Monday & Tuesday, 12/7 & 8: Finish CellSpace project

Today we are finishing up our projects and practicing presenting the projects. You will present your project to the class for about 2 - 3 minutes next class.

Opening: Please finish your work on your CellSpace Project. Here are the links to some resources you may need today:

• See an example of a finished project.

• Visit the cell types articles (the information resources).

• Visit google images to download pictures of your cell type.

• See the rubric and the checklist to make sure your project is excellent!

• If you need more time to finish, check the laptop availability schedule to see when you can come finish on your own time.

Worktime: You should practice your presentation. Follow these steps:

1. On index cards, write down what you want to say about each slide in your presentation.
2. Practice giving your presentation out loud until you no longer need the cards.
3. Practice in front of some friends or family to make sure that you know what to say and how long your presentation is.

Closing: Please complete the check-in survey below at the end of class.

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Wednesday & Thursday, 12-2 & 3: Continuing the CellSpace Page

Today you are continuing your work on your CellSpace Page project in Microsoft PowerPoint. Please consider the timeline of this project while working so you can finish on time:

Today - Work on project.

Next time (Monday/Tuesday) - Finish project, practice presenting your work.

Last time (Wednesday/Thursday) - Present your project (no time to work on it).

Please also consider how I am going to grade your project while you are working. You can see the project rubric by clicking here.

Finally, if you need time outside of the allotted class time to finish your project, please look at this availability schedule to see when you can come to my room to continue your work. You may also SEND your project to yourself to work on it at the library or at home.

Monday & Tuesday, 11-30 & 12-1: CellSpace Project

Today we are continuing to work on our CellSpace Pages.

Click here to get to the RESEARCH PAGE.

Click here to download your RESEARCH GUIDE.

Here is a presentation on what a MySpace page looks like. Use this as a guide for building your CellSpace page in Microsoft PowerPoint. Click here to see the presentation or watch it below.

Finally, before you leave today, please click here to complete a check-in survey so I can make sure that you are making progress on your CellSpace project.

Monday & Tuesday, 11/23 & 24: Cell Types MySpace Project

Today we are doing research for the Cell Types MySpace Project. Today we are gathering information so that we can understand more about the cell type we have chosen. BEFORE we get started, you should have chosen a cell type from the list on this form and you should have brainstormed ideas of what to include in your project.

Step 1: Get computerized. Follow Mr. Trainer's instructions step-by-step!

Step 2: Download this research guide document and open it on your computer so you can write about what you learn today.

Step 3: Visit the websites specific to your cell type that I have provided on this page. Record what you learn on your research guide.

Step 4: CLEAN UP TIME: save your work, close your document. Fill out and submit the survey BELOW. Close internet explorer, close the lid of your laptop and put it in its box.

Monday & Tuesday, 11/16 & 11/17: Cell Organelles Test & Cell Types

Today's agenda

Opening: Organelles Test
Worktime: Cell Types / Bill Nye: Respiration
Closing: Bill Nye: Plants

HW: none

Unfortunately, I am out sick. You will be taking the cell organelles test, as I promised. Periods 1, 3, and 5 are watching Bill Nye: Respiration. Periods 2, 4, and 6 are watching a presentation I made and completing these notes on cell types. All periods are watching Bill Nye: Plants.

Here is another version of my presentation on cell types:

Test on Monday & Tuesday, please practice

Here is a practice test for you. Try to answer it WITHOUT using your poster or the study notes. If you can, then you are ready for the test!

Wednesday & Thursday, 11/12 & 11/13: Cell Organelles

Next week, on Monday & Tuesday, we have a test on cell organelles. You will be responsible for know the names and functions of each of the cell organelles, as well as tell the difference between plant and animal cells based on their structure.

To prepare for this test, you should study your cell posters that we made in class on Monday & Tuesday. Try to quiz yourself to see if you know the names of all the organelles and their functions.

Please visit this website. On the website you will find a plant and an animal cell. Click on the organelles to see what they do.

Complete this table and use it as a study guide for the test. If you can complete the table without looking at your poster or at the interactive cell website then you are probably ready for the test.

If you want to supplement your studies with something more visual & musical, here is a very bad cartoon rap about plants and animal cells (extra credit to anyone who can write a better rap with ALL of the same information):

For you super scientists out there that already know all about the organelles and their functions, watch this video to learn more about cells (unless you are sitting at a school computer, in which case you'll have to wait until you get home):

Wednesday & Thursday 10/21 & 10/22: Computer Lab

Opening: Computer Lab
Worktime: Teenbiz3000
Closing: Reflection
HW: "Inside Cells" packet due Monday/Tuesday.

