Monday: B Day

Aim: What is your pulse rate?

Do Now: Take a lab work packet and your lab folder to your desk. Record this lab #26: Making Connections; state lab

Procedure: Students will make observations about themselves and their classmates, They will look for patterns and or connections. We will discuss what a pulse is and then students will practice taking their pulse. They will take their pulse three times and then average their pulse rates for their data tables. Collect data from the class and write on overhead transparency. Students will construct a bar graph with the collected data.  Students will then go to the questions in their lab packets and answer them. TO continue with this activity students will exercise doing jumping jacks and they will record their pulses after one minute. Record results. Ask four classmates what their results were.  Respond to question.

Homework #11: Regents Review books: Page      Questions: #

Tuesday: A Day

Aim: How does fatigue affect muscle performance?

Do Now: Take a clothes pin and your lab folders to your desk.

Procedure: Discuss muscle fatique: what it is and how it is caused? Have students hold a spring type clothespin between their thumb and index finger. Pinch the ends together completely and release them. Students will do this as rapidly as possible for one minute. Record results. Do again and use the same fingers. Record results.  Answer the questions in your laboratory packets. Discuss the questions and results with the class.   

Homework #12: Regents Review books: Page      Questions: #

Wednesday: B Day

Aim: When does a claim become a fact?  

Do Now: Lab folders to your desk and also an experiment design worksheet.

Procedure: To explore Part B of the Making Connections lab. What is the difference between a claim and a fact. Explain how scientists are always trying to refute or support a claim. A claim is a hypothesis. \Read the Investigating claims portion to the students. Ask them which they agree with and have them write their choice onto their labs. Using the overhead we will discuss the guidelines for designing a controlled experiment. Students will also have an experimental design worksheet to help guide them through the development of their individually designed experiment.

Homework #13: Regents Review books: Page      Questions: #

Thursday: A Day

Aim: When does a claim become a fact? 

Do Now: Lab folders to your desk with your experiment design worksheet.

Procedure: To continue to explore Part B of the Making Connections lab. What is the difference between a claim and a fact?  Explain how scientists are always trying to refute or support a claim. A claim is a hypothesis. Students will have an experimental design worksheet to help guide them through the development of their individually designed experiment. They will continue to design and gather data for their experiments today.

Homework #14: Regents Review books: Page      Questions: #

Friday: B Day

Aim: When does a claim become a fact? 

Do Now: Lab folders to your desk with your experiment design worksheet.

Procedure: To continue to explore Part B of the Making Connections lab. Students will continue to gather data for their experiments today.

Have a great weekend!