4th quarter Current Homework
Search The Page For Assignments and Dates EX: 8/28/00
Evolution - Scientific Theory
Links: PBS Evolution Online lessons Walking with Beasts Beast assignment
4/10/06
Watch the video on Beyond Darwin's Galapagos
Take Notes
After viewing the video, please write a paper discussing what was presented in
the video
pertaining to Darwin, the Galapagos, and Evolution. Don't forget your
textbook and Internet
for additional references. Typed. double spaced, own words - don't copy &
paste.
This is an individual project. And remember - own words please- and list your
references
Your paper should cover
Evolution, Darwin, Scopes Monkey Trial, and
your thoughts on whether these topics should be taught in public schools.
4/11/06
Start working on your paper due next Week
Here is some help for your paper.
Check out this site and watch the 7 video clips take notes to help you answer these questions
and include this information in your paper
Click on Quick Time to view the video clips not Real Player
Questions to look into to help you write your paper
1. Isn't Evolution just a theory?
2. Who was Charles Darwin?
3. How do we know Evolution happens?
4. How does Evolution really work?
5. Did humans Evolve?
6. Why does Evolution matter now?
7. Why is Evolution controversial ?
4/12/06
Band trip short classes - school video
4/18/06
Start working on your paper due next Week
Here is some help for your paper.
Check out this site and watch the 7 video clips take notes to help you answer these questions
and include this information in your paper
Click on Quick Time to view the video clips not Real Player
Questions to look into to help you write your paper
1. Isn't Evolution just a theory?
2. Who was Charles Darwin?
3. How do we know Evolution happens?
4. How does Evolution really work?
5. Did humans Evolve?
6. Why does Evolution matter now?
7. Why is Evolution controversial ?
4/19/06
Look up The Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925)
What was the trial about? Click here or here and read about the trial.
More
Questions to look into to help you write your paper
Who was on trial?
Why did the trial take place?
Who were the lawyers?
What was the outcome of the
trial?
Look at one of the
cartoons (you have to copy, paste & print it)
and explain it's meaning
or message.
Why was this called the "Trial of The Century"?
Why does this debate go on and
on?
Eighty years later, have
the times changed? Can you find info
which shows that this
topic is still being addressed? Where?
After reading about the
trial, what do you think about it?
Please take some time to read and learn vs.
cut & paste.
If you don't like the site I have linked
surf for another one.
Let
me know if you find something better.
4/20/06
Look up Intelligent Design - What is it?
Intelligent Design - President Bush's remarks here
Now - check out this site before you start writing your paper:
Kansas Votes to Delete Evolution From State's Science Curriculum
click here for more information
Look at the Gallup Poll here
The latest link I found which mentions Wisconsin schools here
4/21/06
Now it is YOUR TURN, what do you think?
Start working on your paper
Your paper should cover
Evolution, Darwin, Scopes Monkey Trial, Intelligent Design, and
your thoughts on whether these topics should be taught in public schools.
Paper due next Friday
Typed, double spaced, 12 pt font, name on paper,
1 page for a C
2 pages for a B
3 or more pages for an A
4/24/06
Show video on Classification
Textbook Chapter 20 page 481 for help
Classification : Questions
What is taxonomy?
What did Carolus
Linnaeus have to do with taxonomy?
Scroll down when you go to this link to see how the Red Maple is classified
What is the binomial system of nomenclature?
Explain the scientific naming - Genus Species
Give an example
Classification System Scroll down
K,P,C,O,F,G,S stands for ? Give an example.
4/25/06
Page 493 chart
5 kingdoms
Example
Monerans
Bacteria
Protists
Paramecium
Fungi
Mushroom
Plants
Cactus
Animals
Western Slender Glass Lizzard
Assignment:
Classify your Endangered plant or animal you picked
using the K,P,C,O,F,G,S system.
Text book pages A1-A3
or 1121-1123
Use your text for help or here - Classification
Site
4/26/06
Start answering the 13 questions for Viruses.
