Bushhogged some of the pollinator/wildlife food plots this evening and will try and plant tomorrow before it rains. I saw a second group of night hawks feeding near our house ... probably eating some of the many green darners. There were about two dozen and there were zipping around like barn swallows on steroids ... diving and soaring, it was a great show! Our fall wildflowers are starting to move past the peak blooming period ... lots of wingstem and goldenrod. Pictures from our farm below.
Today at school, our sophomores took the PLAN test to establish a baseline for their ability to preform on the ACT test. My junior flex class took a practice ACT. They worked hard and took it seriously even though it was a practice ACT. It will be scored and returned to them to analyze at a later date. My computer class met fifth period and we are now about two days ahead of my other computer class which will miss some class time again because of a pep rally.
My AP classes met for about 50 minutes each at the end of the day. We finished cell communication ... signal transduction, apoptosis and more. Next Monday we have a test on Chapters 2-10. Tuesday will be the start of the respiration lab, using respirometers and germinated seeds to measure aerobic respiration (oxygen consumption). A little harder to do the labs on our new schedule.
Tomorrow in Selected Topics in Science, we are working on protein synthesis, how proteins are made and what happens when there are mistakes (mutations) in your DNA. Genetics is around the corner next week and after fall break we will wrap up our biology unit and head to earth science.
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