Ms. Aderman

Welcome

Welcome to Ms. Aderman's website! This is a great tool to assist you in class and I hope you visit it often.  This is my third year at Pope and I teach Biology and Environmental Science*. I also coach cross country and track.

The best way for you to use my site is to click on the category on the left hand side of the page that best fits your needs. If you are a parent and want important class information, click on Parent Info.  If you are a student, click the class that applies to you. Click on "Additional Study Materials" and you will find great animations and study guides. Please feel free to contact me at any time: cathy.aderman@cobbk12.org -Enjoy!!   

*Ms. Parnes and I are teaching Environmental Science together during spring semester - her email is melody.parnes@cobbk12.org                                           

Enviro Mon 5-5 to Fri 5-16

Monday 5-5

Which section of the earth are rocks found in?

OBJ: Create Landform Book

Hmk: PROJECT

1. Completed Pangea Lab - stamped cut/pasted part

2. Landform Book - Started creation, get directions from absent folder (will be due Wednesday!)

Tuesday 5-6

What event happens often at transform boundaries?

OBJ: Observe the process of erosion

Hmk: Complete Landform book

1. Erosion Lab/Notes - Download sedimentary_rock_lab_questions.ppt

2. Notes - What moves plates? Download Convection.ppt

3. Bill Nye - Erosion

4. Short amount of time to work on book

Wednesday 5-7

In what type of rock would you typically find a fossil?

OBJ: Create a fossil

Hmk: PROJECT

1. Collect Pop-up books

2. Start Fossil Lab

3. Notes - radioactive dating

4. End fossil Lab

Thursday 5-8

When Uranium 238 decays, what does it become?

OBJ: Date fossils

Hmk: WORK ON PROJECT!!

1. Reviewed notes from yesterday, then took a QUIZ!!

2. How old is that fossil? Lab - sign up to make up

Collected after you finished

Friday 5-9

If you have a 14 g sample of C-14, how much N-14 do you have after 3 half lives have passed?

OBJ: Explore Habitat Destruction

Hmk: PROJECT, PROJECT, PROJECT

1. Questions about Fossils or Rocks?

2. Start Chapter 23 - Habitat Destruction Worksheets, stamp at end of class period

Monday 5-12

Name one benefit of biodiversity.

OBJ: Project time

Hmk: none

1. Library Time for Project work OR study notecards for final test

2. If you are exempting final, complete the Conservation Worksheet - stamp at end of period

Tuesday 5-13

More than ________ of the species that lived on Earth are extinct today.

OBJ: Observe and explain importance of biodiversity in the rainforest.

Hmk: Begin Reviewing for Test on Biodiversity, Rock Cycle, and Plate techtonics

1. Medicine Man

Wednesday 5-14

Nonnative species introduced to an area by humans is an ___________.

OBJ: Review

Hmk: Review for Lithosphere Test Download lithosphere_test_reviews08.doc (chapter 23 might not be on there yet, but you still need to know the habitat destruction information)

finish video

1. Complete Chapter 23 Review Sheets, stamp

2. Whiteboards?

Thursday 5-15

What is a gene bank?

OBJ: Assess knowledg of Lithosphere

Hmk: Complete journey through atmopshere reading

1. Lithosphere test

2. Journey through the atmophere Reading

Lithosphere folder collection

Friday 5-16

none

1. Library Time

Bio Mon 5-5 to END

Monday 5-5

Give an example of: a) directional selection, b)stabilizing selection, c) disruptive selection

OBJ: Observe the process of natural selection

Hmk: Complete today's classwork as well as Macroevolution time-line

1. Passed back Darwin's Travels Worksheet - remember, you can complete it for more credit

2. Filled the Genetic Folder (1. Karyotype Activity 2. 2 Trait cross "cheat"sheet 3. Fundamentals of Genetics Worksheet 4. Weekly Schedule 4-28 5. Notes p. 272 to 274)

3. Took a evolution vocab quiz - you could even use your vocabulary sheets!!

4. Oh how the Internet can be annoying... We fought through many a frustrating moment, but regardless - Gizmo's either birds beak lab OR natural selection moth lab AND macroevolution time-line worksheet is due tomorrow

