Hello blog readers! yes.... Both of you.
Today I sent home a revised edition of my rules and expectations. It is due signed by friday!
Its time for the new semester!! I am hoping that all of us can see this as a fresh start and the motivation to improve our weaknesses. Whether it is time management, note taking, or a simple attitude realignment, setting a goal and working to reach it is the difference between opening academic doors and scraping by with the bare minimum.
Its like Ghandi said. "Live like you'll die tomorrow and learn like you will never die."
Life Science!!
Monday 1/23
Today we went over the rules and talked about new points of emphasis for the semester after getting our new seating chart worked out. My goals for the semester are faster grading, better updating on missing work, and putting the hammer down for in class discipline. We also picked QOD teams and named them.
Then we talked about Mendel and basic genetics. They learned the difference between a trait and a chracteristic. These phrases may be interchangeable in the world at large, but in genetics, it's important to understand the difference.
Traits are options for chracteristics.
Ex. Hair color is a chracteristic. Brown hair is a trait.
Blue is a trait. Car color is a chracteristic.
Understanding the difference is a big step to understanding this chapter.
Earth Science!!
I have officially doubled the numebr of earth science classes that I have. Today we went over rules and QOD teams. Then I started on Volcanoes. We talked about general volcano information and finished by showing how subduction can heat the plate underneath and that less dense magma will find its way to the surface in the form of a volcano.
No comments:
Post a Comment