Quizlet Extra Credit

Just a reminder...I'm offering extra credit on the next quiz for the people who score the highest scores on the Quizlet flashcard set I made. What a great way to spend your day off :)

High Scores thus far are by L. Bradford & L. Kane & I. Swanson.

Quiz over this material will be Wednesday or Thursday (we'll discuss this tomorrow).

Enjoy your day off.

http://quizlet.com/3669302/dna-replication-protein-synthesis-flash-cards/

DNA Extra Credit

If you choose to do so, you may make a DNA model for extra credit. If your model meets all of the requirements listed in the rubric, then I'll eliminate your lowest quiz or lab score (not including the midterm exam, plant formal lab, or the Code Blue project. The final due date for the model is Jan. 14, 2011

DNA model rubric

Plant Formal Lab 1st Submission & Schedule for the week of 12-6-10

Hello everyone. Just a reminder that the plant formal lab's first submission is due this Wed, Feb 8, 2010 by 11:59pm. I would prefer a paper copy of your lab report this go round. If you upload yours to our learn.spartachools.org site, please send me an email so I know to look for it there.

It appears that my old website is down again, so here are the links that were available from it:
Basic format template
formal science requirements PowerPoint
grading rubric
background information required for introduction

Schedule for the week of December 6, 2010:
Mon. Dec. 6 - Intro DNA structure & DNA replication
Tue. Dec. 7 - Meiosis & comparing meiosis to mitosis & begin GATTACA
Wed. Dec. 8 - Intro protein synthesis & RNA & transcription
Thu. Dec. 9 - Review & translation (more protein synthesis)
Fri. Dec. 10 - DNA mutations & finish GATTACA

Have a good week

Quiz Friday December 3, 2010

Just a reminder that there will be a quiz on Friday over the cell cycle, cell cycle regulation, & cancer. Your review sheets (for a copy, click here) will be due on Friday as well. Following the quiz, you will have time to work on your plant formal labs (first submission due date is 12-8-10). Study :)

Creating a Chart in Excel 2007

Check out this tutorial that walks you through creating tables & charts in Excel 2007 & Google Docs.  If you have an older version of excel, click here for a tutorial on making a chart

Excel 2007 (installed on our computers here at SHS) - After creating the table and graph, you can copy & paste it into your lab writeup.


How to make a chart in Google Docs

Plant Formal Labs

Hey everybody. Now that we are done collecting data on our plant studies, its time to start working on how to setup our formal lab reports. Each of your groups is now expected to write a formal lab report that would be typical of an introductory biology student in college. You have until December 8, 2010 to submit the first copy of your report and I will then give you until January 7, 2011 to submit your final copy. You may make unlimited corrections to your report during the month until you reach a perfect score. Whatever your score is on Jan. 7, 2011 is what your final score will become.

Check out the following link for resources that might be helpful for this report: http://staffpage.spartaschools.org/staff/matt.landry/landrynotes.htmLook at links 2-5. Also, for the written writeup explanation given in class, click here

You will be submitting one report per group and it is up to you and your partner to determine how to break up the report. I do have some examples that you may look at in class only. If you have any questions, please send them my way. Thanks.

I need your help

Hey everybody. For a class I am currently taking, I had to setup a quiz on copyrighting and have a group of people take the quiz. If you could find the time to take this short quiz, I would certainly appreciate it. Thanks.