Summer Assignments

SCIENCE

The following courses have reading assignments for the summer.  All students in these classes will have received these assignments /packets before they leave school for vacation.

Chemistry 2 ADV

The first two chapters of your text must be reviewed, noting the questions/problems mentioned below.  Keep a separate notebook/folder of your work.  Prepare Lab 1-1 “Working in the Chemistry Lab” for our first class when you get your lab book in September.

Chapter 1	a) Read/note important concepts and definitions b) Work Self-Assessment Questions on pages 27-28 (all). Check answers in back to odd-numbered questions. c) Problems: pages 28-30. Do odd-numbered questions 23-71.
Chapter 2	a) Read/note important concepts and definitions. b) Work Self-Assessment Questions on page 66 (all). c) Problems: pages 66-69. Do odd-numbered questions 21-65

Anatomy and Physiology

Part I
Please choose five articles of interest from reputable scientific magazines (EXAMPLE Scientific American or Discover) or from the health and medical columns in daily newspapers such as The Boston Globe, The Worcester Telegram or New York Times etc.
The articles should be scientific in nature and have some connection to topics that are about new discoveries that affect human health and well being.  Make a copy of these articles and attach them to a summary that you have written about the article.  Be prepared to present one of these articles to the class when we return to school in September.  The articles should be a minimum of one page in length.  Several of the articles should be more than one page long.  Your summaries should reflect the length of the article you are reporting on.  Please type your summaries using the standard margins and font and make sure you double space your papers.

Part II
Please read Chapters Two and Three in your textbooks.  Much of this material you have been introduced to in previous courses at NDA.  I am sure that some of this material will be more complex and a little more detailed than what you have previously studied.  We will spend the first week or so in September quickly going over what is old and learning in detail what is new.  You will be tested on this material by the end of the second week back at school.  I will check your notes and this evaluation will be part of your first grade for the quarter.  There are questions at the end of each chapter and the answers are in the appendix at the back of the textbook.  It might be useful to use these questions as a self check.

Biology II

1. Read Chapter 1 in your text (Biology, Life on Earth, Audesirk, Audesirk, and Byers, 2005). Pages 1-15.
2. Complete the attached worksheet packet for Chapter 1.
3. Write out the answers to the following questions from pages 17 and 18 of your textbook on a separate sheet of paper.
   “Review Questions” # 1, 2, 4 and 5
   “Applying the Concepts # 4 only
   
   The assignments listed above will be checked and collected on the first day of class!
   Be sure to bring your work in on that day.

4. Read and review Chapter 4 (Cell Membrane Structure and Function, p. 57–70).
   Familiarize yourself with the following terms from Chapter 4:

              Plasma membrane                               Diffusion
              Fluid mosaic model                             Passive transport
              Phospholipid bilayer                           Active transport
              Channel protein                                   Selectively permeable
              Carrier protein                                     Facilitated diffusion
              Receptor protein                                 Osmosis
              Concentration gradient

5. Read and review Chapter 5 (Cell Structure and Function, pages 75-94).
   Familiarize yourself with the following terms:

              Nucleus                                               Anaerobic
              Chromatin                                           Aerobic
              Chromosome                                       Microfilament
              Ribosome                                            Microtubule
              Endoplasmic reticulum                       Centriole
              Mitochondrion

              Also, look over the chart on page 81, and the diagrams on pages               82 and 90.

              **Materials from chapters 4 and 5 will be reviewed briefly during               the first week of class.  Please be ready to ask any questions you               may have about this material at that time.

 

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