AP Day and Monarch Migration continues ...

Today was AP Bio day.  We finished up the inquiry portion of the respiration lab today.  Students selected different types of seeds under different temperatures and designed their own lab using respirometers.  We will analyze their results on Thursday.  Also Thursday, we will discuss mitosis and cell division checkpoints ... students have sample questions for this chapter (Chapter 11).

Tomorrow is Selected Topics in Science day.  We will doing a simulation tracking a genetics disease or condition through three generations.  Students will generate a pedigree of their results.  We will be studying modes of inheritance and probability.

In Computer programming, we are working through the first of our qBASIC problems and we are making good progress.  We worked on the guessing game problem today.

When I got home today, I counted eight Monarchs on one of our butterfly plants ... I thought the migration was slowing down but maybe not.  I was hoping for a small roosting of Monarchs but could not find them when I returned at dark after a middle school football game.  Sue Neal said she would check them in the morning.  Sue Neal found another chrysalis today ... a total of three.