Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

*Geometry*

Announcements:

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Standards and Benchmarks (Geometry 9-12):

1. CC.9-12.A.SSE.1 - Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context. 

Big Idea:

1. Basic properties of special geometric figures can be used to solve complex problems. 

Class Outline:

1. Attendance. 
2. Return Chapter 10 Test
3. Sec 11-3; #s 1-21, 23

Homework: (Click Here for Assignment List) (Click Here for Homework Answer Keys)

1. Sec 11-4; #s 1-12, 28, 34

**Chemistry**

Announcements:  

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Standards and Benchmarks:

1. EALR4.9-11.PS2G:  Chemical reactions change the arrangement of atoms in the molecules of substances.  Chemical reactions release or acquire energy from their surroundings and result in the formation of new substances.  

Big Idea:

1. Molar conversions allow us to use our understanding of balanced chemical equations in real-world scenarios.

Class Outline:

1. Attendance
2. Entry Task (None Today)
3. Review: Stoichiometry Worksheet (Pages 6,7)
4. Class Time Dimensional Analysis Packet

Homework:

1. Stoichiometry / Dimensional Analysis Packet (Next 4 pages)

***Biology***

Announcements:

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Standards and Benchmarks (Biology 9-12):

1. EALR 4.9-11.LS1G:  Cells us the DNA that forms their genes to encode enzymes and her proteins that allow a cell to grow and divide to produce more cells, and to respond to the environment. 
2. EALR 4.9-11.LS1H:  Genes are carried on chromosomes.  Animal cells contain two copies of each chromosome with genetic information that regulate body structure and functions.  Most cells dived by a processes called mitosis, in which the genetic information is copied so that each new cell contains exact copies of the original chromosomes.  

Big Idea(s):

1. A strong defense of a Biblical view of creation requires deep knowledge key issues in genetics and heredity.

Class Outline:

1. Attendance
2. Entry Task (None today)
3. Review Bloom's Taxonomy Questions with Students
4. Review expectations for Rubric
5. Class time to complete DRAFT #2 of Bloom's Taxonomy Questions

Homework:  

1. Schedule for Bloom's Taxonomy Questions
1. Wednesday 4/23 - Reading Day
2. Thursday 4/24 - Work Day
3. Monday 4/28 - Questions/Rubric Due 
4. Tuesday 4/29 - Questions/Rubric Due (End of Period) (This was changed to DRAFT #1)
5. Wednesday - Redistribute questions for work on Draft #2
6. Thursday - Work day for Draft #2
7. Monday - Distribute Questions to Peers (Work Day for Peers) (Unfinished Questions will be Homework)
8. Tuesday - Work day to answer questions
9. Wednesday - Collect and Correct Questions

****Life Science****

Announcements:  

1. Introduce the Water Cycle (ABIOTIC Factors of an Ecosystem)

Standards and Benchmarks (Life Science 6-8):

1. EALR 4.6-8.LS2A:  An ecosystem consists of all the populations living within a specific area and the nonliving factors they interact with. 
2. EALR 4.6-8.LS2C:  The major source of energy for ecosystems on Earth's surface is sunlight.  Producers transform the energy of sunlight into the chemical energy of food through photosynthesis.   This food energy is used by plants, and all other organisms to carry on life processes.  Nearly all organisms on the surface of Earth depend on this energy source.  

Big Idea:

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Class Outline:

1. Attendance
2. Entry Task 
3. BrainPop:  Water
4. United Streaming:  Life and the Importance of Water
5. United Streaming:  Water and Life
6. Water as a Solid,Liquid and Gas:  
1. BrainPop: States of Matter
2. Evaporation and Condensation
1. United Streaming:  Evaporation and Condensation
7. BrainPop: The Water Cycle
8. Class time for:  Water Cycle Worksheet #1

Homework:

1.   Water Cycle Worksheet #1

****Trigonometry****

Announcements:

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Standards and Benchmarks:

1. CCSS-GSRT.1
2. Understand that by similarity, side ratios in right triangles are properties of the angles in the triangle, leading to definitions of trigonometric ratios for acute triangles
3. CCSS-GSRT.7
1. Explain and use the relationship between sine and cosine of complementary angles.
4. CCSS-F-TF
1. Explain how the unit circle in the coordinate plane enables the extension of trigonometric functions to all real numbers, interpreted as radian measures of angles traversed counterclockwise around the unit circle.  

Big Idea:

1. Fundamental math skills are the building blocks upon which trigonometric skills are built.

Class Outline: 

1. Attendance
2. Review: 8.6 Example Problems #'s 1-5, 8.6 Exercises Pgs 581 #'s 1-17

Homework:  (Click Here for Assignment Pacing Guide)

1. 8.6 Exercises Pgs 582-583 #'s 18-56, 60-67