Final Exams and Final Week!

Monday, Tuesday and Wed.  all students are taking final exams in each of their classes.  Upon completing their exams, students are to complete their canine possibilities drawing for me to turn in.

Students also turned in their warm up notebooks and any bathroom passes or bulldog bucks for extra credit.

Thursday all 10th graders will be presenting their great migration prezi's for credit in Math, Science, Social Studies, and English.

Those students who may be failing the semester, a book and a recovery sheet was sent home over the break to give students an opportunity to obtain credit for the semester.

Any questions contact me please.

Warm up week of Dec 8th

Here are the warm ups from this week:  Warm ups Week December 8th

Canine Possibilites

Bells 1-5 will be completing this activity Tuesday and half of Wed.  The link to the activity can be found here.  The students turn in this activity each day.  Canine Possibilities

Examples of Excellent Canine Drawing and Poor Canine drawings can be found here:  Canine Possibilites

Completion of Lab/ Canine Pedigrees

Today we completed our lab for bells 1-4 and turned in our lab notebooks to be graded. (alien encounters, mutations and inherited traits)

We then started our Canine pedigrees activity.

Bell 6 we started going over sex linked traits and pedigrees in our Introduction to Genetics Packet as seen on Monday December 1st.

Warm Ups week of Dec 1st

Here are the warm ups from this week:  Warm ups week Dec 1st

Inherited Characteristic Activity

Today due to the scheduled pep rally students took a quiz and then we did an inherited characteristic activity as seen here:  Inherited Characteristic Activity

This was put in the science notebook and the notebooks for bells 5 and 6 were turned in today.  (Bells 1, 2, and 4 will be turned in Monday).

More practice

Today we worked more on heterozygous and homozygous using an in class activity.

The Genetics Paper found here was started in class and the rest was to be completed for homework:Genetics Practice- He/Ho

Punnet Square practice

Today we went over the homework from yesterday to clear up any questions.

It was decided that the students need more practice on punnet squares before moving on to more complicated dihybrid punnet squares.  Therefore we practiced today using this worksheet:   Genetics 2 practice

This worksheet was collected for me to determine how much more practice is needed.

Monohybrid Punnet Squares!

Today we completed notes on Mendel and the vocabulary using the powerpoint and packet from yesterday.

HOMEWORK:  to complete the punnet square practice on page 6&7 #1-5.

Genetics Unit

Today we started our genetics unit going over the vocabulary from 7th grade and learning about the Father of Genetics: Gregor Mendell.  Due to the short amount of time between now and our exams I am using a power point for us to use in class to help with the review content from middle school as well as the new content with DiHybrid Punnett Squares, CoDominance, Sex Linked Traits and pedigrees.
Like to the Powerpoint: Genetics Powerpoint 
 and  a Link to the Packet.Student Packet  Each student only receives one packet so DON'T LOSE IT PLEASE!

A reminder that we will only have 10 more warm up for this quarter which will be worth 100 points so please bring your warm up notebook everyday to class and complete the warm ups daily.

Today we completed pages 1-4.  We will continue each day.