on Thursday and Friday. Please dress appropriately.

Week 8 Agenda

Cells Vocab

the link below has all of the Vocab for the Cells unit. Please onely complete Vocab 1-3 right now. 4 is a separate test.

Cells Content Map

Friday, February 22, 2008

Chemistry of Life Presemtation

The Presentation below is for Chemistry of life. I will be adding the comments when I get a new microphone (read tomorrow if I can find one)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Monday, February 18, 2008

Animal Review Guide

If you have questions about the review guide (like things you cona't find or don't understand) Please comment with them here, and I will be answering them today.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Agendas for week 6

Things will be running a little differently this week due to the vertebrate and invertebrate dissections. If you go to Msr. Laura Smith's clasroom first please follow her agenda. If you go to Ms. Leslie Smith first please follow my agenda below.

Please remember to wear appropriate Lab attire on days when you will be in the lab. Long pants, and closed toe shoes will be required in the lab, If you do not have those things you will not be allowed in to the lab.

Mrs. Laura Smith's agendsa for wwek 6

Ms. Leslie Smith's agenda for week 6

Plant Make up Lab

Th link to the Make up plant lab is below. If you have questions comment here or on the voicethread.

Make up Lab Link

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Plant Review Guide answers

The link below has the answers to the review guide you received on Friday. Remember that you STILL have a test on MONDAY!!! If you have questions or problems comment here or e-mail me at cchsbio@gmail.com. I'm here to help you!!!!

Plant review guide answers

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Plant presentations

The links to the plant presentations with audio are avalible now from this post.

Plant Structure Link

Plant Uses Link

Plant adaptations Link

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Plant OK Charts with answers

The links below are to Plant OK charts that have the answers. I will update them as the are due in class.

TC OK Charts
CH 24
CH 25
CH 26
CH 27

CP OK Charts
CH 29
CH 30
CH 31
CH 32
Ch 33

Monday, February 4, 2008

Plant OK Charts

The links to all of the blank OK Charts for PLants are below. If there are problems with the links please comment here and I will repair them ASAP.


TC OK Charts
CH 24
CH 25
CH 26
CH 27

CP OK Charts
CH 29
CH 30
CH 31
CH 32
CH 33

Fungi Make-up Lab

If you were not able to participate in the Fungi lab on last Firday this is the post you need to finsh your Lab. Please follow the link for the pictures you will need to make your drawings.

Make up Lab Link

Week 5 agenda

Due to some technical difficulties the paper version of the agenda will not be avalibe until later in the week. Please refer here for your Agenda for this week, I will also be e-mailing the Agendas to School-loop accounts.

Please note that this week will be all about plants and our next test will be Monday, Fabruary 11th. We will be having a plant Lab on Thursday. The link below is the Agenda.

Week 5 Agenda

Friday, February 1, 2008

Fungi Lecture with Audio

Fungi Review Question Answes

The link below has the answer to the review guide for fungi.

Remember you have a test over this on Monday, you need to be studying!!!

Fungi Review Guide answers

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Fungi OK Charts and SRQ answers

The following links have the answers to the Fungi OK charts and SRQ's

CP OK chart
CP SRQ's


TC OK Chart
TC SRQ's

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Fungi OK Charts and SRQ's

The OK Charts and SRQ's for Fungi are below. The answers for these will be up tomorrow night.

CP OK charts CH 28
CP SRQ's 28

TC OK charts CH 23
TC SRQ's 23

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Week 4 Agenda

The link below has the Agenda for the week of January, 28th - February 1st

Agenda 4

Fungi Vocab

Tuesday night your homework is to complete the Fungi vocabulary. Most people finished this in class. This will be due tomorrow in class.

I do not have an available link for the content map.

Look tomorrow for the OK Charts, SRQ's and such

Monday, January 28, 2008

Notes with audio

Part 1


Part 2

Ooops! Answers to OK charts

I forgot that I didn't put up the OK chart answers, here they are.

CP 26 OK Chart
CP 27 OK Chart

TC 22 OK Chart

Protist Review Guide Answers

The link to the review guide answers are below.

Protista Review Guide Answers

Plasmodial slime mold video

The video below is initially about plasmodial slime mold, but most of it is about real Fungi. If you really want to get a lot out of it click on the rectangles when they appear for more information.

Protists lectures

These are the slides only. The ones with audio will be available tonight.




Sunday, January 27, 2008

SRQ answers for Protists

The links below have the questions and answers to the SRQ's for Protists

CP SRQS's

TC SRQ's

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Protist Vocab, and OK charts Blanks

The following links are the blank ducuments for all of the protist CH work. The answers to the OK charts, SRQ's and answers to the SRQ's will be up tomorrow along with the lectures from class.

Protist Vocab


OK Charts
CP OK Chart 26
CP OK Chart 27
TC OK Chart 22

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Bacteria Lecture part two with audio

Part two of the Bacteria Lecture

Week 3 Agenda January 22- January 25

The agenda for the week is below. A couple of highlights include the test over bacteria on Wednesday and the Protists Lab on Friday. Please remember to be working on your Meet the Microbes projects.

Week 3 Agenda

Bacteria OK Chart, SRQ, and Review Guide answers

The following links are the answers to the OK charts. SRQ's and Review Guide questions for Bacteria

OK Charts
CH 24 CP OK Chartsection 21-2 TC OK Chart

SRQ's
CH 24 CP SRQ's
section 21-2 TC SRQ's

Review Guide with answers

Monday, January 21, 2008

Bacteria Lecture with audio

Bacteria Presentation/Lecture Part 1

This is the first half of the lecture over bacteria. The audio should be up later this evening or tomorrow morning. Part 2 will be up tomorrow after school. Remember The test over bacteria is on Wednesday.

