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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Class Tuesday 14th December

The first part of science class everyone enjoyed. This is because it was the part that we got rid of our flour babies. However we had to go through many steps First we had to remove all personal touches exept the tape that held it together. So this included faces and clothing. Then Ms. Went around and decided whether or not the flour could be donated. Those who could were sent down to the P.E. office to give the flour to the P.E. teacher so she could donate it to the less fortunate for Christmas.
Note: we did not really use this brand of flour

After everyone had returned Ms. D told us who we could still comment to on the blog because some people had already done all they needed for a certain grade. Remember in total you need 4 8th grade comments and 3 7th grade comments. Also remember the blog comment is due Thursday at 4 not Friday at4.

Then we moved on to the cell cycle.
We worked on trying to model the phases of the cell cycle(prophase, anaphase, metaphase, and telophase) with simple materials. Using the images from our Cell Cycle packet however many people ran into trouble when Ms. D asked questions about function of certain parts of the cell. So we reviewed together on the board. Mainly we talked about what centrials and spindle fibers. The centrials control everything about cell division they are the boss of the process. spindle fibers pull the chromatids to the sides of the cell so they are ready to be part of a new cell. After clearing that up we continued making the phases. After successfully making all parts of Mitosis we made the different parts of interphase. Then we remade the parts of Mitosis quickly probably in the amount of time we spent talking about the functions of centrials and spindle fibers. Then we taped our model of a phase of our choice to a piece of paper and then label it. It could not be one of the stages of interphase. Then we took out our packet from along time ago with the blank cell cycle and filled in the part we were supposed to have drawn originally but many people had written the stages. Then we discussed what eh cleavage furrow was in the telophase stage The cleavage furrow is the bump in the cell when it is separating it is given this name becsue clevage it what is is called when a woman shows her breast and this bears a resemblance to this.

Remember Quiz on Thursday details can be found on Moodle
Flour Baby Reflection due on the 15th details on Wellness Moodle

Ineresting videos

Explanation of cell cycle here
Interesting animation here

The next scribe for when we return from break is Davide.




21 comments:

  1. Good post Bryce. won't forget the name cleavege furrow. :) The pics were really cool but there are no links so it is a little bit of a boring read. next time just remember to put some links in there and maybe a little more detail about some of the cycle parts. Good post though with good information. Keep up the good work (It could use some improvement) Calvin.

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  2. Nice Blog Bryce!
    You have described the whole class with very much detail which obiously is a good thing. You have a lot of and also matching pictures to the class same as some working links. You might have used some more colors for important words and phrases. And the cell cycle pictures is too big I think because the text next to it is hard to read because of this.

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  3. Calvin the blue text are links.

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  4. Nice Post Bryce,

    You had a lot of information about what you did in class, and what you did with the flower baby's! The post didn't have any links so it was a bit boring to read! You could of added the link to Moodle or something! The pictures were nice.

    Good job! :)

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  5. Hi Bryce! It was cool how you put the links on the word, the Moodle and wellness Moodle links were nice to have on the post. The pictures were fine and pretty helpful. The only bad things were that you made some spelling mistakes, capitalization errors, and could go into more detail about the cell's cycle. Also, maybe you should have put in bullets so the info didn't get too long and boring. Overall, good post!

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  6. Hey, The post starts of very good and you also added pictures and a caption to the first picture. The post has a few spelling mistakes, so it would be better to proofread the work next time. You could have explained the cell cycle phases more. Overall, good post

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  7. Hi Bryce,
    I like the way you made your post look organized, font size & color, but I think you need a title next to the date of the class(why did you put "class" into your title when the whole blog is about a class). You had a few spelling mistakes and a few grammatical ones. It's great how you put the Google Blogger logo next to the chapter so it's easier to follow the content. You have too long paragraphs with too much data which you should have divided into different chapters so that I could follow it easier even if I am not in your grade. You should have added a couple of links with scientific content into the paragraphs. Also, I cannot understand the pictures because you didn't put explanations under them. After all, it is very easy to read your post and you did a brilliant job. Keep it up!
    Dave :-D

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  8. Hey Bryce,
    I think your post was really good. It was really detailed, and you covered everything we did in class that day! Your pictures were very helpful, especially the second one of the cell cycle. Your writing was very clear and it was written well, but you should check your spelling, because some words you wrote in your post multiple times, were spelt wrong, like centrails, instead of centrioles. Some grammar mistakes were present as well. Another suggestions is that you could have added a link to a video about cell division or the cell cycle. Or if not that, you could have at least posted the link to Moodle. All in all, great, clear, well written scribe post!

