MICROSCOPE WORK

For extra practice with the compound microscope - do some virtual work using the same website as we used in our manual-virtual urchin. 
Click on the microscope icon to take you there. Peruse and work through the list of items on the left hand side of the site. It's kinda fun!  Scan the QR code for an extra little piece of information.

THE WATER PROJECT IS HERE!!!

LET'S MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

I love to see so many of you excited for this challenge!

                                                                    

For those of you who were absent - here are the guidelines:  

PROJECT GUIDELINES AND CALENDAR.  

Don't forget that you need to bring the planning sheet back to class with parent's signature before you begin.  Planning sheets and signatures - due at the end of the week.

SOLUTIONS

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We've discussed global water problems and shared startling water facts.  Now let's look at some of the things people and organizations are doing to help. Check out these websites - and any others you find on your own. When you find a piece of information you'd like to share, put it on the padlet wall above, as I showed in class. Hopefully this will work! If not, then just comment on the post and share your information. There are so many wonderful organizations and inventions out there!  Here are a few.....
ICT
The water project, 
Global Water Challenge,
The Other 90 Percent,
Water.org .

When you share your information on the wall, PLEASE TRY NOT TO OVERLAP ENTRIES ONTO EACH OTHER.  You can move the wall around by dragging it and moving it right or down.  That way we'll have plenty of room for everyone.

Just move it until you find a good bit of blue, then double click and begin typing your information..Make sure you write the name of the organization or invention and also write a bit of information about it.   You can upload a picture or even video if you wish as well. Let's try to see if we can get everyone posting something different.

MICRO LIFE IN A DROP OF WATER!

Today in class you had the opportunity to see all the 'wretched beasties' in the digital microscopes.  Yuk! Here are some of mine -- Imagine drinking THAT?

 For homework tonight, upload the protist pictures and videos from class.  Comment on the types of protists or other water life you found in your samples (click here to find information about the water microbes) and then visit the sites below to find three facts about our global water problems and waterborne infectious disease.  Either add them to your blog or write them down and be ready to share in class.
Here are a few suggested sites - but you can research your own as well.   You might find better sites! Please use more than one site.                    
http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts
http://blueplanetnetwork.org/water/facts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_crisis

30,000 YEAR OLD VIRUS REVIVED!

BUBONIC PLAGUE

Typoid Mary was certainly the most famous carrier in the world, but what about the most famous vector?  Is there a most famous vector too?  The mosquitos which carry dengue and malaria are well known culprits, but in the late 1800s and early 1900s it was a little fellow that lived on the rat that came to stardom.  Watch this very short segment on the bubonic plague by clicking on the picture (adapted from Science Odyssee).

Click for Homework reading and questions - Answer analysis questions 1-4 on C-18.  Answer in journal.

The full video of the the bubonic plague.  The episode starts around 4:50.

TYPHOID MARY

In class we played the role of epidemiologists, trying to find the carrier of a disease that is spreading through Sauk Junior High School.  The most famous carrier in the world was a lady by the name of Mary Malone, more commonly called "Typhoid Mary".  if we didn't finish in class or if you are absent be sure to view it.  It is a fifty five minute documentary on Typhoid Mary.  If curious.... scan the QR code.