Thank You All

Thank you to all of my students at EP high school for a great 12 weeks! I hope you had a great April vacation and are ready to get back to the grind. Nail the NECAPs and the fourth quater! 

- Mr. M

Unit 7 Genetics & Inheritance

Mr. Moreau's Print Out Notes (Condensed Version)

• Class Notes Genetics Terms 

Mr. Moreau's PowerPoints

• Mono-hybrids
• Di-hybrids  

Weekly Questions

The Weekly Questions Will Be Due Friday or Thursday of Each Week

New Unit New Beginnings DNA Structure, Replication, Transcription, Translation, and Mutations

DNA Unit PowerPoints

A.) DNA Structure & Replication
B.) Transcription & Translation 
C.) Mutations Notes (your only responsible to know point mutations)

Study Guide Answers

Unit 6 Study Guide Answers 

DNA Project

DNA Project

Replication, Transcription, Translation Practice 

In Class Practice

DNA Cartoons

Test on Wednesday

What You Need To Know 

. Mitosis & Meiosis: Know all phases and the differences between both process.
. Karyotyping: Be able to determine normal vs. abnormal karyotypes, a person's sex, and autosomal/sex chromosomes.
. Cancer (More on cancer on Monday & we will finish the shotgun review)

Unit Test Study Materials

What You Need To Know About Cancer & Karyotyping

Study Guide Answers

Differences Between Mitosis & Meiosis

The above link gives you key differences between the two processes. It also will help you figure out how to word your essays in a way which is acceptable.

Supplemental Learning Materials

Khan Academy 

            A.) Mitosis Video

            B.) Meiosis Video 

 

Khan Academy is a non-profit^[3] educational website created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is to provide 'a free world-class education for anyone anywhere'.

The website features thousands of educational resources, including a personalized learning dashboard, over 100,000 exercise problems, and over 4000 micro lectures^[1] via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, general chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, Americancivics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science.^[4] All resources are available for free to anyone around the world. Khan Academy reaches about 10,000,000 students per month and has delivered over 300,000,000 lessons.

PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint Cell Cycle Chapter 10 Section 1
PowerPoint Mitosis Chapter 10 Section 2 

Introduction

Welcome Students & Parents

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” 

                                                       Socrates

It is my fundamental belief that learning is more than test taking and fact memorization. Instead, the high quality education your students will receive in my class will focus on the process of learning and the use of higher order thinking skills. (Problem solving, critical thinking, idea synthesis) When considering Socrates’ quote, it would be a waste of your children’s intellectual abilities to teach them fact upon fact without providing any hint as to its relevance. Therefore, I will not “fill” their minds with facts that can be so easily forgotten. Instead, I will focus my efforts on strengthening core skills and teaching my students how to think. To accomplish this, the following three elements will prove pivotal to my instruction. 

1.) Engaging Students

I will strive to engage my students by sharing with them my passion for science. I will help them find something in science they can relate to and take interest in. In proving to students why the material is relevant to their lives, students become much more likely to take an “active” role in their learning. The engagement and enthusiasm imparted by the teacher can spark an interest in students which represents the kindling of a flame. As it burns the flame becomes hungry for more information, ideas, and understanding. Curiosity marks the beginning of a student’s journey down the road of wisdom & knowledge.

2.) Teaching Students How To Think Critically and Understand What They Are Learning

The purpose of school is not to teach students all that there is to know about living in the adult world.Instead the purpose of education is to teach students how to think for themselves and to provide them with the techniques to approach complex problems they will face in life. To achieve this goal, core content skills such as reading, writing, and arithmetic will be highly emphasized. Students will be taught how to read scientific papers, manage technical vocabulary, and apply logical reasoning skills.  As a result, assessments will focus less on fact recall via multiple choice tests and more on a student’s thought process and use of logic. In framing my class in this way I believe that my students will become independent thinker’s not better fact re-callers.

3.) Reaching All Students

All children can learn given the right tools for success. However, the tools which may work for one student will not necessarily work for another student. The reason for this is because not all students learn the same. Some learn visually and by listening while others may learn by using their hands (kinesthetic) and interacting with their peers. As a result it is my most earnest intention to reach out to all students and to teach them in a way which is accessible to them. I will accomplish this by using multiple mediums of instruction such as PowerPoint presentations, graphic organizers, hands on activities/labs, large scale models and in-class demonstrations.     

Your children will need to be dedicated to their studies to reach the high standards I hold them to.   I also will commit myself to their success.

I will do this by:

. Happily respond to any and all questions

. Promptly responding to all emails

. Making myself available after school for tutoring

. Listening to my students and tracking their progress so that my instruction can be adjusted according to their needs.

. Provide appropriate accommodations & modifications

. Provide all students with prompt feedback on their performance

Just as Batman has a tool on his utility belt to accomplish almost any task, there exist consistent teaching and learning strategies that will help make students better learners. One of the best tools students can possess for success is an ability to read and write well. Therefore, to help students develop their reading skills lessons will be infused with opportunities for reading and writing. I believe that strong reading and writing skills are a student’s BEST TOOL FOR SUCCESS!!!

Consistently exposing students to a healthy diet of reading material is critical to help advance their reading and writing skills. Such material includes not only text readings but also official research papers, lab reports, and thought provoking science articles which speak on recent advancements in the scientific community. To sweeten their reading diets, excerpts from fictional scientific literature may be discussed to engage students and assess the works scientific validity.

The various forms of literature are often used together and mingled into various parts of a daily lesson. For example, one interesting lesson I have planned for this year requires students to break down a scientific article which discusses cell and DNA mutations. Instead of having students tackle the article blindly they are gradually introduced to the topic using pre-reading, during reading, and after reading materials.