Division B

ANATOMY
2 SYSTEMS: Muscular and Respiratory
Structure Function Effects of Aging Diseases

What to bring:
1 Pencil per person(required!)

Optional: Non-programmable, non-graphing calculator 2-sided page of notes; information in any form, from any source -yes, it could include the list of muscles

Process Skills
Data collection
Making observations Inferences Predictions Calculations Analyses Conclusions

Break it down!
Use list of what to know as lessons
Assign each student a piece of the information to

research and teach the others at the next meeting Use the internet and library books for resources Give a quiz each study session on what was covered the time before

Sample questions

Disease Detectives
Focus is food borne illness Types of Knowledge:

Definitions of basic epidemiologic terms Categories of disease causing agents Modes of disease spread Triads of analysis (e.g., person/place/time & agent/host/environment The basis for taking action to control and prevent the spread of disease

What to bring:
1 Pencil per person(required!)

Optional: Non-programmable, non-graphing calculator 2-sided page of notes; information in any form, from any source

Websites:
http://www.montclair.edu/detectives/project/Project

Overview.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/excite/disease_detectives/index.h

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Ecology
General Principles of Ecology and how they apply to

local and regional ecology 50%

Energy flow-food webs, trophic pyramids Nutrient cycling Community interactions Population dynamics Human impact on ecosystem

Biomes: Taiga and Tundra 50%

Climate, locations,
Typical organisms

Adaptations
Interactions

Typical food web

What to bring:
1 Pencil per person(required!)

Optional: Non-programmable, non-graphing calculator 2-sided page of notes; information in any form, from any source

Microbe Mission
2011 microbial diseases listed on www.soinc.org
Event can be run as timed stations May include live specimens, pictures, or slides Identification Microscopy Structure and function of cell parts and origins Estimation/calculation of microbe sizes Beneficial vs. harmful microbes

What to bring:
1 Pencil per person(required!)
Z87 chemical splash goggles

Optional: Non-programmable, non-graphing calculator 2-sided page of notes; information in any form, from any source -

What if I dont have resources?

Team up with a middle school with microscopes
Use the internet for pictures and info Order the Microbe Mission CD from soinc.org

Ornithology
Changes to rules: Each student may bring a book or field guide. Be familiar with it! Tab pages! Tabs may be written on but no more than 3 words per tab Each student may bring one 2-sided page of the Official national Bird List AND one 2-sided page of notes Competition may be run as timed stations or timed slides

Suggestions:
National Bird List from soinc.org
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, 2008

which you can find on Amazon CD of bird songs or use the web Study one order at a time, let kids do the research and share at next meeting Listen to the bird songs as you go along Review and quiz at each meeting