Today we are working on reading articles on TeenBiz3000 in the computer lab.

You can visit teenbiz at home at web.teenbiz3000.com.

Wednesday & Thursday, October 14 & 15: LIFE

Opening: Living Things
Worktime: Magnify
Closing: Cells
Homework: "Discovering Cells" packet due Friday

Happy Fall Break!

Congratulations on finishing your first of eight quarters at WIS! Darwin is having a great time on fall break. Here is a video of one of his adventures:

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Tuesday & Wednesday, 9/22 & 23: Visualize Good Health

Opening: Lab Procedures

Worktime: Visualize Good Health

Closing: Identify the Foods

HW: Study for the Test

Today we are rotating to each lab table, where we will find containers of each type of nutrient that can be found on a nutrition facts label (saturated fat, unsaturated fat, protein, carbohydrates, sugar, fiber, and sodium). You will weigh each nutrient and record your data in this table here, and then your group will decide whether each food is healthy or unhealthy, based on the nutrients in the food.

This activity will let you SEE what unhealthy food looks like. You will be able to see that it is very fatty or just sugar. You should be able to quickly identify healthy and unhealthy foods just by looking at the nutrients that the food contains.

After you rotate through all 8 stations, you will be given this sheet, and you will use it to identify the foods that were represented at each lab table.

There will be a test to wrap up the nutrition unit on Thursday (for even periods) or Friday (for odd periods). Try out this practice test to see what type of knowledge and skills you need to have to succeed on the test:

Friday, 9/18: Bill Nye Digestion Video

I am out sick today. You watched the Bill Nye video on Digestion and completed a quiz during the video.

Understanding how digestion works is the link between what we are learning about nutrition and learning about how your body works, from microscopic cells to entire organ systems.

Wednesday & Thursday, 9/16 & 9/17: Nutrition Facts

Opening: calories wrap-up

Worktime: Nutrition Facts

Closing: posters

HW: 1-day Food Log - On a piece of paper, keep track of EVERYTHING you eat and drink for an entire day. Here is an example of a food log.

Here are the guided notes for today's lesson on nutrition facts.

This presentation will teach you about nutrition facts and how to determine healthy and unhealthy foods:

Monday & Tuesday, 9/14 & 15: Calories

Opening: Go over test

Worktime: Calorimetry

Closing: What is a calorie?

HW: Bring in a nutrition label from something you eat or drink.

Today we are starting by going over the test on organ systems that we took last week. Many students earned an "incomplete" and need to retake the test. Please study your notes and correct your test using this correction form before you retake your test.

We will see who was the perpetrator of the crime from our CSI unit.

We are going to take a pre-test to see what you already know about food and nutrition before we get started with a nutrition unit. If you are absent, you need to complete this because we will be revisiting this pre-test by doing a reflection at the end of the unit in two weeks. Please see the pre-test here.

We are going to do a calorimetry experiment to determine how many calories are in a macadamia nut. You can download the laboratory activity worksheet here. Below is an explanation of how we are doing this experiment:

And here is a video of Homer Simpson learning about calories in a traumatic way:

Tuesday and Wednesday, 9/8 & 9/9

Opening: Review Evidence

Worktime: Finish profiles

Closing: Qwizdom review

HW: Study for test on respiratory, nervous, & circulatory systems

There is a test on organ systems on Thursday, 9/10 for periods 2, 4, & 6 and on Friday, 9/11 for periods 1, 3, & 5. Please study your "Understanding Handy's Autopsy" guided notes to review the material that will be on the test.

We are finishing our CSI crime profiles in class today. If your group needs more time to finish the profiles, you must schedule an appointment with me so you can come into my room and finish up. I will be grading the CSI profiles on Friday.

Below is a quick practice test for the test on Thursday/Friday. These are sample questions, and they may appear on the test. If you know the answers to all of these questions, then you are probably ready for the test.

Wednesday and Thursday, 9/2 & 9/3: Coroner's Report

Opening: Coroner's Report
Worktime: Making Sense
Closing: Crime Profiles
HW: Get the donorschoose.org permission form signed.

Today we are reading the coroner's report (remember: this is FICTIONAL) from the autopsy in our crime scene investigation unit. We are watching a presentation and filling out guided notes to help us understand what the report says.

Please get your permission form signed so that we can thank our donors on donorschoose.org

(Parents: If you do not wish to allow your child's picture or thank you notes to be sent to our donors, please write "No thank you" on the permission form. This is completely acceptable.)

