Biology Bell Work
8/3
• First Day of School!!
• What science did you take last year?
8/4-Bellwork
• What to you is the most important lab safety rule?
• Get out both forms (syllabus receipt and county lab safety contract) if
you have them signed
8/5 Bellwork
• How long must you wash/rinse your eyes out at the eye wash station
if you get a chemical in them?
• **Get out your homework stamp sheet. 8/5-Lab Crazy Class
8/6 Bell Work
• How should you carry sharp objects in the lab?
• What materials do you use to heat a test tube?
• How should you hold a test tube while it is being heated?
• **Get out your homework stampsheet. 8/6-Intro to science
vocab.
• Take a few minutes to review your notes for the lab safety
quiz. Make sure you have read over the 48 Cherokee
County lab safety rules. (There are some copies on the
front table next to the printer if you need to review these.)
8/7 HAPPY FRIDAY!!!
• What is the difference between an
independent and dependent variable? Which
axis do we graph each on?
• **get out section 3 homework and your stamp
sheet.
8/10 Bell Work
• What is homeostasis and give an example?
• **Get out section 1 HW questions and stampsheet
8/11 Bell work
• List the 8 characteristics of life:
• **Get out section 2 homework questions and stampsheet
8/12 Bell work
• 1. You water three sunflower plants with salt water. Each plant receives a
different concentration of salt solutions. A fourth plant receives pure water. After
a two-week period, the height is measured.
• IV
• DV
• CG
• 2. Pea plant clones are giving different amounts of water for three-week period.
The first pea plant receives 400 milliliters a day. The second pea plant receives
200 milliliters a day. The third pea plant receives 100 milliliters a day. The fourth
pea plant does not receive any extra water: the plant only receives natural ways
of receiving water. The heights of the pea plants are recorded daily.
• IV
• DV
• CG
8/13 Bell work
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Label each of the following as living (biotic) or non-living (abiotic):
WATER
HUMANS
SUNLIGHT
ROCKS
BACTERIA
DIRT
ANIMALS
• **Get a study cubby
8/14 Bell Work HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!
• What does it mean that water is polar?
• Explain and include a picture of a water molecule to complete your
answer.
• **Get out chapter 6 definitions and stamp sheet
8/17 Bell work
• What is the difference between cohesion and adhesion?
• *get out your notes
8/18 Bell work
• List the 4 major macromolecules and give an example of each:
• **Get out section 1 and 4 homework with stampsheet. Have your
stampsheet filled out!!
8/19 Bell Work• Place sticky note on correct macromolecule category-look around the
room!!! (without using your notes and before you start your bell work)
• GET A STUDY CUBBY
• Enzymes are examples of which type of
macromolecule?
• *get out sections 2 and 3 homework questions and your stamp sheet. This
will go on 1 line.
• *study for quiz
8/20 Bell Work
• How/what method did you use to study for your quiz yesterday? If
you did not study, be honest and put….I did not study.
• Get out study guide and stamp sheet. This will be your last stamp.
After I have checked your study guide put your stamp sheet in your
class tray.
8/21 Bell work- HAPPY FRIDAY
• What is the SI unit for mass?
• Turn in your bell work sheet.
• Get a study cubby
• GOOD LUCK ON YOUR TEST!
8/24 Bell work
• What is the basic unit of life?
• List the 4 major macromolecules:
• Use page 192 in text book to help with
color and labeling
8/25 Bell Work
• Name 2 things that a plant cell has that an animal cell does not have:
• *get out stamp sheet and cell guided reading packet
8/26 Bell work
• What are the 2 main types of cells?
• What is the MAIN difference between the 2
and list an example of each?
• *Get out homework and stampsheet-vocab
and section 1 questions go on 1 line
• *Get out your notes
8/27 Bell work
• Where are ribosomes made in the cell?
• What to ribosome make/produce once they are
made?
*Get out section 2 homework questions and
stampsheet
8/28
Bell work/instructions
• SIT AT YOUR REGULAR SEAT NUMBER
• DO NOT TOUCH OR MESS WITH THE MICROSOPES IN ANY WAY-YOU
WILL RECEIVE A “0” FOR THIS LAB AND AN OFFICE REFERRAL
• Get a red and green crayon or colored pencil from the front black
cart
• What is the control center “brain” of a eukaryotic cell?
8/31 Bell Work
• What is the function of the ER?
• What are the 2 kinds of ER found in the cell?
• **Turn in labs from Friday NOW!!
Cell City Analogy Examples
9/1 Bell Work
• Which organelle digests and breaks down wasted and excess parts of
the cell?
• *Get out section 3 questions and your stamp sheet
• Complete cell analogy project
9/2 Bell Work
• What is the cell’s powerhouse?
• Get out section 4 homework and stamp sheet
• Study for organelle quiz
9/4 Bell Work
• What is osmosis? Describe how/which way
water moves:
• If you did not turn in an animal cell coloring
yesterday-bring it to me NOW! Otherwise you
have a “0”
9/8 Bell work
• Monday Bell work: No School
• Today: What is the main difference between active and passive
transport?
9/9 Bell Work
• If a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, what will happen to the
cell?
