Investigations in Science 7 - March 29, 2019 Announcements
Investigations in Science 7 - March 29, 2019 Announcements
Investigations in Science 7 - March 29, 2019 Announcements
Announcements:
Wednesday, April 3rd is the last day of quarter 3. Please have your child
check the Portal for any missing assignments and have them turn them in no later
than Tuesday, April 2nd (when my gradebook closes for the quarter).
Coming Up:
Dates:
This week has been all about fun with Punnett Squares. Punnett Square
Palooza! On Monday we took a few notes and immediately started practicing how to
fill in a Punnett square if you know the parents ‘genotype.’ We practiced a lot with
using the vocabulary while completing examples together. An example of a Punnett
Square is below.
Thursday and Friday, we did a Baby Traits lab where students flipped a coin
to determine if their "baby" received a dominant (heads) or recessive (tails)
trait. They then combined mom and dad's alleles together to determine the
genotype of their offspring for each trait. Once all the traits were determined by
coin flipping, they got to draw their baby with the traits that they flipped for. As
a challenge, their group then partnered with another group, and crossbred both
offspring together to see the likelihood of different traits appearing by using
Punnett squares.