Monday and Tuesday, 8/31 & 9/1: CSI crime profiles

Today we are building crime profiles. Crime profiles are reports of all of the evidence taken from the crime scene, including photographs, measurements, and descriptions.

Homework: Explain your theory of how the crime occurred.

Friday, 8/28: Measurement Quiz

Opening: Instructions

Worktime: Measurement Quiz

Closing: Questions

HW: none!

You can see the measurement quiz here. You will be provided with a ruler to complete the problems that require measurement of length. Liquid, temperature, and weight measurements will be completed at stations around the room. Please make sure that you are familiar with each method of measurement and please include UNITS for each answer, or your answer will be incorrect (example: 3.6 cm, 151 g).

Wednesday & Thursday 8/26 & 8/27: Crime Scene Investigation

Disclaimer: We are doing a CSI unit to learn about scientific investigation, needs of living things, organs, organ systems, cells, and genetics. The topic of the unit is an investigation of a SIMULATED, FICTIONAL, FAKE murder. We are investigating a SIMULATED crime scene with SIMULATED evidence. Students who are not comfortable with the content of this unit have been invited to complete alternate assignments.

Opening: Briefing

Worktime: Crime Scene Investigation

Closing: Debriefing

HW: What other information would be helpful in this investigation?

Monday & Tuesday, August 24th & 25th: SAVE FLUFFY

Opening: Liquid Measurement

Worktime: SAVE FLUFFY

Closing: Projects

HW: Enter your metric olympics results on the form below.

Today we are saving Fluffy, an imaginary white cat with a pretty serious illness. Each group will hand in one packet of work for a project grade.

Next class we will have a measurement quiz to end our unit on basic lab skills. You can see the quiz here so you can make sure you know how to do everything you will need to do on the quiz.

Here are the skills you need for the quiz:

• length measurement (using a ruler AND estimating)
• use of metric units (degrees C, cm, mm, m, mL, g)
• weight determination (using a digital scale)
• temperature measurement
• liquid measurement (using graduated cylinders and volumetric flasks)

We will start a crime scene investigation unit to continue learning about scientific investigations and to learn about organs and organ systems.

Wednesday & Thursday, 8/19 & 8/20

Monday & Tuesday, August 17th & 18th

Opening: Wrist Taker

Worktime: Scavenger Hunt

Closing: Measurement

HW: Measure the length and width of your bed or of the area where you sleep.

Today we are learning to use metric measurements to determine length.

Watch this video demonstration of how to measure centimeters:

Wednesday & Thursday 8/12 & 8/13: Why is this happening?

This is a video of an ice cube made of blue water melting in oil. What do you see happening? Why is this happening?

Monday & Tuesday, August 10th & 11th

Opening: Readiness Check

Worktime: Drops on a Penny

Closing: Syllabus

HW: Return Syllabus Signature Page

Today we are starting with a presentation on a contest we have in class to see which tables are the most ready. You can see the presentation here:

After that we are learning to use the lab table areas for lab activities. We are doing a laboratory activity called Drops on a Penny. You can download the notes for this activity here. You may even be able to do this activity at home if you have a water dropper. Here is a video of somebody doing this activity:

Discrepant Event- Water Drops On A Penny - The top video clips of the week are here

After we are finished cleaning up from the lab activity we are getting copies of the class syllabus, which is a document in which I say how I will run the classroom this year. You will get a copy of your engrade code that will let you check your grades on our grading website: http://www.engrade.com/mrtrainer.

Please get your syllabus signature page signed and bring it back to the next class.

Thursday and Friday, 8/6 & 8/7

Opening: Grades in A-11

Worktime: Airplane investigation

Closing: Airplanes wrap-up

HW: Class item due Tuesday (for even periods), Monday (for odd periods)

Today in class we are taking our paper airplane investigations further. We are asking ourselves and discussing what factors make paper airplanes fly far and how we can find out if these factors are actually important. We are trying out some different planes to see what exactly makes a good paper airplane.

Tuesday and Wednesday, 8/4 & 8/5

Today we are making paper airplanes, testing them, modifying them, and then flying them again to see who can make the farthest-flying plane and to see what makes a good paper airplane.

Opening: A-11 Rules

Worktime: Paper Airplanes

Closing: Making Conclusions

Homework: 1. Get Binder 2. Get item to share

We completed a notebook entry today.

Monday, August 3rd: Getting to know you

This is Darwin, a Mus musculus.

