Genetics Current Events

Science Current events about Genes, Genetics and Heredity. Due 2/12

Choose one of the following articles below, and use the form to analyze the article.

Preferred method of submission - E-mail- peter.kelly@redclay.k12.de.us

Your Name 
Date 
Subject-Period

1. News Source (Newspaper Name, Magazine etc.) 

2. Date of Source 

3. Location of event in article 
City    Country    Continent 

4. Headline 

5. Summary 
      Who is the event about? 
      What happened? 
      When did the event happen? 
      Where did the event happen? 
      Why did the event happen? 
       other details 

6. Write the above facts into a paragraph 

7. Opinion: What do you think of the event. Would you have reacted the same? Why or why not? 
Why is this science information important to you? 



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-pigs-genus-idUSKBN0TR1DL20151208?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-pigs-genus-idUSKBN0TR1DL20151208?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151008142459.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151001094723.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/schools-kicked-boy-based-dna/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160203145716.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160201125518.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-genes-editing-idUSKCN0VA26P?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160128151937.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/29/464893309/scientists-use-genetic-engineering-to-vanquish-disease-carrying-insects?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=science

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160126091523.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160119153508.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-health-mosquito-idUSKCN0UX2V3?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

Coming Weeks 2/8- ?

Reading Madness has begun!

http://tinyurl.com/m499umm

Please keep this URL in your records so you can fill out the reading madness form! It starts February 1st and ends April 22nd.

2/8  Searching for lost Children Day I
2/9 Searching for lost Children Day II

2/10 Mendel Peas Drama and coloring Mendel's peas

2/11 http://www.radiolab.org/story/galapagos/

Charles Darwin, Artificial and natural selection, natural selction we can see

2/12 Quiz- Pedigree Analysis https://quizlet.com/14494777/pedigree-analysis-flash-cards/

Current Event is due- http://seventhsci.blogspot.com/2016/02/genetics-current-events.html



2/12- 12/15  Paper People- Genetic Crosses Create a paper person




2/16 Intro to genetics, flower color hybrids,  gene symbols, co-dominance and blood types, the 

double helix.

2/17 Paper People II- Looking for pattern

2/18  Paper People III- Adaptations and evolution

2/19 Jeopardy and vocab games

2/20 Jeopardy and Kahoot

2/21 Genetic Final

Share your Water Story

http://www.h2you.co/

New Enrichment

We are going to offer new enrichment classes. Please click on the link below to let us know your first and your second pick. Please only one entry per student. Please spell your first and last name correctly!

http://tinyurl.com/jbp93lt

Reading Madness has begun!

http://tinyurl.com/m499umm

Please keep this URL in your records so you can fill out the reading madness form! It starts today and ends April 22nd.

SAT PREP

All Delaware 10^th and 11th graders should begin accessing Khan Academy this week for FREE personalized SAT prep based on their PSAT results. Students can access PSAT scores and AP Potential information at http://studentscores.collegeboard.org/. By linking to Khan Academy from their College Board account, students can prepare now for greater SAT success. See PowerPoint for more information on linking accounts.

Educators can monitor student use of Khan to ensure that all students are taking advantage of this resource, as well as AP Potential Data. By January 20, educators will receive paper score reports.

For Students

·         Student PSAT scores and AP Potential: http://studentscores.collegeboard.org/ 

·         FREE Khan Academy SAT Practice: http://satpractice.org 

For Educators

·         Score Reporting Portal: k12reports.collegeboard.org 

·         AP Potential™ Data: appotential.collegeboard.org 

This was a photograph of a pamphlet that I saw at the Brandywine Hundred County Library

Week of 1/25

Check out this Critter that was created. Here is it's data

Gender	Male
Number of Body Segments	3 body segments
Leg Color	Blue
Number of Eyes	2
Nose Length	Long
Tail Color	Blue
Tail Style	Straight
Number of Antennas	2
Spikes	1 short blue and 2 long green

Gender

Male

Number of Body Segments

3 body segments

Leg Color

Blue

Number of Eyes

2

Nose Length

Long

Tail Color

Blue

Tail Style

Straight

Number of Antennas

2

Spikes

1 short blue and 2 long green

Here is several years of data on it's brothers and sisters- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ean2OlscqFxAK4GzSd70RHlCW4rBf2v_cqVqyWpRD6s/viewanalytics

I had to make some adjustments due to student pacing. Some of the items took longer than expected. 


1/22 Breeding Critters, more traits- Day II
Birth Statistics


1/27 Breeding Critters, more traits- Day II
Birth Statistics  Breeding critters follow up. 

1/28  Bulletin Board Plants- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KUsPI8i-9aFRmmzq12ErMoIVcUvk9E3-xT5p4BIiWA4/viewform

1/29 Patterns in Pedigrees

2/1 Patterns in Pedigrees Day II

2/2  What would you do?

2/3  Searching for lost Children Day I

2/4 Searching for lost Children Day II

2/5 Quiz- Outcomes of Genetic Crosses and 
https://quizlet.com/14494746/outcomes-of-genetic-crosses-flash-cards/

January Vocabulary championships
https://quizlet.com/14494746/outcomes-of-genetic-crosses-flash-cards/
https://quizlet.com/14494721/reproduction-flash-cards/
https://quizlet.com/14494658/genes-and-traits-flash-cards/

2/8 Paper People- Genetic Crosses

2/9 Paper People II- Looking for patter

2/10 Paper People III- Adaptations and evolution

2/11 Mendel Peas Drama and coloring Mendel's peas

2/12 http://www.radiolab.org/story/galapagos/
Charles Darwin, Artificial and natural selection, natural selction we can see

2/16 Intro to genetics, flower color hybrids,  gene symbols, co-dominance and blood types, the double helix.

2/17 Jeopardy and vocab games

2/18 Jeopardy and Kahoot

2/19 Genetic Final