Monday - TTW review classroom and team policies and procedures. TTW facilitate a class discussion/review of similarities and differences between organisms. TTW review science fair requirements.

Homework: There will be a quiz this THURSDAY over organism diversity and adaptation. Study your Keys to the Kingdom Chart and the vocabulary review worksheet (the one with the word search on back).

This is the classification from domain to species - Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Use this mneumonic to help you remember the order - King Phillip Came Over For Grape Soda.

Tuesday - TTW review classroom and team policies and procdures. TSW complete a study guide for Thursday’s QUIZ.

Wednesday - TTW review the organism diversity and adaptation study guide and introduce our next unit Earth’s Features.

Homework: Review your organism diversity and adaptation study guide.

Thursday - TSW demonstrate his or her ability to identify similarities and differences among organisms, infer the relatedness of different and classify plants and animals according to their features through a short assessment (spi.8.5..1,2,3)

THERE WILL BE A QUIZ OVER THE RELATEDNESS OF ORGANISMS ON NEXT TUESDAY. 

Homework: Proof read your question, hypothesis and procedures. If you want to get ahead of the gang, go ahead and type these items and save them to a word document in preparation for compiling your written report for the project. Also, ask your parents to secure a display board for your presentation.

Friday - TSW use a classification key to identify unknown organsims. TSW use a dichotomous key to determine the genus and species of an organism. (spi.8.5.3,5)

Homework: Conduct your experiment and record all data in your science fair project folder.

DON’T FORGET ABOUT NEXT TUESDAY’S QUIZ!