Welcome to life science! On Friday I met most of my new life science students (except for the ones that were absent from school). I introduced myself to the students. I asked everyone to get a 1" 3-ring binder over the weekend. I introduced our class pet, Darwin the mouse. I showed students a demonstration of sewer lice. I was very happy to meet everyone and I am excited to get to know you all better in the coming weeks of school.

Here's what we're up to in class today:

Opening: How to enter A11

Worktime: Getting to know you

Closing: How to exit A11

Homework: Get a 1" 3-ring binder (if you haven't already) and a classroom item to donate. This is due the next time I see you (which is Tuesday for periods 2, 4, and 6, and Wednesday for periods 1, 3, and 5).

Today we are working on GLO (general learner outcome) #2: Community Contributor.

And finally, here is an important reminder: it is HOT in our classroom. I typically do not allow any food or drink in the science classroom, but in the interest of personal health and comfort, I allow students to bring water bottles to class. Here is a video of Darwin being thirsty to demonstrate how important this is.

6/5: End of Year Survey

Please complete my end of year survey here. This survey helps me figure out what to do differently next year.

6/3 & 6/4: Owl Pellets

Today we are dissecting owl pellets (owl puke) to see what the owls ate.

6/1 & 6/2: In the computer lab

Aloha!

We're working in the computer lab today. Here is what you need to do:

1. Log on to web.teenbiz3000.com and take the reading test that comes up. The test will take you about 20 - 30 minutes to finish and is about 40 questions long. If you need your login information, I have it printed out at the front of the computer lab.

2. After you finish the reading test, go to your mailbox and you will find four articles I sent to you. You need to read each article and complete all of the activities for each article (the activity, thought question, poll, and math).

3. Visit ABC Science's Fossil Fun webpage here. Play all of the games they have: Burying Bodies, Skeleton Jigsaws, Colour and Camouflage, Pitfall, Making Fossils, and Footprints Game.

4. Take the fossils quiz online after you play the games on the Fossil Fun website.

5. After you've finished on teenbiz, finished playing the Fossil Fun games, and you finish the fossils quiz, please write a letter to next year's 7th grade students to let them know what life science is like. In your letter you should tell students what they will be learning about, what they need to do to get a good grade in science, fun activities they can look forward to, and any other advice you can share with them.

6. If you finish writing your letter, please print it out and give it to Mr. Trainer. Then visit this dinosaur games website here.

5/28 & 5/29: Field Trip Days

On Thursday & Friday there are field trips so not everyone will be in science.  I will be showing Bill Nye videos on these days and allowing students to catch up on some back work.

All test corrections are due by Tuesday, 6/2 (next week).  The last day of test retakes will be on Wednesday, 6/3.  Remember, retakes are by invitation only, and you can get invited to retake a test by completing test corrections.

All carbon atom stories are due on Tuesday, 6/2.  I expect final grades to be posted after school on Wednesday, 6/3.

5/18 & 5/19: Bird Beak Buffet

Opening: Lab procedures
Worktime: Bird Beak Buffet
Closing: Adaptations
HW: none

Benchmark 7.5.3

Today we are learning about how bird beaks are adapted for the food that they are meant to eat. We are learning through a hands-on inquiry activity, so you will need to replicate this experiment on your own.

You can find instructions here:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-805/lessons/chpt2/act5.htm

5/14 & 5/15: Build a habitat

Opening: Lab procedures

Worktime: Build a habitat

Closing: Record & predict

Homework: none

Benchmark 7.3.3

Today we are building habitats out of 2 liter soda bottles.  You can find instructions on how to build the habitats here: http://bottlebiology.org/investigations/terraqua_build_1.html

We will be observing and recording growth of plants over the next couple of weeks.  Watch this presentation to see what seeds are available to you:

5/4: Biotic vs Abiotic factors

Opening: Bottle Biology

Worktime: Biotic vs. Abiotic

Closing: Carrying Capacity

Homework: Bring in a 2L soda bottle (we will be building mini ecosystems with them next week, but only if we get enough).

Objective: Identify ways in which biotic & abiotic factors affect the carrying capacity of an ecosystem.

4/30 - Interactions

Opening: Stations
Worktime: This vs That
Closing: Qwizdom
HW: Study for the test tomorrow (Friday, 5/1)

Benchmark 7.3.2 - Interactions between organisms

Today we went from station to station to define vocabulary words and identify real life examples of each term. You can download the guided notes here. Here are the station papers. First look up a definition of each term. Then place each example on the station paper on your guided notes next to the appropriate definition. For example, in "Predator vs Prey", a honu is prey and a tiger shark is the predator.

