Flu Prevention Homework

Due Wednesday Jan 16 for honors students

•Now that you have learned about flu prevention I want you to put your knowledge into practice

•Pretend you have been hired by the government to make a flu prevention pamphlet.

–Be creative

–Provide useful information

Here are some examples of pamphlets about health!

Quiz Information!!

The quiz will be Monday for Honors and Tuesday for AVID. You may use your study guides during the test.  

Work hard! Science in a difficult subject that cannot be simply known, it must be learned.  Write the information down, read it and re-read it. Practice using keywords in sentences. Write those sentences down. Draw pictures of the concepts we learned. Most importantly, enjoy the process of learning!

Define these terms:

•Organism

•Unicellular

•Prokaryote

•Nucleus

•Eukaryote

•Binomial nomenclature

•Autotroph

•Heterotroph

•Spontaneous generation

Explain these concepts:

6 characteristics of life

3 domains

4 kingdoms of eukarya

Redi and Pasteur experiments

What is needed to sustain life (water food, homeostasis, living space)

Levels of classification

Extra Credit for AVID

AVID students have an extra credit opportunity!  Finish this assignment by the end of the week for extra credit in Science class.

You can download the extra credit assignment by going to our class dropbox.  Here is the information for getting the Science Fair Packet:

1. Go to www.dropbox.com
2. Login using this infomration: username = cecilia.bonaduce@pgcps.org password = falcon pride
3. Download the file called "Identify Variables and Controls"

Drew Science Fair Information

The Drew Freeman Middle School Science Fair is fast approaching!  All students are required to complete the Science Fair packet on January 30th (Honors) and January 31st (AVID).

The final projects (display boards) are due Feb 11th Honors and Feb 12th AVID.

All students have received a Science Fair Packet already.  If you lose or cannot find your copy you are responsible for printing out a new copy. Remember: all students are required to complete this packet and turn it in on January 30th/31st.

You can download the Science Fair Packet by going to our class dropbox.  Here is the information for getting the Science Fair Packet:

1. Go to www.dropbox.com
2. Login using this infomration: username = cecilia.bonaduce@pgcps.org password = falcon pride
3. Download the file called "DFMS Science Fair Packet"

Classification Chart Homework is now extra credit

Science Honors MOD 4/5 your homework to choose your favorite animal and make a classification chart will now be considered extra credit if you turn it in tomorrow.

If you would like to research your favorite animal include the:

Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species