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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Back to work ... winter solstice nearing!

Tomorrow, we will start the push to Christmas vacation ... and more importantly winter solstice!  We will be on our 8-period Monday so, all classes will meet.  Club schedule will be next Monday.

In AP Biology, we will be working on gene regulation ... lac operon,  trp operon and eukaryotic gene regulation.  Students has Biozone worksheets for tomorrow ... we are working in Campbell - Chapter 18 - 19.  Other topics for tomorrow are post-transcriptional regulation of genes, homeotic genes and viruses.
We have a lab scheduled for Thursday ... Diffusion and Osmosis lab.  Students have the lab handout and we will prep up the lab tomorrow and Tuesday.  Also, our Drosophila Lab continues this week.

In Selected Topics in Science, we are still working on PhET simulations and we will start our Catapult Physics Lab on Tuesday.

In Computer Science, students are working on programming animation in qBASIC.  Our graphics unit will continue to near Christmas vacation.

We had a good Thanksgiving vacation in Holland.  Sue Neal's extended family was over on Thursday and our oldest daughter and husband were home until today.  Ms. Foster's family was over on Friday for breakfast.  We took several walks and Rachel found some white planaria to take back to Champaign.  This morning, I took a walk shortly after sunrise and heard two barred owls fighting (sounded like cats) with the loser flying off from the battle.  Barred owls look like a loaf of wheat bread with wings.

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