Tuesday 5-6

List 3 things Darwin observed over his travels

OBJ: Observe main pieces of evidence for evolution

Hmk: Why does evolution matter now? Worksheet (study for TEST tomorrow - chapter 15-17)

1. Quick Vocab Quiz/go over yesterday's quiz

2. Go over Gizmos (moth vs. beaks)

3. Mouse Lab - Natural Selection

If time, we will start the homework as a class

Wednesday 5-7

List 4 main pieces of evidence for evolution

OBJ: Assess knowledge of evolution

Hmk: Classification Vocabulary (Chapter 18) 4 column format

1. Go over evolution time line activity

2. Go over "Why does evolution matter now" activity

3. Finish Mouse Lab

4. TEST - EVOLUTION Part 1

Thursday 5-8

Who was the scientist who claimed "binomial nomenclature" and what is it?

OBJ: Describe how living things are organized

Hmk: Complete Dichot.Key. Activity, Review chart on page 459 for a short quiz tomorrow

(Any Questions over the activities???)

1. Evolution Test Part 2

Passed out Classification Study Guide

2. Notes - Classification

3. Dichotomous Key Activity - finish for homework

Friday 5-9

What caused the change between the 6 kingdom and 3 domain system?

OBJ: Use a cladogram to classify living things

Hmk: STUDY, STUDY, STUDY FOR THE EOCT!!!!!!! (Complete Review sheet given and go to http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ci_testing.aspx?PageReq=CI_TESTING_EOCT&SubPageReq=GUIDES and find, then print page 20 to show that you went to the state given review site. THEN spend some time looking over the information on the review guide)

1. Quiz on Chart (p. 459)

2. Learn how to use cladograms, p. 453 (1-4), stamp

3. "Biology Pursuit" Review Game for EOCT

Monday 5-12

1. EOCT!!!

Folder Collection:

1. Darwins Voyage, 2. Weekly Schedule 5-5, 3. Macroevolution timeline, 4. Gizmos (either beaks or moth activity), 5. Why does evolution matter now?

Also turned into basket - Mouse Natural Selection Lab

Tuesday 5-13

1. EOCT!!!

Worked on Natural Selection/Evolution brainstorm sheets - due tomorrow Download evolution_brainstorm.doc

Wednesday 5-14

1. Collect Evolution Brainstorm Sheets

2. Assigned - "Make your own Dichotomous Key" Project

3. Cladogram activity - stamped

4. Went over past tests: Genetics and Evolution

Thursday 5-15

1. Classification Research/poster making - will present tomorrow

Friday 5-16

1. Present Classification posters

2. Molecular Connections Worksheet assigned

3. Short Review for test (next week Tuesday)

Monday 5-19

1. Complete the review sheet (yellow) passed out at the beginning of classification

2. Complete p. 465 (1-10)

3. Watch classification video

Tuesday 5-20

Today students told me where they want their extra credit and if they have 3 or fewer missing assignments, they are allowed to come in tomorrow to make up a test or 2 quizzes before or after school.

1. Classification Test

Classification Folder Collection: 1. Shark Dichot. Key 2. Molecular Connections Worksheet 3. Cladogram Bookwork p 453 (1-4) 4. p. 465 1-10 5. Yellow Review

Wednesday 5-21

Re-take test or 2 quizzes of your choice if you have 3 or fewer missing assignments

1. Watch Miracle of Life

COLLECT BOOKS

Thursday 2nd block  or Friday 4th block -

1. finish video

2. Final Test Grade Project - will go under class decided category: Ecology

Environmental Science

FINAL PROJECT INFORMATION - THIS IS DUE ON THE DAY OF THE FINAL (will be different depending on if they are a Junior or a Senior) NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

(note - students had the option between this OR taking a cumulative test)

Download enviro_sci_final_project_rubric.doc

Download what_can_you_do_in_two_weeks.doc

Enviro Mon 4-28 through Fri 5-2

Monday 4-28

What are the two forces that will change any rock into a Metamorphic rock?

OBJ: Ride the Rock Cycle

Hmk: Finish Comic Strip

1. Review Rock Cycle

2. Change poster from Friday for more points

3. Ride the Rock Cycle Activity - get from folder

Tuesday 4-29

What's the difference between lava and magma?

