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Feb 25 Fetal pig dissection

1. Body systems workbook introduction. you need to have section 2.1 done by tomorrow. 2. Fetal pig dissection video and safety procedures: https://youtu.be/dC0yWBXaM28 Students had the option to participate fully, observe only or do an online virtual dissection in the Library

Feb 26 Heart dissection

1. Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7BxV9IdeMs 2. What does the heart do? :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5iCoCaofc 3. Workbook - Section 2.3 For those students who chose not to do the live dissection they were able to do the online dissection: Online virtual dissection: https://www.whitman.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/biology/virtual-pig-x7329

Feb 21 blocks 3/4

1. Finished the questions in the cheek smear investigation lab. All but the last question. 2. watched a you tube video on the chloroplast:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Ymc311XS8&t=0s&index=3&list=PLE5iYIV5plTHcBnWWFRnVZYl8AV7u4hEL 3.  We made models of chloroplasts with green playdough 4. watched a you tube video on mitochondria:  https://youtu.be/Py4R_Up2uBc 5. We made a model of a mitochondria with balloons and lentils 6. We did our worksheet on photosynthesis and cellular respiration and the chemical reactions involved

Feb 20 Block 3/4

1. Finished the questions in the cheek smear investigation lab. All but the last question. 2. watched a you tube video on the chloroplast:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Ymc311XS8&t=0s&index=3&list=PLE5iYIV5plTHcBnWWFRnVZYl8AV7u4hEL 3.  We made models of chloroplasts with green playdough 4. watched a you tube video on mitochondria:  https://youtu.be/Py4R_Up2uBc 5. We made a model of a mitochondria with balloons and lentils 6. We did our worksheet on photosynthesis and cellular respiration and the chemical reactions involved

Feb 19 Block 4 and 8

1. We introduced prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and learned that eukaryotic cells have membrane bound organelles.  Prokaryotic cells do not.  We will explore this more next week 2. Cheek smear investigation

Feb 15 block 8 and 4

Dana was sick today You worked on your genius hour projects.  You should all be in the research phase of your projects and deciding what it's going to look like as a final project.  Remember to check the rubric to make sure you are meeting all of the criteria.

Feb 14 blocks 3/4

1. watched the cell rap video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zafJKbMPA8 2. The Incredible Edible (but not really) cell activity:  http://grad.bio.uci.edu/ecoevo/ahebling/Research/GK-12_files/EdibleCell.pdf 3. Time for reflections on Teams - Due Monday