Wanted Posters Due / Bacteria Beans

Today is the start of 2nd quarter so everyone has an A right now!! Yippee! Try to keep that!
I collected the Wanted Posters today. Students will be presenting these to the class tomorrow.
We then did a short activity on the rate of multiplication in bacteria - one generation every 20 minutes!

Comparing Disinfectants

We corrected yesterday's worksheet.
Students then used petri dishes with agar to test the effectiveness of two types of disinfectant. Students swiped their fingers across table and swiped Section A, B, and C. In A they placed two drops of Lysol and in B they place two drops of a "green disinfectant. C is the control.
Students must write a prediction on the back of their paper explaining which disinfectant they think will work and why.
Reminder: Wanted posters are due on Monday!
To access your google doc go to the  Billings School homepage and you know how to get there.
As long as you shared your document with me one time you don't need to share it again.

Viruses

Students read Viruses Chapter 2 section 1. They must complete the worksheet for homework which is due tomorrow.
Remember that students also need to continue their research on their disease and that the disease "Wanted Poster" is due on Monday.

Disease Research and Poster

Students continued researching their disease today. Students MUST share their google doc with me. My e-mail address is:
gartonj@billingsschools.org. 
Students must create a "Wanted Poster" for their disease. This poster needs to be be NEAT and IN COLOR. All information that students found doing their research needs to be included in their poster. Today was the last day that we will spend in class working on this project - everything that is not finished needs to be completed at home. This poster is due Monday.

Disease Research

Today we spent the class period researching our disease. Below are some of the questions that you will need to find answers to. Students can copy these questions and paste them into their google doc!

1. Disease Name:
2. What type of organisms causes the disease (for example, bacteria, virus, protist, fungi, worm, etc.)?
3. What is the scientific name of the organism that causes the disease?
4. Picture or sketch of the organism that causes the disease or what the disease “looks” like.
5. What does the organism do to make someone sick (for example, is it producing toxins, destroying cells, absorbing nutrients, etc.)
6. How is the disease spread?
7. Is there a vector agent (a vector agent is an organism that spreads the disease, usually an insect)? If so, what is it?
8. In what part of the world was the disease first discovered or reported? Or What part of the world is the disease most common?
9. What are the symptoms of the disease?
10. What body systems or organs are most affected by the disease?
11. What is the treatment and/or cure for people with the disease?
12. What part of the population does the disease primarily affect (for example, elderly, women, young children, dogs, cats, plants, etc.)?

12. What is the disease’s historical importance (for example, did the presence of the disease cause migrations, kill a famous person, become a widespread epidemic, was it associated with major flooding in a region, etc.)? 
13. Is there a vaccine for the disease?  What is the immunization schedule? Are there any side effects and if so what are they?
14. Who discovered the vaccine and when? Have changes been made to the vaccine over the years?

Disease Detective

Today students took a short quiz on cell requirements and classification.

We  barely got started on our introduction to our disease research project. Students must choose 3  choices from the list below that they would like to research. Students will only be researching one disease but no two students can research the same disease. There are many other childhood diseases that I will accept ie. rubella, norovirus. Please ask your parents and grandparents for  information concerning childhood diseases.

