That's Life!

A few changes to this week’s plans
Wednesday – 4th six weeks test
Thursday – Bacteria/Virus Review
Friday – Bacteria and Virus Test (will go on 5th six weeks grades)

The bacteria section of notes for Chapter 20 is now ready to be viewed on Youtube at walkers bacteria notes or click on the link.

Students will be given the guided notes to go along with the bacteria and virus notes. Here is an electronic copy if they lose their hard copy.
Biology NotesChapter 20
and here are the Virus notes. They can also be found under walkers virus notes

Today begins our more in-depth study of each biological kingdom.
Wednesday – Intro to bacteria and coloring and identifying the bacteria ultrastructure.
Thursday – Viruses on the Microviewer
Friday – Virus coloring and comparing and contrasting types of viruses.

Monday is an early release day!
Monday – Compare and contrast bacteria and viruses
Tuesday – Bacteria and Virus Notes
Wednesday – Bacteria and Virus Test

This week we are studying relationships between organisms and their environment. Today the students learned about the 3 symbiotic relationships and got to design their own symbiotic relationship. Tomorrow we will do an oil spill lab and then Wednesday we will be watching a video on the Rain Forest. Thursday will be notes and Friday a test.

I hope you have had a restful holiday break.
We will be watching Jurassic Park starting Monday to tie together our previous study of genetics, DNA, genetic engineering and evolution, which is our next unit.
On Tuesday, students will be taking a semester test using their scrapbook.
We should be concluding Jurassic park on Thursday along with an essay.
On Friday we will begin our evolution unit.

We have been busy this week learning about genetics and heredity.
We started off the unit with a lab exploring alleles, by crossing two heterozygous “pea seeds”. We also learned how to use Punnett Squares to predict offspring traits and finished today with creating an insect using multiple traits. Tomorrow we will explore non-Mendelian genetics.
Next Monday we will conclude with the notes from all of our activities, a review, and a test on Tuesday.
Students who are missing assignments or work, need to take care of that by Monday so that they are ready for the test.

This week will have our meiosis notes Monday and a mitosis/meiosis test on Tuesday.
Have a great Thanksgiving holiday!