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!
