This week the students took their chapter 5 test. We will begin chapter 6 on Thursday. We will be learning about erosion and deposition. Now that the rocks have weathered, now different forces are going to carry them to new locations and deposit them. In the process,...
This week we are continuing to look at inheritance and the way that genes produce different traits. The students were able to create their own smiley face with genes determined by a flip of a coin that corresponded to a particular trait and then draw a face matching...
This week we took our test over chapter 4. The grades have been posted on RenWeb. Test will not be going home until the following week because we have a few students out on vacation and they have not yet taken the test. We have also began our next chapter on heredity....
This week we finished our discussion on meiosis and asexual reproduction. We also spent some time discussing the pros and cons of different types of cloning. On Thursday, students will be given time to work on their extra credit/review worksheet for chapter 4. We will...
This week we began chapter 4 on meiosis. The students have another booklet to complete showing how the chromosomes divide in haploid division. This project is due on Monday, Nov 4. We will be discussing sexual reproduction in class this week in both plants and...
This week we reviewed for the chapter 4 test on Monday and took the test on Tuesday. Tests will be sent home in the Thursday folders. On Thursday, we will do an online lab identifying rocks into the three different categories using what we have learned about...