Science One-Pagers

All year Science and Engineering Practices

Embedded in every PWCS unit

• Bio Tool #8 SOL Challenge Questions — original practice questions on the concepts students find hardest, each answered with the reasoning and where to study, rated as a Schwebach challenge, a Virginia challenge, or both Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · 72 Challenge questions across all ten units, plus Practice sets by unit and learning target as each unit’s set is written (Unit 2 first) · warm-up mode for the projector · permanent question numbers for feedback slips and Canvas tasks · SOL BIO.1–8
• Bio Tool #16 Which Paw? Sixteen Scientists and the Four Paws — a team discussion game on Battlefield’s CHIP values: read a true story, place the scientist under Courage, Honesty, Impact or Purpose, bet on your reasoning, and argue to move it, from Semmelweis and the handwashing ward to Barry Marshall drinking the bacteria Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · about 25 minutes · Advisory mode for any class, grades 9–12, and Advanced mode for science · this month’s paw follows the school calendar · short link scienceonepagers.org/chip · SOL BIO.1 · DRAFT, under review

Unit 1 Biochemistry

PWCS pacing guide · Quarter 1 · 11 blocks

• Bio Tool #2 Biochemistry Vocabulary Crosswords — three puzzles, one for each learning target: water, macromolecules, and enzymes Interactive · works on iPads · checks its own letters · about 40 minutes for all three · SOL BIO.2a, 2b, 2c · PWCS LT 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
• Bio Tool #10 The Water Patch — drag water molecules until hydrogen bonds snap into place, then freeze, boil, stir and salt them; a second module folds a protein in water and runs an enzyme through induced fit and catalysis Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · two modules, nine steps, about 45 minutes · set the toggle to 9th Grade SOL Bio · SOL BIO.2a, 2c · PWCS LT 1.1, 1.3
• Bio Tool #17 The Macromolecule Patch — snap sugars, amino acids and nucleotides into chains and count the water that leaves at every link, split them again with the right enzyme, take an egg apart, sort molecules by job, read a molecule from its parts and test real foods with indicator drops Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · six steps, about 30 minutes · set the toggle to 9th Grade SOL Bio · SOL BIO.2b · PWCS LT 1.2

Unit 2 Cell Structure & Function

PWCS pacing guide · Quarter 1 · 8 blocks

• Bio Tool #8 SOL Practice, Unit 2 — thirty original practice questions on cell theory, cell types and organelles, homeostasis, the membrane and transport, filed by learning target, each answered with the reasoning and the standard it was written from Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · multiple choice, select-all, ordering and matching · projector warm-up mode · SOL BIO.3a, 3b, 3d, 2a · PWCS LT 2.1–2.5
• Bio Tool #5 The Membrane Patch — build a piece of plasma membrane one molecule at a time, turn it in three dimensions, and run its aquaporin, its Na⁺/K⁺ pump and its receptor Interactive 3D · works on iPads · nothing submitted · nine steps, about 25 minutes · set the toggle to Biology I · SOL BIO.3d, 3b, 2b · PWCS Module 2
• Bio Tool #6 Four Classes, One Membrane — a tappable cross-section of the membrane with a class filter, animated passive and active transport, and a tonicity beaker Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · about 15 minutes · five-question quick check · SOL BIO.3d
• Bio Tool #7 The Membrane, Built From All Four — the same cross-section drawn plainly, part by part, with an eight-question self-check on transport, tonicity, the fluid mosaic and junctions Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · about 15 minutes · eight-question self-check · SOL BIO.3d
• Bio Tool #13 Cell Check — fifteen questions across the five Module 2 learning targets, from what makes something a theory to how a cell moves material across its membrane, each with the reasoning and something to draw Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · about 12 minutes · LT 2.1–2.5 · set the tab to Biology I · SOL BIO.3a, 3b, 3d · PWCS Module 2
• Bio Tool #18 The Protein Route — follow one insulin molecule out of a pancreas cell: the copy leaves the nucleus, a ribosome links the chain on the rough ER, the Golgi sorts four proteins to four places, blood sugar opens the packets, then block a stop and see what piles up Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · seven steps, about 20 minutes · set the switch to SOL Bio · LT 2.2 and 2.5 · SOL BIO.3b · PWCS Module 2, Lesson 2 and Lesson 6
• Bio Tool #21 Cell Structure and Function Vocabulary Crosswords — seven puzzles across the five learning targets: cell theory and how science knows, two kinds of cells, organelles working together, one cell or many and homeostasis, the membrane, and passive and active transport Interactive · works on iPads · checks its own letters · 78 terms, about 10 minutes a puzzle · SOL BIO.3a, 3b, 3d · PWCS LT 2.1–2.5

Unit 3 Cell Energetics

PWCS pacing guide · Quarters 1–2 · 7 blocks

• Bio Tool #11 The Energy Patch — watch light split water in a chloroplast and a glucose ring break apart in a mitochondrion, count every carbon in and out, then run the two side by side and see what travels between them Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · three modules, ten steps, about an hour or one module a sitting · set the toggle to 9th Grade SOL Bio · SOL BIO.2e · PWCS LT 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Unit 4 Nucleic Acids & Protein Synthesis

PWCS pacing guide · Quarter 2 · 9 blocks

• Bio Tool #15 The Signal Patch — run our own GLP-1, the Gila monster’s exendin-4 and the drug semaglutide through the same pancreas cell, watch the enzyme that ends the signal, and zoom to the one amino acid that decides what it can cut Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · six steps · set the toggle to 9th Grade SOL Bio · SOL BIO.2d, BIO.5e · pairs with the Gila monster CER
• Bio Tool #18 The Protein Route, with Unit 4 words on — the same insulin route with messenger RNA leaving the nucleus, transfer RNA bringing each amino acid to the ribosome, and a bacterium that can build the chains but not finish them Interactive · works on iPads · nothing submitted · seven steps, about 20 minutes · opens with Unit 4 words on · SOL BIO.2d, BIO.5e · the cell the Signal Patch continues

Unit 5 Cell Growth, Division & Specialization

PWCS pacing guide · Quarter 2 · 10 blocks

Nothing here yet. New tools are added as each unit is taught.

Unit 6 Genetics & Heredity

PWCS pacing guide · Quarters 2–3 · 8 blocks

Nothing here yet. New tools are added as each unit is taught.

Unit 7 Evolution

PWCS pacing guide · Quarter 3 · 8 blocks

• Bio Tool #1 The Tree of Life — every living thing from the first cell to today, zoomable, with fossil branches marked where they ended Interactive · works on iPads · SOL BIO.7a, 7d

Unit 8 Classification & Biodiversity

PWCS pacing guide · Quarter 3 · 6 blocks

• Bio Tool #1 The Tree of Life — switch on the kingdoms layer to see the domains and kingdoms as branches of one tree Interactive · works on iPads · SOL BIO.6d, 6e, 6f

Unit 9 Bacteria & Viruses

PWCS pacing guide · Quarters 3–4 · 5 blocks

Nothing here yet. New tools are added as each unit is taught.

Unit 10 Ecology

PWCS pacing guide · Quarter 4 · 8 blocks

Nothing here yet. New tools are added as each unit is taught.