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Today we finally finished with our fetal piggies!   We looked at their respiratory systems and bid them adieu with a little suturing fun.  Thanks Ann-Marie!

Next we did a respiratory review fill in Worksheet (due at the end of class) and watched the movie: 65 red roses about cystic fibrosis.   There are questions that go along with it (due tomorrow).  

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Today we marked the Porifera colouring sheet and started a new Phylum:  Platyhelminthes (flatworms).  We did a lab and looked at cute little Planaria. 

Lab is due in class.  Next class there is a quiz on Porifera and Cnidaria. 

Biology 11

Today we completed the Cnidaria Phylum by doing the Cnidaria lab and finishing off the Cnidaria colouring Worksheet.  Both are due on Wednesday. 

Biology 12

Today we finished off the respiratory unit by looking at diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract.   All the module questions for respiration should be finished for Friday (A and B were done on a separate sheet, just make sure you can label and state functions of all parts).

Biology 12

Today we looked more closely at gas exchange from blood to lungs (External Respiration) as well as from blood to tissues (internal respiration).    Worksheet on inspiration/expiration as well as respiration was due at the end of class. 

Homework quiz tomorrow on process of breathing. 

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Today we moved on to the next Phylum in animals:  Cnidaria (jellyfish, coral etc.)

Colouring sheet on Cnidaria is due on Wedesday along with the previous colouring sheet on Porifera. 

Biology 11

Today we wrote the test on Plants.  Done, yipee!

Next we started animals by completing the Early Invertebrates worksheet.    This is due on Friday.