Here is an outline for your SBI4U exam. It is a series of topics we studied this year. Use this as a framework to organize and prioritize your studying and study note preparation.

Outline for Exam June 2009

Today we continued to discuss Darwin's theory of natural selection. We viewed 3 excellent short videos from www.pbs.org.

Today we discussed Wednesday's unit test, we began to talk about evolution and the students spent most of the period working in the library on the analysis and evaluation of the sport's drink lab. The report for that lab is due no later than Friday this week.

Here is the second part of the unit review, it is on the nervous system. It's also posted under the class note section.

http://206.130.199.25/~jennross@fc.amdsb.ca/S0395BA9B.72/Homeostasis%20Review%20Nervous%20System.rtf

On Thursday and Friday students designed and performed the lab Do Sports Drinks Improve Reaction Times. The formal report on this lab is due next Friday (one per group).

On Monday and Tuesday students presented their homeostasis projects. On Tuesday we also discussed vision and eye anatomy. There is some independent learning assigned with the eye...see the autonomic nervous system and vision note for details.

A question was sent to me through the blog today. Do you need to include in-text citations in the report component of the homeostasis project? As with any research based project, there are times when you must cite within text. If what you are including is someone elses words or the results of their work (i.e., opinion, statistics, etc) then you MUST cite within text. If you think it is common knowledge then it is not necessary to cite it as long as you are not copying the wording...you are instead working the facts into your own constructed paragraphs. Hope this helps.