March 12 (A Day) and March 13 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will explore the transimission of a single sex-linked trait in order to explain why x-linked diseases have a higher occurence in males than females.

WARM-UP: Explain how, using a Punnett Square, two brown rabbits could produce white offspring.

VOCABULARY:
1) incomplete dominance
2) trait
3) inheritance
4) codominance
4) multiple alleles

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Are Traits Inherited? p. 262
3) Sex-linked traits review
4) Punnett Square practice
5) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Section 11-2 Assessment p. 269

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 11-1 Assessment p. 266

March 10 (A Day) and March 11 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform an activity in order to predict how traits will be inherited.

WARM-UP: What does it mean to be a "carrier" of a gene?

VOCABULARY:
1) incomplete dominance
2) sex-linked traits
3) hybrid
4) purebred

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review Punnett Squares
3) Discussion of scenario
4) Activity
5) Closure

HOMEWORK DUE:
Notes on Section 11-5

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Section assessment p. 266

March 8 (A Day) and March 9 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE:
1) Students will discuss the show "Faces of America" in order to learn how to distinguish between phenotype and genotype.
2) Students will explore the principles of probability in order to predict what traits will be expressed in hypothetical offspring.

VOCABULARY:
1) Recessive
2) Dominant
3) Probability
4) Heterozygous
5) Homozygous

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Discussion of Faces of America
3) Punnett Square Activity
4) Closure

HOMEWORK DUE:
None

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and take notes on Section 12-1

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

March 4 (A Day) and March 5 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will explore the principles of probability in order to predict the outcomes of genetic crosses.

WARM-UP: Describe one way that a phenotype can differ from a genotype.

VOCABULARY:
1) phenotype
2) genotype
3) Punnett Square
4) Gregor Mendel
5) offspring

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Discussion of genetics terms and Punnett Squares
3) Sponge Bob Punnett Square activity (handouts)
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Go to this website www.mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/index_d.html and take the 2009 practice tests for Skills and Processes. Print out your results to turn in. You do not need to do the BCRs.

HOMEWORK DUE:
11-3 Notes

March 2 (A Day) and March 3 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test in order to gauge progress towards success on the HSA.

WARM-UP: None

VOCABULARY: None

CLASSWORK:
1) Test

HOMEWORK DUE:
None

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and take notes on 11-3

ANNOUNCEMENTS: None

January 26 (A Day) and March 1 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Unit 7 in order to prepare for the test next class.

WARM-UP: N/A

VOCABULARY: N/A

CLASSWORK:
1) Review Sheet
2) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test

HOMEWORK DUE:
none

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

February 24 (A Day) and February 25 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will compare mitosis and meiosis in order to describe how gametes are formed.

WARM-UP: How many chromosomes will be in a gamete of an organism that has 53 chromosomes in its skin cell?

VOCABULARY:
1) nondisjunction
2) recombination
3) independent assortment
4) genotype
5) phenotype

CLASSWORK:
1) Review Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Activity
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
none

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section Assessment

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none