Heredity+and+Genetics

Welcome to the next Life Science Unit! Essential Questions: //**1. How do genes contribute to an organism’s survival?**// //**2. Why are genes important in determining hereditary traits?**// //**3. How can a mutation be helpful?**// //**4. Why do I look the way I do?**// //**5. How can I predict what traits will be passed from one generation to another?**// //**6. Why is selective breeding important to me?**// //**7. How is genetic material passed from parents to their offspring?**// //**8. How can our knowledge of genetics be useful?**//
 * Date || Classwork and Topics || Follow up and Homework - due next class ||
 * February 16 || Final Assessment- Fossils

New Textbooks - Cells and Heredity

What are some ideas you have about how genetic information is passed on?

Pre-assessment- Baby Mice

Genes - Video and shared sheet || HW: New Text - read pg 56-63 || 2) Reproduction - how is genetic material passed on? Asexual Reproduction - notes Class Activity || HW: Complete vocab organizer for pg. 56-63 - shared doc ||
 * February 18 || 1) Update e-portfolio
 * Feb 20 || Understanding Asexual Reproduction:

1) Complete slide 2) Present and take notes on shared doc - advantages and disadvantages || HW: Read 64-67 Sketch the steps of Mitiosis || 2) Notes- Sexual Reproduction 3) Reading 4) Paragraph Summary of Asexual Reproduction || HW: Read 66-69 and Sketch Meiosis ||
 * Feb 24 || 1) Review Mitosis
 * March 2 || 1) Review Sexual Reproduction Handout

2) Self evaluate Asexual Reproduction Paragraph on Moodle- using this rubric



Mitosis vs. Meiosis - Venn Diagram Comparison

|| HW: Prepare for flower dissection next Sunday - bring a flower for 1pt!

[|Watch this]

READ pg 80-87

Complete organizer -shared || 2) Flower Dissection Lab: Resources for the lab [|Parts and Definitions] [|Hibiscus Flower Diagram]
 * March 9 || 1) Review homework as needed - Venn Diagram

ASSESSMENT COMING MARCH 23rd - study guide will be shared one week before || HW: Reading Organizer - pg 80-87 - due Tuesday - was shared one week ago || 2) Pollinators - 2) DNA - Tour of the Basics- [|use link here to start tour]: || HW: 1) Review flower parts [|using this link] 2) Work on DNA Tour: minimum (1-10) complete for Thursday || 2) Strawberry DNA Extraction
 * March 11 || 1) Complete Flower Dissection - hand in lab sheets for effort in class
 * March 13 || 1) Complete DNA Tour sheet/review

|| HW: 1) Strawberry DNA Extraction questions completed

2) Study and/or reread section 56-63 in textbook and vocabulary organizer as well for next class - READING CHECK UP QUIZ? ||