Birds, Belted Kingfisher and Restriction Lab

Tomorrow in genetics,  we will be doing our restriction lab using electrophoresis to separate fragments of DNA for analysis.  We will not have class on Friday due to an assembly first block ... we will have to squeeze to get everything done tomorrow and Thursday.  I will try and take some pictures of the lab tomorrow ...

In Selected Topics we continue our study of animal science with bird identification.  Tomorrow, we have as test on invertebrates and vertebrates.  Bird identification (about sixty local birds) will continue until Friday.  It is amazing that students in high school know so little about their environment ... how can you protect something that you don't know exists!

Students are working through their last set of visual BASIC problems.  Today we looked at programming timers and for animation of objects in small groups.  Tomorrow, invisible buttons.

Tomorrow, we have professional development after school from 3-5.

Students were most curious about the belted kingfisher today during our study ... frequently found along Long Creek and Barren River.  A male below ...

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