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Monday, March 6, 2017

Daily Summary 03-06

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Explain the concept of natural selection and how this process, along with chance events, drives evolution of biological systems

- Warm-up: Does natural selection operate directly on the phenotype or the genotype? Explain your reasoning. [5] Who Wants to Live a Million Years [35 - 40]

- Evolution quiz #2 Tuesday / Wednesday

- Genetics Engineering Challenge may be submitted in person any day between now and end of second grading period in April—after that, it will not be accepted


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish Who Wants to Live a Million Years questions



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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- Objectives: Demonstrate your understanding of freshwater resources, humans’ use of theses resources, and potential problems in our past and current management schemes for these resources by scoring 70% or better on the Unit 9 Exam

- Warm-up: Go over Unit 9 Exam Rubric [10]

- Score Unit 9 Exam [30]

- AP Test payments turned in to respective AP teachers by 3/15

- scrAPESbook presentations tomorrow

- Lab Notebooks DUE FOR SCORING this Thursday, 3/9


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on Independent Research Project



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Explain the concept of natural selection and how this process, along with chance events, drives evolution of biological systems

- Warm-up: Does natural selection operate directly on the phenotype or the genotype? Explain your reasoning. [5]

- Who Wants to Live a Million Years [35 - 40]

- Evolution quiz #2 Tuesday / Wednesday

- Genetics Engineering Challenge may be submitted in person any day between now and end of second grading period in April—after that, it will not be accepted


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish Who Wants to Live a Million Years questions



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