Viruses - The Sneeze Felt Around the World? (SARS)
Government site for Disease Control
- CDC
Virus Link: Must
See - Virus Common
Viruses and Bacteria
Watch Video on HIV
Chapter 21 page 503 in your textbook will give you help
4/27/06
HIV lab HIV-Get the Facts Wisconsin HIV information
AIDS
Resource Center
Purpose is to understand the ease of spreading HIV.
Write up procedure and results.
4/28/06
C. Bacteria
Must See - Bacteria Microbes in the News Microbes of the Month
Look at 3 types of bacteria using
microscope
Include in Dissection Booklet Lab
sheet
Chapter 21 page 503 in your textbook will give you help
Hand in your Paper
5/01/06
Bacteria lab - Pre lab today for Monday
Must See - Bacteria Microbes in the News Microbes of the Month
Look up 3 shapes of bacteria in your textbook
Sketch a picture of each and label on Q #4 of your 13 questions
Chapter 21 page 503 in your textbook will give you help
Take notes on the Bacteria Lab
Questions:
Start answering the 13 questions for the Bacteria .
5/02/06
Work on your questions
Start answering the 13 questions for the Bacteria .
5/03/06
Guest speaker on HIV facts and myths
5/04/06
Lab: How clean is the school?
5/05/06
Check agar plates for bacteria growth
5/08/06
Show Dissection Video on the Worm
Animal Dissections :The Worm All contents © 2000 Cornell University. All rights reserved.
Link: here OR - Dissection worksheets OR - Classification Site
Check for WORM questions this Friday!!!
Please read about the worm on page 746 or 752 in your textbook.
Tuesday we will start dissecting the Worm.
Animal Dissections :
The Worm click on
photo
for a dissection link.
Find
the following in lab from the white sheet on the worm:
7,13,18,19,25,27,28,29,32,36,39,41,42,43,+ segment,dorsal,
ventral,posterior,anterior
Start answering the
13 questions for the WORM
.
Lily's
Link
Don't
forget to quiz yourself on the worm
parts for Friday.
If you find a site that you think would be beneficial, please e-mail me.
Student photos in worm lab
5/09/06
Dissect the worm
5/10/06
Work on 13 Worm Questions
5/11/06
Watch the video on "The Giant Squid"
5/12/06
Quiz on Virus, Bacteria, and Worm
5/15/06
Dissect the squid
Animal Dissections :The Squid
Click on photo 
for
dissection link or here
Labeled diagram: here Go here for scientific name: Cephalopods
Refer to page 740 or 744 in your textbook for information
Start
answering the 13 questions for the
Squid
Add
question # 14 - write your name using the squid's pen and ink
Find: Arms- how many?,tentacles how many?,
head, eye, siphon, mantle, pen, collar, fins, beak,
esophagus
ink sac, and whatever else I put on the
board ?
Student
photos
in squid lab
5/16/06
Watch dissection video on the Crayfish
Start 13 Crayfish questions
Start answering the 13 questions for the Crayfish.
Locate:
Boreal Review sheet external: 1-15
Internal: 16,17,20,23,24,28,32,36, Tail - Flexor muscle add
more like intestine
5/17/06
Check squid questions & diagram
Animal Dissections : The Crayfish
Refer to page 757 or 761 in your textbook for information
Click here
for a dissection link on the crayfish. Lily's
link
Another good link from Ask Angie.
Havlik's top choice.
Start answering the 13 questions for the Crayfish.
Locate:
Boreal Review sheet external: 1-15
Internal: 16,17,20,23,24,28,32,36, Tail - Flexor muscle add
more like intestine
Student photos in crayfish lab
5/18/06
Dissect the Crayfish
5/19/06
Check crayfish questions & diagram
Quiz on Squid and Crayfish
5/22/06
Video on Dissection
Animal Dissections : The Frog
Click
here here or
Lily's Link
for a dissection link on the frog
Refer to page 827 or 831 in your textbook for information
Start answering the 13 questions for the Frog
Student photos in frog lab
Don't forget to quiz yourself on the Frog parts for Friday.
