Thursday, November 12, 2009

Mr. Slotterback's Homework Week of Nov 16, 2009

Pd 1,2 Practical General Biology

Mon: Notes on bacteria: we will collect bacteria from surfaces around the room and culture it. for h.w. read page 52-554 answer questions #1-5 (554) for Tuesday
Tues: we will have notes in class on viruses
Wed: we will observe growth of our bacteria
Thur: Bacteriophage drawing; video "bacteria
Friday: quiz on bacteria and viruses

Pd 3,4,5, Environmental Science

Mon: design experiment to test mahanoy creek samples
Tues: note on biomonitoring
Wed: do actual testing of polluted water samples
Thur: write rough draft of mahanoy creek report according to lab report rubric. Final version, typed will be due one week from this day
Fri: set up eutrophication study according to directions on page 204-205

Pd 6 Biotechnology

Mon-Wed. We will be using the microscopes from Science in Motion to study the movements of different types of pond organisms. We will learn to use the microscopes to save images and to process and print the images.
Thur- We will monitor the progress of our drosophila experiment
Fri: quiz on methods of selecting flies for crosses (use handouts to prepare for this quiz); short video on "Genes"

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