Do GMOs make our world more sustainable?

Math 2021-22

Science

The final project of the year is related to how biotechnology affects our dinner plate. The focus of this project was on Super Cattle, with an emphasis on the Belgian Blue. Students finished investigating the microscopic scales for what makes Blue "Super" and then dove into the macroscopic scales. Some of the topics they learned about were:

Transcription and Translation
Normal Myostatin vs. Mutated Myostatin Interaction with Receptors
Karyotypes, Punnett Squares, and Pedigree Charts
Meiosis
Mutations

11/12th Transcription and Translation Models

Student Transcription and Translation Models

11/12th Normal vs. Mutated Myostatin

Student Normal vs. Mutated Myostatin Models

11/12th Pedigree, punnett squares, and inheritance

Student Punnett Square and Pedigree Chart Models

11/12th Meiosis Models

Student Meiosis Models

11/12th Mutation Models

Student Mutation Models

11/12th Presentations

Final Presentations

English

Due to a need to meet ELA standards, quarters 3 and 4 do not align with the secondary essential question.

ELA Essential question: Is the American Dream still relevant or attainable today? If so, for whom and how does it affect different groups of people?

Students will be introduced to the topic of the "American Dream" through F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby.

Students will discuss the Themes of Gatsby and connect the text to the Essential Question on the American Dream.

Students will write a timed essay making an argument on the American Dream using evidence from The Great Gatsby.

Students will present their thoughts and opinions on the American Dream as a point of comparison to the perspectives of the various texts they have read and discussed.

History

11th/12th Grade Government worked to understand how the Judicial Branch deals in Civil Rights and Liberties. They began to gather historical understandings of a specific amendment, gather court cases that relate to the amendment, look at current events where the civil right was challenged and then constructed a research paper and multimedia piece to demonstrate their knowledge!

11th/12th Grade worked to gather historical research on a specific civil right/liberty to construct a research paper and a demonstration of their knowledge through multimedia. Examples of the research in relation to the civil liberty the student has chosen has been hyperlinked!

Math 2021-22

The students used data that was given them to produce a confidence interval and then additional data to conduct hypothesis testing. This practice that is pictured below is practice for their final project in which they will collect their own data, find different methods to create visual displays of the data and then conduct hypothesis tests in a real world situation with real data that they collected. This final project uses a lot of the skills that we have spent this year mastering in Statistics.