Cells+(2.1-2.3)

- wrap up frog dissection
 * 11/1/10**

HW: Raven and Johnson textbook; pg. 79-83
- //Discovering Microscopes!// lab
 * 11/3/10**

- //Discovering Microscopes!// lab, cont.
 * 11/4/10**

- complete microscope lab - hand back and go over digestion test
 * 11/5/10**
 * sketch some red blood cells
 * put scale bars on each drawing

HW:

 * ===pg. 7, 8, 10-13 in //Tiger// book===
 * ===DBQ, pg. 13===

- hand back and go over digestion assessments - discuss reading assignment (pop quiz) - discuss microscope lab - //The Inner Life of the Cell//
 * 11/8/10**
 * type of microscopes
 * proper focus technique
 * cell types; plant and animal

- go over DBQ - How big is a...? animation
 * 11/9/10**

- What is the Size and Scale of Our World? online activity - Cells movie from Discovery Video
 * 11/10/10**

HW: pg. 14 from //Tiger// book, including DBQ
- cell theory evidence: pg. 11 in //Tiger// - functions of life: metabolism, response, homeostasis, growth, reproduction and nutrition - surface area to volume as limit to cell size - demonstration w/ different size cubes, phenolphthalein, sodium hydroxide
 * 11/11/10**

HW: //Tiger// book pg. 22, 23 (this information is in reference to 2.2 and 2.3 assessment statements)
- Cell Component Internet Activity - Virtual Cell Animation
 * 11/12/10**
 * watch flash **MOVIE**
 * go to a closer look and read through ER and Golgi info. (you'll need to click on images 6-12 and read through only the **First Look** stuff)

World's Baddest Scientists

How bacteria "talk." - prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes - prokaryote structure in micrograph
 * 11/15/10**

"Optional" test Thursday
- hand back microscope pop quizzes - go over eukaryote structures on micrograph - go over structures and compare plant/ animal cells with Cells Alive - show various cells on @Cell Images page - interesting mitochondria animation - cell structure function
 * 11/16/10**
 * Cell Structures and Pathology seminar
 * plasma membrane, ribosomes, rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER), lysosome, Golgi apparatus, mitochondrion and nucleus
 * Outline function of structure.
 * Research two pathologies.
 * Brief summary of problem.
 * Specifically how malfunction of organelle relates to disease.


 * 11/17/10**
 * Cell Structures and Pathology seminar **
 * plasma membrane, ribosomes, rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER), lysosome, Golgi apparatus, mitochondrion and nucleus
 * Outline function of structure.
 * Research two pathologies.
 * Brief summary of problem.
 * Specifically how malfunction of organelle relates to disease.

**Cells test: 2.1.1-2.1.6, 2.2.1-2.2.3, 2.3.1-2.3.5**

**11/18/10** **Cell Test**

**11/19/10** - work on cell structure seminar

**11/22/10** - work on and present cell structure disease seminar

cell size and scale animation

EM image inside a pancreas cell

moving stuff around the cell

- moving stuff around the cell - finish cell structure talks - go over cell test one; choose to keep or not
 * 11/23/10**

- go over cell test - finish cell structure presentations (8th period) - cell differentiation/ stem cells - much more detailed info. about differentiation
 * 11/29/10**

**HW (by Wednesday):**
 * ===//Tiger// book, pg. 16-18===
 * ===therapeutic use for stem cells===
 * ===example of stem cell use in Parkinson's===

- interesting articles on embryonic stem cell alternatives here and here

Please complete the following during class today and for HW and be ready to discuss on Wednesday.
 * 11/30/10**
 * Substitute plan:**


 * 1) Read //Tiger book,// pg. 16-18, including //Data based question// and //Critical considerations//
 * 2) answer questions for //Data based question// and //Critical considerations//
 * 3) watch/ read cell differentiation and stem cells
 * 4) take notes on type of stem cells
 * 5) watch/ read therapeutic use for stem cells
 * 6) watch/ read example of stem cell use in Parkinson 's
 * 7) take notes on two therapeutic uses for stem cells
 * 8) if you have time, read these interesting articles on embryonic stem cell alternatives here and here

- go over/ discuss multicellularity, emergent properties, differentiation, stem cells
 * 12/1/10**

- clarify stem cells (embryonic and adult) - therapeutic use (Parkinson's and lymphoma) - stem cell risks - ethics of embryonic stem cell use (pg. 17 in Tiger book) - go over pg. 16 DBQ
 * 12/2/10**





Cells test on Friday, Dec. 10th

"In the news": arsenic in place of phosphorous in bacteria found in California
 * 12/3/10**

TED on bone marrow harvesting

- wrap up stem cell stuff
 * 8th; moral/ ethical implications, emergent properties, DBQ (pg. 16)
 * 2nd; any more discussion of morality/ ethics, emergent properties

- extracellular components
 * ECM in animals; good outline of extracellular matrix (ECM) [|here]
 * proteoglycans and glycoproteins (proteins made at rER, modified in Golgi and secreted)
 * support, adhesion, movement
 * tendons, ligaments, connective tissue


 * cellulose in plants (cell wall)

HW; pg. 25-27 in //Tiger// book, DBQ (pg. 27)
**12/6/10** - describe stem cells and explain a therapeutic use for them - explain functions of extra cellular material in plants and animals

- ECM (8th period) - go over pg. 27 DBQ - plasma/ cell membrane structure - phospholipids and formation of membrane

===test over Cells assessment statements (pdf at top of page) on Friday, 12/10 ===