Today, we looked at some videos of protists and discussed this diverse group of microorganisms. Students then copied a note and began to work on completing a flowchart about the 3 main groups of protists. This will continue tomorrow along with a protist microscope lab.

On Wednesday, students wrote the first microbiology test. They then read about protists in their textbooks.

On Tuesday, students reviewed for the microbiology test. They played a Jeopardy review game and worked on review questions.

Today students completed the lab "Microorganisms in Our Environment". We will see what bacteria are growing in our school environment! Yikes!
Students also began reviewing for Wednesday's test. You will continue to review for the test tomorrow in class. Be sure you study for this test!
Your microbiology test is on Wednesday. It's a big test! It is on Taxonomy, Viruses, Archaebacteria and Eubacteria. You may want to review connections between viruses and bacteria and the following topics: human health issues, industrial applications, ecological roles, biotechnology applications. (Hint, hint!) There is an extensive application section on your test.
See you on Thursday.

On Friday, students received their report cards and we spent some time going through the reflection page that goes with reports. We talked a lot about community service hours.
We then took up the homework from Thursday about the immune system. Students then read about antibiotic resistant bacteria and we watched a short video about this and the link to evolution of bacteria. They then learned how to prepare agar plates for culturing bacteria which we will do on Monday.

On Thursday we continued to look at how bacteria and viruses are used in biotechnology. Students then copied a note on the immune system and began to answer 2 questions about the components of our immune system.

On Tuesday we discussed the conceptmaps the students created on Monday. We then began to look at how we use bacteria in biotechnology.

Wednesday is a PA day.

On Monday, students finished looking at bacterial shapes using the microscopes. They then created a concept map on the Beneficial Roles of Bacteria.

Friday was the final research class for the microbiology project.

On Thursday we continued to watch the film Outbreak and discuss the relevance of this film in terms of viruses and human health.

Today we viewed the film "Outbreak". This film shows how viruses can mutate within a population and lead to an epidemic.

On Tuesday we took up the last cells test and finished the bacteria note.

On Thursday, students had a research class for their microbiology project.

Today we continued looking at bacteria. Students read an article about archaebacteria living under the ocean floor and they answered some questions related to it. We then went through more of the bacteria note. Tomorrow you will be researching your microbiology project.
Have a very hoppy Easter!

On Friday students began researching a project on a disease caused by a microorganism. This project will be due in about 3 weeks.

On Thursday, grade 10's wrote the OSSLT, so we didn't have class.

Today we took up some homework questions and then went through the virus note from yesterday with more detail. Remember, tomorrow is the grade 10 literacy test. You will only have class during period 4 and 5.