April 16 (A Day) and April 17 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform an activity in order to analyze how DNA codes for proteins.

WARM-UP: How can you tell if two people are related to one another?

VOCABULARY:
1) recombinant DNA
2) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
3) plasmid
4) genetic marker
5) transgenic

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-up and vocabulary
2) Review Sheet discussion
3) Lab activity
4) Closure

HOMEWORK:
Study for test next class

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 13-2 notes

April 14 (A Day) and April 15 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will review for the Unit 9 test in order to gauge progress towards HSA success.

WARM-UP: Describe 2 types of mutations.

VOCABULARY:
1) selective breeding
2) hybridization
3) inbreeding
4) restriction enzyme
5) gel electrophoresis

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

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Section 13-2 Notes

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-5 notes

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

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform an activity in order to describe how genetically modified organisms are developed.

WARM-UP: Do you think human beings should be cloned? Defend your answer.

VOCABULARY:
1) mutation
2) point mutation
3) framshift mutation
4) polyploidy
5) operon

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-up and vocabulary
2) Review
3) Activity
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and take notes on section 12-5

HOMEWORK DUE:
Sequence Chart on DNA-protein synthesis

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

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

OBJECTIVE: Students will compare RNA and DNA in order to analyze each molecule's role in protein synthesis.

WARM-UP: Describe two ways that RNA and DNA are different from one another.

VOCABULARY:
1) RNA polymerase
2) promoter
3) intron
4) exon
5) codon

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-up and vocabulary
2) Review yesterday's activity and homework
3) Foldable
4) Video
5) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Draw a timeline or diagram describing the process of protein synthesis from DNA to a trait

HOMEWORK DUE:
Quick Lab on p. 303

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

April 6 (A Day) and April 7 (B Day)

WELCOME BACK FROM SPRING BREAK AND TESTING WEEKS!!! HOPEFULLY, WE CAN RESUME BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING!!!

Objective: Students will perform an activity in order to analyze the role that RNA has in protein synthesis.

WARM-UP: Tell me what you know about DNA

VOCABULARY:
1) messenger RNA
2) transfer RNA
3) ribosomal RNA
4) gene
5) transcription

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

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Do the Quick Lab on page 303 of your textbook

HOMEWORK DUE:
none

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

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February 22 (A Day) and February 23 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze a case study in order to determine how meiosis forms gametes.

WARM-UP: How is gender determined in humans?

VOCABULARY:
1) karyotype
2) genetics
3) fertilization
4) true-breeding
5) trait

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Case Study
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
A DAY: SECTION ASSESSMENT PAGE 278
B DAY: READ AND TAKE NOTES ON 11-2

HOMEWORK DUE:
A DAY: READ AND TAKE NOTES 11-1
B DAY: SECTION ASSESSMENT PAGE 278

February 18 (A Day) and February 19 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will compare meiosis and mitosis in order to describe how traits are passed on from one generation to the next.

WARM-UP: If an adult has 46 chromosomes per cell, how many does a baby have?

VOCABULARY:
1) homologous
2) diploid
3) haploid
4) meiosis
5) tetrad
6) crossing-over

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Lesson on Meiosis
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Do the 11-4 Section Assessment on page 278 of your books (B Day Students, A Day students were to complete 11-4 notes)

HOMEWORK DUE:
11-4 Notes

February 17, 2010 (B Day)

TEST Today

February 5, 2010

TODAY IS AN EARLY DISMISSAL. WE ONLY HAVE PERIODS 1B AND 2B. WE WATCHED A MOVIE ABOUT "HOT SPOTS" THAT DESCRIBED AREAS AROUND THE WORLD WHERE SPECIES AND HABITATS ARE ENDANGERED.

January 27-February 5

UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO FAST TESTING, SNOW DAYS, AND OTHER INTERRUPTIONS IN OUR NORMAL LEARNING DAY, MY BLOG HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED!!! HOPEFULLY NEXT WEEK WE WILL BE BACK ON A NORMAL SCHEDULE AND I WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE REGULARLY. A DAY STUDENTS ARE CAUGHT UP WITH THEIR TESTS, B DAY STUDENTS WILL TAKE THE TEST WHEN WE RETURN TO SCHOOL. PLEASE EMAIL ME AT MARGARET.LYNCH@PGCPS.ORG WITH ANY QUESTIONS.

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

WARM-UP: N/A

VOCABULARY: N/A

CLASSWORK: N/A

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: N/A

HOMEWORK DUE: N/A

ANNOUCEMENTS: N/A

January 25 (B Day) and January 26 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform an activity in order to describe how cancer is a disruption of the normal cell cycle.

WARM-UP: What are some things that can cause cancer?

VOCABULARY:
1) gene
2) allele
3) segregation
4) gamete
5) probability
6) Punnett Square
7) homozygous
8) heterozygous

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up
2) Discussion
3) Activity
4) Presentation
5) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test monday and tuesday

HOMEWORK DUE:
none

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

January 17-January 25- TESTING

Lessons for each class will vary depending on time available after testing.