Don't forget to bring in a shoe box for your rocket kit!
Rocket Review Three is due on Thursday, 6/12!
Rocket Review Two is due on Wednesday, 6/11!
Rocket Review One is due on Tuesday, 6/10!
Clinometer Review is due Monday!
Day Three Vocabulary Crossword is due Friday!
Bellringer questions for Thursday:
How do you know if the igniter isn't working?
Why does our rocket need fillets?
What do the microclips do?
Why is a clinometer necessary?
Bellringer questions for Wednesday:
Give our definitions for "velocity" and "stability".
Give the correct order of the three rocket engine charges.
Give three factors that will contribute to your rocket having a curved trajectory.
Due 6/3: Worksheet pages 2 and 3
Bellringer questions for Monday:
Give our definitions for fin and propellant.
What is the purpose of the shock cord?
What does the launch lug do?
Due 6/2: "Rocket Wordsearch Two"
Due 5/30: "Rocket Wordsearch" and "Rocket Design"
The "Human Body" test will be on the vocabulary we have studied, and will be given on Thursday!
Bellringer for 5/28:
Give our definitions for nutrients and food guide pyramid.
What are the four stages of life?
In which stage of life do you experience the most physical growth?
Bellringer questions for 5/27:
Give our definitions for zygote and embryo.
Where does fertilization occur? What happens next?
How does the developing baby get food and oxygen? Protection?
Bellringer for 5/22:
Give our definitions for hormone and biological feedback.
How do hormones reach their target organs?
Why is the pituitary gland known as the "Master Gland"?
Bellringer for 5/21:
Give our definitions for dendrite and synapse.
What is the lowest part of the brain stem? What are three things it does?
How are we able to see?
Bellringer for 5/20:
Give our definitions for axon and stimuli.
How does the nervous sytem help us to protect ourselves?
What are the three kinds of neurons and what do they do?
Heredity and Change Test: Thursday, May 15 !!!
Due 5/13: Heredity and Change Fun Sheets!
Bellringer for 5/12:
Give our definitions for isolation and competition.
What causes completely new variations of a trait to appear?
A huge variety of new organisms appeared at the beginning of the Cambain period. What does his tell us?
Bellringer for 5/9:
Give our definitions for variation and adaptation.
What are three human adaptations?
What happens to the offpsring of individuals with new, helpful variations of a trait?
Bellringer for 5/8:
What is relative dating?
What is radioactive dating?
Besides fossils, what other evidence is there that some forms of life have a common ancestor?
What led to increasingly large brains in primates?
Bellringer for 5/7:
Give our definitions for "extinct" and "evolution".
What conditions are necessary for the formation of fossils?
What effect does the extinction of one species have on another? Give an example.
Bellringer Questions for 5/6:
Give our definitions for "selective breeding" and "genetic engineering".
What is a clone?
Name one medicine that is produced by using gene-splicing, and the disease it is used to treat.
Bellringer Questions for 5/5:
Give our definitions for "Y chromosome" and "sex-linked traits".
Which parent determines the sex of a child? Why?
Why are males more often affected by sex-linked traits than females?