Click here to see photos of deformed frogs. What is causing this?
5/23/06
Color in parts and work on 13 questions
I will write the parts on the board you are to color in and quiz yourself
5/24/06
Dissect the frog
5/25/06
Check questions and diagram
Tree project due
Awesome!!
Hey Mr. Lallas! It is Kelsey Christenson, I am in your (Favorite) 7th hour biology
class. Here's my picture-- please e-mail me if you get it! thanks. Kelsey
5/26/06
Frog quiz
Field trip to the caves in the Galapagos to search for
Owl Pellets and work with the Paleontologists to
see what lives on the years ago. Anything Extinct?
Watch video on owls and
dissecting owl pellets 
Go here
for photos and info on Owl Pellets 
Continue working on Darwin paper
Start dissecting the owl pellets
Practice online here first
Start assembly of skeletons by gluing bones onto
black paper and place in a shoebox Help
Finish skeleton display
Can you figure out what the Owl eat?
2.
List similarities and
differences with your Glencoe's Dynamics of Life (1995)
textbook (Ch. 17-19) and what the students in John Scopes' class read about
evolution:
Excerpts from Hunter's Civic Biology (1914) click here
Site specific examples along with page #'s from both textbooks.
How good are you at fossil hunting? Darwin needs some help.
Try building a beast Time to beat - 24:48:50 by Tucker, Tony, & Derek
Old time was 32:06:91 by Sam & Lucas
Old time was 39:27:71 by Dexter, Ben & Tanner - sorry
Old time was 42:32 by Ivan and Colin - sorry
I'll buy pizza for the lowest time it takes in the super challenge!
This
week work on Protists 4/17 - 4/20
page 533 in text
4/22/03
Quiz on parts Virus, Bacteria, Protist Have notes ready!
4/23/03
Protists - Plant like and Animal like
Protist link: here
Link: here
Start answering the
13 questions for the Protists
.
Amoeba
These organisms will be looked at in lab using the microscope.
Look in Chapter 22 on page 533 for information.
You must diagram them and label parts.
Animal Dissections : The Grasshopper
Bug Dessert Classification Site Common name Facts
Lily's Link on the grasshopper.
Refer to page 776 or 780 in your textbook for information
Start answering the 13 questions for the Grasshopper.
Locate: Boreal Review sheet
external: 1,2,5,6,7(also called tympanum), 8,9,11, (12-in female) , 15
BioCam sheet internal: 1- Eggs in female, 2-testis in male. Remove to see 4,5,6
Student
photos
in grasshopper lab
Don't forget to quiz yourself on the Grasshopper parts for Friday.
5/??/03
Animal Dissections : The Starfish
Click here for a dissection link on the starfish Lily's Link
Refer to page 787 or 791 in your textbook for information
In
lab locate from Lab Notebook : 1-10 side one and 1-13 side two
Start answering the 13 questions for the
Starfish.
Student
photos in
starfish lab
Facts
Don't
forget to quiz yourself on the Starfish
parts
for
Friday.
5/??/03
Animal Dissections :
The Frog
Click
here here
or here or
Lily's Link
for a dissection link on the frog
Refer to page 827 or 831 in your textbook for information
Start answering the
13 questions for the Frog
Student
photos in
frog lab
Don't forget to quiz yourself on the Frog parts for Friday.
Click here to see photos of deformed frogs. What is causing this?
Everything is due this week.
Community Service here due Monday
Photo of your tree here due Tuesday
Endangered Species letter to DNR with $$ for an A
or a book report for a B here due Wednesday
Dissection Booklet here due Friday
Have an enjoyable safe summer vacation. See you later - bye!
The
BIG 50
on 6-01-03