Tuesday, October 1, 2013

*Geometry*
Announcements:

1. None

Standards and Benchmarks:

1. CC.9-12.G-CO.9:  Prove theorems about lines and angles. 

Big Idea:

1. Inductive and deductive reasoning is helps us to understanding geometric principles.  

Class Outline:

1. Attendance
2. Hand in Quiz Corrections (if done) and Signatures (Answer Key HERE)
3. Review Homework:  Page(s) 86 #'s 38-49, and 93 #'s 23-28
4. Class time for Homework:  

Homework:

1. Answer the Example problems for section 2.4 (Show your work, but check your answers using the book's answers.)
2. Page 99, #'s 1-9

**Chemistry**

Announcements:  

1. Quiz Wednesday:  Scientific Notation, Unit Conversion, Metric System

Standards and Benchmarks:

1. EALR4.9-11.PS2A:  Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons.   The nucleus of an atom take up very little of the atom's volume but makes up almost all of the mass.  The nucleus contains protons and neutrons, which are much more massive than the electrons surrounding the nucleus.  Protons have a positive charge, electrons have a negative charge, and neutrons have no charge.   
2. EALR4.9-11.PS2H:  Solutions are mixtures in which particles of one substance are evenly distributed through another substance.  Liquids are limited in the amount of dissolved solid or gas that they can contain.  Aqueous solutions can be described by relative quantities of the dissolved substances and acidity or alkalinity (pH).

Big Idea:

1. Chemistry is the study of matter and its behavior.

Class Outline:

1. Attendance
2. Hand-in Quiz Signatures
3. Review Homework:  Unit Conversions
4. Additional Practice with Unit Conversions, Metric System, Scientific Notation. 

Homework:

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***Biology***

Announcements:

1. Calendar update.  Check calendar for upcoming important dates (Projects and Quiz)

Standards and Benchmarks:

1. EALR 4, 9-11, LS1A:  Carbon containing compounds are the building blocks of life.  Photosynthesis is the process that plant cells use to combine the energy of sunlight with molecules of carbon dioxide and water to produce energy-rich compounds that contain carbon (food) and release oxygen.  

Big Idea(s):

1. Photosynthesis is an essential process in biology.

Class Outline:

1. Attendance
2. Class time to work on project/research: Computer Lab

Homework:

1. Continue research for the Photosynthesis presentation and/or begin constructing the photosynthesis presentation. 
1. EALR 4, 9-11, LS1A:  Carbon containing compounds are the building blocks of life.  Photosynthesis is the process that plant cells use to combine the energy of sunlight with molecules of carbon dioxide and water to produce energy-rich compounds that contain carbon (food) and release oxygen.

****Life Science****

Announcements:  

1. None

Standards and Benchmarks:

1. EALR.6-8.LS1E: In classifying organisms, scientists consider both internal and external structures and behaviors. 

Big Idea:

1. Scientific experiments (and the resulting conclusions) are communicated via laboratory reports.

Class Outline:

1. Attendance
2. Collect Creation Assembly Field Trip Permission Form
3. Collect Quiz Signatures
4. Check Homework
5. BrainPop:  Classifying
6. Modern Classification Scheme Presentation

Homework:

1. Book Condition Report:  
1. Please use the book condition report (Linked HERE) to identify damage to your recently assigned textbook.   These books are not in the best condition, so it is important that you make note of the condition so that you are not held accountable for previous damage.  

****Trigonometry****

Announcements:  

1. None

Standards and Benchmarks:

1. CCSS-GSRT.1
1. 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
2. CCSS-GSRT.6
1. Understand that by similarity, side ratios in right triangles are properties of the angles in the triangles, leading to definitions of trigonometric ratios.
3. CCSS-GSRT.7
1. Explain and use the relationship between sine and cosine of complementary angles.
4. CSS-GSRT.8
1. Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right triangles in applied problems.

Big Idea:

1. Triangles are geometric shapes which have special properties identified through trigonometric relationships.

Class Outline:

1. Attendance
2. Review Current Work: Extra Practice Worksheet #3: Right Triangles and Trigonometic Ratios
3. Extra Practice: Right Triangles and Trigonometric Ratios

Homework: 

1. Extra practice problems can be found here:
1. Basic Trig Word Problems (#'s 1-5 would be reasonable questions for a quiz, given the information we have covered in class thus far.)
2. Solving for the Length of a Side (All problems on this worksheet would be reasonable questions for a quiz.)
3. Trig Study Sheet with Practice Problems (This is an informational sheet that contains the information we've covered in class, plus some.  The practice problems on the last few pages would be reasonable quiz questions, with the exception of #'s 6, 8, & 9 because they utilize a different unit of angle measurement than what we've covered in class.   Answer key is provided on the last two pages.)