Attention blindness and Owl pellets!

Attention blindness:

Here's the link to the videos that I showed in class (compliments of Nathan Malkin)

 

http://viscog.beckman.illinois.edu/djs_lab/demos.html

People that missed the owl pellet have two things to do:

A.  define what an owl pellet is.  Write a food chain that includes an owl.

B.  Schedule a time to do the owl pellet dissection.  We can do this after school or during 5th period lunch.  If you don;t schedule it, I'll give you an excused grade for the lab, but it will lower your point total (making all other points more valuable)

Get some sleep!!!!!!

The big night.  Remember, at this point sleep is more valuable to you than study time.

One parting shot:  I forgot to cover assessment statement 5.5.3 about classification of plants.  Goto click4biology.info and look at the answer.   Don;t worry it's easy.

Remember, as Benamin Spock says:  

Trust yourself. you know more than you think!

last minute instructions

Pointers for taking the test:

1.  bring a calculator whose memory can be cleared.

2.  bring a small metric ruler.

3.  go to the right place.  Here's a link

Special Prom edition

Prom weekend blog edition!

Here's the great link I promised for Type 2 diabetes.  The animation is really helpful to I'd recommend it to you.

Also, click4biology.info has excellent material for review.

By the way, in the more-than-you-want-to-know catergory:  if a person isn't making enough insulin, what does your body do with all the useless glucose????  Why, pee it out, of course.  Hence the meaning of the term diabetes mellitus