Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Thurs., Mar 31st

Today:
...phones away today...
- complete lab & submit one per group
- Review for your Unit 3 test tomorrow
     - Options: watch animations, rewatch vodcasts, review online quizzes, workbook (answers here),  quizlet, jeopardy games (see Ms. Paas)

Wed., Mar 30th

Welcome back!  Hope you all have had a great break.

After we answered Carmen's phone call from 2 other students who were supposed to be in class, we completed today's check-in to remind us what enzymes were all about and then worked on a lab in an attempt to give an analogy to how enzymes function and what affects their reaction rates.  Lab questions are to be handed in tomorrow (there will be class time to work on them if needed).
Hwk: Review for unit 3 test

Reminders:
Friday, April 1st (this is not a prank) - Unit 3 Test
Wed., Apr 6th - Section #1 EXAM

Friday, 11 March 2016

Fri., Mar. 11, 2016


I will try not to take offence that there was only 13 people in class on my first day with you all.  Thank you for Ms. Hari for the support while I recovered from my knee surgery.

Today: 
- enzymes notes: this is the last bit of biology language development we need to do together in order to understand the system!  Now we can begin discussing the organ systems.
- Flex:
     a) e-Quiz: cell membrane to cell size
     b) micrograph stations
     c) WB p 27 (#74-76)

Reminders: 
April 1st (FRIDAY!) - Unit 3 test
April 6th - Section 1 Exam

Thursday, 10 March 2016

Thurs., Mar., 10th, 2016

Today:
1. Hand in Potato Lab
2. Notes: Cell size (see notes here)
3. Flex:
     a) e-Quiz: cell membrane to cell size
     b) micrograph stations
     c) WB p 27 (#74-76)

Reminder: 
April 1st - Unit 3 test
April 6th - Section 1 Exam

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Wednesday, March 9th

Hey all!!

Look at you, workin' hard!!

Tomorrow is the big day. Formal lab is due. Please make sure you have completed the following:

1. Title page (descriptive title, name, date)
2. Typed (TNR, size 12)
3. Full sentences
4. Graph hand drawn (labelled axis, descriptive title)
5. Pre-lab attached at the end

Due at the beginning of class.

Thanks, two more days with you all (not that I'm counting :p)

Ms H

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Tuesday March 8th

Hi all

Today was day 2 of the lab. Thank you for doing such a great job with clean-up.

Task List:
1. Vodcast (WSQ) Active Transport
              --> e-assignment is built in

2. Formal lab write-up is due on Thursday. We will talk about what is expected tomorrow. It is worth 5% of your mark!

Please WATCH the Vodcast tonight if you did not do so in class. 


Monday, 7 March 2016

Monday March 7th

Hi all

Today we looked at tonicity (isotonic, hyptertonic, and hypotonic) and facilitated transport.

We also started Day 1 of the Potato Lab.

Tomorrow will be Day 2.

If you were absent today: 
You will be doing the lab a day late. This means, while everyone is doing day two of the lab tomorrow, you will be working on day one. Day two will be completed at lunch on Wednesday. Please come prepared with your pre-lab.

Thanks,

Ms H

Thursday, 3 March 2016

Thursday, March 3

Hi all

Today we watched my FAVOURITE Biology video. Please refer to the last post to see it again.

Task List:
1. Complete stations.
2. WB #54-60
3. E-Quiz (closes Monday at 12:30): Cell Organelles

Tomorrow we will start transport across the cell membrane and a pre-lab.

Marks are posted under the "Marks" tab above

Bye!

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Tuesday, March 2nd

Good evening, everyone.

I am happy to say that I had the tests marked by the end of block 5 today :). You will know your marks tomorrow.

With Unit 2 wrapping up on Tuesday after the test, we are now going to take a closer look at the basic unit of life; cells.

When I was at UVic, my professor showed our first year Biology class this video and it sparked my interest in cell biology. As I watched the video I barely knew what was going on but the I was captivated by how much goes on in our cells.

As years went by I would come back and revisit this video and the more I watched it, the more I started to see what was really going on because we were learning about everything in my cell bio courses (my personal favorite are the kinesins!)

Below is a link to one of the original creators of this amazing clip, David Bolinsky's, TED talk he gave after he released this video through Harvard.

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell#t-525972

See you all in class tomorrow,

Ms Hari