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Week of April 29th

How is it the end of April? 
 
Homework: None
 
Weekly Agenda:
Monday:  Superhero DNA activity begins --- this is acting as the end of unit project instead of a test
Wednesday: Continue work on the Superhero DNA project and get ready for presentations
Friday:  Present Superhero DNA project to class
 
FINAL Project will be assigned Monday May 6thand will be due Friday May 10th at noon.  We will be on a field trip at that time but students will have class all week to work on their final project. 

Week of April 22nd

Congratulations on making it through our PSAT 10!
 
Homework:  Unit 7 Lessons 2 and 3 Checkpoint Assignments (paper)
 
Weekly Agenda:
Monday:  Unit 7 Lesson 3 Lecture
Wednesday:  Superhero DNA project
Friday:  Superhero DNA project Presentations
 
 

Week of April 15th

Welcome to Testing week!
 
Homework: None
 
Weekly Agenda: 
Monday: Unit 7 Lesson 2 Lecture
Wednesday: NO CLASS DUE TO SAT
Friday: NO CLASS DUE TO PSAT 10.  PROM is tonight
 
Student's final for my class will be the week of May 6th due to my chaperoning the senior trip. 

Week of April 8th

Welcome back!  I hope you had an amazing spring break!  We are hitting the ground running as we don't have a lot of time between now and the end of the school year.
 
Homework: Unit 7 Vocabulary
 
Weekly Agenda: 
Monday:  Quick talk about the eclipse that students will have observed in the previous class period.  And lecture on Unit 7 Lesson 1
Wednesday:  Finish Unit 7 Lesson 1 Lecture, create a meiosis diagram, and complete Unit 7 Lesson 1 Checkpoint Assignment
Friday:    Unit 7 Lesson 1 Can You Explain It, group activity

Week of March 25th and April 1st

Happy Spring Break Everyone!
 
No Westgate classes until April 8th!

Students will still have FRCC but the bus will not run from Westgate.  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

Thanks and enjoy the gift of time with your students

Week of March 18th

Last week before Spring break!  Remember that your students will have FRCC during Westgate Spring break; and there will not be the bus from Westgate. 
 
Homework: None
 
Weekly Agenda:
Monday: Unit 6 Practice and Review and Study Game
Wednesday: UNIT 6 TEST
Friday: Unit 7 Pre-Test
 
I will not be assigning work over Spring Break. 

Week of March 11th

We are getting into gene coding this week, and students will begin to understand how DNA and RNA work to help determine the characteristics of organisms. 
 
Homework:  Unit 6 Lesson 3 Checkpoint Assignment --- paper
 
Weekly Agenda:
Monday: Introduction to Codon wheels
Wednesday:  Unit 6 Lesson 3 Lecture
Friday: Unit Connections Activity
 
Test for Unit 6 will be on Wednesday March 20th

Week of March 4th

HOW IS IT MARCH????

Homework: Unit 6 Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 Checkpoint Assignments
 
Weekly Agenda: 
Monday: Finish Unit 6 Lesson 1 Lecture and DNA unzipping worksheet
Wednesday:  Unit 6 Lesson 2 Lecture
Friday: NO SCHOOL Parent Teacher Conferences 

Week of February 26th

How is it possibly the end of February already?  
 
Homework:  Vocabulary Unit 6
 
Weekly Agenda: 
Monday: Unit 6 Pre-Test and Unit 6 Lesson 1 Lecture
Wednesday : Strawberry DNA Lab
Friday: Lab Grown Hamburger Analysis

Week of February 19th

Students have done amazing with this unit, and I am proud of how they handled the history of human experimentation subunit we just completed.
 
Homework: Unit 5 Practice and Review
 
Agenda for the Week:
Monday: NO SCHOOL due to President's Day
Wednesday: Mitosis Lab, make sure to wear lab appropriate attire 
Friday: Unit Connections Activities
 
There will not be a test on Unit 5, as it transitions so well into Unit 6, so we will wait to test at the end of Unit 6. 

Week of February 5th

We are getting deeper into our new unit, and looking at how cells replicate and how we as humans have used this to assist ourselves.
 
Homework: Unit 5 Lesson 1 Checkpoint Assignment (paper)
 
Weekly Agenda: 
Monday:  Video and discussion about human experimentation
Wednesday:  Partner project on human experimentation
Friday: Partner project presentations 

Week of January 29th

Crazy to think about this being the last few days of January.
 
Homework:  Unit 5 Vocabulary (in teams)
 
Weekly Agenda: 
Monday:  Unit 4 Test
Wednesday: Unit 5 Pretest, Unit 5 Lesson 1 Lecture
Friday:  Excerpt from Ethics in Science book, Human Experimentation 

Week of January 22nd

Welcome back from a weird week full of holidays, frigid temperatures and adventures.
 
Homework:  Unit 4 Lesson 2 Checkpoint Assignment (Paper)
 
Weekly Agenda:
Monday: Unit 4 Lesson 2 Lecture
Wednesday:  Bubble Survivorship Curve Lab, Ecology Worksheet
Friday: Jenga and Unit Practice and Review Worksheet 
 
Test on Unit 4 is Monday January 29th 

Week of January 8th

Welcome back, I hope you and your family had an amazing Christmas Break!  
 
Homework: Unit 4 Vocabulary (assigned in Teams, due the 16th because of holiday)
 
Weekly Agenda: 
Monday: Science Refocus, Unit 4 Pre-test, and Lab Requirement Refresher
Wednesday: Unit 4 Lecture 1
Friday: Unit 4 Lesson 1 Checkpoint, in class

Week of December 4th

How is it December already?  Where did this semester go
 
Homework: None
 
Weekly Agenda:
Final Projects will be assigned in Teams at 8:00 AM on Monday December 4th.  Students will have all of their class periods this week to complete their finals; they are allowed to work on them outside of class but should not need to.   FINAL PROJECTS ARE DUE THURSDAY DECEMBER 7TH AT 3:30 PM; NO EXCEPTIONS. 
 
Please let me know if you have any questions.