Super Awesome Post

Hey everyone sorry for not posting yesterday but this one is going to be an amazing post that is going to make up for it. So this first section is going to be all about yesterday or 10/26. So our Agenda was as following

-Take out UP 6-9 w/ stamp sheet
-Star and Wish

-Go over lab

-notes on viruses

-video on viruses

Homework

-20.2 "Picture and words"

-Quiz Thursday so study
-post card 11/8

The Lab that we went over was the who infected who lab. In the lab hopefully everyone found out that ed was the carrier (a carrier is someones who has the infection but shows no symptoms(just in case you forgot)). Also Marriam and Tran tested negative for having the disease. Your final web or chain of infection should have been, Mr.Paek gave it to Heather, Heather gave it to ed (the carrier), and then ed gave it to Mrs. Dillion, Laura, and Mr. Wegley. Note that Mr. Wegley could have given the disease to Laura. Following our discus ion on the Lab we started the notes on viruses.

The first slide showed us the Viruses come in variety of shapes.

these are the different cells that were shown in the diagrams we were shown

our next slide was about the lysogenic cycle

Viral Disease

- How Do viruses cause disease?

• Attacks and destroys cells
• Disrupts homeostasis

- Common viral diseases:

• West Niles, HIV, Chickenpox, Flu, Warts

-vaccines may prevent disease

-Antibiotic DO NOT work against viruses

This was the last of the notes for Tuesday.

After the notes we watch a video for a little bit on diseases and cholera and other topics under viruses.

Today...yay!!!

Today we turned in our 20.2 notes or kept them and got them stamped so we could study them. During this time I was reminded that I forgot to Scribe. Then i was informed that i had to make this post super awesome (which it totally is). After that little discussion we talked about the disease of the day which is cholera. After that we started our noted on Bacteria and everything about it......well....not everything cause that's a lot of info, we would have to be genius. Anyways after the notes which ill share with you in a bit we watch a movie about a lethal bacteria that can help cure hyper muscles. In the movie they were talking about how the bacteria is the most lethal bacteria in the entire world. but at a thousandth of the lethal doce it can be used to relax muscle. This bacteria is now also used in Botox.

The notes:

Bacteria

-Unicellular

-prokaryotic- no nuclear membrane; one chromosome found in cytoplasm

- ribosomes

metabolic Diversity

Energy Source

-heterothophs get their energy from other organisms

-autptrophs make their own food

• Photosynthetic
• chemosynthetic

Respiration

-obligate aerobes requires O2

-obligate anaerobes w/o O2

-Facultative anearobes w/o or w/ O2

Binary Fission

-DNA replicates,and the cell divides in half

conjugation

-exchange genetic material across a hollow bridge (pili)

Spore Formation

-ENDOSPORE may form under harsh conditions

-Spores stay dormant until conditions are favorable

-Protects DNA

These were all the notes that we did, study these and good luck on the quiz.

Today we also did a disease of the day. To day it was cholera, the notes are as follows.

Cholera

-Bacteria

-Diarrhea

-Transmitted through contaminated food and water

-Treated by antibiotic

-Prevented by purifying water, sewage treatment, and proper cooking.

-1000,000-2000,000 deaths a year worldwide

Thank you for listening and reading my amazing awesome post have fun reading all of this during class and don't forget to check out the videos and pictures that I'm going to post:D

John Snow and Cholera

Since I am such a John Snow fan...i found these videos that i thought you might exjoy.  Watch them and email me the answers to the following 2 questions..
1.  Who was often spared from cholera outbreaks and WHY?
2.  What was the name of the other 'protagonist' in Stephen Johnson's book Ghost Map?

About The Day: 10/25/10

This morning we started the class off by turning in our cancer papers in the red bin. Then we discussed our thoughts on the Small Pox film from last week. We will be watching more videos from this series later on in the year. We answered questions and wrote them down from our homework. Mrs. Stein brought up the epidemic in Haiti and how it relates to today's lab (Who Infected Whom? UP 6-9). The point of todays lab was that there was a virus being spread in GBS. Many people were coming down with this illness. Out of all the people that got the illness, one person was carrying the illness in their body but they had no symptoms. This person is called a carrier. In our lab Ed was the carrier. We did this lab until the bell rang. If you need help with the Picture+ Words here is the general format.

Homework for 10/25/10:

-Finish UP 6-9: due tomorrow

-Read 20.2 w/ "In Picture + Words": due Wednesday

-Postcard: due 11/8/10

-Quiz Thursday

The next scribe is Alex

Video Thoughts?

Did anyone have any thoughts about Friday's film? I have seen that film many times now, and everytime I watch it I always really admire those 'disease warriors' who worked so tirelessly to bring vaccines to remote parts of the world. I feel that so many people are only concerned with themselves... to travel to places like India and Africa to try and rid the world of such horrible diseases really says something about those volunteers.. They really made a difference in the world... not everyone can say they have done so. How amazing would it be to be able to rid the world of HIV like they did with smallpox? What were your thoughts? Reply to my post with a comment as to what your thoughts or reflections were on the movie.





The cover of a World Health publication from 1980.

Re-seeding at the Interpretive Center

This saturday I went to the Interpretive Center at the Air Station Prairie.

For the time I was there, we gathered the seeds of a plant that were going to spread when the wind came, unbalancing the ways of the prairie.

By the end of the morning we had gathered many bags that looked like this.These seeds are to be taken to other locations where invasive species, such as buckthorn, has been cutdown and the land is in need of another plant.

In front of the prairie was a building that ran on the solar panels on the roof and a wind mill in front. Also the tables and all materials used were made out of different recycled woods that could been removed without having the tree die. They also had countertops that were made out of sun flower seeds.

Not only did the solar panels and wind mill provide electricity, it also heated the building and the water.

Overall, I learned a lot about the air station and the prairie, a part of my town that I never really knew about.

Cancer Paper

what should the font size be for the cancer paper????? and if there is no article and you get your info from, for example WebMD, do we just put that in the citation??? also are you just not able to use 'you' in the opening and conclusion, or the entire paper????

"Teach Me How to Bucky?" Scribe- October 21, 2010

Hey Class!

On October 21, we started off class by listening to Mrs. Steins new favorite song, "Teach Me How to Bucky", while writing down the homework for the weekend. Next, Mrs. Stein had us go up and get our homework checked in (which was pages 4 and 5 from the Unit Packet) and she also gave us a NEW homework stamp sheet. Then, we discussed our homework and the zapper game from last class. We went over how the Zapper game and viruses are similar. We discussed how computer viruses and disease-causing viruses are alike, as well. Since someone was absent the day we played the Zapper game, we begged Mrs. Stein to play it again. So the entire class played two more games of Zap! After that, Mrs. Stein pulled up the slide show and we took notes on "Spread of Diseases". We learned that diseases are spread by physical contact, contaminated food or water and vectors which are animals that carry diseases. Lastly, we watched a video about "Disease Warriors. This video was interesting because it showed us how viruses could be spread, wether it was from another person, or by animals. It also showed how some vaccines were created. Earlier in class we were assigned homework for the weekend. The homework is the following:

~Read section 20.1 with 6 questions AND answers

~Watch out, Grandma! Disease postcard project ( Due November 8th)

~Remember to finish the Cancer Paper (Due Monday)

If you need any rubrics or the format for 6 types of Q's and A's, then look on Mrs. Steins homepage!

The next Scribe is....... Adrian!