6th Grade: Complete and submit work on Google Classroom
7th Grade:
Yesterday we learned how the eye really works and how we really see. We examined diagrams of the eye and how it produces images. We traced the light from the cornea, lens, pupil AND distinguishing rod cells from cone cells. Sight depends on the eyes detecting light and forming images. It also depends on the brain making sense of the images, so that we know what we are seeing.
Today we will be learning about Vision problems.
I can explain how vision problems such as myopia and hyperopia can be corrected with lenses that help focus light on the retina.
Define myopia and hyperopia.
Explain how lenses correct vision problems.
Today’s Text: https://www.ck12.org/book/ck-12-life-science-concepts/section/11.50/
DIRECTIONS:
Use the resources below AND TEXT ATTACHED to answer the questions that follow.
Explore More I
Myopia, Hyperopia, and Astigmatism Explained at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YxffFmi4Eo (1:55)
1. How can the shape of your eyeball cause you to be farsighted? How does this affect your focal point?
2. How can the shape of your eyeball cause you to be nearsighted? How does this affect your focal point?
3. How can an irregularly formed cornea affect your vision?
Explore More II
DIRECTIONS: Use the resources below AND TEXT ATTACHED to answer the questions that follow.
Nearsighted, Farsighted, and Reading Vision at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iws1Mfu1k84 (1:39)
1. what is myopia? If you had this condition, when might you wear glasses?
2. What is hyperopia? If you had this condition, when might you wear glasses?
3. If you had an astigmatism, when might you wear glasses?
4. what age do many people start needing reading glasses? What causes this condition?
DIRECTIONS: USE THE VOCABULARY RESOURCES FOR Review QUESTIONS.
1. Describe vision in people with myopia.
2. What is hyperopia, and what type of lens corrects it?
3. What causes myopia, and what type of lens corrects it?
4. What are common signs of nearsightedness?
5. What are common signs of farsightedness?
ALL WORK IS DUE AT THE END OF THE DAY AND TO BE POSTED IN LIFE SCIENCE GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
8th Grade:
Caltech & John Hopkins
5.8.20: Login to StemScopes website and complete the Stemscopedia: Anatomy of a Cell reading comprehension activity. Complete the What Do You Think and Try Now Questions that follow the reading due Monday 5.11.20.
Brandeis/Rice
5.8.20: Login to Khan Academy and complete the population ecology practice questions due Monday 8am. (https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-ecology/hs-population-ecology/e/hs-population-ecology)

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