Disease Detective

Bacterial Pathogen	Disease Name	Viral Pathogen	Disease Name
Bacillus anthracis	anthrax	Varicella  spp.	Chicken Pox
Bordetella pertussis	whooping cough	Vaicella spp.	Small Pox
Clostridium botulinum	botulism	Polio	poliomyelitis
Clostridium perfringens	gas gangrene	Hepatitis A
Clostridium tetani	tetanus	Hepatitis B
Corynebacterium diphtheria	diphtheria	Hepatitis C	HCV
Escherichia coli	acute pyelonephritis	Hantavirus	Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Francisella tularensis	tularemia or rabbit fever	Ebola	Hemorrhagic Fever
Hemophilus influenzae	meningitis	Legionella pneumophila	Legionnaires Disease
Lactobacillus acidophilus	cavities	SARS coronavirus	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrom
Mycobacterium leprae	leprosy (Hansen's disease)	Parasitic  Pathogens	Disease Name
Mycobacterium tuberculosis	tuberculosis	Plasmodium spp.	Malaria
Neisseria meningitidis	spinal menigitis	Trypanosoma spp.	African Sleeping Sickness
Rickettsia richettsii	Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever	Leishmania donovani	Dum-Dum Fever,  kala-azar
Rickettsia prowazekii	typhus	Enterobius vermicularis	perianal pruritus (pinworm)
Salmonella typhi	typhoid fever	Nosopsyllus fasciatus (vector)	plague
Salmonella typhimurium	food poisoning	Ixodes  spp (vector)	Lymes disease
Shigella dysenteriae	dysentery	Giardia lamblia	Giardia
Streptococcus mutans	cavities	Tenia spp.	Tapeworm
Streptococcus pneumoniae	pneumonia	Trichinella spp.	Trichinosis
Streptococcus (group A)	scarlet fever	Fungal Pathogens	Disease Name
Streptococcus (group A)	rheumatic fever	Ringworm	Dermatophytosis
Treponema pertenue	yaws	Trichophyton rubrum	Athlete’s Foot
Vibrio cholerae	cholera
Yersinia pestis	Plague
Staphylococcus aureus	Staph infections

Wrap up

Today we went over last nights questions concerning Domains: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryote. Review of autotrophs, heterotrophas, prokaryotic and eukaryotic terms were also discussed. We then watched a short video to help wrap up this chapter.
Have a wonderful four days off!

Domains and Kingdoms

Today we read "Domains and Kingdoms" pages 26-29 in class. Students then had to answer all the quesitons on page 29. Answers should be in their spirals. They need to finish this for homework.
Students must also  do the Writing in Science activity on page 29. This is homework, too.

Shoe Classification

Students were having a bit of trouble grouping items and then breaking them down into much smaller groups so....today we took shoes. Students had to group them based on characteristics and then end with groups that had only one shoe in it. For homework students need to answer questions 1,2 and 5. They also need to write 2-3 sentences about what they learned about classification.

Finishing Up

Today we corrected yesterday's sheet from the Classification reading on pages 17-24.
We also finished up classifying the animal skins from Wednesday. Students needed to group these into two groups and then split them into 4 groups.

Skin Classification

Today we worked with 13 pelts that I got from Fish and Wildlife. Students had to go to each pelt and decide what their habitat is, what they eat, 3 qualitative descriptions and 2 quantitative measurements. On Friday, (I will not be at school on Thursday) they will group the animals based on characteristics of their choosing.

We corredted the worksheets on "What is Life"
Students then watched the first part of the Planet Earth video "The Great Plains". We are watching this video for two reasons: it is fall migration and this video depicts some of the largest migrations on earth and secondly, we are at the edge of the great plains of North America. Hopefully students will be looking up to try and witness first hand the migrations of numerous birds through our region and also compare animals of other plains to ours here in the US. There is no homework.

What is Life?

Students read in the book "Bacteria to Plants" Chapter 1 Section 1 - What is Life. Students have a worksheet to complete. This worksheet needs to be completed over the weekend.
Textbooks are available for checkout after school and must be brought back BEFORE 1st period the following day. If students choose not to use a text book then they may use the on-line version.

On-line book

Today students used computers to access the blog. They spent a few minutes looking around this site and alot of time feeding the fish!
I then introduced the on-line book to students. We set up their account so they are now all able to access the on-line book. All students should have written down their username (either their ID# or the first 8 letters of their name) and the password. The password is the same for ALL students. The homework tonight is to browse both the blog and the on-line book.

Dirt: Dead or Alive

Students were given a cup of dirt. They needed to classify the items found in the dirt into 6 groups. Students needed to sketch, in color, and label their items. Then students decided whether the groups were living, once living OR will be living, and never living. There are 4 questions that students need to answer. If this activity was not completed in class then it IS homework.

Study Guide for Test

Students got a study guide today. They had time to work on it in class and they must finish for homework. Students need to study for the test tomorrow. Papers, notes, books etc. cannot be used on the test!