Biology (Lower Organisms)

You will choose one of a list of lower organisms and will be required to research and post the following information:
1) Explain how your organism performs any 4 of the life systems
2) Choose 1 of the life systems and explain how it is similar to the way humans perform the same life system
3)At least one photo of your organisms
4) Additional (interesting) information
After researching the information above, you will be required to post it on its own page either in the class wiki (Period 3, Period 5)or create a link from the class wiki to your own personal wiki.
Once all information is posted, you will visit and read about other organisms and "ask" a question (under the discussion tab) to the researcher. These questions should then be answered by the researcher.

Ex Phys MMedia (Body Systems)

Topics:
A) Skeletal, muscular, neural (group of 3)
B) Respiratory, pulmonary, hormonal, neural (group of 4)
Each group will produce an in depth video news report/documentary that relates their topics to an aspect of exercise. More specifically, each group must choose one (or a few) of the different exercise aspects below:
·Specific to training for a specific sport,·Space flight,·Underwater diving/chamber,·Training at altitude,Obesity (childhood or adult),·A diabetic (or other disease/malfunction) training,·Rehabilitation after complete muscle atrophy,·Increase in environmental temperature,·Asthma,·Ultra-endurance,·Someone taking anabolic steroids &/or Human Growth Hormone (HGH),·Other (must be approved by instructor)
Content (vocabulary and concepts) that must be included is on the attached sheet. News reports must be between 5-15 minutes in length. Each group will put together their report in Adobe Premier. Each video/news report must have the following criteria:
·At least 6 video clips of you reporting throughout the report (two or three per person in the group),·At least one video clip of you interviewing someone else (someone else may pretend to be a “professional”),·At least one self-created labeled diagram/picture that you narrate over and explain,·At least 3 video clips of demonstration/sports/activity that relates to the specific concept(s),·At least 1 musical component,·At least one summary/report/reference to a study that was published between 2005-present,·Incorporation of the “green screen”
The entire class will then put together a full-length DVD that contains each of the group’s reports. Your target audience may that of a sports team, advanced biology class, CNN or NPR science report, physical therapy office, or other.

Ex Phys (energy metab. study ?'s)

·Different ways body “finds a way” to get ATP
·Three sources of ATP including the “major players” of each (enzymes and molecules)
·Inhibit and Stimulate of different molecules in non-oxid. and oxid. metabolism
·Benefits of LA
·The recycling nature of enzymes within and between non-oxid. and oxid. metabolism (ie: NADH +H à NAD)
·How the three sources work together and shift depending on energy needs
·Insulin’s role in energy metabolism
·All organic molecules role in energy metabolism
·What is means for energy metabolism to be an “exquisite” design

Ex Phys MMedia (RSS)

The RSS feeder we will use is bloglines.com, a link will be in the Bloglines widget of The Phizz. After logging in you will need to "subscribe" to an appropriate site. Familiarize yourself with the "ins and outs" of this site. At the beginning of each class, you need to be checking this and reading/watching/listening to any new information.

Ex Phys Media (research)

Take a look at some of these blogs and see if there's anything you would like to do with The Phizz. Post a comment on an idea.

Add an RSS feed to The Phizz. Research what an RSS actually is and figure out how to add it as a link, perhaps already in the Admin widget? I have been using a site that you may choose to link to OR create another (username: pcerny@nwcsd.org, password: nwfalcons).