Rain out with wind and how things change in AP Bio

In AP Biology, we worked on our questions on evolution ... lots on natural selection and survival of the fittest ... proofs of evolution and population genetics.  We had a great serious discussion with some great ideas and thinking!  Tomorrow we will wrap up this discussion.  Most of our flies seemed to survive the transfer yesterday.

In Selected Topics, students designed their own labs to test batteries and prove Faraday's Law.  It is much harder to design your own lab to prove YOUR hypothesis than to do a canned lab.  Things went pretty well but students don't feel comfortable designing their labs ... too much thinking for most and fear of failure.

Pictured below are Rebecca and Cassie ... Champions of making Electromagnets ... their entry picked up 79 paperclips !!!!  A new school record!  They recommend Duracell!

We had varsity practice after school ... hitting and infield practice.  Our freshman double-header was rained out when a front came through ... blowing down the scoreboard on the baseball field and blowing our bleachers against the our backstop.  Rained hard for about 10 minutes with small hail.  We will be able to play tomorrow against #1 Mercy, should be a great game!

Redbuds are out and I did some late pruning of my pear trees since it was still light when I got home.  It appears the fruit trees I set out two years ago will yield some cherries, apples and pears this year!

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