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Friday, March 21, 2014

Daily Summary 03-21

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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

– Objectives: SWBAT respond thoughtfully to one Viewer’s Guide question from each chapter of The Botany of Desire

– Warm-up: Have you signed up to co-teach? No, why not??? If you have, what topic(s) are you going to teach?

– Summarizing discussion: The Botany of Desire (p.3 & p.5) [10]

– Check out a laptop [5]

– DNA Structure and Replication Quiz [20]

– Check in with your ESLP team and begin/continue planning [40]

– Finish DNA Bead Activity and submit (last day to get credit)

– Introduction to the genetic code and protein synthesis [20]

– Turn in DNA Origami anytime during DNA Unit for bonus pts


HOMEWORK:

– Work on ESLP



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HONORS BIOLOGY
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NO CLASS TODAY (SEE YESTERDAY'S POST)



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PRINCIPLES OF THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (PBS)
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AGENDA:

– Objective: SWBAT respond thoughtfully to one Viewer’s Guide question from each chapter of The Botany of Desire

– WARM-UP: What is the biochemical connection between a plant’s genes (sections of its DNA) and the physical traits it exhibits? In other words, how do organisms make biomolecules if those biomolecules aren’t produced directly from the plant’s DNA base codes?

– Concept maps from 3.2.1??? Other late stuff??

– Turn in Botany of Desire paragraphs

– Finish Activity 3.2.2: The Genetic Code [65]


HOMEWORK:

– NONE



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