Busch Gardens and blog

Just a reminder: The last day to pay for the Busch gardens trip is this Wednesday. Hopefully byt hen, enough people will have paid to make the trip possible. Also, to any chaperons who are accompanying us should we be able to go, here's a couple of tips:

1) Please, if possible, bring a first aid kit or at least some band-aids with you. You never know when one of our students may have a slight accident.

2) For the last two weeks, we are studying organisms, particularly invertebrates and vertebrates. So if possible, while we are down in Busch Gardens, if we indeed go, make some time to take our students to the Myombe Reserve, Serengeti Plain and/or the Rhino Rally so that they get a chance to see these animals interact with each other up close and personal.

And a few other items of discussion...housekeeping really:

1) Study, study, study for the final exam, I'll be giving it this Thursday!
2) I'll be doing a lot of cleaning in my room, any donations of boxes are highly appreciated.
3) I also need some styrofoam cups and bottled (never opened) water.

I hope everyone has enjoyed their Memorial Day Weekend. I look to have an "unofficial" progress report of grades (sans/without final) by this Friday. I'll take contributions of paper for that.

P.S.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the final deadline for this is now Wednesday, May 27.

Study hard for the finals next week!

Oh and we need 3 more students to pay to go with us to busch Gardens or else we won't be going to Busch Gardens.


Have a nice day!

Gizmos

As you know, finals are coming up, really soon. I will be making printing out a review for oyu to prepare yourselves. In the meantime, I did put up Gizmos based on what we've learned the past 3 nine weeks for your studying convenience. You really should be working on these. (1.5 points of E.C. per gizmo)

That's number1. Number 2, we are still taking payments and chaperons for the Busch gardens trip, so please send in your payments/forms while there are still spots left.

Cell Matching activity

Hey 4th period! Here's a little something I scooped up that will help us with what we are going to be learning this week.

http://www.quia.com/cm/15426.html?AP_rand=1718727588

It deals with osmosis.

Field Trip and Contest of Interest

First order of business: Great news! Busch gardens is officially a go! I repeat, Busch Gardens IS A GO! YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!! Woo hoo! See Ms. Stewart for permission slips, chaperon forms, and other details. Disregard the May 13th deadline, we are going to extend it since we got such a late start. Some of you may be under "special conditions" as well but again, Ms. Stewart will fill you in.

Second order of business: Here's something you may be interested in. It's a great way to get your name out there in the science world, especially if you missed the Science Fair but had a great project nonetheless. And speaking of science fair projects, get yours out of the room by 2:45 this coming Monday if you want to keep it. Anyways, check out this link: http://www.youngscientistchallenge.com/
Don't limit yourselves, guys. Go the distance. Read the rules and regulations, send me proof of your entry by May 20th and it'll be an 8 pointer.

Oh and if you're wondering what Mr. Hubbard is doing up at 2:20 am on a Saturday, I can't sleep due to a combination of slight cold and bad tension headache. Hope I get well by next week.