Today in class Mrs. Stein started off the day by speaking to us a little bit about our newest project on endangered species! More information can be found on the project on page two of the newest biology packet. Then, we all took some notes on Jean Baptiste de Lemark and Charles Darwin.

Jean Baptiste de Lemark

*First to recognize that organisms change

*theory was disproved

3 key assumptions;

-desire to change
-law of use and disuse
-inheritance of acquired characteristics
Charles Darwin
*Created for the theory of evolution
*HMS begle sailed in 1831-galapagos islands
*published origin of species in 1858
Darwin’s observations;
*observed tortoises, iguanas, and finches.
*The islands had different climates and vegetation

*animals were similar, but had noticeable differences.

After taking these, awesome and utterly interesting, notes we continued watching the video on Charles Darwin’s adventure to the Galapagos islands. Just before leaving the room, I fortunately remembered to copy down the homework. This concluded the class period of Tuesday, January 5th.

Our next scribe will be Delia!
Homework;
1.double bubble map-tomorrow  “Darwin vs. Lamark” use test sections 16.1, 16.2, &16.3
2. Visit Mrs. Stein by Tuesday to receive homework pass
3.TV ad 2/28

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When I first walked into class today I was all psyched for the test! Then we proceeded to take the test. After the test Mrs. Stein assigned the days homework which was...

Homework:

1)UP 12-due tomorrow

2)read 20.3-double bubble map "viral disease v.s. bacterial disease" -due monday

3)post card-11/8

After the homework was assigned we watched an interesting video on Malaria. In the video we learned many intriguing things.

*Over one million die of malaria a year

*Malaria is caused by a parasite that invades red blood cells

*Malaria enters the body through mosquito bites

*MANY african children are suffering

*Many Places all over the world used to have malaria until DDT was used to kill mosquitos that spread the disease, it killed much more than just the mosquitos and was banned-Africa was never reached with the chemical so malaria still remains in Africa

It was crazy to think about America at one point suffering from malaria. The video brought up some very interesting factoids about malaria. When the video finished so did class.

Passing Back Papers and Prepping for Test :)

Mrs. Stein began class today by having us collect our past graded work along with turning in our Alien Species Posters. We got back a number of various papers including; Lab 58 (Learning About Population Density,) Lab write ups for the testing of leaves experiment we did, the video worksheet we did when we watched the planet earth video, our past homework stamp sheet, and the comparison chart for section 6.4 (features climate change, the ozone layer, and fisheries.) Given that all of these things would most likely impact our grades Mrs. Stein also gave us grade reports. She also mentioned in class that when commenting on our classmates’ oil spill videos our comments need to be more in depth than just, “good job!” so keep an eye out for that. After all of this Mrs. Stein passed out slips of paper which included tips on how to study which is shown above! She also explained how the curves on tests work and a little bit about academic dishonesty.

When Mrs. Stein asked if we had any questions about the test for tomorrow and the room fell silent..not many people had much to say. For the rest of class students either played review games in the back of the room or watched a 60 minutes episode on global warming. By the time class was over students were either prepped for the test or very informed on global warming. You can access both the review game and the video on the moodle and the Glenbrook south homepage.

Tomorrow's scribe will be...ALEX!

Homework:
1. Video comments and moodle forum-Wednesday
2. Extra credit-various dates (look on blog for dates)
3. STUDY FOR TEST TOMORROW!
*review session tomorrow morning at 7:00 in room 374
*also to help you study look on objective pages in your packet!

Oil Spill Video

Hey guys, here's our video!

Thanks for watching,

Angel, Holly, & Alex.