Thursday May 28th

On By gchuhawks
  • Click here to access Ms. Chu’s Virtual Class Meeting Schedule and all links to access Tuesdays Google Live Meets & Thursdays Google Hangout Check In
  • Our Last Unit: Growth and Development
    • For this unit, our anchoring driving question is: In this time of Corona virus, How does stress impact the teenage body and body systems?
  • For this unit we have 3 learning goals:
    • A. Use a model to illustrate the role of cellular division (mitosis) and differentiation in producing and maintaining complex organisms.
    • B. Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.
    • C. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.

Agenda

Target Learning Objective: Students will research the effects of an environmental factor on the homeostasis of an organ system.

  1. Watch Assignment instructions here.
    1. Due Thursday 5/28 by 9PM: Check Into Google Hangout and Respond to Prompt.
    2. Due Tuesday 6/2 at 8AM: Unit 5 Final Project Research Document Part 1. Assignment posted in Google Classroom.

Homework

  • Everything above should be completed at home!

Extension: Ongoing Extra Credit

  • Buck Institute Video Sessions: Register and Attend a live session and submit a question or watch it later and complete a write up about the session
  • Breakthrough Junior Challenge: Enter this challenge and create and share your video entry. You could win $250,000
  • EdPuzzle: Think Like a Scientist–Natural Selection in an Outbreak | HHMI BioInteractive (Log into EdPuzzle with your TAM Google account to see the extra credit)
  • EdPuzzle: Natural Selection: Sexual Selection- An Illustrated Introduction (Log into EdPuzzle with your TAM Google account to see the extra credit)
  • EdPuzzle: Amoeba Sisters: How Cells Become Specialized: (Log into EdPuzzle with your TAM Google account to see the extra credit)
  • EdPuzzle: TedEd – How stress affects your brain (Log into EdPuzzle with your TAM Google account to see the extra credit)

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