1. Bellwork Open your notebook to your Table of Contents. Make sure it’s updated. On a separate sheet of paper, answer the question: what makes something alive? **You can get paper from the front of the room**

2. Science Fact of the Day: The little Alaskan Wood Frog is capable of reviving itself back to normal life after staying completely frozen for months, during which its heart, brain, and other organs stop functioning.

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4. Today’s Essential Question: What makes something “alive”?

5. Is fire a living thing?

6. Are Transformers living things?

7. Are X-Men living things?

8. Are vampires living things?

9. Are zombies living things?

10. So what? How many of the eight characteristics does something need to be considered “alive”? – Can you name them?

11. Heart Rate Lab (pg 11) Today you will design a lab to test for 1 characteristic of life: response to the environment. Specifically, can you change your heart rate?

12. Lab Format I. Title II. Purpose III. Hypothesis (testable statement) IV. Materials V. Procedure VI. Data/Calculations VII. Conclusion VII. Analysis

13. Lab Format I. Heart Rate Lab II. Purpose III. Hypothesis (testable statement) IV. Materials V. Procedure VI. Data/Calculations VII. Conclusion VII. Analysis

14. Lab Format I. Heart Rate Lab II. To investigate an organisms response to the environment III. Hypothesis (testable statement) IV. Materials V. Procedure VI. Data/Calculations VII. Conclusion VII. Analysis

15. Lab Format I. Heart Rate Lab II. To investigate an organisms response to the environment III. If a person __________ for __________, then their heart rate will be ___________. IV. Materials V. Procedure VI. Data/Calculations VII. Conclusion VII. Analysis

16. I. Heart Rate Lab II. To investigate an organisms response to the environment III. If a person __________ for __________, then their heart rate will be ___________. IV. Stopwatch V. Procedure VI. Data/Calculations VII. Conclusion VII. Analysis

17. I. Heart Rate Lab II. To investigate an organisms response to the environment III. If a person __________ for __________, then their heart rate will be ___________. IV. Stopwatch V. Procedure VI. ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd VII. Conclusion VII. Analysis (No analysis for this lab) Resting Heart Rate Trial 1Trial 2Trial 3Average Heart Rate