AP Biology classes will return to computer lab to finish their Excel spreadsheet modeling of population genetics / Hardy - Weinberg. Student have made one model without selection and will adjust their model to explore one of the five conditions of the Hardy - Weinberg Equilibrium. We review next week and then get started on our biotechnology labs ... DNA Electrophoresis and Bacterial Transformation Lab (pBLU).
Selected Topics is still working on their physics unit. We will working on a pHET electricity siumation lab.
Computer Programming I will we wrapping up their study of qBASIC in January before moving on to Microsoft Visual BASIC. We are working on single dimension, two-dimensional arrays and sorting.
Computer Programming II will continue our work in Python programming. We are currently working on problems that involve lists. Later in the month, we will start our project rotation which include raspberry pi computers, arduinos (open-source electronics platform), finch robots (Carneige Mellon University), snap programming (UC Berkley) and App Inventor by MIT. This project rotation will lead to a student invention by the end of the second semester.
Good luck to all seniors ... less than 90 days to go ... get those applications and FAFSA forms completed ... NOW!
Winter is a good time to study ferns, mosses and lichens ... take a break from Facebook and gaming ... get outside and take a walk! Below, walking ferns (Asplenium rihizophyllum) is a small fern found in Allen County on limestone outcroppings.
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