January 3-January 13 (updated 1/12)

Welcome to 2012!  I hope that you had a relaxing Winter Break.  I know that I sure did.  Now it's time to get busy and do our unit on Cell Division and prepare for the end of the semester.

• Tues 1/3/2012:  Review phases of mitosis.  Phases of the cell cycle.  Do 1st side of Cell Divison worksheet.  Read 12.1.
• Thurs 1/5/12:  Using microscopes to identify mitosis phases.  Yarn cell simulations.  Complete 2nd side of Cell Division WS.  Read 12.2.
• Mon 1/9/12:  Regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle.   (Read 12.3).  Meiosis and genetics terminology.   Read 13.1.
• Wed 1/11/12:   Fertilization and meiosis.  Comparison of mitosis to meiosis.  Read 13.2 and 13.3.
• Fri 1/13/12:  Ethics and Karyotyping.  Meiosis Creature Building Activity.  Hand out 12+13 Review.  Read 13.4.  Test on Chapters 12+13 next Friday 1/20.

Monday 1/16 is Martin Luther King Day.  No school.