Biology 1

Announcements: Interactive Notebooks and Do Now Notebooks due this Friday 4/2/10 FROM EVERY ONE; Students need to complete at least three USATESTPREP practices over spring break - these will be counted as a grade for the class; the students need to email results to me at mrmartin@mcsdga.net or press the link on the page

Standards covered this week:

SB1a. Explain the role of cell organelles in cell reproduction

SB2. Students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

SB2c. Using Mendel's laws, explain the role of meiosis in reproductive variability.

Monday:

Test corrections; HW (due Wednesday) Read p. 274-275 "Limits to Cell Size" do p. 278 #1 and 2; Read p. 279-284 (10.2) and Do 10.2 Assessment (1-5)

Tuesday:

MAP testing

Wednesday:

Do Now; Go over homework from Monday: Create foldable on mitotic stages; Quiz on these stages Friday

Thursday:

Substitute with independent work

Friday:

Do Now; Quiz on stages of mitosis; Lecture on Mendel's principles and the role of meiosis in reproductive variability; Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis work; Practice Punnett Square problems; STUDENTS ASSIGNED TO PRACTICE USATESTPREP over Spring Break; need to complete and email three practices