Brianne Tyson, Blog #1, 3/3

A day of double bio!!! yay!

What did we do?:

REVIEW, REVIEW and some more, REVIEW!!!
Block one:

• Welcome back from xmas break.... joy
• We found out that we have a bio field test (multiple choice) on friday, January 11 and a written response test sometime next week.
• **Mr. C says that if we do well on this test (the MC) we can use that mark to replace any unit exam mark.**
• Found out that we will be getting a MC 'quiz' at the begining of every class (will have to hand in two of them for marks )
• Got a booklet that has all the learning objectives in it, so that now we don't have to go rumaging through our binders looking for all of them. ( That's a positive thing for all of us who have no idea even where to start to look for those objectives in the mess of papers we call our binders.)
• We got a study guide from Alberta Learning, we went through this in both classes. This book also has a list of study tips that we went over.
• Unit one review took up the rest of the class, in the morning we reviewed the Nervous system and got a worksheet to fill out, this is due January 8. This worksheet also included stuff from the ear and eye sections of this unit.
• **Key point with the ear and eye stuff, we need to know how these are connected to the nervous system.**

Block Two:

This class was a little more laid back.

• We reviewed the endocrine system!
• We got, yet another, multiple choice worksheet to fill out on the Endocrine system, this is due January 8th
• Mr. C also assigned us to choose five words from the Nervous system and 5 from the endocrine system that we are unsure about and to find a deffinition for them, also due on the 8th of January. (There is a glossary of terms that we need to know for the unit in the Alberta learning study guide)
• This class we also got to see our marks from the last unit exam and where our average stood.
• ** For the endocrine system REVIEW MR.BLANKEY and the endocrine chart we filled out**

Thoughts:

After we went through the study guide in the Alberta Learning booklet, one thing still stands out. The guide said that even if you have no clue in the slightest as to what the answer to a question might be you should still write something down because it will help you. I don't get it, how is writting something that is completly wrong down going to help you?

I had not realized how much we had honestly covered this year untill I saw the booklet of the learning objectives, all I can say is HOLY COW! It doesn't seem like we have covered that much. That diploma is starting to look a little overwhelming. With the help of all the worksheets we are going to get, and the study guide, I'm sure we will be fine. The study guide is going to be very helpful considering it contains a bunch of terms, technologies and disorders for the unit.

Insight:

So with the looming diploma and all the work put upon us it is really time to stick our noses to the books and get down to work. Refreshing your memory of everything we have learned is good thing but also a bit overwhelming. Before, it didn't feel like we really had alot to go and look back on and now when we do go and look back, we really have covered alot of stuff. After it being so long since we covered all these units I forgot how much detail there really is to the first unit.

Time now to head to the books and come out with ink on our noses!!