1. Go over emergency procedures: Fire, Lock down, Lab safety, Room Walk Through.
2. Course outline: and classroom expectations: Absences, lates, leaving room, talking, beginning and end of class.
3. School Expectations: Garbage, Language, Code of Conduct.
Complete Safety Worksheets from Workbook Pages VIII - XIII
Hand out Notes to fill out as you watch the following videos: What is DNA
Safety Quiz next class
Hmk: Complete Safety Worksheets from Workbook Pages VIII - XIII and get course outlines signed.
Quiz: General classroom safety and symbols (from notes and workbook questions)
Use the videos and textbook to supplement the notes.
Classwork: Workbook 1.1 pages 2-14
Karyotype activity (done using iPads in class). Use this handout to record results.
Finish working on Workbook 1.1 pages 2-14. Go over some answers to the first few pages.
DNA replication using online simulations
Youtube Heredity: Crash course video
Hmk: Textbook Pg 21 Questions 1-9,13,15
Hmk: Workbook Assessment 1.1 #1-24 (collecting for marks)
Quiz next class: DNA, parts, replication, variation
Homework check on:
Workbook 1.1 (all)
DNA and DNA replication notes (adding your on on the side)
Karyotype activity
Quiz: DNA, Parts, Replication, Variation.
Hand in Assessment 1.1 #1-24
Homework if not completed yet. We'll be marking it on Monday (for marks).
Class discussion about interesting genetic traits (widow's peak, tongue roller, earlobe...)
Handed out and read together the first 2 pages of Mendelian genetics Notes Package.
Hmk: Complete all work that we've done up to this point
Marked and handed in Assessment 1.1 #1-24 from the 1.1 booklet.
Continued working on Mendelian genetics Notes Package.
Finish Mendelian genetics Notes Package.
Hmk: Finish booklet
Intro to Genetics: Youtube: SpongeBob Genetics Video
Do Bikini Bottom Genetics 1 Questions (go over together)
Quiz next class on Complete Dominance
Homework check on Mendelian genetics Notes Package and Bikini Bottom Genetics 1 and Bikini Bottom Genetics 2.
2 question Quiz on Complete Dominance.
Review Complete dominance workbook
Notes: Incomplete/Codominance Notes
PTC paper test Activity p.30
Classwork: Workbook Pg 26-27
Classwork: Worksheet on Complete dominance, Incomplete dominance and Co-dominance questions.
Finish working on genetic work from this week.
Quiz Tuesday: Complete dominance, Incomplete dominance, Co-dominance, Sex-Linked traits quiz
In Class work: Heredity Questions Worksheet #1-7
DNA Review work: DNA parts/replication review
DNA Review work Answers: DNA parts/replication review answers
Heredity Review work: Test Review Worksheet # 1-13
Review work Answers: Test Review Worksheet #1-13 answers
Homework check on all the worksheets that we've done up to this point.
Going over all Genetics Review Worksheets for exam next day!
Quiz: Sex-linked genes, Co-dominance (regular and Blood), and complete dominant quiz
Mark quiz in class.
DNA and Inheritance (punnett squares) topic test
Mark as much of the test in class.
Work on 1.3 Booklet - How Can Natural and Artificial Selection Influence Changes in Populations
Use p.44-63 of the textbook. Do not take textbooks home.
You are working on Learning about this section on your own. We will watch a few videos next day to reinforce concepts in this section.
Finish 1.3 Booklet
Videos to reinforce points in 1.3 Booklet
Intro to Galapagos (watch up to 2min 40sec) & Adaptive Radiation (an example of speciation)
"Tracking Black Canada - Ladies of the Movement"
Notes: Transgenic Organisms
Finish Transgenic plant activity
Videos to reinforce last day's topics
Apple that doesn't turn brown. (transgenic plant)
What are Genetically Modified Organisms (first 2min 50sec)
Genetic Engineering (Amoeba Sisters)
Working on 1.4 Booklet
Notes: Gene Therapy
Finish working on 1.4 Booklet
Launch the Interactive Lesson on "The Promise and Perils of Genetic Technologies" and complete the following worksheet that goes with it.
Homework check to update marks.
1.3-1.4 Quiz
We'll mark it in class and then re-grade the 1.2-1.3 DNA/Inheritance Test we did earlier.
Homework check to update marks.
Youtube: Nova: Cracking the genetic code PBS documentary. (start at 3min 20sec)