Brine Shrimp and 142 lbs.

In Genetics today, we went over discussion questions in our chapter on cancer ... oncogenes, tumor-suppressor genes, p53 and more ... we concluded the first part of our natural selection lab, testing the ability of brine shrimp to hatch at various concentrations of salt in water.  We pollinated flowers again today and had our third quiz on the immune system without having a majority pass ... yet.

Yesterday I did a demonstration on beekeeping ... Wayne tried on one of my bee suits below ... You look like a veteran beekeeper Wayne!

We concluded our structure building lab with a test of student structures today ... congrats of Josh and Ryan below ... they won with their structure holding 142 lbs.  Posing with their prize ... a pound of Pap Downing Honey from Holland KY, each.   Monday we wrap up our physics unit before going on to plant and animal science.

We waited for all to finish the Josh lottery problem today ... our big lottery analysis program will start on Monday... next week will be the last week for qBASIC.

A long walk after school about dark ... lots of barred owls calling out tonight.