COMPLETE your timeline by adding the following events + a note for each to the CENOZOIC ERA portion of your notes: Click here to watch the video on this topic!
Paleocene epoch
Eocene epoch (what started this + add one more note about what kinds of animals that lived during the Eocene)
Oligocene epoch
Grande Coupre
Miocene epoch
Pliocene epoch
IN ADDITION TO THESE EPOCHS, ADD 2 EXTINCT ANIMALS TO YOUR TIMELINE> YOU CHOOSE THE ANIMALS!
Friday, November 30, 2018
Thursday, November 29, 2018
6th grade web lesson 11.29.2018
WATCH these lessons and add the events listed below to your timelines!
"From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying"
"The Age of Reptiles in 3 Acts"
"From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying"
- Cambrian explosion
- Cambrian-Ordovician extinction event
- Ordovician-Silurian extinction event
- Late Devonian extinctions
- Carboniferous period
- Permian period
- The Great Dying
"The Age of Reptiles in 3 Acts"
- The Triassic Period
- Theropods and Sauropod divergence
- End Triassic mass extinction
- Jurassic period
- Cretaceous period
- K-PG extinction
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
6th grade homework 11.28.2018
Read this article on a newly discovered dinosaur and answer the questions below on a sheet of notebook paper!
1. DESCRIBE what the newly discovered dinosaur in the article would have looked like.
2. Give one reason discovering extinct animals is challenging for paleontologists.
3. What is a theropod?
4. What are some reasons scientists think Anzu wasn't a "top" predator?
5. What is one reason Hell Creek, North Dakota, is a popular site for paleontologists?
1. DESCRIBE what the newly discovered dinosaur in the article would have looked like.
2. Give one reason discovering extinct animals is challenging for paleontologists.
3. What is a theropod?
4. What are some reasons scientists think Anzu wasn't a "top" predator?
5. What is one reason Hell Creek, North Dakota, is a popular site for paleontologists?
7th grade homework 11.28.2017
Read this article on DNA scientists and answer the questions below on a sheet of notebook paper!
1. Give 2 examples of ways organisms "leave their DNA behind."
2. About how many base pairs of DNA do humans have?
3. DESCRIBE how scientists can get DNA out of a cell in order to study it.
4. What is the process by which scientists copy DNA called?
5. CHOOSE one of the following "power words" and use it in a sentence that shows you understand the meaning: forensics, nucleotides, species
EXTRA CREDIT week of 11.26.2018
6th grade extra credit:
Read this web page and answer the questions below on a sheet of paper:
1. DESCRIBE what life was like during the Hadeon eon.
2. What kind of living things existed in the Archaeon eon?
3. How did Earth's atmosphere change during the Proterozoic Eon?
7th grade extra credit:
Watch this video on genes and alleles and complete the worksheet for that episode, which you can download here; it is the handout called "Alleles and Genes." Ms. Hubbard has hard copies of that worksheet in class as well!
EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 3rd!!
Read this web page and answer the questions below on a sheet of paper:
1. DESCRIBE what life was like during the Hadeon eon.
2. What kind of living things existed in the Archaeon eon?
3. How did Earth's atmosphere change during the Proterozoic Eon?
7th grade extra credit:
Watch this video on genes and alleles and complete the worksheet for that episode, which you can download here; it is the handout called "Alleles and Genes." Ms. Hubbard has hard copies of that worksheet in class as well!
EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 3rd!!
Saturday, November 24, 2018
7th grade web lesson 11.29.2018
PART 1: protein synthesis
Watch THIS video and make a LIST of the steps of protein synthesis. You are going to use this for your project that you start tomorrow, so be detailed.
Your list should include: transcription and translation, with at least 2 details for each of those.
PART 2: MUTATIONS
Take 8 detailed notes about genetic mutation using this video. Your notes should include:
What is a mutation?
How does a mutation happen?
Are there different kinds of mutations?
What happens to an organism that has a mutation?
Did you finish early?
FIRSTLY, go back and make sure your notes are THOROUGH and DETAILED.
If you are sure your notes are awesome, check out this cool video on human "super-powers" that are a result of genetic mutations.
Your list should include: transcription and translation, with at least 2 details for each of those.
PART 2: MUTATIONS
Take 8 detailed notes about genetic mutation using this video. Your notes should include:
What is a mutation?
How does a mutation happen?
Are there different kinds of mutations?
What happens to an organism that has a mutation?
Did you finish early?
FIRSTLY, go back and make sure your notes are THOROUGH and DETAILED.
If you are sure your notes are awesome, check out this cool video on human "super-powers" that are a result of genetic mutations.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
6th grade homework 11.14.2018
Read this article and answer the questions below on a sheet of lined paper. You do not need to re-write the question.
