Science classes during the week of Feb.28th-March 6th
March 1st:
First our class has discussed what we were going to need for the finished Inherited Traits Lab of AISZ, which we have already started on Science Day. We should take care of the graph, and make it well organized. Don't forget to have a title for the graph, and don't forget the conclusion paragraph. You must have 5 UVs and 3 CVs.
The Extra-Credit Karyotype Activity is going to be due Thursday March 3rd. You wil have to have all the matching chromosome on an A4 peace of paper and you will have to tell Ms.D if the person is a male/female and if he/she has a mutation or not.
After that we started discussing our new project: The Ethics and Genetics Fish Bowl Discussion. We are supposed to have a team in which we will eighter support Pro or Con-arguments of the themes: Embryonic Stem Cells/Genetics testing on babies.
1.) The embryonic stem cells theme is about taking cells from embryos which could help to heal cancer or other yet not healed sicknesses. But ethnic groups are having problems with that because it might kill embryos which they call life. On the right you can see how embryonic stem cells are produced.
2.) The Genetics testing on babies is mainly about: if parents should be allowed to change the phenotypes (looking) of their unborn child. Some say yes, some no.
Also don't forget to make a bibliography of all your sources you have used (in APA-format).The discussion is going to be 20 minutes per theme and you will discuss on Tuesday 8th March. We took cards which then split us up into 4 groups. Then Ms. D allowed us to go to the computer-lab to get some more general knowledge and first facts for the rest of the class. The picture on the left is suppose to show if people should play around with a baby DNA.
March 3rd:
On this day our teams again went the whole block into the computer-lab to collect more data. And take out the best arguments of the articles we read.
March 5th:
We only had 45 minutes that day and were again allowed to stay in the computer-lab the whole block. People were summarizing their work and finishing up their bibliographies and were ready to discuss on Tuesday March 8th.
You might want to use that Link to Moodle for the directions of the discussion: HERE
Next scribe is Bryce!
Hi Val,
ReplyDeleteThis post is much better than the one you had last quarter! You had good use of hyperlinks, good pictures, clear information, and more! You really had good explanation of our discussion project, it was good that you had a link to Moodle. Some things you can improve on are having another "fun link" that makes embryonic stem cell research / genetically maniputilated babies more clear to people. I like your picture of the baby and the DNA, and I liked the diagram that showed where stem cells can be found. I think that you could have used a bit more colors in your post, but otherwise I really liked it. Your labels are done correctly, so all in all, great job! :)
Val - great improvement from your first Scribe Post. You covered both things that were our focus over those specific days. I do think you could have gone more into the science & vocabulary with the Inherited Traits Lab - or at least explained UVs & CVs. Keep in mind the purpose of the lab.I do like the brief explanations you gave of the two debate topics and I think you included some excellent pictures for them. Your one link to Moodle works, but keep in mind you need to have more than one link. I like that the dates were in different colors. In places you have some grammar errors, but your spelling looks good throughout the piece; good proofing of your work. Your labels could be more science specific (Genetics Debate, Embryonic Stem Cells, or Designer Babies, etc.) But again, this is much better than your last post. NIce work! ~Ms. D.
ReplyDeleteHi there Val,
ReplyDeleteThis post is a GREAT improvement from your first post! You have great pictures, and you included what you did in class thoroughly! You have a link to Moodle, which is always great, even though I think that you could have added one or two more to make your post more interesting. Your font is OK, even though you could have bolded some things or underlined titles/important dates so that they were easier to see and spot. You also could have added some more color, since your post looks a bit dull. I understood what was going on even though I wasn't in class, which for me is great! You have good labels and a good title. Also, your picture of the "cycle" of a fertilized cell was good, even though you should have added a caption saying specifically what it was about. For the Uvs and Cvs, I found it great that you added how many there should be, but you also could have given one or two examples of possible Uvs and Cvs. I liked that you explained the genetically manipulated babies, but you could have been a bit more thorough, since it was a bit generic. Overall, GREAT JOB!
Davide