2/23-3/6

• Mon 2/23:   Check off "Ghost in your Genes" video notes if not already.  Notes on Crossing Over, Linked Genes, Gene Mapping.  Work on Genetics Problems 1-14 at the end of Chapter 15 (to be checked off by the end of the period on Thursday 2/26).
• Tues 2/24:  Science OAKS testing.  When finished, return to class and work on Genetics Problems.
• Thurs 2/26:  Explain Gene Mapping.  Finish Genetics Problems 1-14 and check off.  Start reviewing for Genetics Test for next Thursday 3/5.
• Mon 3/2:  Review for Genetics Test.  SPARK Lecture this afternoon in 169!
• Tues 3/3:  Last minute review for Genetics Test.  Go over the process of DNA Replication and simulate the process at your table.  Start Reading Chapter 16.
• Thurs 3/5:  Take Genetics Test.  Review Replication.

Welcome to the 2nd Semester!!! (updated on 2/10)

Congratulations, you've made it halfway through the year!  This is a brand new start, so it's a great time for getting refocused and reenergized for the coming academic term.  It was a very busy end of the term for all of us and I can't wait to get refocused and organized myself!

• Tues 2/3:  Final Exams Back.  Define Genetic Terms (listed down below) in your notebook.  As a class, go over terms and do an example of a Monohybrid and Dihybrid Cross.  Do multiplication and addition rules if time. Start Reading Chapter 14.
• Thurs 2/5:  Applying multiplication and addition rules to genetics problems.  More genetics concepts, like codominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, epistasis, etc.  Examples with blood types.  Work on problems: 1-20 at the end of Chapter 14 in old books (1-19 in new books).  Do the problems on separate paper and show ALL work and/or explain thinking.  Problems due next Thurs 2/12.  Read more of Chapter 14.
• Mon 2/9:    Test Crosses.  Time to work on problems.
• Tues 2/10:  Chi-Squared Test and Flower Simulation with cards.  Complete simulation and turn in.  Pedigrees.  Hand out Pedigree Worksheet.  Pedigree worksheet due by the End of class of Thursday.  More time for work on problems. Finish reading Chapter 14.
• Thurs 2/12:  Turn in Genetics Problems.  Chi-Squared Test and Flower Simulation with cards.  Do simulation, complete hand-out and turn in.  Turn in Pedigree Worksheet. 
• Monday 2/16: Presidents Day.  No School!
• Tues 2/17:  Chromosomal disorders and karyotyping.  Genetic disorders.  In groups, research several genetic disorders. Share out with the group.
• Thurs 2/19:  Epigenetics Video. Ethics of Genetic Testing.  Continue reading Chapter 15.

Genetics Terms to be defined in your notebook: Can be found in Chapter 14 of your text.

• Character
• Trait
• True-breeding
• Monohybrid cross
• P generation
• F1 generation
• F2 generation
• Allele
• Dominant allele
• Recessive allele
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous
• Phenotype
• Genotype
• Dihybrid cross
• Law of segregation
• Test cross

End of First Semester

• Mon 1/12:  Notes on Crossing Over.  Start Creature Activity.
• Tues 1/13:  Make Creature Posters.  Hand back 9+10 tests and recollect.  Start Cell Regulation notes.  Hand out 12+13 Test Review and Semester Review.
• Thurs 1/15:  Finish Notes on Cell Regulation.  Cell Regulation video.  Go over 12+13 Review and start Semester Review.
• Mon 1/19:  No School in honor of Martin Luther King Day.
• Tues 1/20:  Questions?  Take short Cell Division Test.  Review for Final Exam.
• Thurs 1/22:  Jeopardy Review for Final Exam.
• Fri 1/23:  Deadline for Late Work and Extra Credit.  Book Groups need to be submitted to Turnitin.com by midnight today.
• Mon 1/26:  Go over Final Grades.  Calculate what you need on the Final Exam to get your desired grade.
• Tues 1/27:  First part of Semester Final (Short Answer Part).
• Thurs 1/29:  Second part of Semester Final (Multiple Choice Part).

First Week of 2015!!

Welcome back!  We have 3 weeks before finals, so we will do one last short unit (mitosis and meiosis), take a short test, and then review for the Final Exam.  Remember that if you want to do a Book Group for Extra Credit, you need to get organized!  Plan a time to come in to discuss the book by January 23rd.  There is only 1 remaining SPARK lecture this semester and it is the first day back, Monday, January 5th.

Mon 1/5:  Go over phases of mitosis and work on Mitosis Worksheet.
Tues 1/6:  Identifying phases of mitosis in Onion Root Tip slides.  Mitosis demonstration at your table using yarn, string, and chalk.  Finish Mitosis Worksheet and turn in.
Thurs 1/8:  Finish Mitosis activities.  Phases of Meiosis.   Start Reading Chapter 13.
Mon 1/12:  Start Meiosis Creature Activity.  Crossing Over.  Finish Reading Chapter 13.

The Weeks of 12/8-12/19

• Mon 12/8:  Some notes on photosynthesis.  Work on coloring worksheet.
• Tues 12/9:  Chromatography Lab with spinach.  Complete hand-out and turn in.  Some notes on photosynthesis.
• Thurs 12/11:  Finish notes on photosynthesis.  Complete back of coloring worksheet and get checked off.  Hand-out 9+10 Review for test next Thurs 12/18.  Work on review and do computer simulations for photosynthesis.  Read the chapters this week-end!!
• Mon 12/15:  Questions on 9+10 Review?  Questions on Metabolic Rate Lab?  Start mitosis.  SPARK Lecture today on waves!
• Tues 12/16:  Jeopardy Review for 9+10 Test.  
• Thurs 12/18:  Turn in 9+10 review BEFORE test.  Take test.  Work on Mitosis worksheet.
• Remember to turn in a hard copy of your Metabolic Rate Lab as well as turning it in through turnitin.com before 3:30 pm on Fri 12/19!!!

Have a wonderful winter break!  

Metabolic Rate Lab Parts for lab due before Winter Break!

• Background Info:  your background for your question.  Do not repeat the background I listed for the procedure of the lab.
• Focused Question (says what you're doing, identifies variables)
• Variables identified (manipulated, responding, controlled-at least 5)
• Procedure: includes how variables are controlled, number of trials, and enough detail to follow
• Data:  organized, labelled, must calculate uncertainty and averages.  You get to pick the data you use from the class databases, but put it in your own data table format.
• Data Processing:  calculations (show 1 sample of each type), t-tests or correlations or both, graphs (avoid bar graphs, include uncertainty bars)
• Conclusion (typically 3 paragraphs), explain/discuss results using data from the investigation, discuss sources of error/uncertainty, suggest specific improvements for the sources of error/uncertainty that you mentioned

The Week of 12/1-12/5

• Mon 12/1:  Brief notes on glycolysis and the link reaction.  Finish Cell Respiration worksheet and get it checked off (tomorrow ok too for getting it checked off).  SPARK lecture on the marbled murrelet.  Read Chapter 9.
• Tues 12/2:  Finish checking off Cell Respiration Worksheet.  Notes on the Krebs (Citric Acid) Cycle and the Electron Transport Chain.  Introduce Metabolic Rate Lab and do trials to practice the protocol.  Read Chapter 9.
• Thurs 12/4:  Take data for the Metabolic Rate Lab and enter data into class database.  Discuss lab write up, due before Winter Break through turnitin.com.  Review oxidative phosphorylation and the electron transport chain.  Read Chapter 9.