Well, that’s it for ATDP 2009. You all did great work these last three weeks, and Patty, Abbey, and I feel really lucky to have gotten to work with you. If you come back to ATDP next year, stop by and say hi!
Please come by on Friday for our Human Anatomy & Physiology open house! Starting after recess – 10:30AM 11AM for the morning class and 3PM 3:30PM for the afternoon class – we’ll be opening up our classroom for visitors. Student work will be on display – including life-size body diagrams – as will many of the activities we’ve done as a class. Plus, we’ll have a photo slide show.
If you have any questions, contact Patty or me. Otherwise, we hope to see you Friday!
Study for vocabulary bingo! Your studying should include all of the material we’ve covered so far.
Also, students who haven’t completed assignments need to make sure to get those in to us.
Before class tomorrow, students need to analyze one meal that they eat. For each ingredient in the meal, they should determine whether it is mostly protein, carbohydrate, fat, or some combination of those three. Then, as much as possible based on the notes we took today, they should identify where in the digestive system that ingredient is digested.
Students need to study this weekend. We will be doing several review activities next week to make sure everybody remembers the stuff we learned these first two weeks. Some of these activities will be in groups, and everybody needs to be able to participate and help their group out.
Also, please remember to bring back the course surveys that we sent you home with. ATDP takes them very seriously when deciding what courses to offer each year, and Patty and I take them very seriously because we want to offer the best Human Anatomy & Physiology course possible. They’re totally anonymous, and we appreciate having them.
Tonight students need to remember to record their heart rate at the 4 or 5 different times we came up with in class. (These times were different for the morning and afternoon classes.) It’s helpful to have somebody else keep track of time while you count your heartbeats.
By Thursday, students need to finish their ear diagrams on the card stock we provided. These don’t need to be colored unless you would like to color them, but they should be traced so that they are clearly visible. They also do not need to be labeled, since we’ll be labeling them after we put them on the body diagrams.
The homework for tonight:
8 out of 10.
I’d have liked more wizard combat, but I think I’ve said that about every movie in the series. They made good decisions about what could be cut out of the book, and everything they did include does a good job of setting up the last movie(s), which is really what the book’s purpose was anyway. There’s no more character development, really, and that’s a good thing, since it means we get to focus on the plot and get down to the action.
There is no homework for tonight. Our students have done really great work this week, and we hope they enjoy their weekend. We look forward to seeing you on Monday. I will be bringing eyeballs….
