Living Environment 2 Spring 2020

Thursday, June 25

Hi students,

I hope everyone is well. Just fill out the daily attendance form today!

https://forms.gle/eeFbmmJLQJEpoVZf7

2 Things to keep in mind:

a) If you want to attend the virtual graduation ceremony tomorrow, you must register. If you do not register you will NOT be able to attend. Each family member that wishes to attend must register as well.

b) If you have questions about your status this semester, please send me an email.

Wednesday, June 24

Hi students,

Just fill out the daily attendance form. That's mostly it for today!

https://forms.gle/i9bwCVu68NP9H8Qk9

Also, if you think you are in danger of not passing this semester, please contact me. We can discuss if it's still possible for you to pass or if you will need to complete the course over the summer.

Tuesday, June 23

Hi students,

I hope everyone is well,

Today is the last day to turn in late work. If you turn in work today, you need to email me to let me know what assignment you completed. If you want credit for your work, this is very important!

Here are your tasks for today:

01) Complete your daily attendance form - https://forms.gle/EmkvtHkfkECBxEub7

02) Turn in any late work - today is the final day

03) Email me with the titles of any late assignments you turned in

Monday, June 22

Hi students,

We made it to the end of the regular semester! If you need to make up any missed work, you may work on it and submit it today.

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Complete the daily attendance form - https://forms.gle/9FZ23P1RopDMfMud8

02) Finish and turn in any work that you missed

Today's Assignments - Friday, June 19

Hi students,

You made it to the end of the marking period!

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Complete the daily attendance survey

02) Complete Part 2 of the final exam on TestWizard

03) Don't forget to turn in any missing assignments!

Today's Assignments - Thursday, June 18

Hi students,

Today is part one of your final exam. Part 2 will be tomorrow on TestWizard. Good luck!

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Complete the daily attendance survey

02) Complete Part 1 of the final exam.

Today's Assignments - Wednesday, June 17

Hi students,

Here is your assignment for the day.

01) Fill out the daily attendance survey

02) Watch the video, "The Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change"

03) Complete the TestWizard assignment, "Climate Change"

There is an optional, extra credit assignment I will post separately on the Google Classroom.

Today's Assignments - Tuesday, June 16

Hi students,

Here are your assignments for the day:

01) Fill out the daily attendance form

02) Watch the video mini lesson, "Human Impacts on the Environment"

03) Complete the TestWizard activity, "Human Impact"

04) Join office hours at 10am. Join and participate for +10 points of extra credit, bring a question for +15 points. Find the link to join on the Google Classroom.

Today's Assignments - Monday, June 15

Hey students,

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. We're in the final week before the end of the marking period, which ends this Friday. Remember to get in any late work by then!

Today we'll learn about the topic of ecological succession. Here are your assignments for the day:

01) Fill out the daily attendance form

02) Watch the video mini lesson, "Ecological Succession"

03) Complete the TestWizard activity, "Ecological Succession"

Today's Assignments - Friday, June 12

Today's Assignments - Thursday, June 11

Hi students,

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Complete your daily attendance form

02) Watch the video mini lesson, "Energy Flow in Ecosystems"

03) Complete the activity on TestWizard, "Fundamentals of Ecology." This activity is based on the information from yesterday's and today's classes both.

I'll post the optional, extra credit assignment for today separately on the Google Classroom.

Today's Assignments - Wednesday, June 10

Hi class,

I hope everyone is well today and ready to start our new unit on ecology.

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Fill out the daily attendance form

02) Watch the video mini lesson, "Fundamentals of Ecology"

03) Complete the activity, "Fundamentals of Ecology"

Keep an eye out for today's optional, extra credit assignment, which will be coming soon on the Google Classroom.

Today's Assignments - Tuesday, June 9

Hi students,

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Fill out your daily attendance form

02) Watch the video about how to complete your Finch Natural Selection Project

03) Read the directions and complete the assignment - find them on the Google Classroom.

04) Join office hours today at 10am. Bring a question for more points. Find the link to join on the Google Classroom.

Optional, Extra Credit Assignment for the Day

a. The science of skin color

Online Learning

Weekly Office Hours Via Webex on Tuesdays from 10am - 11am.

Please check your email for an invitation to Google Classrooms and Webex office hours. I you have not received an email invitation, please message me at russelllibertyscience@gmail.com

Parent-Teacher Conferences

If you would like to schedule a parent-teacher conference with Mr. Russell, please fill out the following form:

https://forms.gle/3RaDdfu3QnCJjd1y5

Today's Assignments - Friday, June 5

Hi students,

Here are your required assignments for today.

