Week of April 25 - April 29

Monday 4/25  Amphibian Notes Chapter 30 section 3
                       Start Frog Virtual Dissection

Tuesday 4/26  Bring Laptops!
                       Amphibian Webquest

Wednesday 4/27  Finish Amphibian Notes

Thursday 4/28  Chytrid Fungus Video

Friday  4/29 Amphibian Test
                    Webquest and Dissection are due

Virtual Dissection Links

The virtual frog dissection is due on Friday, April 29.

http://www.aa.psu.edu/biology/frog/

http://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/

Webquest Websites

The webquest is due on Friday, April 29.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/tetrapods/amphibintro.html

http://www.amphibiaweb.org/index.html

http://www.amphibianark.org/the-crisis/chytrid-fungus/

Webquest due Wednesday, March 23

Kingdoms Protista and Fungi webquest

http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/

Why is red tide not the preferred term for HABs?

Which type is found on the Maine coast? (Go to regions/distribution-US)

Which species are found off New England? (Species by name)

What symptoms will you have with PSP? (Impacts/human health)

What should you not eat to avoid getting PSP?

What does Canada do to protect humans from ASP?

What is the rough estimate for economic loss from HABs in the US?(Impacts/Socioeconomic)

Other than humans which other mammals have been killed by HABs? (Impacts/wildlife)

http://botany.si.edu/projects/algae/economicuses.htm

What do you eat that has products of Phaeophyta?

What is an alginate?

What are some industrial uses of alginate?

List a food and non-food use of carrageenan and of agar from Rhodophyta.

What industrial uses do diatoms and members of Chlorophyta have?

http://archives.microbeworld.org/microbes/protista/

What do members of Chlorophyta have in common with plants?

Why are dinoflagellates bioluminescent?

What is diatomaceous earth?

What Sarcodine was used to help build the great pyramids of Egypt?

What protozoa is a predator of paramecium?

http://www.phsource.us/PH/ZD/PD/index.htm

Use this website to state how you contract the following diseases.  Can you treat or prevent each of them?

African Trypanosomiasis

Leishmaniasis

Toxoplasmosis

Cryptosporidiosis

http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/learning/resources/Mycology/UsesOf_Fungi/introduction.shtml

What fungus is used to make most alcohols? (fermentation)

What antibiotics do we get from fungi?

What fungus is used after organ transplants?

Why is fungus important for the production of soy sauce?

Why is blue cheese “blue”?

What the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrAShtolieg&feature=related

Read the following article:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbage-patch/

March 7 - March 11

Monday, March 7          Understanding Bacteria Video
                                      Finish Wanted Poster Presentations

Tuesday, March 8          Outbreak Lab
                                      Finish Wanted Poster Presentations

Wednesday, March 9     EXPO Project Oral Presentations
                                      EXPO Project Posters Due

Thursday, March 10       Finish EXPO Oral Presentations in Class
                                      Science Expo 2-5

Friday, March 11            No School

Bacteria Webquest Link

http://www.microbeworld.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=55

February 28 - March 4

Monday       2/28  No School - Snow Day
Tuesday       3/1  Bacteria Notes, Tracking A Plague Activity
Wednesday  3/2  Antibacterial Lab, Bacteria Webquest, Wanted Posters
                           Assigned
Thursday      3/3  Library for the Bacteria Wanted Posters, check plates
Friday          3/4  Wanted Poster Presentation, check plates, turn in Antibacterial
                            Lab