Monday, March12, 2018 Day 1

Grade 8 agenda:

Homework:

GENETICS READ AND TAKE NOTES DUE TUESDAY, MATCH 13TH

Do Now:

  • Prepare your desk with your project, project materials

  • Science notebook - prepare a heading

    • "Meiosis Project PRESENTATION Feedback"

  • put away non-essential items (on counters)

Lesson:

Meiosis: Around the world

Paired presentations

Outer ring presents first

  • Score for use of vocabulary and creativity

  • Discuss/clarify with presenter

  • Offer one thing you thought worked well and 1 suggested improvement

  • Presenter to record all feedback in science notebook along with name of who offered it.

Inner ring presents second

  • Score for use of vocabulary and creativity

  • Discuss/clarify with presenter

  • Offer one thing you thought worked well and 1 suggested improvement

  • Presenter to record all feedback in science notebook along with name of who offered it.

Focal Points

  • Does presentation clearly communicate how meiosis achieves the goal of producing  sex cells with a unique mix of genes?

WIN:

  • Second step - Challenge: Relationships

 

Grade 7 agenda:

Homework:

  • Final submission of solo-cup modification wrap up due tomorrow (Tuesday) 8 AM

  • Please be timely so I can grade your work!

Do Now:

  • Get a chrome book and log in the number you are using

  • close it!

  • Open your science notebook

Lesson:

Around the World with Solo - Modified

Content Lecture: SLANT

  • Calculating the slope of a trend-line

  • calculating rate of change from a data table

  • slope and rate of change are same thing

  • Argument from data

Around the World:

  • Compare and share results

  • take notes

  • Final submissions due tomorrow for grading.