Friday Blog post

Today we started class by going over the previous post and talking about influenza. The disease of the day. Influenza is a virus and it can be spread by saliva and mucus. You cannot get rid of influeza it just goes dormant.

Next we started 2 labs. One on page 13 and the other on page 16. We received 2 petri dishes. For the first lab we took the one with the cross shaped divider and labeled the sections on the back 1-4. Then we took samples of 3 different places around the school and put them in sections 1-3. #4 is the control group. Then they were put in an incubator.

For the second lab we took a petri dish that was not divided but on the back we still labled 4 sections. then we took 3 different kinds of antibiotics and one little piece of paper and put them in each section. One antibiotic in each section but 4, which had the paper in it. We put this in the incubator too.

Thursday scribe post

Today In Class
We handed In our 20.2 Pictures and words if you didn't yesterday

Went over Disease of the Day #3 Schitstosomiasis
it is transmitted by snails and is a parasitic worm.

We asked a few questions and took the quiz

Then we Worked on our homework which was:

P12 In Unit Packet
20.3 with double bubble map (due monday)
Postcard (due 11/8)

We then watched a video about malaria in africa showing how it runs rampant in Africa and how it was eliminated in other countrys

and I just missed my bus lol.

Next Scribe is Neal

Cholera and John Snow

Since I am such a John Snow fan...i found these videos that i thought you might exjoy.  Watch them and email me the answers to the following 2 questions..
1.  Who was often spared from cholera outbreaks and WHY?
2.  What was the name of the other 'protagonist' in Stephen Johnson's book Ghost Map?

Sadly It's Not Friday.....

First up in class today we got our in Pictures and Words notes from 20.2 last night. You could have kept them to study and turned them in tommorow, or just turn them in today.

After Homework we did the disease of the day (pretty depressing name)!!! Today's disease was Cholera (Mrs. Stein's favorite disease!)!! Cholera is a bacteria that causes diariah and can kill if proper attention not given.

Then we took a good amount of notes on bacteria. We talked about Binary Fission (how the cell reproduces), shapes of bacteria (rods, spheres, and corkscrews), and stuff like that.

Afterward we watched a movie on bacteria and antibiotics. The movie explained how antibiotics are just a tiny bit of the bacteria (or a simmaler bacteria) that get your body used to it so your immune system knows ho to get rid of it without totally infecting you with it.

HOMEWORK.....

UP 2 due: 11/1

THE NEXT SCRIBE IS........

Daniel

TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today in class we got our UP pgs. 6-9 stamped and we went over some of the

questions that we had to do for homework. We also picked up four new pictures up

front for notes that we toke later in class. Then we did "Star and a wish" and maddy

was the "Teacher" while Mrs. S finished checking in homework. We toke notes from

a power point about viruses (Lytic cycle and Lysogenic Cycle). When we finished

taking notes we watched 15 minutes of a video about viruses. It was very interesting!

The Homework for tonight is....

1. read section 20.2 in the text book and domkplete "In pictures and words" from our reading packet

2. Postcard (due: 11/8)

and THERE IS A QUIZ ON THURSDAY ON SECTIONS 35.1,

20.1, and 20.2!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Monday!!

When we walked into class, we turned in our cancer papers. then we talke about the small pox video we saw yesterday (see Mrs. Steins blog post).

Then we took notes on viruses...

Notes:
"What is a virus?"

*Non-living-

• require a host to reproduce-"parasites"
• don't use energy
• NOT CELLS!
• don't respond to stimuli

*Particle made of protein, nucleic acid

• protein-capsid
• nucleic acid- DNA or genetic material

*Invade cells, hijack cells

• attach to cells and trick membrane for entrance

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LAB

After the notes, we did a lab on UP pages 6-9. The lab was called, "Who Infected Who?". We had to get into our lab groups and try to figure out who were the carriers of a disease. We got some information of people from a school and had to make a wed of disease transmission. then we got samples of "saliva" from the people that we picked to test for the disease and dropped some disease indicator solution in it. if it turned pink, tha means that they are a carrier of the disease.

Homework

• Finish UP pages 6-9 -due tomorrow
• Read in text book 20.2 with "In picture and in words" -due wednesday
• QUIZ THURSDAY!!!!
• post card -due 11/8 (we got paper for the post card today in class)

Next scribe is Bridget !!

Video Thoughts?

Did anyone have any thoughts about Friday's film?  I have seen that film many times now, and everytime I watch it I always really admire those 'disease warriors' who worked so tirelessly to bring vaccines to remote parts of the world.  I feel that so many people are only concerned with themselves... to travel to places like India and Africa to try and rid the world of such horrible diseases really says something about those volunteers..  They really made a difference in the world... not everyone can say they have done so.  How amazing would it be to be able to rid the world of HIV like they did with smallpox? What were your thoughts?  Reply to my post with a comment as to what your thoughts or reflections were on the movie.

A World Health Publication from 1980