OBJ: Zoo!!

Hmk: Keep working on final!!!!

1. Stamp Comic Strips

2. Go over Toxins and Water Quest

3. Exchange phone numbers with Final Project partners

4. ZOO!!!

Wednesday 4-30

Name 3 ways that sediment can be carried.

OBJ: Describe how plates move

Hmk: PROJECT WORK

Collect Zoo Work

1. Completed Ride the Rock Cycle Activity and stamped last questions

2. Bill Nye Video - Plate Tectonics

3. Plate Tectonics Reading and multiple choice questions (get from folder) - turned in and graded

Thursday 5-1

What is the difference between a convergent and a divergent boundary?

OBJ: Model plates moving

Hmk: PROJECT WORK

1. Passed back Plate Tectonic Reading Questions

2. Model Building - get from folder (will need to look off of another students), stamped

2. Started Pangea Lab (get from folder) - will stamp everything besides the final cut/paste part

Friday 5-2

Collectively, compaction and cementation is called _______________.

OBJ: Research Landforms

Hmk: PROJECT WORK

1. Quiz - Plate Tectonics and Rocks

2. Researched Landforms

Enviro Mon 4-28 through Fri 5-2

Monday 4-28

What are the two forces that will change any rock into a Metamorphic rock?

OBJ: Ride the Rock Cycle

Hmk: Finish Comic Strip

1. Review Rock Cycle

2. Change poster from Friday for more points

3. Ride the Rock Cycle Activity - get from folder

Tuesday 4-29

What's the difference between lava and magma?

OBJ: Zoo!!

Hmk: Keep working on final!!!!

1. Stamp Comic Strips

2. Go over Toxins and Water Quest

3. Exchange phone numbers with Final Project partners

4. ZOO!!!

Wednesday 4-30

Name 3 ways that sediment can be carried.

OBJ: Describe how landscapes are formed

Hmk: PROJECT WORK

Collected Zoo sheets

1. Completed Ride the Rock Cycle Activity - stamped the last page

2. Watched Bill Nye - Land Formations/Pangea

3. Plate Techtonics Reading and questions - collected questions (get from folder if absent)

Thursday 5-1

What is the difference between convergent and divergent boundaries?

OBJ: Model various plate boundaries

Hmk: PROJECT WORK

1. Go over questions

2. Plate Modeling Lab

Friday 5-2

What activity might occur at a transform boundary?

OBJ: Describe various landforms

Hmk: PROJECT WORK!!!!! (one week left :) )

1. Laptops - research 4 landforms - Take notes on the following: a description of the landform, where you would find one (area/country), and how it is formed

2. Begin Landform book creation

Bio Mon 4-28 to Fri 5-2

Moday 4-28

Besides simple dominance/recessive inheritance, what other 4 patterns of inheritance are there?

OBJ: Generate punnett squares for 2 trait crosses

Hmk: Complete Human Genetics Packet (Chapter 14) AND Genetics Review Crossword (get from absent folder)

1. Stamped 2 Trait Punnett Square sheet and Fundamentals of Genetics Sheet - answered questions about these sheets

2. Passed out "Evolution Vocab/Test Review Guide" (check folder)

3. Notes - Beyond Simple Dominant/Recessive (see another students)

4. Short Quiz - Genetics

5. Reebop Lab - if you missed today, to substitute, complete Gizmos Activity (get from folder) - if you forgot your login, use the following class code to create a new login: DcGSev2XTq (email me if you have any problems)

Tuesday 4-29

Zoo Day

Wednesday 4-30

You have 2 purebreed plants: one is tall with yellow seeds, the other is short with green seeds. Determine the F1 phenotypes of the offspring and the F2 phenotypes.

OBJ: Explore human karyotyping

Hmk: STUDY FOR GENETICS TEST - YOU ALREADY HAVE THE REVIEW, ALSO USE YOUR FUNDAMENTALS OF GENETICS SHEET AND WEEKLY SCHEDULES

1. Notes - DNA Technology (You can make your own, based on Chapter 13.1, 13.2, and 13.4 focusing on bold face terms)

2. Gizmo's - Genetic Disorder and karyotyping (absent folder - or see me before or after school) (In second block, if your computer did not work: use class code from Monday and create a new password to do this at home) (Fourth block or anyone who couldn't get on the website: complete form below Download human_karyotyping_questions.doc )

Thursday 5-1

What combination of chromosomes makes a male? a female?

