This week we will be finishing up the Egg Lab Report and starting our next unit - Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration. Tuesday will be the last in-class day to work on the lab report and it will be turned in during the beginning of class on Wednesday. Then we will jump into the Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration unit by checking out an interactive prezi (aka - fancy notes) and be investigating Louis Pasteur's discovery of fermentation. Grades close at the end of the week, so make sure you are up to date with all of your assignments (especially is you haven't handed in your animation!) Stay curious and keep looking for answers!
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This week we're going egg crazy! We'll be looking at eggs as a model of a cell this week, and we'll put it in different solutions to see how it reacts to them. This past weekend, I soaked our eggs in vinegar. The acid in the vinegar helped breakdown the egg's shell, so only the thin membrane underneath the shell was left behind. This membrane will allow the egg to exchange molecules with its environment - so we can see examples of diffusion, osmosis, and plasmolysis. We will put the eggs in six different solutions and observe the changes over 2 days. This is also a FULL lab report. So it'll be a lot of work this week, but this is one of the best labs of the year - so it will be worth it! Stay curious and keep looking for answers!Happy New Year and welcome back! This week you'll be finishing up your membrane transport animations, recapping on the unit, then having a quiz. Monday will be your last day to work on your project in class. We will present the animations on Thursday and Friday, so be uploaded to your period's Google folder by then. Tuesday you will be watching a movie called Hemo (as in hemoglobin) in the auditorium with the other clusters. Wednesday will include a group challenge question and time for study guide questions. Thursday will be the Transport Across the Membrane Quiz (2.5 bars). We will also be watching all of the membrane transport animations on Thursday and Friday. I will be here after school on Tuesday and before school on Wednesday and Thursday. Stay curious and keep looking for answers!
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