01) Complete the daily attendance form

02) Watch the video mini lesson, "Reading Cladograms"

03) Play the Nova Labs Evolution Game.

This is what will be required in this game.

a) Watch the video, "Evolution 101"
b) Play Mission 1 - Training Trees
c) Missions 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 will be optional, extra credit assignments

04) Watch the first minutes of the video, "Completing the NOVA Evolution Lab." If you think you understand how to play the game and have a computer to play it on, you do NOT need to watch the entire video. If you do not want to do the extra credit assignments with the other missions, you can stop watching this video at 20 minutes.

05) Use the information from the video and game to complete the activity, "NOVA Evolution Lab - Evolution 101 / Mission 1"

Important notes about the Nova Labs Evolution Game:

a) Only Mission 1 is required. You are not required to do the others.

b) The game works on phones and iPads, but not very well. If you have a computer, use that.

c) If the game does not work on your device, I completed all of Mission 1 in the video "Completing the NOVA Evolution Lab." Instead of playing the game yourself, you can just watch that.

d) Everything after 20 minutes in the video, "Completing the NOVA Evolution Lab," is optional and about the extra credit assignments.

e) I will assign the optional extra credit assignments in a separate, upcoming post on Google Classrooms. I will not post the extra credit here on the web site - you must log into your Google Classroom to see it.

Optional: Evolution of the Horse

Optional: Evolution of the Whale

Optional: Evolution of Elephants

Optional: How Birds Evolved from Dinosaurs

Today's Assignments - Thursday, June 4

Hi students,

The video mini lesson from yesterday was unusually long but very important so I won't assign much new work today. Make sure that you complete watching the video, "What Is Evolution" carefully if you have not already.

Here is what you should do today:

01) Complete the daily attendance form

02) If you didn't finish watching all of the video from yesterday, watch it.

03) Go to the NOVA Labs Evolution page and click "play game." Play around with it. It's a good idea to create an account. You DO NOT need to complete it all. You will get an assignment on Friday related to the game which will be for a graded, along with several extra credit opportunities. Again, please do NOT try to compete everything in the game - just play around with it for about 10-20 minutes.

Assignments - Wednesday, June 4

Hey students,

Here are your assignments for today. There's a lot of information in the video and it's pretty long (sorry!). You won't get class from me tomorrow though so you can watch part of it today and part of it tomorrow if you want.

The other videos about the evolution horses, whales, elephants, and birds are short and very cool, but they are optional.

Here are your assignments for today.

01) Fill out the daily attendance form

02) Watch the video mini lesson, "Evolution"

03) Complete the TestWizard activity, "What Is Evolution"

Optional Videos:
--> Evolution of the Horse
--> Whales Evolution
--> Evolution of Elephants
--> Are Birds Modern-Day Dinosaurs?

Today's Assignments - Tuesday, June 2

Hi students,

Here are your assignments for today. Don't forget that we have office hours at 10am today and that you'll get extra credit for joining!

01) Fill out the daily attendance form

02) Watch the video mini-lession, "Darwin's Finches"

03) Watch from 8:05 to 10:15 in the video, "How Evolution Works." (You only have to watch this 2 minute section but I encourage you to watch the entire video - it's really good!)

04) Complete the activity, "Darwin's Finches"

05) Join office hours at 10am for extra credit. Find the link  in the Google Classroom to join.

Today's Assignments - Monday, June 1

Hi students,

I hope everyone is well and had a pleasant weekend.

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Fill out the daily attendance form

02) Watch the video lecture, "Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics"

03) Complete the TestWizard activity, "Natural Selection & Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance"

Today's Assignments - Thursday May 28

Hi students,

I hope everyone is healthy and well today.

Here are your assignments:

01) Complete the daily attendance form

02) Watch the video from Mr. Russell, "How Does Natural Selection Work?"

03) Watch the video, "Evolution of the Peppered Moth by Natural Selection"

04) Complete the activity, "How Does Natural Selection Work?"

Today's Assignments - Tuesday, May 26

Hi students,

We are officially finished with the unit on biotechnology and about to begin a new unit on evolution! Before we begin with a new topic, I wanted to give people the opportunity to catch up on work they missed or catch up on overdue assignments.

I went on TestWizard and opened up everyone's overdue assignments so that you can complete them. Please go on TestWizard and check now to see if you have any incomplete assignments. You may also complete any other assignments that you missed that were not given over TestWizard. Check to see if you have any zeros on PupilPath to see this.

Note that you cannot make up past missed office hours to get the extra credit for those days. Because those are extra credit assignments, a zero for that assignment does not hurt your grade.

Any late work needs to be turned in by the new date for the end of marking period 3, Friday, June 19!

