Pd 1,2 Env. Science

"Be Waterwise" Poster for Schuylkill Conservation District Contest due next Monday. We will work on it in class Monday and Tuesday. Students should also find an environmental article from newspaper and bring it in by next monday. The rest of the week we will continue into our air pollution unit, discussing and demonstrating inversions.

Students will need to do research outside of class on both sides of the global warming debate: is global warming mostly a natural cycle, or mostly caused by people's actions? Students will then write an opinion paper on what they find.

Pd 3,4 Practical Biology

For tuesday: section reviews pg 558:#1-6, 561: #1-5, and 565: #1-6
We will focus on protists and algae this week and conclude our microorganism unit next week . Wednesday will be a quiz on bacteria.

Pd 5 Academic Biology

for tuesday: pg 171: #1-5 and 176: #1-5
Tuesday will be a lecture on meiosis and the week will conclude with Notes on Mendel's genetics and students practicing punnett squares. Friday will be a quiz on meiosis

Pd 6 Biotechnology

This week we will practice unit analysis method of converting units and apply it by converting metric to english units. Another topic this week will be significant figures, with a quiz on that Thursday. Next topic will be modeling DNA structure.