OBJ: Assess knowledge of Genetics

Hmk: Evolution Vocab (15-16) from the yellow sheet, folder collection tomorrow

Stamp - crossword and human genetics packet, collect Reebop lab or substitute lab if you were gone for Reebops

1. TEST - Genetics

(go over Meiosis Quest)

Friday 5-2

How is natural variation used in artificial selection? (use vocab and chapter 15)

OBJ: Describe/Chart Darwins travels

Hmk: Chapter 17 Vocab

2.  Darwin's Journey Lab (get from absent folder)

Enviro Mon 4-21 to Fri 4-25

What % of pollution to spills by oil tankers contribute?

OBJ: Finish Water testing

Hmk: Review Information (Quest Wednesday), Start on Final

1. Finished Water testing lab - stamped

2. Went over Final Exam information

Tuesday 4-22 - Happy Earth Day!!

Name 3 uses of DDT.

OBJ: Create Water Conservation Posters

Hmk: STUDY!! (use weekly schedule as a study guide) - Water testing notes, oil spill lab, water conservation handouts (today), and bioaccumulation packet.... there will also be a FOLDER COLLECTION tomorrow

1. Went over Final Project Rubric: Download enviro_sci_final_project_rubric.doc

2. "Case of Mysterious Renters" - handout, discussed

3. "Water Conservation Tips" - handout, used to create water conservation poster (ask Ms. Parnes for this handout and rubric). Researched facts on water usage to include in poster.

Wednesday 4-23

Where does the majority of oil pollution in the ocean come from?

OBJ: Assess knowledge of toxins and water

Hmk: None (work on final)

1. Collected posters/flyers

2. Went over water testing quiz

3. Quest - Toxins and Water

4. Folder Collection: Bioaccumulation Packet, Oil Spill Lab, Jewel of Siberia, Tracing the Toxins, and Weekly Schedule beginning 4-14

Thursday 4-24

No question

OBJ: Describe the different types of rock in the crust

Hmk: Review Rock Cycle, work on Final

1. Time to work on Projects (final project)

2. Lithosphere Notes - Download rocks_rock.ppt 

Friday 4-25

List 4 steps that form sedimentary rock

OBJ: Create Rock Cycle poster

Hmk: Work on Final Project!!! (this weekend is the beginning of the two week time period reserved to work on project)

1. Whiteboard review on the rock cycle

2. Rock Cycle Poster Creation - collect at end (use two sheets of paper to cut out rock cycle terms and paste on large paper, creating the cycle. You must also draw a few examples of each of the main types of rock)

Bio Mon 4-21 to Fri 4-15

Monday 4-21

List all the steps of Meiosis - star the ones that are similar to mitosis

OBJ: Assess knowledge of Meiosis

Hmk: Vocab 11.1 - 11.3 (four column format)

1. Collect Flip books

2. Quick Review

3. Quiz - Meiosis

Tuesday 4-22

List the 7 traits Mendel studied? Why were they special?

OBJ: Breed pea plants

Hmk: Outlined notes - p. 267-269, Must include visuals

1. Notes on Vocab - see another students

2.  "Breeding Pea Plants" Lab - stamped in fourth only

Wednesday 4-23

PxP = _____, F1xF1=_____, F2xF2=_____

OBJ: Describe common disorders

Hmk: Notes p. 272-274, Must include visuals

1. Genetic Disorders Video - collect

2. Genetics Basics Worksheet and Simple Genetics Worksheet (complete up to Punnett Square section)- collect

Thursday 4-24

How are a gene and an allele related? Give an example of each.

