Lesson 1 - Monday, Mar 16 (No Classes - PT Conferences)
Today in science: —
Homework: —
Lesson 2 - Tue, Mar 17 (B) & Wed, Mar 18 (H)
Today in science: This is Day 19 (B period) or Day 20 (H period) for our Wisconsin Fast Plants. During this lesson students…
1. Photographed their Wisconsin Fast Plants–but focusing on the newly opened flowers!–and added them to their projects.
2. Measured and recorded the height of their plants and added them to their projects.
3. Introduced to the names of the major flower structures so that students could use them when labelling their photos.
4. Were shown how to pollinate their open flowers with fuzzy pollinating ‘sticks’ meant to imitate the body of a honey (or bumble) bee.
Homework: Work on Chapters 3 & 4 in the Food For Plants packet and study for this week’s quiz on Chapters 1 & 2 (in Lesson 4).
Lesson 3 - Wed, Mar 18 (B) & Thu, Mar 19 (H - 55 minutes)
Today in science: After reminding students to check and see if they had successfully submitted last Friday’s Life Cycle Project Check-In #1 as a PDF file in the Google Science Classroom, Dr. M showed then students the new flower (structure and function) resources in the Google Science Classroom. As a class, we then went through Chapters 1 & 2 of the Food For Plants packet, page by page, so that students could better prepare for their learning check (quiz) in Lesson 4.
Finally, students were asked to fill out an unlabelled diagram of a mustard flower, which asked students to recall the flower structures they were required to label in their Day 19/20 photos, as well as learn the names and locations of new flower structures such as the nectary, receptacle, petiole, ovules, stigma, style, ovary (or carpel), anther, filament, and pollen grains.
Homework: Work on Chapters 3 & 4 in the Food For Plants packet and study for this week’s quiz on Chapters 1 & 2 (in Lesson 4).
Lesson 4 - Thu, Mar 19 (B - Cancelled) & Fri, Mar 20 (H)
Today in science: B period did not have Lesson 4 due to their presence at the HS Musical full dress rehearsal. As discussed in class, they will complete the Chapters 1 & 2 Food For Plants packet quiz on Monday.
H period completed the Chapters 1 & 2 Food For Plants packet quiz, and then performed a flower dissection (INV#11) so that they can begin recognizing the structures of flowers.
Homework: As per the TASIS MS school homework policy, there is no weekend science homework due on Monday.
Announcements...
The UNIT 7.4 (Plants) Driving Question is: How does a small seed become a large plant?
B period homework collection days: Tuesday & Thursday.
H period homework collection days: Wednesday & Friday.
KWoW - there is no KWoW this week.