At the bottom of the notes are a couple practice questions for tomorrow's test.

This presentation will teach you about everything you need to know about interactions between organisms:

Now try to answer these practice assessment questions.

4/24: Benchmark 7.3.1 Assessment

Opening: Review
Worktime: Assess
Closing: Reflect
HW: What is your favorite predator? Why is it your favorite?

Benchmark 7.3.1

Today we are handing in our carbon atom stories, playing Qwizdom to get ready for the test, and taking the test. You can study by taking my practice test.

4/22 & 4/23: Global Warming & Food Web Catastrophes

Opening: Too Much Carbon

Worktime: Build a Web

Closing: Destroy a Web

HW: Quiz and final draft of your carbon atom story will be turned in on Friday.

Benchmark 7.3.1

Objective: Analyze the impact of carbon cycle changes on food web dynamics.  You will be able to tell me what happens to a food web when certain bad situations arise.

First, check out this site to see how global warming happens.  Now, read this article from the Honolulu Advertiser about global warming.  The article says that the government wants to regulate greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide) because they are dangerous to humans.  How are these gases dangerous to humans?

Now build a food web at this website.  Imagine that most of the population of jaguars, the top predator, dies from a disease.  What would happen to the rest of the organisms in the food web.  Why would this happen?

Now watch this presentation to learn some more about global warming and about how a change in the population of one organism can affect all of the organisms in a community.

4/20 & 4/21 Food Webs & Photosynthesis

Opening: Carbon

Worktime: Producers & Consumers

Closing: Food Webs

HW: Tell a story about how one atom of carbon moves through a food web.  You must use these words in your story: carbon dioxide, photosynthesis, respiration, producer, consumer, herbivore, and predator.  Quiz 7.3.1 on Friday, 4/24.

The story you write for homework will be revised on Wednesday or Thursday and you will hand in a final draft on Friday.  This story will be the project assignment for this benchmark, and it will be graded on this rubric.

Benchmark 7.3.1

Objective: To explain the roles of photosynthesis and respiration in a food web.

You can visit this site here to read about the carbon cycle.  You can watch the presentation below to see what we learned in class.

4/13 & 14: Symbiosis

Opening: Symbiosis

Worktime: Mutualism, Parasitism, Commensalism

Closing: What's the difference?

HW: Pick your favorite of all the symbiotic relationships from today's presentation.  Write whether it is an example of mutualism, parasitism, or commensalism, and explain how you know.

Announcement: Classroom Decoration Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday during lunch.  At the meeting we will discuss painting the back wall of the room and rearranging the desks.  Participation in the meeting counts as one of your three classroom contributions for the quarter.

Symbiosis is when two different organisms live together.  Mutualism is when both organisms benefit.  Parasitism is when one organism benefits but the other organism is harmed.  Commensalism is when one organism lives on the other without harming it.  Watch the presentation to see many examples of symbiotic relationships in nature.  You can download and print the guided notes here.

4/8 & 4/9: Food Chains & Coral Reef Communities

Opening: Food Web Review

Worktime: Food Chains

Closing: Coral Reefs

HW: Finish your essay.  

Objectives: Differentiate between food webs and food chains.  Analyze the impact of community changes on food chains.

Essay: Explain why the death of coral is devastating to coral reef communities.  Be sure to include a discussion of why the state of Hawai'i wants the Navy to pay money for damaging a coral reef in February.  Read articles about this here and here.

Watch the lesson presentation and complete the guided notes here:

4/6 & 4/7: Food Webs

Opening: Your favorite foods

Worktime: Food Webs

Closing: Create a web

HW: Make a food web using at least 5 organisms that live here in Hawai'i.  Identify each organism in your food web as a producer, decomposer, carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore.

Benchmark 5.3.1

Objectives: Identify the producers & consumers (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, & decomposers) in a food web.  Create a food web, given a list of organisms in a community.

Today we are learning about food webs.  Food webs are diagrams that show all the organisms in a community and shows which organisms feed on others.  Watch this presentation with my comments and complete the guided notes to learn about food webs:

3/26: Glogster problems

Hey team:

I hope you're all enjoying a safe and wonderful spring break.

I said I would email you your glogster usernames and passwords as soon as I could so that you could continue to work on your homework assignment.  Please scroll down to read about your homework assignment if you don't know what I'm talking about.

I am not able to access your passwords to glogster, so if you don't have yours then I can't help you.  Please make a new glogster account and email me the link to your finished poster once you are done and it will count.  Please email me on TeenBiz3000.com.

