Andrew gave me a super cool birthday gift. A piece of amber estimated to be 40 million years old (Eocene) with three bees and some plant fragments embedded. These shots were taken with a Sony Cybershot held up to the eyepiece of the dissecting microscope. Oh yeah, he also gave me a Nikon Alphaphot YS microscope. Bug Lady is very happy!

   

DO NOW QUESTION FOR 10/17 & 10/18

What is Cell Theory? Can you write the four parts of cell theory?

http://www.wiley.com/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/cell_structure/cell_structure.htm Cell Structure Link (For Completing Worksheet)

http://www.carolina.com/teacher-resources/Interactive/online-game-cell-structure-cellcraft-biology/tr11062.tr Cell Craft Link (Second Site – After Worksheet)

http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/ The Virtual Cell (Optional Study Site)

Exit Ticket – We will be doing research papers this year.  What is something you like to research about the cell?  You cannot write nothing, or IDK.   Think stem cells, sickle cell anemia, or Google cell research, cell diseases or types of cells.

Click here for cells worksheet

You know you want to sing it!

I didn’t have time to load the images, but click on these links to download the reading pages or the worksheet. You should have your book, and I printed out these worksheets for you. So read about cells and we’ll begin to study them.

“Cells, cells, they’re made of organelles!”

reading guide 92-95

92-95 textbook

reading guide 33-34

Read your textbook, review your notes, look at graded assignments, and of course get on the internet and look up things you need to know better. Oh yeah, you can email me and use the other blog posts!

This is a cool video, but what I’m asking you to do for Graphic Organizer Creators is much easier.

Just read about organizers for a few minutes by reading the handout I gave you when we began. There are five organizers described in the handout, and you drew an example of each. Then draw another example of each but use some new information or theme. That’s where you can be creative and stretch, or keep it simple but show you understand.

When I said make it colorful and make it neat, that doesn’t mean you have to necessarily draw anything unless you want to. Just using color can indicate relationship if things on your organizer (Google images of “graphic organizers). It’s like mapping the way you would explain something. Mind Mapping! It even sounds so much cooler than graphic organizer – well, that’s what you’re working up to, Little Panthers. You can do this!