Welcome to AgKnight Advanced Science 2012!
3rd Quarter 1/23 -3/29
1/23 – Gong Xi Fa Cai 4709! We leave the Year of Rabbit and enter Year of H2O Dragon.
2/2 Early release
2/8 Report Cards
2/20 Holiday
2/24 Interims
2/28 – 3/1 FCAT Writing
3/12 – 3/16 Spring Break
3/29 Early Release
Eureka! Your team has discovered 2 species that share a common ancestor. Broadcast or write an article. | Evolution Song! Write a song about 2 species that share a common ancestor. Use details about structural evidence. | Frozen In Time! Build a model of a fossil dig site, depicting layers of rock. |
Silence Doubts! Use evidence to write a persuasive letter to a scientist that thinks 2 species are too different to be related. | Know the Cycle! Make a scrapbookthat shows the 3 stages of cell cycle. | To Be DNA! A monologue in which you are DNA, describe the changes you will experience in mitosis. |
Why, Oh Why? Create a video Describing reasons unicellular & multicellular organisms go through cell division. | Parent Clone! Write & draw a journal entry for a plant or animal that is exactly the same as its parent. | Comic Strip! Show how humans have changed an animal or plant over time. |
Type Casting! Make a poster showing the relationship between genotype & phenotype. | Dominance Difference! Make a chart showing co-dominance, complete dominance, & incomplete dominance. | On My Own! Design your assessment –Get educators approval, then enjoy! |
Monday 2/6: 2 Good for Drug Program. Pay 'back' for successful hypothesizing! Biotine as in Valentine assigned - due next Monday, 2/13, one system and 8 lines of verse in card!
Tuesday 2/7: Vocabulary for Brainiac!
Wednesday 2/8 Passport to Success FCAT Camp Continues - Mrs. Hartman and I look forward to seeing you Wednesday morning. In class we are in the lab exploring FCAT.
Thursday 2/9: SSR and INTRODUCE Endocrine System.
Friday: 2/10: Endocrine System.