Friday April 24th: Evolution and Natural Selection Daily Question Quiz and Practice Final Exam

LAST DQ2 of the YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRST you took the daily question quiz on Edline.
THEN you at least STARTED the practice final exam on Study Island

I am SOOOOOOOOOO proud of the scores I am seeing so far on your practice final!!!  You guys have done a GREAT job at retaining information from this half of the year.  You should be proud!!!

Thursday April 23rd - Macroevolution and Mating Rituals

We still have our Countdown going!!!

Getting excited for our big day!!!

Reminders:
DAILY QUESTION QUIZ TOMORROW
FINAL EXAM NEXT THURSDAY

Today we had another large set of daily questions. They were a combination of the current topic (evolution) and ECOLOGY questions.  This was to see what you remember from 8th grade!!!

I have included both a video of the discussion and the pics

Then we went through Macroevolution:
If you missed today - A good YouTube video, here is a good YouTube video of this topic

AND then one of my FAVORITE playlists of the YEAR......

MATING Rituals!!!

Wednesday April 22nd - Patterns of Micro-evolution

Reminders:

DAILY QUESTION QUIZ FRIDAY!!!!!

FINAL EXAM NEXT THURSDAY!!!!!

We had a lot of daily questions today and they were a combination of new and old keystone questions (module A and B).  We had a pretty lengthy discussion on these so make sure to look at all the notes i made on the questions and answers.  Watching the screencast may also be beneficial to you!!
I'll start off with the screencast:

I printed out the rest of the notes for you so that you could just follow along and participate more in the discussion.  Here were the notes that most of us got through.

Tuesday April 20th Natural Selection continued

Reminders:

Daily Question Quiz Friday 

( THE LAST ONE OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Final Exam next THURSDAY

(You ARE prepared - I promise!!!!)

Today we did less dancing and more notes/discussion.  Tomorrow though...... I can't promise dancing won't occur......

ANYway.....
Daily Questions:

And then notes:

Monday April 20th: Introduction to Evolution and Natural Selection

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are NEARING the END!!!!!!

Game Plan for the next two weeks:

Monday - Wednesday - Go through Evolution and Natural Selection

Thursday:  Flex day.... (as in if we are not through with Evolution and Natural Selection we will finish that and if so we will move on into Ecology)Friday:  Daily Question quiz and Ecology

NEXT week:

Monday/Tuesday:  Ecology review (a review from 8th grade environmental science)

Wednesday Final Exam Review

Thursday Final Exam

Friday:  Last round of CDTs!!!

It's crazy to think how close we are!!!

Today we started with the following daily questions:

then......  I took 6 minutes of your life that you will NEVER get back to watch evolution of dance.

This was a silly way of introducing evolution since well.... this wouldn't be an example of evolution at ALL, but..... we can make the analogy that just like our amazing dance moves have changed over time, species genetic makeup has changed over time!!!

Then into a little bit of notes. 

More about this and less dancing tomorrow!!!!!