Bacteria SRQ's

the links to the blank SRQ's for bacteria are below. These are due Tuesday, January 22, 2008.

CP CH 24 SRQs

TC section 21-2 SRQ's

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Bacteria Content Map and OK Charts

The Content map/Vocabulary for bacteria are below. All of these need to be completed by 1/18/08

Bacteria Content Map

The OK Charts for Bacteria are also below. The answers to these will be up tomorrow evening. These need to be completed for 1/18/08

CP CH 24 OK chart

TC section 21-2 OK Chart

Meet the Microbes

This project is a big one. It will require you to make a display (PowerPoint, book, poster, or otherwise but check with me) that profiles nine different microbes. The breakdown should be three viruses, three bacteria, and three protists. The idea behind this is that you are making a profile for them, like a myspace or facebook profile. You are giving them a personality based on facts about them.

There are a few examples on the website www.microbeworld.com . You may also find some useful information on this blog as well.

Again these are to use as starting off points and not to be copied. I am VERY familiar with each of these and will recognize if the work is not your own.

The link to the rubric is below.

Meet the Microbes Rubric

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Virus Review Guide Answers

The answers to the review guide are below, make sure that you use these to check your work, not copy it.

Review Guide Answers

Virus Presentation



The one with my lecture over it will be up later tonight.

Virus SRQ answers

The links below are for the Virus CH's SRQ answers. Again these are to be used to help your studying now as a replacement.

CP Ch 25 SRQ's

TC section 21-1 SRQ's

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Virus SRQ's

Below are the blank SRQ's for Viruses.

CP CH 25 SRQ's

TC section 21-1 SRQ's

Virus OK Charts with Answers

Below are the links for the answered OK Charts. Remember that these are provided for you to check your answers not copy my answers. Use them as they are intended and they will improve your score. Use them as a crutch and you will not improve.

CP CH 25 OK Chart with answers


TC section 21-1 OK Chart with answers

Monday, January 14, 2008

Week 2 Agenda: January 14th- January 18th

The link to this week's agenda is below. A couple of highlights from it are the Taxonomy test, project, and CH work on Monday. Then on Tuesday we start our next chapter over viruses. I will be introducing our next project on Tuesday as well.
Our test over Viruses will be on Thursday. We will begin Bacteria on Friday.

Please make sure you are staying current with your homework. It is a lot to catch up on if you haven't been doing it along as we suggest. The link to the agenda is below.

Week 2 Agenda

Virus Vocab and OK charts

The links below are for the Virus chapters, TC Section 21-1 and CP CH 25.

Virus Content Map

CP CH 25 OK Chart
TC section 21-1 OK Chart


SRQ's will be available tomorrow.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Taxonomy Review Guide answers

The link to the review guide is below. Remember that the test is Monday and the the project is due on Monday as well. STUDY and start out on a good foot!

Taxonomy Review Guide

Friday, January 11, 2008

Taxonomy presentation




Or you can follow this link to view it in a new page.

http://cdn.voicethread.com/share/41735/

Taxonomy OK Charts and SRQ's with answers

The links to the answered OK charts and SRQ's are below. Please comment with questions or problems you have with any of the links below.

CP Links
CH 18 OK Charts
CH 18 SRQ's

TC Links
CH 15 and 20 OK Charts
CH 15 and 20 SRQ's

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Blank OK Charts and SRQ's for Taxonomy

Below are the links for the Blank OK charts and SRQ's for CP and TC Taxonomy.

CP Links
CH 18 OK Chart
CH 18 SRQ's

TC Links
CH 15 and 20 OK Charts
Ch 15 and 20 SRQ's

These will remain blank worksheets. I will post the answers to the OK Charts tomorrow afternoon and the SRQ's a little later.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Taxonomy Poster Project

This project is a poster that specifies the entire classification (from Kingdom to species) for one organism. You must also describe why that organism has that name, what characteristics qualify it to have that name. Finally you need at least one picture of the organism. The easiest choices are animals or plants, but you are allowed to choose Bacteria, Fungi or Protists if you so choose.

This poster will be due on Monday, January 14th, 2007. The same date as the test over Taxonomy.

Below are two useful links:
Taxonomy Project Rubric- This is a copy of the rubric you received in class.
Wikipedia- This is one place that is very easy to use to get the required information.

Taxonomy Vocab words

These words are to be completed as homework on 01/08/08. they will be due in class on 01/09/08. Remember to add clue words to your vocab definitions. These need t be hint to remind you what these words mean. the link to the words is below.

Taxonomy Content Map

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to Ms. Leslie and Mrs. Laura Smith's Online Biology Classroom. This is the right place for you if you are looking for information on what is happening in our classrooms. Information like what is for homework, when the next test is, what projects are due or if you are looking for more info on what we have covered in class. There will be frequent updates so you will need to check back often. Any feedback you may have here is welcome and I will try my best to answer any questions or at least lead you in the right direction.

This is also a great place for parents and other adults to help keep your child up to date with their assignments. Your feedback is welcome too. This is not the place to discuss specifics about your child, please e-mail those questions to your student's teacher at her school address. We will be adding more info soon.
Thanks,
Ms. Leslie Smith