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Complete the daily sign in form

02) Look on TestWizard to make sure that you haven't missed any work. If you missed assignments, you can complete them to improve your grade. You have until Friday, June 19 to submit any uncompleted work.

03) Join my office hours today at 10am and gain +10 extra credit points. Come with a questions and gain +15. Find the link to join on your Google Classroom page or email me for details at russelllibertyscience@gmail.com

 

Today's Assignments - Friday, May 22

Hi students,

I hope everyone is healthy and well as always,

Here are your assignments for today:

01) Complete the daily attendance survey

02) Watch the Video Mini Lesson, "Common Techniques in Biotechnology"

03) Choose which version of the activity you want to complete. You only have to do one!

a) Common Techniques in Biotechnology - Simple (10 Points)

b) Common Techniques in Biotechnology - Advanced (25 Points)

Thursday, May 21

Hi students,

I hope everyone is healthy and well today.

For those of you who came on yesterday's field trip to the DNA Learning Center. It was great to see many of you there! I hope you learned a lot from your experience there.

Today's assignment will be on Newsela, which I believe most of you already have experience using. Because this will be your first time logging in for my class, you will need to log in using my class code.

Here are your assignments.

01) Fill out today's daily attendance form

02) Log into newsela.com and enroll in my class using class code - you will need to get your class code from Google Classroom!

If you need help signing in to Newsela, use the linked video that Ms. Abbasi recorded showing you how to do it.

03) Complete the Newsela assignment, "Issue Overview: GMOs and Engineered Food"

Virtual Field Trip to the DNA Learning Center Today!

Hi students,

I hope everyone is ready for the virtual field trip today!

01) Fill out the daily attendance form

02) Join us for the virtual field trip to the DNA Learning Center! Click the Zoom link for the session you want to join.

Session 1 - 1pm - English
Session 2 - 2pm - Spanish

Today's Assignments - Tuesday, May 19

Hi students,

I hope everyone is healthy and well. Here are your assignments for today:

01) Fill out the attendance form for the day

02) Watch the video, "How to write an email"

03) Write an email to Mr. Russell at RussellLibertyScience@gmail.com

Follow the instructions in the video or you will fail and bad things will happen to you!

04) Join me at 10am today for office hours to Receive +10 extra credit. Bring a question for me to answer and receive +15 extra credit. Use the Webex link available on the Google Classroom to join

Lastly, remember we have our virtual field trip to the DNA Learning Center tomorrow! The two sessions are below. If you have office hours with another teacher at that time, please let me know any I will make arrangements with your teacher.

-Session 1 in English - Wednesday 1pm
-Session 2 in Spanish - Wednesday 2pm

Today's Assignments - Monday, May 18

Hi students,

I hope everyone is healthy and well. Here are your assignments for today:

01) Fill out your daily attendance form

02) Read the article, "Cloning Fact Sheet."

03) Complete the activity, "Cloning Fact Sheet - Reading Comprehension."

Grading Policy

Today's Assignments - Tuesday, May 5

Hi students I hope everyone is healthy and well today.

01) Fill out today's attendance form.

02) Complete the short activity, "Restriction Enzyme Practice." Use yesterday's video and simulation to find the information you'll need to complete it.

03) Today at 10am I have office hours on Webex.com. Join to receive extra credit and bring a question to ask and gain even more extra credit. Please check your Google Classroom or your email for information on how to join the Office Hours. Email me at russelllibertyscience@gmail.com if you have any issues.

Monday, May 4

Hi students,

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. Here are today's assignments.

01) Fill out today's attendance form

02) Watch the video, "Restriction Enzymes & Ligases"

03) Read through the simulation "How Do Restriction Enzymes Cut Plasmids?" - This activity works well on a computer or a cell phone. You do NOT need to log in to complete this simulation.

04) Complete the Activity, "Restriction Enzymes & Ligases"

Wednesday, May 6

Hi students,

I hope everyone is healthy and well. Here are your assignments for today:

01) Complete the attendance sheet

02) Watch the video, "Recombinant DNA" (This contains A LOT of VERY important information - you may want to watch it more than once to make sure you understand the concepts)

03) Complete the TestWizard activity, Recombinant DNA"

Online Learning Archive

  • Week 5 - April 20 - April 24
  • Week 4 - April 13 - April 17
  • Week 3 - April 6 - April 10
  • Week 2 - March 30 - April 3
  • Week 1 - March 23 - March 27

Week 2 - March 30 - April 3

Class Presentations and Materials

Unit 1 - Reproduction & the Cell Cycle
Unit 2 - Genetics
Unit 3- Biotechnology
Unit 4 - Ecology
Unit 5 - Evolution