Syllabus Stuff
This person is your science teacher.
Who is Mr. Swartz?
This unit is all about cells and how they work.
What is Cell Biology?
This chapter includes how your body breaks down food.
What is Food, Nutrition, and Digestion?
Labs are meant to make science feel like this.
What is real life?
A “Proficient” grade level is called this level.
What is Level 4?
You should bring one of these to write with.
What is a pen or pencil?
This planet is the hottest in our solar system, even though it’s not the closest to the Sun.
What is Venus
This day of the week you usually do not have science class
What is Friday?
This unit studies how organisms live in their environment.
What is Organisms in the Environment?
Breathing and oxygen exchange is covered in this system.
What is the Respiratory System?
During regular class, you’ll do this with the textbook to help you understand.
What is independent reading?
Level 3 is also known by this name.
What is Advancing?
This is the most important thing to bring to class—besides supplies.
What is a positive attitude?
This organ is the largest in the human body. (Hint: You’re covered in it!)
What is the skin?
This is where 90% of your learning material comes from.
What is the textbook?
The study of living things and what makes them alive is covered in this first unit.
What is Studying Life?
This system moves blood and includes the heart.
What is the Circulatory System?
This type of experiment is done during lab to learn by doing.
What is a hands-on experiment?
A score of 0 means this.
What is Insufficient Evidence?
You should do this if you miss a deadline.
What is email or talk to Mr. Swartz?
The mitochondria is often called this nickname.
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
This is how many main science textbooks you’ll use.
What is two?
Trees and flowers fall under this unit.
What is Plant Biology?
This system helps you move your body.
What is the Muscular (or Skeletal-Muscular) System?
The structure includes 4 regular classes and 1 of these per week.
What is a lab?
Grades show understanding, but these describe your work quality.
What are outcomes?
Laptops are for this—not games or chatting.
What is learning and completing assignments?
This green pigment helps plants make their food using sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
If your assignment still has this letter at the end of the marking period, it becomes an F.
What is “I”?
The unit that includes mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects.
What is Animal Biology?
Hormones and signals in your body are controlled by these two systems.
What are the Nervous and Endocrine Systems?
This academic skill is measured by how accurately and safely you do experiments.
What is Lab Work?
The minimum numeric range for “Developing.”
What is 65?
Mr. Swartz says being prepared is this much of success.
What is half?
This science tool is used to separate liquids based on their densities.
What is a centrifuge?