Laboratory Schedule

See link to Word version of Laboratory Schedule here.

Laboratory Schedule

Each week’s lab assignments are due on the Thursday (Th.) of that week by 10:59 PM. Plan ahead.

See Weekly Lab Folders for detailed instructions and assignments

Note: the schedule is subject to change

Week

Beginning

Topics -

1

January 13

(Th.) Introductory activities

2

January 20

(Th.) Plant terrariums, situate coleus and fern dishes

3

January 27

(Th.) Dichotomous keys, Winter twigs

-or- Identify trees from leaves & compare to iNaturalist

4

February 3

(Th.) Tree rings, Fern journal

5

February 10

(Th.) Leaf shapes, find examples of leaves and vegetative traits

Identify poison ivy

6

February 17

(Th.) Gymnosperms

7

February 24

(Th.) Flowers, Terrarium questions

8

March 2

(Th.) Starch Test, Nutrition Sources

9

March 9

Spring Break – hooray! Get a head start- Participate in Community Plant Lab activity

10

March 16

(Th.) Coleus cutting and grafting, Plant radish Parentals

11

March 23

(Th.) Phenology, Plant radish F1, Fern Journal update

12

March 30

(Th.) DNA extraction, Plant radish F2

13

April 6

(Th.) Community Plant Activity Lab, Analyze F1, Document F2

14

April 13

(Th.) Radish genetics: Radish final analysis

15

April 20

(Th.) Cooling power of shade trees, Terrarium update

16

April 27

(Th.) No lab!