Disease Brochure/Geomorphology

Life Science

Students are working on a disease brochure in class. Each student has to print three pictures representing their disease - pictures small enough to fit on the brochure.

For homework, students are writing the discussion for their science fair projects. It is due on Friday, January 29th and must be a minimum of 5 paragraphs.

Earth Science

Students are to study their notecards from weathering through pothole. Tomorrow, we will begin the landscape drawing which will include 42 landscape features.

Disease Brochure/Groundwater

Life Science

Students are working on a disease brochure in class. Each student has to choose a bacterial or viral disease to research.

1. Choose a bacterial or viral disease.
2. Print info about the disease from two websites: WebMD and www.cdc.org. Bring to class tomorrow.

Students may refer to the list below for possible diseases:

List of Viral diseases
Chicken pox
Monkey pox
Small pox
Cat scratch disease
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis D
Hepatitis E
Cold sores
Ebola
HIV/AIDS
Type I Diabetes
Rubella
Slap cheek syndrome
SARS
HTLV
Sandfly fever
Mumps
Rift valley fever
West nile
Yellow fever
Shingles

List of Bacterial Diseases
Lyme disease
Anthrax
Whooping cough
Bubonic plague
Scarlet fever
Strep throat
Tuberculosis
Meningitis
Botulism food poisoning
E-coli
Rheumtic fever
Staph infections
Salmonela food poisoning
Typhoid fever
Cholera

Earth Science
Students are studying groundwater systems. They should be reviewing their notecards for the groundwater section. Also, students need to label their cards for the next section - GLACIERS!

And we're off....

Life Science
Next week, students will be learning about bacteria and viruses. Everyone needs to brainstorm about a bacterial or viral disease that they would like to research.

The homework for the weekend is to read pages 192 - 201, define all bold words, write out bold sentences, and write and answer questions 1-4 on page 201.

Earth Science
Continuing the discussion of landforms resulting from various types of weathering and erosion, students should be completing their notecards from the list provided. The second set of notecards is due on Monday (30 cards).

The Wheels are Slowly Turning...

We are slowly getting back into the groove of school.

Life Science
Students have a quiz tomorrow covering taxonomy and the methods of classifying living things. The information is presented on pages 182 - 191 in the textbook. In addition, we reviewed and worked on cladograms - positioning various living things on the branches of an evolutionary tree. Our next unit will cover unicellular organisms in the domains of archaea and bacteria as well as viruses.


Earth Science
Students are learning about the development of the landscape through weathering and erosion. The second group of notecards are due on Monday. Students should be reviewing prior notecards as well as creating new cards based on the list of terms.

WELCOME BACK!!!

Life Science
In life science, students are learning the classification system of living organisms - Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. To practice classifying things, students are to create a system of categorizing candies. The Candy Classification System is due tomorrow.

Earth Science
Weathering and Erosion - students are learning about the processes involved in breaking down rock into sediment. Students are to be creating index cards - term, picture, definition. The first group of cards is due THURSDAY (26 words).