• *get out solution practice worksheet and stamp sheet
• Study for quiz
9/10 Bell Work
• How do molecules flow in active transport?-What direction?
• *Get out study guide and stamp sheet
• Get 2 different colored markers or pencils-it does not matter which
2!!
9/11 Bell Work
• List the 3 types of passive transport:
• List the 2 types of active transport:
• Chapter 7 Test today!!!!
• Turn in your study guide. I do not want your flashcards-just the questions.
Staple any work needed to the back and put into your class tray
• Bell work due today
• After Test pick up chapter 17 HW questions. Begin working on Terms to
define.
9/14 Bell Work
• If you were absent Friday-Turn in bell work sheet
• What 6 categories do you think scientist classify all living things into?
9/15 Bell work
• Use the table below to build a cladogram for the following organismsuse the back of your bellwork sheet if you need scratch paper:
cells
legs
6 legs
wings
Worm
Spider
Carpenter Ant (black)
Fly
• Get out HW (vocabulary and section 1 questions) and stampsheet
• Get out your notes
9/16 Bell work
The cell walls of each below are composed of what?
Eubacteria:
Fungi:
Plants:
*Get our your stamp sheet and section 2 homework.
*Turn your kingdom chart into the tray NOW!!-something is better
than nothing
*Get out your notes
9/17 Bell work
• Why do taxonomist use a dichotomous key?
• *Get out section 3 homework and stamp sheet
• *take a few minutes to study for your quiz
9/18 Bell work
• Why are viruses considered non-living?
• *get out your bacteria reading/coloring from yesterday
• *Quiz answers
9/28 Bell Work
• Are all bacteria considered to be bad? Explain your answer:
• Get out some notebook paper and something to write with. All other
materials need to be cleared from your desk/table.
9/29 Bell work
• What are the 2 main parts of a virus?
• **Definitions and Sections 1 + 2 will be due and checked tomorrow**
• **Bacteria and Virus Quiz moved to tomorrow!!!! STUDY
Finish lab and start on bacteria microviewer.
9/30 Bell work
• What are the 3 main shapes of Bacteria?
• Pick up a new HW stamp sheet from the front table next to the
printer.
• Fill out the first 3 lines-and get out your HW QUICKLY!!
• Chapter 18 Definitions
• Chapter 18 section 1
• Chapter 18 Section 2
10/1 Bell work
• Which cycle (lytic or lysogenic) is considered to be dormant/inactive?
• Quiz corrections-do not write on the quizzes!!
• Complete study guide
10/2 Bell work BACTERIA AND VIRUS TEST
TODAY
• Which are smaller-bacteria or viruses?
• *Get out stamp sheet and study guide
• Once I have checked your study guide turn it into the tray
• Pick up the Protist and Fungi concept map after the test. Get a book
to outline these topics/chapters (19 and 20).
10/5-10/6
• Monday-No bell work
• Tuesday-What are the 3 main types of protist (how they are
classified? _______-like, _____________-like, and _______-like
• Get out stampsheet and chapter 19 HW
• 3 lines: Chapter 19 definitions, Section 1, Section 2 (keep out HW)
10/7 Bell work
• How are plant like protist classified? Name the 5 groups:
10/8 bellwork
• What is a pseudopod?
• Get out chapter 19 section 3 and 4 HW-This will be on 2 separate
lines on your stamp sheet
10/9 Bell work
PROTIST QUIZ TODAY!!
• Why do organisms get classified/put into the protist
kingdom?
• Bell work sheets are due. Turn them into the tray.
• Quiz
• After the quiz pick up both articles (RED TIDE AND MALARIA). Get out
research chart from yesterday. Use the articles to answer the
questions on the back.-This will be turned in at the end of class.
• Work on chapter 20 definitions
10/12 Bell work
**pick up a new bell work sheet from the front table
Fungi’s cell walls are made up of ________________
10/13 Bell work
• What phylum are our typical mushrooms in?
• Get out stampsheet-Chapter 20 definitions and section 1. Fill in the
last line and the space beneath it.
• After I have checked your homework turn in your stamp sheet
• Turn in mushroom reading and labeling packet as well
10/14 Bell work
Get a book and some paper:
YOU MUST WRITE THE QUESTIONS
• PSAT day
• * I will check chapter 20 section
2 and 3 tomorrow.
• Fungi Quiz tomorrow!!
• Pg. 545 (1-5)
• Pg. 552 (1-4)
• Pg. 560 (1-4)
• Pg. 565 (1-4)
• Pg. 581 (1-5)
• Pg 586 (1-2)
• Pg. 591 (1-2)
10/15 Bell work
FUNGI QUIZ TODAY
• Wednesday’s bellwork: PSAT Day
• Today: What is the main part of a typical
mushroom (Basidiomycota) and where is it
found?
• **pick up a new stamp sheet (front table)
• Fill out 2 lines
• 1. Chapter 20 section 2
• 2. Chapter 20 section 3
10/16 Bell work Protist and Fungi TEST
• Are protist and fungi prokaryotic or
eukaryotic?
• Fill out 3rd line on stampsheet: protist/fungi
SG
• Review for test
• When complete-pick up the plant HW sheet
and begin working on vocabulary