Important Dates to Remember... Blue = abbreviated school day Red = no school

August 2024

Thursday, August 8 First Full Day of School

September 2024

Monday, September 2 Labor Day

Tuesday, September 17 Teacher In-Service

October 2024

Friday, October 4 End of 1st Nine Weeks

Mon-Fri, October 7 - 11 Fall Break

Tuesday, October 22 PT Conferences; 1/2 Day

November 2024

Tuesday, November 5 Election Day/Teacher In-Service

Mon-Fri, November 25 – 29 Thanksgiving Break

December 2024

Friday, December 20 Last Day of First Semester; 2 hour day-make-up exams

Winter Break is from 12/19/24 through 01/07/25 (students return on Wednesday 01/08/25)

2024-2025 Important Dates

Nine Weeks	Begins	Ends	Progress Reports GO TO SKYWARD	Report Cards
1st	08/08/24	10/04/24	Week of 9/2	10/18/24
2nd	10/14/24	12/20/24	Week of 11/4	01/10/25
3rd	01/08/25	03/07/25	Week of 2/3	03/07/25
4th	03/10/25	05/24/25	Week of 4/14	05/30/25

2024-2025 RCS Academic Calendar

NHSJS

Peer Reviewed Articles

1st Nine Weeks Resources...Please use the following resources along the way...Good Luck!

Cracking the Code of Life...DNA Video Clips

HHMI...Bacterial Identification Virtual Lab

Nucleotide BLAST Site

TEDtalks: Lessons from the 1918 flu

TEDtalks: HIV and Flu-vaccine strategy

TEDtalks: Why is Meningitis so dangerous?

MENINGITIS

MONO-EBV

Genome Detectives Solve a Hospital's Deadly Outbreak

Science Daily...Article Summary

Know Your Enemy...Article Summary

Serial Dilutions

How to Calculate Serial Dilutions

Serial Dilution Method

Serial Dilutions Animation #1

Serial Dilutions Animation #2

Serial Dilution Animation-Science Primer

Serial Dilution Practice Online

Immune Response

Immune System Anatomy/Response

Cells of the Immune System HHMI

Immune System Explained-Bacterial Invasion

Macrophage chasing bacteria

The Immune Response

ELISA

HHMI Immunology Virtual Lab-ELISA

BIO-RAD ELISA LAB Video

2nd Nine Weeks Resources...

Please use the following resources along the way...Good Luck!

Bacterial Cells

Cells Alive Website

Structure of Bacterial Cells

Gram Positive vs. Gram Negative

Bacterial Web Quest...useful tools for research

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Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic Resistance Video

Antimicrobial Resistance Animation

TEDtalks...McKenna

Cell Alive Website...Bacteria

PBS Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria

Farm Article

Antibiotic Resistance...Top 9 facts 2020

2020-An Alternative to Antibiotics

2020-Plasma Therapy: An Alternative to Antibiotics?

What to Know About Antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance: What You Need to Know

Classes of Antibiotics Reference

Hearing Loss and the Ear

Hearing for the First Time

Meningitis & Hearing Loss

Hearing and Balance

Pitch, Frequency, Intensity

Wisc-Online The Ear...Part Two Sense of Hearing

Hear It? Case Studies...Part Three

Rinne Test...Webster University

Online Hearing Test (Speech-in-Noise Test)

Sound Generator

Audiogram Creator

New study makes a staggering link between hearing loss & nutrition (Article)

Journey of Hearing

Cochlear Implants

Jane E. Brody - For Some Who Lost Their Hearing, Implants Help

Aviva Weinberg – Pediatric Cochlear Implants: The Great Debate. The article begins on page 29.

Hearing Assistive Technology Site

Mayo Clinic-Hearing Aids

NIH-Cochlear Implants

Shark Tank... Medical Innovation Project

FDA...Resources for You

Invention/History of BAND-AID

Mobility Aids

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3rd Nine Weeks Resources...

Please use the following resources along the way...Good Luck!

Vaccinations

History of Vaccines

How Stuff Works? Vaccines

Kids Health for Kids-Immune System

Edward Jenner and Smallpox

Conquering Smallpox

History of Vaccines

CDC Vaccination Schedule Birth-18

NOVA-Making Vaccines Animation

NOVA-Calling the Shots

-CDC

-Types of Vaccines

CDC Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

Vaccine Fear...Stossel in the Classroom

TEDtalks: The Power of Herd Immunity

Vaccination Prediction

Source: Wrights.biologysite

Vaccine Virtual Lab

First, read through the background information on vaccines.

To perform the virtual experiments, click on Go To "Making Vaccines" or click this link.

Flash is required for this lab. Is Flash not working? Use the non-Flash version.

The final step has you create your own flow chart to illustrate how vaccines are used to build immunity. Need extra help? Use this link to help you with your vaccine flow chart.