OBJ: Summarize Mendel's conclusions about inheritance

Hmk: Finish Punnett Squares (1 trait crosses), Sponge Bob Worksheet

1. Pass back genetics basics worksheet

2. Go over Worksheets

3. Punnett Square Notes (1 trait) - see another students if you missed today

4. Complete Genetics Basics Worksheet and Simple Genetics Basic Worksheet

Friday 4-25

Green pea pods are dominant to yellow. Show the following punnett squares, genotypes and phenotypes of offspring: A) Homo dom x Homo dom, B) Homo dom x Homo recessive, C) Hetero x Hetero

OBJ: Explain Principals of Independent Assortment

Hmk: Finish Punnett Squares (2 traits)

Stamp Punnett Square Notes and 2 worksheets from yesterday

1. Collect Genetics Basics Sheet, Stamp Simple Genetics sheet - go over

2. Review- fastest finger

3. Notes - Punnett Squares (2 traits) (get from absent folder)

4. Go over protein synthesis Quest

Enviro Mon 4-14 to Fri 4-18

Monday 4-14

Explain the relationship between fertilizer use and algae growth.

OBJ: Describe sources of water pollution

Hmk: Jewel of Siberia reading/questions

1. Complete Algae lab and clean-up, also collected class data and graphed it

2. Water pollution notes

Tuesday 4-15

Which testable chemical is a carcinogen?

OBJ: Discover best ways to clean up oil

Hmk: Review for quiz

1. Stamped Jewel of Siberia reading

2. Whiteboards - water pollution chemicals

3. "Slick Sea Spills" - Oil Spill Lab (If you missed today - write a 2 page handwritten paper about oil spills, how they are cleaned up, economic and ecological effects of the spill...)

4. Started "Alaska: Outrage at Valdez"

Wednesday 4-16

Which tested chemical is produced from acid mines?

OBJ: Explain how toxins accumulate in a food web

Hmk: Complete Section II (A-D) from the Bioaccumulation Packet

1. Took Quiz

2. Finished video - turned in pros/cons sheet

3. Started Bioaccumulation Reading (Section I was stamped)

Thursday 4-17

As energy gets passed through the food chain it _________, as toxins are passed through the food chain they __________ in concentration.

OBJ: Describe effects of DDT in an ecosystem

Hmk: Complete whatever you have left in packet

1. Stamp Section II in packet, go over I and II

2. Complete packet, go over

Friday 4-18

What is the difference between accumulation and biomagnification?

OBJ: Investigate a water pollution problem

Hmk: Review water pollutants information

1. Go over packet?

2. Mysterious Water Testing Lab - if you miss, you will not be able to repeat this lab... get the information from another student and take a 20% deduction

Bio Mon 4-14 through Fri 4-18

Monday 4-14

What happened when the eye development gene of a mouse was inserted into a fruit flies knee? (12.5)

OBJ: Describe how genes are controlled.

Hmk: Complete Webstudy/Outlined Notes from the Friday before break

1. Reviewed what we did before break

2. "Controlling the Code" Webstudy (pink, you received this before break)

Tuesday 4-15

What did the repressor bind to in the webstudy yesterday?

OBJ: See yesterday

Hmk: Vocab 11.4-11.5, 4 Column format and p. 280 (1-4)

Stamped p. 309-312 Notes

1. Went over webstudy, gave a chance to re-write paragraph  and complete pink sheet - also answered 5 questions to go along with it (see me if you were absent before the end of the week)

2. Time to complete homework

Wednesday 4-16

If diploid cells are referred to as 2N, what does N represent?

OBJ: Describe how sex cells are produced

Hmk: Complete Meiosis Worksheet

1. Went over vocabulary and added a few words (somatic cells, gametes, zygote, fertilization)

2. Went over Flip book Project (see absent folder) Download meiosis_flip_books.doc

3. Completed Meiosis Webstudy (see absent folder)

4. Had time to work on homework

Thursday 4-17

If a diploid cell has 46 chromosomes, how many would you find in the organisms gamete?

OBJ: Summarize events of meiosis

Hmk: Meiosis/Mitosis compare and contrast table

1. Stamped worksheet

2. Notecard review game

3. Work on Flipbooks

Passed out forms for the Zoo Trip - DUE FRIDAY, APRIL 25TH

ZOO DATE: APRIL 29TH, 2008

Friday 4-18

What is a tetrad? Would you find it in meiosis, mitosis or both?

OBJ: Compare/Contrast meiosis and mitosis

Hmk: Study for Quiz (11.4-11.5) and finish flip book

1. Whiteboard review

2. Sidewalk chalk review game

3. Work on flipbooks