Monday, April 23 - Friday, April 27  (A Week)


Four more weeks before finals. Make them count!


A Days: (Mon., Wed., Thurs)
Honors (Pre-AP) Biology: Students will end the year with a study of the plant and animal kingdom.

• Mon., 4/23: Test Classification/Bacteria.  Notes: Protista/Fungi HW: List characteristics of Kingdoms Protista and Fungi
• Wed., 4/25:  Notes: Protista/Fungi.  Discuss home project: Kingdom Animalia.  Lab: Protists/Fungi  HW: worksheets - protista/fungi
• Thurs., 4/26: HW check.  Lab write-up.  Notes: Protist/Fungal diseases.  HW: Complete Animalia project 1 - 5. 

Medical Tech Essentials: 

1. Distinguish between 3 types of muscle.
2. Explain how skeletal muscles contract
3. Discuss how muscles move bones
4. Distinguish between flexors and extensors
5. ID major muscles of the body

• Monday, 4/23: Review video podcast scoring rubric. Save to network folder as .wmv. After lunch: Show podcasts. Revise as directed.  HW: Study for test on muscles (Wed.). You will need to be able to ID muscles from biology book. 
• Tuesday, 4/24: Discuss and review muscle system.  Edit podcasts. HW: Study for test - muscular system. 
• Wed., 4/25: Test: Muscular System. Finish podcast editing. HW: WS: 46_4
• Thurs., 4/26: Take up HW.  Notes/Lab: Integumentary System.  
• Friday, 4/27: Intro Circulatory System.  Discuss CW for next week (sub in class Mon - Wed) 

Principles of Engineering: Students are studying the principles and history of robotics.  This week they will work with hydraulics and make a robot that will work with hydraulic pistons.

• Mon., 4/23: Students will research how hydraulics work.  Take notes (notebook): Basic ideas - hydraulics and pistons; pictures with explanations to help with basics as well as pistons; Explanation of how judobot hydraulics will work. Review hydraulics for "claw".  Review construction materials and criteria for building judobots.  Instructions here.  Grading rubric. 
• Wed., 4/25: Build judobots. HW: Bring in materials for an individual "bot" that will use a claw to pick up ping pong balls.
• Thurs., 4/26: Judobot Challenge!  HW: Bring in materials for individual "bot" if not done today. 

B Days: (Tues., Fri.)

Multimedia:  Students will finish garageband as a stand-alone piece of software and will begin unit on video.

• Tues., 4/24: "Show and Tell" - Garageband song remix. Notes: video/camera basics. HW: Complete a storyboard using 4 images and two videos (of yourself) that tells a "story". Begin taking pics/videos if time.
• Fri., 4/27:  Research questions (from shared Google doc) about iMovie and how it is integrated with photobooth and iPhoto. Prepare storyboard for "Mother's Day" Video - a video made similar to previous (4/24) video but a tribute to your mom or other loved one. 

Medical Tech Essentials: See A days
Honors Biology: Same as A days assignments for Wed and Thurs.