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Chapter 3 Test Study Guide

Strategies for Success on Tests and Quizzes

Use these strategies to study for Science tests and quizzes (and maybe your other classes too)!

1.    Study every night for five nights before the test.  For a quiz, it should be 1-2 nights.

2.    Handwrite (as in write with your hand, not typing) flash cards for key vocabulary, people, terms and dates.

3.    Study the flash cards:  Look at the term and come up with the definition and vice versa.  If you can say the definition without looking, you are well studied on that one.

4.    Handwrite key concepts two or three times each and read them out loud as you write them.

5.    Ask a parent or a friend to quiz you.

6.   Re-read all your notes out loud.

7.    Make a practice quiz.  Turn your note or book headings into questions:

Example:  Heading “Cell Theory”

2 possible questions:  “What are the three parts of the Cell Theory?”  “Who were the three scientists who contributed to it?”

8.    Make an acrostic poem for lists of terms to remember.

Example:

Orders of phases of cell cycle: Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis

In Paris Many Artists Take Chances

9.    Make up a Song based on the facts you want to remember to help you remember.  Music uses a different part of your brain and helps you recall information more easily.

10.Use the notes taken in class as well as the sections of the textbook they go with as a basis for what to study.  (Ex: Ch 3-1 Notes go with the textbook Chapter 3, section 1 in science).

Quiz on Organelles (3-2 Notes) on Wed/Thurs

Quiz on Wed for Per 1&2, Thursday for Per 3-6

Visual Terms #10

1)    species

2)    adaptation

3)    overproduction

4)    variation

5)    competition

6)    natural selection

7)    mold

8)    index fossil

9)    petrified fossil

10)  trace fossil

11)  Cast

12)  Classification

13)  Binomial nomenclature

Bibliography Directions

Go to easybib.com 

Click on the "Web" or "Book" tab (whichever you'd like to cite).

For a web source, go to the website you used, copy and paste the web address into the bar on easybib. 

For a book source, type the title into the bar on easy bib.

Click Cite It.

It should say it found something, if it did, click continue, if it doesn't, go back a page and click on "Maunal Entry" under the bar you just copied into.

Enter any information needed (that you can find, there might be some info missing, and that's ok).

Click Create Citation

In a box, you will see your citation.  Copy and paste it into a google doc (Control, V for pasting in docs).

When you have all of your citations in your doc, alphabetize by the first letter of the citation.

Make sure you have a space between each citation, a title (Bibliography), and your name.

Print

ANIMAL PROJECT!!!

Happy 4th quarter everyone!  Please accept my sincerest apology for not posting much lately!  Since we have been working on a project, there hasn't been tons to put up here.  I wanted to give everyone a reminder that after spring break you will have one more class to finish up the posters and prepare for your presentations.  Presentations will happen on Wed 4/16 for A block, and Thurs 4/17 for B block.  If you will not be in attendance that day, please contact me before hand so that we can work out a plan.

If you have not yet done so, please PRINT anything that will need to go on your poster BEFORE you come to school on Monday 4/14 (A), or Tuesday 4/15 (B).  Don't forget your bibliography (period 3, don't worry about bibliography quite yet, I will give you guidelines on Monday).

Here are some tips as you start to think about your presentation:

Presentation Guidelines
Your job is to teach the class about the things that you learned about your
group of animals. Make it interesting, make it interactive, make it something
the rest of the class is going to want to listen to! You will be filmed, so
make sure you are prepared!
Tips:
1. Do not read off your poster. Create a script and have a copy
for each person so that you don’t have to pass it and lose your spot. Highlight your
part on your script so that you know when it’s your turn. Use phrases like “I bet you
never knew…” and “I find it interesting that…” You can also use class interaction by
asking them your questions and having them raise their hands to give answers (but
only for some of them, not all 10, it will take too long).

2. Give us a little bit of the information from your
paragraphs, questions/answers, characteristics and body systems comparison
without reading them in their entirety. Your presentation shouldn’t be more than
about 5 minutes.

3. Never turn your back to your audience! (in this
case, your audience also includes the camera.

4. Speak in a voice that will reach the farthest
person from you.

5. Use props if possible and a pointer to point out things on your poster.
Using a pointer will allow you to point and everyone else to see what you are pointing
to without you standing in front of it. Ask Miss Bretthauer for a pointer.

6. Practice. You will be more comfortable because you know what you are going
to say.