April 2024
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Do Now: Turn and Talk. What are some differences we discovered between cancer and non-cancerous cells?
Next: Read the directions for the Cell Game (on Google Classroom).
Then: Play Round 1.
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Do Now: Organize into the small groups you were in on Tuesday
Next: Play Round 2 of the Cell Game
Then: Complete the questions on the back of the scorecards.
Exit Ticket: zero to five - did this game help you better understand the cell cycle?
Friday, April 5th, 2024
Do Now: Quick jot. Answer the "making sense of round two" questions (slide N)
Next: Review the "making sense" questions together for round one and two.
Then: Turn & talk. How did the game model help your understanding? What were some limitations of the model?
Exit: Turn in both scorecards at the door.
Monday, April 8th, 2024
Do Now: Take out your notebook
Next: interpret and compare cell data. Then, update class consensus model
Then: Update Progress Trackers
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Do Now: take out your notebook and your laptop
Next: Cell Growth & Cancer - computer simulation
Then: Complete the corresponding worksheet
Exit Ticket: turn in your worksheet (if finished) and give a fist to five at the door indicating how helpful the simulation game was to your understanding of the cell cycle
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
Do Now: Take out your notebook, laptop and computer simulation worksheet.
Next: Continue Cell Growth & Cancer computer simulation activity and complete the making sense questions.
Then:
Develop an initial model to answer the lesson question: Why are some kinds of cancer more common than others in older and taller people?
Turn & Talk
Share your model
Discuss similarities and differences
Give feedback
Exit Ticket: Turn in your computer simulation worksheet
Friday, April 12th, 2024
Do Now: Look at you Skyward grade for this class. Look at what your missing and/or where your lower grades are. Set a goal. Write down on a post-it note, one to two things you are going to work on today, either missing work or revisions. Write your name and the assignment on the post-it.
Next: Update Progress Tracker
Then: GWT
Exit Ticket: Did you complete your goal/s?
Monday, April 15th, 2024
Water Monitoring Permission Slips Due (this is an optional field trip coming up on Wed. April 24th)
Do Now: Write down the lesson 5 question: How do cancer cells end up with differences in their chromosomes and what is the role of the p53 in preventing the differences?
Next: Turn and talk. What do you know about chromosomes?
Then: Watch the DNA replication computer simulation intro video. Complete the DNA replication computer simulation and the analysis worksheet (pairs).
Exit: On a half sheet of paper brainstorm ideas to include on a checklist to construct an explanation that answers the lesson question.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
Do Now: On a half sheet of paper brainstorm ideas to include on a checklist to construct an explanation that answers the lesson question.
Next: Complete the Evidence Checklist with a partner
Then: Read DNA and Chromosomes
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Do Now: Construct an explanation of the lesson question: How do cancer cells end up with differences in their chromosomes and what is the role of p53 in preventing the differences? Use the ideas from the Checklist, computer simulation, the reading, and other class activities to support your explanation.
Next: Give and receive peer feedback on explanations. Revise explanations based on peer feedback.
Then:
1. Update your progress tracker
a. Answer the lesson 5 question
b. Add the lesson 6 lesson question: How do we make p53, and why is it different sometimes?
Friday, April 19th, 2024
Do Now: Turn & Talk - 1)Where does p53 come from? 2)Why are there different versions of p53?
Next: Kinesthetic model activity and worksheet
Then: Read DNA and p53
Exit Ticket: Where does p53 come from?
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Happy Earth Day!
Do Now: Take out your Gene Expression Simulation worksheet and grab a copy of DNA and p53 off the table by the door. Then read the handout and mark up as needed to help make sense of it. Be ready to discuss.
Next: Complete part 2: making sense questions together
Then: Update progress trackers
Exit Ticket: submit Gene Expression Simulation worksheet
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
Do Now: Get into groups of fours (by table rows), have with you: notebook and any previous readings and assignments
Next: Brainstorm components for checklist to answer the lesson question: what is the genetic basis of cancer?
Then: Develop class consensus model
Last: Watch Ameoba Sisters - Protein Synthesis
Thursday, April 25th, 2024
Do Now:
1. Create a notice/wonder/feel chart in your notebook.
2. Check your grade in SW.
3. Choose an assignment you will complete or revise (create a goal).
4. Write it down on a post-it note. Put your name on the post-it.
Next: Watch the following short videos and complete the chart www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Zifbvvl0Q and www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux7obpTlkbU. Discuss with table partner and then share out.
Then: Take action towards completing the goal you set for yourself.
Exit Ticket: What did you accomplish?
Friday, April 25th, 2024
Do Now: Turn & talk - what is the relationship between p53 and cancer risk?
Next: Peel the Fruit
Exit Ticket: Identify one artifact from biology this semester that you would be proud to share at your PoL as evidence of your learning?
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
Do Now: Turn & talk: What do you notice and wonder about the image of chromosome 17?
Next: Obtain a copy of the Two Gene Pedigree and BRCA1 pedigree handout. Create a model and complete then worksheet
Then: Read Passing on Alleles. Notice and wonder in your notebook.
Last: Revise your model based on new information.