1. When was the end of the last great ice age?
2. What happened 12,800 years ago that was unexpected?
3. Scientists have a hypothesis that heat currents in the ocean were disrupted by something that happened 12,800 years ago; what do they think happened that caused this?
4. Some scientists think a comet exploded in the earth's atmosphere and led to a cooling of the planet. EXPLAIN how the comet explosion would have caused the planet to cool.
5. This article describes evidence to support the theory that the short ice age that occurred, 12,800 years ago happened because a comet entered the earth's atmosphere and exploded. LIST 2 pieces of evidence from the article that SUPPORT that theory. EXPLAIN your pieces of evidence. (Yes, you have to answer this question in complete sentences!)
HOMEWORK IS DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th!
1. When was the end of the last great ice age?
2. What happened 12,800 years ago that was unexpected?
3. Scientists have a hypothesis that heat currents in the ocean were disrupted by something that happened 12,800 years ago; what do they think happened that caused this?
4. Some scientists think a comet exploded in the earth's atmosphere and led to a cooling of the planet. EXPLAIN how the comet explosion would have caused the planet to cool.
5. This article describes evidence to support the theory that the short ice age that occurred, 12,800 years ago happened because a comet entered the earth's atmosphere and exploded. LIST 2 pieces of evidence from the article that SUPPORT that theory. EXPLAIN your pieces of evidence. (Yes, you have to answer this question in complete sentences!)
HOMEWORK IS DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th!
7th grade homework 11.14.2018
Read this article and answer the questions below on a sheet of lined notebook paper.
You do not need to re-write the question!
1. How long does it take for humans to domesticate an animal?
2. EXPLAIN what a genome is.
3. Scientists disagree about where domesticated dogs come from. LIST all of the regions that are potentially places where humans first domesticated dogs.
4. When did dogs become genetically different from wolves?
5. What can scientists use mutation rate to help them figure out?
6. In 2-4 complete sentences, SUMMARIZE this article: what are the big ideas that you took from the article?
HOMEWORK IS DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th!
You do not need to re-write the question!
1. How long does it take for humans to domesticate an animal?
2. EXPLAIN what a genome is.
3. Scientists disagree about where domesticated dogs come from. LIST all of the regions that are potentially places where humans first domesticated dogs.
4. When did dogs become genetically different from wolves?
5. What can scientists use mutation rate to help them figure out?
6. In 2-4 complete sentences, SUMMARIZE this article: what are the big ideas that you took from the article?
HOMEWORK IS DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th!
Monday, November 12, 2018
EXTRA CREDIT week of 11.12.2018
Listen/read to the media below. On a sheet of lined paper, do the following:
1. SUMMARIZE the video or podcast in 4-5 complete sentences.
2. Give 5 NEW FACTS your learned from listening to this media.
3. LOOKUP 2 vocabulary words that you learned about in this media. Use each word in a sentence that demonstrates you understand the new word.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
7th grade: INFORMATION on MITOSIS and MEIOSIS
Use the resources below to help you complete your foldable!
Here is the scoring guide for your foldable:
A- Foldable is neat, complete, and chromosome number is ACCURATE in every illustration
B- Foldable is neat, complete, there are 1-3 errors in illustrations
C- Foldable is neat but incomplete with ACCURATE information, OR foldable is complete with 4+ errors
D- Foldable is incomplete, clear lack of effort
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
EXTRA CREDIT week of 11.6.2018
Write 5 facts about things you learned from listening to this audio clip.
Your facts should be:
1. In complete sentences
2. Complex in nature
For example, I already know the 7th grade studied DNA transcription. If a students turns in an extra credit assignment, and one of their facts is: DNA is transcribed in the nucleus, that isn't a complex fact! We learned that a few weeks ago. If a student writes Bacteria cells do not have a nucleus, so transcription and translation happen in the cytoplasm, unlike in animal cells, THAT is a complex, new idea, and THAT is worth extra credit!
Please email me or message me if you have any questions!
WOW in the World: The Human Genome (7th grade)
World Faces Global Sand Shortage (6th grade)
Your facts should be:
1. In complete sentences
2. Complex in nature
For example, I already know the 7th grade studied DNA transcription. If a students turns in an extra credit assignment, and one of their facts is: DNA is transcribed in the nucleus, that isn't a complex fact! We learned that a few weeks ago. If a student writes Bacteria cells do not have a nucleus, so transcription and translation happen in the cytoplasm, unlike in animal cells, THAT is a complex, new idea, and THAT is worth extra credit!
Please email me or message me if you have any questions!
WOW in the World: The Human Genome (7th grade)
World Faces Global Sand Shortage (6th grade)
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