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  9. Hi Bryce, I think your post effectively covered all the things we did in class, including describing the completion of the flour "baby" project. However, I think you could've improved a bit on the punctuation of your post. Otherwise, it was very good, especially your use of links.

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  10. Hello Bryce,


    I think you did a great job in your post. The pictures were really helpful and thank you for linking to moodle. I think you could have added a movie. But except that everything was great!

    Cip

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  11. Hi Bryce!!!
    Your post looks really good!!! I think your post is very detailed too! The pictures, the links -all where very helpful! Your language looks good, it is quite scientific, but has a few grammatical mistakes. And your paragraphs are way too long, and boring to read. Also, you could of made it more interesting by putting your long paragraphs into the different colors. But it is still a very good post!
    TamarA

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  12. Good job bryce,

    I really like your post. The font are very easy to understund and the colour is also easy. Your post explan allt ha thing that you did in class and the pictures and the links are very elpful to understand the topic. You should add video about that next time you should put other colour and the pictur of the cell cicle for me is a litle to big and the other about the cell is to small and it is hard to read. But any ways you did a very good job

    Davide (DVD)

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  13. Hi Bryce,
    I think that this is a really good post! You had good fonts and good uses of hyperlinks! Some things you could've improved are checking your spelling and grammar and explaining what the pictures represent. I liked your videos and links to Moodle, which were really good, and you did your labels correctly. Overall, great job!

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  14. Bryce - nice work on your first Scribe Post of the year. You have included some excellent images and links for folks to use, but I do think you could have labeled the pictures a bit more clearly. Your font choice is clear and easy to read, but some words could have been made a different color to stand out more (phases of mitosis). I also feel you could have gone into the specific phases with more detail and maybe included an image of each one; maybe even pictures from class would have been helpful to explain what we were doing with the pipe cleaners and such. Your spelling and grammar is okay, although you have some issues in places. Overall, I think you did a good job here. ~Ms. D.

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  15. Hi Bryce!
    I liked your post, because it was well orgenised and was easy to read. You could put in some more colors to make it look more interesting. I liked íour links and how you wrote down the homework. It is a good post.
    Teréz

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  16. hi Bryce
    this was a great post! you included everything we did in class, and you had a very relevant picture with labels and you explained the picture well. you did not have a great range of color in your post though. Also you had relevant links and did your tags correctly. One other big thing I noticed was that you had no noticeable spelling or grammatical errors (but don't trust me on it).
    -Vance

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  17. Hey Bryce,
    Your post was very good with your organization. I thought that your videos were very interesting and they explained the science of what happened during class. One thing I thought you slightly lacked was colors. Your post was majority black besides the hyperlinks you used. I did like your use of hyperlinks because instead of using the entire URL the whole link is in one word. Your science was all very detailed and correct except for when you spelled the word centrioles wrong.
    But overall your post was accurate and in depth.
    Reza

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  18. Hi Bryce,
    Your post was very good! I liked that fact that you included pictures and links. Your post was well written, but you spelled some words wrong. I thought it was good that you told the readers what a cleavage furrow is! Also, I'm glad that you described the job of the centrioles and spindle fibers. I think you could have added captions for your pictures, though. Overall, I really liked your post!

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  19. Hi Bryce,
    I think that your post was very good!! I like that you put photo and links. Your writing was very good but you have to check your spelling because you had few mestakes. And I thing that you should use more colores. The things that I really liked about your post is that you included everything that you did in the class becase i understand that what did the 8th grade did in your class. By the way Good job :)

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  20. Hey Bryce,
    I appreciated a lot the fact that you included the link to Moodle, some extra links to YouTube videos, the homework due and the reminder for the quiz in the bottom of the post. Also, the layout of the post was well organized and the pictures fit in with the content of the text. However, there were, throughout the text, some spelling mistakes, and some sentences didn't make much sense or weren't finished. About the science of your post, I think what was missing was the explanation of the cell cycle, and the list of the material we used to represent the different stages of the cell cycle. Overall, though, I liked a lot your scribe post, good job.
    Gio.

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  21. Hi there Bryce,
    Nice Post! You included a lot of science, and I understood what you did even though I wasn't there. You have some grammatical mistakes, but no spelling errors. I liked your links to YouTube, and the link to moodle was helpful. You could have added some color, since your post is dull. Your post was long and easy to read, and your font was great. You could have added a bit of more excitement, since it looks a bit depressing. I found it professional that you noted that the brand of flour wasn't the one you used. By reading your post, I can see that you understood the concept of different types of cells, and that assures the reader that they use your post as a reference. This post also increased my very low knowledge on cells. Overall, great first post!

    Davide

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