This is the daily classroom agenda for Paxton Center School Grade 7 Science. Lesson plans, homework, and other relevant information will be posted here each class.
Review Naturally Selected to Survive
Located in GC
Peppered Moths and Natural Selection
This activity is located in Google Classroom.
You have 20 minutes to complete it.
Discuss
Located in Google Classroom due NLT midnight tonight
Naturally Selected to Survive.
Make-ups
Re-takes
Review Selective Breeding Webquest
Making of The Fittest
Confirm all work complete:
PhET Natural Selection
Intro
Advanced
Selective Breeding
Complete “Ribosomes” for tomorrow.
Students to complete all through Experiment A
conference and discuss with me.
Correct and turn in.
Complete “Ribosomes” for tomorrow.
Review Q’s 1-5
Discuss
Students to complete “Experiment A”
See me for conference.
Correct and turn in.
Please complete “Protein” for tomorrow
due for class tomorrow.
“Mutation” Section due Today - review and discuss
Please complete Protein for tomorrow
Located in Google Classroom
Please complete “Mutation” for Tuesday
Review Answers for “Gene”
Located in Google Classroom
Review in class as time permits.
“Nucleotide and Bases”” Section due
Mutations Classification Excercise
Please complete “Nucleotide” and “Base” for tomorrow
This is a change from what was assigned yesterday.
“DNA” Section due Today - review and discuss
Please complete Nucleotide and Base for tomorrow
Finish DI: What is the effect of mutations? (as needed)
What is a mutation?
What causes mutations?
How do mutations change an organism?
How do mutations affect an organism?
Fitness
Deleterious
neutral
beneficial
Time to work on reading or Study guide as needed.
“DNA” Section due tomorrow
What is a mutation?
What causes mutations?
How do mutations change an organism?
How do mutations affect an organism?
Fitness
Deleterious
neutral
beneficial
Do Now Comprehension Check
Study Social Studies
What is a mutation?
What causes mutations?
How do mutations change an organism?
How do mutations affect an organism?
Fitness
Deleterious
neutral
beneficial
You will do the “Punnett Square” portion of the quiz tomorrow.
If choosing 1 or 2, I found it useful to show the BrainPOP DNA movie again before proceeding.
Students open the BrainPOP DNA assignment in Google Classroom
Open BrainPOP DNA on the white board
Open the “Challenge Activities”
Choose “Review Challenge”
Complete Challenge 1 -
students to volunteer answers have a volunteer “webmaster” click, and enter on the website
Check the responses and Ss to correct their own work.
Ditto Challenge 2, Challenge 3, Challenge 4
Students to resubmit.
Students to provide answers - call and response
Click and Check/correct on quiz
Paired Flashcard Work
pair up with partners and reciprocal flashcard practice
Around the World format (students know how to set this up)
Students seated across from each other at tables around perimeter of class space
work for 2 minutes with partner
everyone switches on seat to the right
work with new partner
repeat
Student Survivor
All stand
Random student choice
Ask a questions based on the Flashcard List Answer Key
Sit if wrong, stand if right
Repeat with “random” selection until everyone has had a chance and then whittle the class down to a single survivor.
Due before class tomorrow.
Expand your flashcard deck from 14 cards to 18 cards. Add/include:
Incomplete dominance
Codominance
Multiple Alleles
Polygenic Inheritance
Term on front/definition on back
Add Color illustration for (more) extra credit
Due Monday
Students to take notes/annotate Complex Patterns of Inheritance Reading companion
