extra credit issues!!!

Hey Everyone- If you are trying to do the extra credit and you are emailing it to me please copy and either put it in the email or in word one test or mini assessment per email....Also you MUST GET A 60% or better for it to count! Any questions please ask!

March 24 and March 25

Objective: Students will be taking the Unit 8 exam in order to prepare for the HSA


Warm Up: Take 10 minutes to study for the test.



POA:
TEST TODAY

Hand in anywork that needs to be checked...Last chance....Grades will go in Thursday!

March 22 and March 23

Objective: Students will be reviewing for the Unit 8 exam in order to prepare for the test next class.



Warm Up:
1. Organisms that have two identical alleles for a particular trait are said to be
A. hybrid.
B. homozygous.
C. heterozygous.
D. dominant.

2. When you flip a coin, what is the probability that it will come up tails?
F. 1/2
G. 1/4
H. 1/8
J. 1

3. In horses, the allele for straight hair (B) is dominant to the allele for curly hair (b). Which of these sets of parents can produce offspring with curly hair?
A. a heterozygous male with straight hair and a homozygous female with straight hair
B. a homozygous male with curly hair and a homozygous female with straight hair
C. a heterozygous male with straight hair and a heterozygous female with straight hair
D. a homozygous male with straight hair and a homozygous female with straight hair

4. Which of these is an example of a heterozygous genotype?
F. Rr
G. RR
H. wrinkled
J. round

5. In the Parent generation, a true breeding tall plant is crossed with a true breeding short plant. The probability that an F1 plant will be tall is
A. 25%.
B. 50%.
C. 75%
D. 100%.

Vocabulary:
NONE!


POA:
1. Warm up
2. Notebook Check
3. Finish Review Sheet
4. Punnett Square Quiz


Homework Due:
Review Sheet

Tonight's Homework:
Finish Quiz
Finish Review Sheet
Study for the test!

Even more extra credit!!!

If you would like to MORE extra credit: If you print out and turn in the Spring Break packet you will get even more extra credit!

Here is the website: http://www1.pgcps.org/curriculum/index.aspx?id=42588

more extra credit!

Hello All-
Here is another extra credit opportunity for you:
go to this website and complete the following mini assessments:
1. http://mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/look_like/2009/biology/miniassess_index.html
2. http://mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/look_like/2008/biology/miniassess_index.html
3.http://mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/look_like/2007/biology/miniassess_index.html
4. http://mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/look_like/2006/biology/miniassess_index.html
5. http://mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/look_like/2005/biology/miniassess_index.html
6. http://mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/look_like/2004/biology/miniassess_index.html


Remember- Ms. Fulmer is trying to give you all possible options for you to successfully pass not only my class, but also the HSA. As you do these different websites you will notice that a lot of the questions are the same or repeat over the years!

Also you are still able to go to the other site and complete that extra credit and bring in 5 items! If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

March 18 and March 19

OBJECTIVE: Students will explore the transimission of a single sex-linked trait in order to explain why x-linked diseases have a higher occurence in males than females.

WARM-UP: Explain how, using a Punnett Square, two brown rabbits could produce white offspring.

VOCABULARY:
1) incomplete dominance
2) trait
3) inheritance
4) codominance
4) multiple alleles

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Are Traits Inherited? p. 262
3) Sex-linked traits review
4) Punnett Square practice
5) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Section 11-2 Assessment p. 269

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 11-1 Assessment p. 266

March 16 and March 17 (might go on to March 18 and March 19)

Objective: Students will be completing the FAST test in order to guage their progress towards the HSA.


Warm Up:
Take 10 minutes to study for the test.



Homework Due:
Sponge Bob worksheet 2


Tonights Homework:
Section 11-1 Assessment p. 266

March 19

**Email Ms. Fulmer at shannon.fulmer@pgcps.org for 10 extra credit points!***

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform an activity in order to predict how traits will be inherited.

WARM-UP: What does it mean to be a "carrier" of a gene?

