Daily Summary 01-26

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Explain connections between the concepts we recently studied (from theories of DNA structure, DNA replication, and protein synthesis) and major themes / events in GATTACA

- Warm-up: Check out your assigned laptop and open The Story of the Seed website. Open the Blog Scoring Guide page. [5]

- TSOTS Student Blog Post #6 scoring [35 - 40]

- GATTACA pre-viewing discussion [20 - 25]

- Continue watching GATTACA [45]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Select/propose at least one ESLP project by the end of this week

- Work on GATTACA movie questions



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: (1) Explain the general purpose of the field of environmental health; (2) Name and describe major categories of environmental health factors; (3) Explain most common methods for assessing relative toxicity of chemicals in the environment

- Warm-up: Take out lab notebooks for stamp, add one more test solution of “Very Low Concentration” (0.2 ml stock CuSO4 to 199.8 ml of H20) before “Low Concentration” (see updated lab)

- Determination of LC50 of copper sulfate and effects on behavior in Tubifex tubifex lab postponed until Monday

- Finish Unit 8: Lecture 2: Toxicology [15 - 20]

- Unit 8 Reading Quiz [10]

- scrAPESbook presentations [25]

- Unit 7 exam corrections, research progress interviews [30]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Miller LITE, pp. 446-462; Article: The Pollution Within



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Explain connections between the concepts we recently studied (from theories of DNA structure, DNA replication, and protein synthesis) and major themes / events in GATTACA

- Warm-up: Check out your assigned laptop and open The Story of the Seed website. Open the Blog Scoring Guide page. [5]

- TSOTS Student Blog Post #6 scoring [35 - 40]

- GATTACA pre-viewing discussion [20 - 25]

- Continue watching GATTACA [45]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Select/propose at least one ESLP project by the end of this week

- Work on GATTACA movie questions



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