Week of 11/3/14

Biology- Hopefully everyone worked over the weekend on their portfolios masterpieces. I look forward to grading them! This week we continue our discussion of cells with the topic of transport on Monday and Tuesday. Monday will be lecture on active transport followed by lab set up for potato osmosis. Tuesday will be a transport quiz remaining time will be for reading lab results and answering analysis questions. Completed labs are due on Wednesday. The plan for Wednesday is a movie Segway between transport and cell reproduction processes. It is a discovery school production and a perfect fit with our topics. Thursday will be lecture on the cell cycle followed by a worksheet if time allows. Lecture and worksheet will carry over to Friday if we need additional time. AP Biology....This week our focus is Gregor Mendel and the science of genetics. Following lecture we will spend some time refreshing our memories on how to solve Punnett squares. I'm planning on a punnett square quiz Wednesday. Thursday will be lecture on short cuts to predicting offspring traits followed be research on techniques used in modern genetics laboratories. Friday we will discuss our research findings and watch a video on the science of genetics.