Say what you need to say! Extra credit blog

Thanks for never missing a blog!  You have a chance for some extra credit! 
1. What blog did you like the best and why?  (5 points)
2. What teacher posted website did you like the best? (post web address) (5 points).
3. What student posted website did you like the best and why? (post web address)(5 points).
4. What do you recommend to make the blogs better? (10 points)
Due December 9, 2012

Where Did You Get All That Energy???? 2.0

Go to each of the listed websites,Osmosis and Diffusion, Enyme Catalysts, Plant Pigments and Photosynthesis, Cell Respiration and one of the ATP sites (your choice).  In complete sentences and using proper grammar, write one sentence about each site that you visited.
Okay, let me break it down for you! (25 points)
Osmosis and Diffusion(5)
Enzyme Catalysis (5)
Plant Pigments and photosynthesis (5)
Cell Respiration(5)
ATP(5) one site your choice!


Osmosis and diffusion
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab1/intro.html

Enzyme Catalysis
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab2/intro.html

Plant Pigments and photosynthesis
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab4/intro.html

Cell Respiration
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab5/intro.html

ATP
http://www.interactive-biology.com/825/what-atp-is-and-how-it-works/
advanced
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/electron_transport/electron_transport.htm
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/problem_sets/photosynthesis_1/photosynthesis_1.html

WHAT'S IN A CELL?

Watch this interactive cell demonstration then make your own cell. When you are done, comment on the activity. You must comment on someone else's comment to receive full points.

http://www.wiley.com/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/cell_structure/cell_structure.htm

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/membrane_transport/membrane_transport.htm

After you have completed activity 1, go to Activity 2 for the second interactive lab. Follow directions, comment on each lab activity separately.
Post by October 8, 2013.

THIS IS WORTH 30 POINTS! 10 points for comment 1,10 points for comment two and ten points for responding to another person in another class's comment.

A Method (Scientific!) to your Madness!

Watch Dalton's play house and show your certificate of completion to your instructor before logging out. Class time provided only on July 21 and 22.  Anyone starting school later must make this up on their own time.

http://web.visionlearning.com/dalton_playhouse/ad_loader.html

Final blog! The next one is extra credit!!!! No BODY Knows the trouble I've Seen!

Due April 16th for Extra credit, April 30th for full credit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index_interactivebody.shtml

1. Organs Game
Put together your organs in the 3D jigsaw puzzle. This challenge requires Flash 5 and takes 5-10 minutes.

2. Muscles Game Put the mystery muscles into the right places on the body. This challenge requires Flash 5 and takes 5-10 minutes.

3. Skeleton Game
Get the joints and unusual bones in the right places. This challenge requires Flash 5 and takes 5-10 minutes.

4. Senses Challenge
Put your senses to the test and try not to let your brain be fooled. This challenge has 20 questions, requires Flash 5 and takes 10 minutes.

5. Nervous System Game
Wire up the nervous system and senses. This challenge requires Flash 5 and takes 5-10 minutes.

6. Puberty Demo
Discover the changes that take place during puberty and understand the science. Requires Flash 5.

Play all six games and comment on each one of them.  Extra credit if you blog the 1st week.
Possible 70 points, with Extra credit.

Who's Your Daddy - Classification

Investigate these websites and follow directions for each site!!
1. Comment on,
All in the Family : try your hand at classification of animals
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/family/
2. Comment on,
 Riddle of the bones
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/riddle/
3. Describe adaptive radiation in finches,
On Origin of Species
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/origin/index.html
4. Just because I like it!
The Classification song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnF_UdPbJZ0
5. play the game. post your score.
Classification Game
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html
5. Play the game, post your score!
Classifying Life Game
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/classifying-life.html
6. Post a youtube song or video about classification.
7. Comment on someone's posted youtube.

Blog by March 26 for extra credit, (45)blog due by April 9th (35)

Some things never change! Or do they??

1. View information about natural selection and play Darwin's Evolution Game until you survive, how many trials until you survived?  What was they key to your survival?
http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html
2. Do the tour, The Evolution of Flight in Birds:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/reslab/flight/index.htm
Give an explanation how birds have evolved.
3. Play the survival game, how well did you do?  What does a species need to do in order to be 'fit'?
  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/what-is-evolution/natural-selection-game/the-evolution-experience.html
Go to all three websites and answer the questions in 1-3, then (4) comment about what site you liked best and why,(5) post a song, artircle, youtube or game and finally (6)read or play someone's game or article and explain their website.  Blog before January 11 for extra credit!  60 points. (70points for early and correct). Blog by the 14th for regular points!