Anyway, I ran into a student at CostCo in Kapolei a few days ago, and she told me that she was BORED of spring break.  BORED?  That's crazy talk.  Read a book!  Go to the library.  Go to the beach.  There's a lot to do.  Here is a list of things you can do if you are BORED:

1.  Go to TeenBiz3000.com.  There are articles, activities, essays, contests, and polls.  And you can always email me to let me know what you're up to for spring break.

2.  Try to solve Columbus State University's Math Contest Problem of the Week.  Click here to check it out.

3.  Build a paper airplane.  Visit Alex's paper airplanes for directions and videos on how to make the best paper airplanes.

4.  Plant a garden.  Check out this website for directions on how to set up a garden.  You can order seeds from UH for a lower price than you can buy them from a store.  Here is the seed order form.

5.  Check out freerice.com.  Free rice is a website with word games and math games.  The questions automatically adjust to your skill level and playing the games on the site supports efforts to feed hungry people.

3/20: Computer Lab

Opening: How to get to the class website

Worktime: Webtivities

Closing: GLO 6

HW: Design a glogster poster on how to be ready for class in 4th quarter. Your poster should contain something about the 4 parts of being ready: homework, ID, planner, SURFF book. Due April 6(odd periods) or 7(even periods)

Today we are getting used to the class website. To do this, I want you to do the following things:

1. Register for the class website. Pick a secret code name and a password that will be easy for you to remember.
   
2. Complete the end-of-quarter survey.
   
3. Visit TeenBiz3000.com and send me an email. Any email.
   
4. Sign in on glogster.com and learn how to use it on your own. Use the "nickname" and "password" on the little slip of paper that you got from me.
   

To access each of these, just click the link that is underlined and orange.

Your homework is to design a glogster poster to remind students how to be ready for class in 4th quarter. Here is an example, the GLOGSTER poster that I made.

3/19: New Syllabus and Class Website

Opening: Ready for 8th grade?

Worktime: Syllabus

Closing: Class Website

HW: Take syllabus quiz on class website

Today we are learning about how life science is going to be different in 4th quarter.  I am making these changes to get you ready for 8th grade next year.  You will complete the homework assignment to show that you understand the changes.

HOMEWORK: Complete the syllabus quiz. Don't forget that you are invited to watch the presentation as well as read the syllabus while you complete the quiz. Here is the syllabus quiz, make sure you click on SUBMIT when you are done:

ALL CLASSES: We will meet in the computer lab, A15, tomorrow (Friday) 

3/17 & 3/18: Portfolio Reflection, Test Retake, Constructed Response 7

Opening: Grades

Worktime: Portfolio Reflection

Closing: Constructed Response 7

HW: (for periods 2,4,6) My Genome cookbook due tomorrow

(for periods 1,3,5) None

Today you are getting graded work back and completing a GLO self-reflection form to help you consider your growth in the GLO's in quarter 3.  Even periods will retake the test on Genetics and Mutation.  You will complete constructed response #7.

If you especially enjoy self-reflection activities, you are probably very high in intrapersonal intelligence.  If you do not like them, you probably need to develop your intrapersonal intelligence.  If you don't know what intrapersonal intelligence is, then maybe you should go back and take this quiz again to discover which intelligences are your strengths.

Check out this Hawai'i DOE rubric for the GLO's and imagine if I graded you on this rubric.  What grades do you think you would get for the GLO's?

3/16: Syllabus, Website, Portfolio Reflection

Opening: Syllabus

Worktime: http://lifesciencewis.blogspot.com

Closing: Portfolio Reflection

HW: 1.) Genome cookbooks due tomorrow

2.) Visit the class website, complete syllabus quiz

Note: Today, we retook the test because we did not accomplish this as planned on Friday.  We did not have time for the portfolio reflection today.

Next week's schedule, Syllabus presentation

I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful weekend!

Here is my schedule for next week.

Here is a presentation on our new syllabus.  We will be learning about the new syllabus on Monday and Tuesday this week.

Here is a video that shows how mutations can happen.  It will really help you understand mutation if you are having trouble understanding how and why it happens.

Study for the genetics & mutation test

The genetics & mutation test retake will occur on Friday, March 13.  Please review your test and correct your mistakes so that you are ready for the retake.

You can watch this presentation online to review the material that will appear on the test.

REMINDER:  All work for 3rd quarter is due by Friday, March 13.  This include the "My Genome" cookbook project.