Expository Writing
Scientists were aware that organisms changed over time. Charles Darwin is credited with offering an explanation as to how this evolution took place. Write an essay explaining Natural Selection, by comparing three examples shared during our study. Choose from the Fish Sticks activity, Charlie and Kiwi, Darwin’s finches, and the moths of Manchester. Be sure to include the following terms, appropriately: Evolution, Natural Selection, variation, mutation, species, survival, This week we will wrap up our study of Genetics with the Common Assessment on Friday.
Monday: Genetic Diversity Create Snow People Tuesday: Review Punnett Squares and vocabulary words Learn about Hybridization and cloning Wednesday and Thursday: Fish Sticks Activity Friday: Genetics Common Assessment I will replace the grade for the Punnett Square Assessment if it is higher. Well, I , along with the science club members who joined me, have returned from a FABULOUS trip to the Jekyll Island 4H center.
While I was gone, students studied Monday: Meiosis (interactive textbook pp 77-78) Tuesday: Brainpop.com: genetics, DNA, and cloning (Richardsms1= password and user name) Wednesday: Read articles on Selective Breeding/ Artificial Selection Heads up!
We will be making Snowmen (genetic crosses), learning about Meiosis and Dabbling into selective breeding and biotechnology- like cloning, genetically modified foods, transgenics, etc. I have given up on the idea of creating a Storyboard for Mendel's use of the Scientific method. The snow days took too much of our learning time. Yesterday we introduced Punnett Squares. Review pp 69-72 in the interactive textbook (IT) We also completed the Sponge Bob Punnett Square Worksheet. Today we worked on Punnett Squares. See the downloaded file below Tomorrow we will continue to work with Punnett Squares from the file below in addition to working through pp 72-74 in the IT. We will also use our class set of Prentice Hall books to add to what we learn from the IT (co-dominance, incomplete dominance, one gene-several traits, one trait-several genes) Friday we will have an assessment over all that we have learned about genetics up to this point
Science Club Members- Our February Meeting is this Thursday. Be sure to have a ride pick you up by 6:00
The Snow Days through off our schedule of learning activities. Below is a tentative update Monday: Frayer Model Due Today!!!!! Notes on Mendel's experiments and vocabulary terms Tuesday: Need Interactive Textbook Work through pp Sponge Bob Activity sheet Wednesday: Mendel and the Scientific Method Story Board Thursday: Continue with Story Board activity Friday: Mendel Assessment Below lists a tentative breakdown of how this week will flesh out We will be using a book entitled, Gregor Mendel, The Friar Who Grew Peas, by Cheryl Bardoe Monday: Individuals read and create a list of positive character qualities (include evidence from text) Complete the attached Frayer model: due Wednesday
Tuesday and Wednesday : Mendel's process
Powerpoint/discuss/take notes Vocabulary words : Homozygous, Heterozygous, Hybrid, Purebred,Offspring, Parent Generation, F1 Generation, F2 Generation, Dominant Allele, Recessive Allele Thursday: Mendel and the Scientific Method Storyboard Project Due Monday or Tuesday! Step One: Teams arrange Scientific Method cards in the proper order. Step Two: List in your notebook, the steps and examples of each step using Mendel’s Pea Plant experiment. Final Step: Create a story board showing these steps. Label where helpful. Include the following words Homozygous, Heterozygous, Hybrid, Purebred,Offspring, Parent Generation, F1 Generation, F2 Generation, Dominant Allele, Recessive Allele Friday: Continue work on Storyboard project Due Monday or Tuesday We are studying Botany this week.... flowering plant reproduction more specifically. We are doing this so we can get more from our study of the work of Gregor Mendel and heredity.
Monday- Holiday Tuesday- Students are to master the following objectives this week: -label the parts of a flowering plant -explain sexual reproduction of angiosperms -describe cross-pollination -describe self-pollination Use the following sources to gain an understanding of the objectives Interactive textbook pp 194-196; 201-202; 64 Holt textbook (online) pp 319-320; 115 Wednesday- School Wide Writing Exam Review understanding of this week's objectives; watch a brainpop on flowering plants, label pictures of flowers Thursday- Brainpop worksheet- definitions and labeling Dissect flowers Friday- Botany Assessment *** Next week- we will spend time learning about Heredity and Mendel's discovery. |
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I am Ms. Frye, an accelerated life science teacher of 7th grade gifted and honors students. I have been teaching for 14 years and LOVE my job! Archives
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