AP - Mitosis/Meiosis Lab today ...

Today was AP Biology classes in a block schedule.  We started our Mitosis / Meiosis Lab.  We simulated the stages of mitosis using pop beads and small white boards, did a cell count of the phases of mitosis using onion tip slides, and used Sordaria plates to calculate crossing-over in meiosis.  We did not finish and will have to wrap up a few things on Thursday.

PSAT tomorrow ... it as been ten years since we had a National Merit Semi-Finalist ... only 11 over the last 26 years at our school ... it has been a long dry spell but truthfully, the test is not a priority at our school.  Good luck to those students that did sign up to take the test.

Tomorrow is Selected Topics day and we will be wrapping up genetics, cell division and cancer before our test on Friday.

Parent - Teacher meetings are after school on Thursday!

After school I walked on annual rye grass on waterways where Rex harvested corn.  It was good exercise.  I saw one Monarch this afternoon ... it will have to hurry to make Mexico!

Every morning this last week it has been cool with a heavy dew ... lots of bumblebees spend the night on our purple coneflowers ... they are slow to warm up.  Some of the flowers and weeds have been beautiful in the heavy dew.