Parent teacher conferences

It was wonderful meeting with the parents today, as some of you requested I have placed a copy of the student book on pupil path. Students may use it to study and reinforce the lessons. I have also added an electronic copy of the summer packet to that project. All submissions for marking period one will be accepted until December 6. Here is the next set of homework. #11 Punnett square independent practice sheet 62 #12 What role do you think genes and the environment play in human development and health? Explain your thinking and give some examples. 64 #13 Pedigree Puzzles 66 #14 What additional information do you need to identify the lost children? 68 #15 Write a statement about which of the children are Belinda and Johns and which are Mai and Pauls, use evidence to support your statement 70 #16 Write a judges decision a fair and final decision on whether or not to return the children of somallia to their parents. 71 #17 Should people try to save wild populations of the Asian elephant? 89 #18 Write an observation and an inference from your daily life goal 91 #19 Imagine that no species ever became extinct. Do you think there would be more, less or the same amount of diversity of life forms on our planet? Explain. goal 92 #20 Propose what might have caused the changes through time shown on your timeline.Explain goal 93

Gene Combo

Most of the classes are in the midst of collecting and analyzing the data from the Gene Combo Lab. The lab report for this is due October 17, 2014. Don't wait for the last minute to work on this. As always, if you need help come and see me.

Welcome Class of 2015

I look forward to an exciting year. This summer you were given an assignment to do regarding Genetically Modified Organisms. The essay and packet for that project are due tomorrow! The first ten homework's are listed here. Please submit by sharing what you wrote in google drive with Kojes390@gmail.com if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact me. We are up to homework #3 #1 Bring in signed Welcome letter #2 Box of tissues #3 Why are the rules important? What are the reasons we have rules? #4 Collect characteristic data from 5 additional people #5 What did you “inherit” from your family? #6 How would you behave toward a student you suspected of having Marfan syndrome? #7 If you were given the opportunity to clone yourself, would you? #8 Write down your own definition of dominant. #9 Lab write-up for coin tossing #10 People think math is important for physics but not for biology. What is your opinion?

Spring break is almost over. I have not received many google docs. Remember to use this vacation to compose your straw rocket procedure, material list and data table. We want to begin constructing and collecting data when school resumes. Make a google doc and share it with your partners and me at kojes390@gmail.com The worksheet is on engrade to help you.

The school is asking all students to please fill in the survey. "In an effort to engage our students and give you a voice on deciding what activities and program you would like to enjoy as after school activities." Please complete this survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ms390

The state ELA exam is finished! You are one step closer to graduation. Stay strong, the Math and Science exams are still to come. We are currently working on our Exit Projects. Straw Rockets.It is a project where applying Newton’s three laws of motion, students design an investigation involving straw rockets. The five tasks have students develop their writing skills by having them practice formulating a question, paraphrasing text, developing a hypothesis, constructing a procedure, and analyzing data to draw a conclusion. The final performance task requires them to aggregate these portions of a lab report as well as make real-world connections from what they learned.

engrade

I encourage all students to sign on to their engrade account often. Click here engrade for access. There you will find your current grade as well as the homework assignments that you will need to complete.