VOCABULARY:
1) incomplete dominance
2) sex-linked traits
3) hybrid
4) purebred



POA:
1. Warm Up and Vocabulary
2. Sponge Bob worksheet 1 go over
3. Sponge Bob worksheet 2


Homework Due:
Sponge Bob worksheet 1

Tonights Homework:
Sponge Bob worksheet 2

March 10 and March 11

EXTRA EXTRA CREDIT
go to the following website and start preparing for the HSA. Complete a section test and print out your results and earn extra credit!
http://apps.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/hsaprep/index.aspx

Any Questions please see Ms. Fulmer

Objective:
Students will explore the principles of probability in order to predict what traits will be expressed in hypothetical offspring.

Warm Up:
Describe the difference between someones genotype and phenotype.



VOCABULARY:
1) Recessive
2) Dominant
3) Probability
4) Heterozygous
5) Homozygous


POA-
1. Warm Up and Vocabulary
2. Hand in Homework
3. Discussion on Movie "Faces of America"
4. Notes
5. Sponge Bob worksheet Genetics 1
6. HSA Prep
7. Closure

Homework Due:
Read and outline 11-5

Tonights homework: Finish worksheet

***Extra Credit*** Due by March 25
Bring in 5 of the following items:
-Pack of Glue Sticks
-Colored Pencil pack
-Markers pack
-Paper Towels
-Hand Sanitizer
-Tissues
-Lysol
-National Geographic Mags

March 8 and March 9

EXTRA EXTRA CREDIT
go to the following website and start preparing for the HSA. Complete a section test and print out your results and earn extra credit!
http://apps.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/hsaprep/index.aspx

Any Questions please see Ms. Fulmer



Objective: Students will be watching a movie in order to compare the relationships of different people with their DNA.


Warm Up: Discussion of Unit 7 exam!


Vocabulary:
None


POA-
1. Warm Up
2. Hand in Homework
3. Movie and notes
4. Closure

Homework Due- Read and outline 11-4

Tonight's Homework- Read and outline 11-5


***Extra Credit*** Due by March 25
Bring in 5 of the following items:
-Pack of Glue Sticks
-Colored Pencil pack
-Markers pack
-Paper Towels
-Hand Sanitizer
-Tissues
-Lysol
-National Geographic Mags

March 4 and March 5

Objective: Students will be taking their Unit 7 exam in order to guage their progress towards passing the HSA.


Warm Up: Take 10 minutes to study for your test.


POA
1. Study
2. Test
3. Game


Homework Due: Unit 7 review


Tonight's Homework: Read and take notes on 11-4.

March 2 and March 3

Objective: Students will be reviewing Unit 7 in order to complete the Unit 7 exam next class.



Warm Up:
1. When the gametes from the male and female plants combine, what do they form?
A. zygote
B. haploid cell
C. a cell with the 4N number
D. all of the above

2. A sperm cell of a moth has 112 chromosomes. How many chromosomes are in the moth’s wing cells?
A. 66
B. 112
C. 224
D. 448

3. How many chromosomes are shown in a normal human karyotype?
F. 2
G. 23
H. 44
J. 46

4. The chemical factors that determine traits are called
F. alleles.
G. traits.
H. genes.
J. characters.

5. What percentage of human sperm cells carry a Y chromosome?
A. 0%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 100%


POA-
1. Warm Up
2. Hand in homework
3. Go over warm up
4. Lesson on homozygous/ heterozygous
5. Project work
6. presentations
7. Chromosome worksheet
8. Closure


Homework Due: 11-4 Workbook


Tonight's Homework:
STUDY FOR THE TEST
REVIEW SHEET


Notes:
Will be doing a notebook check on the 18 and 19 of March...Will be a test grade need to have warm ups and vocabulary for all of 3rd quarter.

Feb 26 and March 1

Objective: Students will continue to work on their group projects in order to explain the different steps of meiosis.



Warm Up: How many chromosomes would be in a gamete of an organism that has 53 chromosomes in a skin cell? Explain your answer.






Vocabulary:
1. Nondisjunction
2. recombination
3. independent assortment
4. genotype
5. phenotype

POA
1. Warm Up and Vocabulary
2. Classwork
3. Group Project
4. Closure



Homework:
workbook 11-4



Homework due: