Mr. Ardito’s Classes

We will watch the movie Happy Feet over a couple of days this week. If you watch carefully, you will see some of the key concepts we have been talking about in action.
This week’s blog assignment has two parts:
The Basics
First, we have been learning some key concepts in ecology: Biotic Factors, Abiotic Factors, Habitat, Population, [...]

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So far, in our study of cells, we have been using textbook diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of cells and their organelles. This week we will be looking at cells from actual, living organisms. I think you will notice a difference or two.
Your assignment this week is to write a reflection comparing and contrasting the picture [...]

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Hello everyone.
It’s that time again. The time to read something really interesting about science, to think it over, and then to share your thoughts with all of us.
This week, please choose an article that  is really a challenge for you and share in your reflection about how you made sense of it for yourself.
As always, [...]

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Welcome back from the break.
This week I would like you to write a weekly science article report. For this round, please choose an article that has to do with health in some way. See if you can connect it to what we are learning about cells and they perform their life functions.
I look forward to [...]

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Hello there.
We are going to finish our cell cards this week. So, it is time to ask ourselves what do you we understand about cells and their organelles so far and what questions do we have.
So, this is your assignment on the blog this week. I would like you to share what you have learned [...]

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The theme for this weekly science report is “stretching yourselves.”
For this report, I want you to get out of your comfort zone. You can do this in a number of ways. You can:

Read a longer article than usual.
Read a more difficult article than usual.
Read an article about an area you know nothing about.
Any combination of [...]

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We are now ready to start working with our index cards.
You are going to use them to make a set of cards which will help you to learn about and understand how cells are put together and how they function.
Please download this file and print it out. It will tell you what to do. We [...]

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Here is the blog assignment for this week.
Look over these two sites. One is about how atoms work, the other is about how cells work. For each, I want you to do the following:

Write about something that really surprised you.
Write about something you would like to know more about.

So, you are writing about both atoms [...]

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Here is the place for you to post your weekly science article reports for this week.
As always, you will post your report by Friday. Then, you will post your comments to other students’ reports by Tuesday (when we return from the day off).
I am loooking forward to reading your work.

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Here we are, back doing weekly science article reports.
This week, be sure to include what you said you would work on in last week’s assignment. Please continue to pay attention to your spelling and grammar.

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