Adult Learning Math and Science
Doing Section 17.2 in the Reference Readings. Evolution as Genetic Change in Populations. Pretty difficult to avoid evolution! Finishing our Mid-Term Review. It is/will be in our Daily Lessons shared folder of course. Issuing the Take-Home Mid-Term. Due no later Continue Reading
A busy morning. Decided to make tomorrow’s TEST a take-home. I will issue the test tomorrow (Thursday) it will be due in No Later Than (NLT) Tuesday 09:15. This will hopefully help a few students. Finished Section 17.1 Genes and Continue Reading
Issued assignment CHARLIE – 3 Darwin Presents His Case. A few select movies from our Unit Playlist introduced us to 16.4 Evidence of Evolution. Evidence of Evolution Movies. Finishing up section 16.4 – Evidence of Evolution and working on the Continue Reading
Working on Chapter 16 – Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Mr. D pretty much reads the entire chapter to you: Mr D Chap 16 Movies. Of course movie are not a good way to learn! You still need to read, digest, Continue Reading
Good morning! Here is the plan for today! Finish Unit A with a Sex-Linked worksheet; see how mom gives her son baldness or colour blindness or diseases that a son cannot counteract with his shrimpy deficient Y Chromosome that his Continue Reading
Slipping behind! I will keep the pace up still! Review those movies I have showed you before in the unlikely event the entire course needs to go to remote learning. Connecting to the Internet for course work (with a Microsoft Continue Reading
I returned the Quiz from yesterday. The Mean mark was 82% , good work. Finished up Section 11.4 Meiosis in our readings. Explored the idea briefly of gene linkage, where maybe the genes are NOT always sorted independently. Maybe if Continue Reading
We made some Superbabies! A cross between your two favourite superheroes to see what sort of powers the offspring would have! Read ahead no to Section 11.4 – Meiosis. Some really crazy gene shuffling so that the offspring get a Continue Reading
Only three students? Looked at Blood type, reviewed vocabulary, did word find to strengthen vocabulary. Postponed the Superbabies till tomorrow (Wed). Lunch tomorrow includes Soup and Sandwich! And our Elder is doing a presentation too over lunch!
Got lots done! [a few students missing!] Did Assignment ALPHA-3 Guinea Pigs Dihybrid Cross(es) in class! Watched most of a Nature of Things (David Suzuki) Episode (like on APTN) all about Genetics: Scary, we can actually do genetics in Continue Reading
A great half-day! We debriefed the Weekly Quiz. We checked out how a Dihybrid cross (two factors) would work. You may see a movie of mine with three factors; that takes 64 squares, so fun! Next week we will get Continue Reading
Awesome! The regular weekly Thursday quiz went well. Last chance tomorrow if you missed it. We read Section 11.2 Applying Mendel’s Principles. We are working on single factor Punnett squares. Calculating the probability of an offspring having a certain trait Continue Reading