Monday: review options for homework, pick one and complete and hand in Friday
1. Look up Melittobia digitata ( WOW bug) on the Internet. Write some interesting facts you find.
2. Research different ways that insects have influenced history ( Summarize your findings in 1 page report ( Example, How have locusts impacted crops throughout history?)
3.. Draw and label a diagram of a wasp. Compare this to the WOW bug.
4. Write a 1/2 to l page report on fruit flies. How are they used in classrooms around the world?
5. Make a list of organisms that can regenerate. Write one paragraph explaining regeneration.
6.Write 1/2 to 1 page report on Robert Hooke and Antony van Leeuwenhoek.
7. find images of the Internet of microscopes . Make a time line using these pictures to show the development of the microscope. ( 1/2 poster board)
8. What characteristics of the WOW bug did you observe that suggest it is an insect ( 1/2 page)?
Tuesday: review parts of the microscope
Wednesday: review for quiz on microscope Thursday
Thursday: complete homework
Monday, August 31, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Homework 8/24-8/28
Monday and Tuesday: Study your lab safety sheet for a quiz on Wednesday
Monday : Choose ONE of the following options to be completed and handed in at the beginning of class on Friday:
Option#1Look up the definitions of "organic" and ". Make a list with examples of each type of substance. make this into a chart ( 20 examples)
Option#2 Compare the processes that occur in a living thing, such as a human, with those that occur in a nonliving thing, such as a rock. Write a report or make a Venn diagram.
Option#3 research tube worms. Find out how they are able to survive in such an inhospitable area. Write a 1/2/ to 1 page report.
Option #4 Create a collage of photos and illustrations of a wide variety of organisms. Make this into a small ( 1/2 sheet poster)
Option#5 Develop a chart and list the common name of an organism as well as its genus and species name. You must have at least 25 organisms.
Option#6 Browse the Internet and download and print images of organisms taken from a scanning electron microscope. Make a collage of the images.
Monday : Choose ONE of the following options to be completed and handed in at the beginning of class on Friday:
Option#1Look up the definitions of "organic" and ". Make a list with examples of each type of substance. make this into a chart ( 20 examples)
Option#2 Compare the processes that occur in a living thing, such as a human, with those that occur in a nonliving thing, such as a rock. Write a report or make a Venn diagram.
Option#3 research tube worms. Find out how they are able to survive in such an inhospitable area. Write a 1/2/ to 1 page report.
Option #4 Create a collage of photos and illustrations of a wide variety of organisms. Make this into a small ( 1/2 sheet poster)
Option#5 Develop a chart and list the common name of an organism as well as its genus and species name. You must have at least 25 organisms.
Option#6 Browse the Internet and download and print images of organisms taken from a scanning electron microscope. Make a collage of the images.
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