What Are Some Inheritable Traits Passed On To Offspring From Parents?

What were the objectives of this lesson? How well do you think your students understood the overall purpose and relevance of the lesson? (APS 4.A–C)

With a small group, discuss the following questions. Choose someone to read the question out loud, and direct the discussion so that each person can offer his/her opinion on the topic. Have another student record the group’s response and choose a third student to report the information gathered to the class in a discussion.

Metacognition is a complex notion that encompasses numerous mental processes in all areas of life. It is often simplistically described as “thinking about thinking.” However, there is no commonly recognized definition of metacognition. In his article “The Power of Reflection”, Stephen Fleming, a well-respected cognitive neuroscientist, agrees with the definition of metacognition given by John Flavell in 1970 as “our ability to evaluate our own thinking” (2). Fleming also accepts Flavell’s proposition that metacognition is “key to educational success”; indeed, the development of metacognitive thinking is vital in learning processes (1). Metacognition is a teachable concept, and has been proven to be crucial in education.

I elicited and built upon student’s response to promote thinking and develop understanding of science concepts through questioning to get student think critically about what they did at each station and how it fit together what we see happen outside the classroom. it can be seen in the video clip 2 lesson 4 minute , it can been seen in the video that students are actively engaged in answering questions and are willing to give their insight into situation. In video clip 1 The students watch a video about the chemistry of carbon. and while the students watched the video there were a list of the question that each students need to answer it, and one of these questions was asking about “what the protein are made off “This provided students

For group 1, Andrew Loftis started the discussion with the question, “What conflicts were presented in your book?” Thus, he answered his question and goes on to discuss the main character of his book, Breaking Beautiful and explained what the main character, Allie had to face after being involved in a car accident. He commented how the character’s physical appearance has changed due to the accident and how the death of her boyfriend has affected her. While explaining the conflict, Andrew also summarized the plot, giving the group some background information about his novel. After he talked, immediately, Nick responded and talked about the conflict in his book. He noted how the characters in his novel had to face fear on a daily basis, not knowing if they will end up dead or alive. After that, there was a short paused, and Alex related her book back to

What is art? If you were to ask this question to passersby, many would rattle off answers such as: paintings, sculptures, musical pieces, maybe even dance, or stage acting. Few would list off works of literature as an art form, but I wholeheartedly believe that writing belongs in this group. Art is created to elicit a response from its viewers; to express its creator’s thoughts and feelings. Is not penning down creative imagination for the purpose of invoking consideration or appreciation, art?

During the Socratic seminar, Lizzy did well on contributing to the seminar with comments and questions. She also did well on pushing the conversation on by helping clarify either her own questions or the ones that were asked by other students. Adding onto this, she also did well on paying attention to what everyone had to say or ask and tried to answer or clarify what they were trying to ask or explain. When she spoke, she did speak loud and clear but could have been louder and also could have pronounced her words better. She was decent on everything; however, she can improve on everything as well. Though, she spoke more than once during the seminar, she could have spoken more than the few times that she did. This would have helped both her

The idea of trying to persuade the class into buying into your idea required a much different approach than we are used to, as now class interaction is a much, much larger portion of the project. This approach was, in my opinion, much more involved and beneficial, but, at the same time, worse than a ‘normal’ research project. Being such a new method of presenting, there was a lot of confusion. I heard throughout the week, and even on the presentation day, that people still didn’t quite understand what they were doing. Fortunately, the solution is simple, we just need more experience and practice with this alternative approach to presenting. Overall, I hope we do more innovative and interesting takes on presentations because normal ones are not as fun or

The two units that I felt I could connect the most to were the mental health and the factors affecting wellbeing unit. I think I was able to connect the most to these units because some of the things that are talked about in the units applied to my life. In mental health and factors affecting wellbeing, we discussed the different factors that can affect our mental health. One example that we talked about was stress, and this is one reason why I was able to relate to the unit. I often have felt stressed therefore, I know the effects it has on our mental health. Another thing that we talked about was how our mental health is affected every day by little things, and, I agree with this statement because I too have experienced

This way I can be a source of knowledge rather than a teacher who fills the students head with knowledge. This technique should also be able to direct students’ enquiries as well as allow them to ask their own questions and follow what directions their enquiries about Science might take them. My next key learning element would be the value of group work and the peer collaboration between students to enable better understanding about the topic being investigated or the experiment being conducted. My other key learning experience that was gained from this lesson was the determination of what prior learning had the students done on a particular subject so that their constructs can be added to or modified to achieve better scientific results. My thoughts are that, even more careful planning has to go into a design and make (discovery learning) lesson than into a mere investigation through books and the internet. These tasks increase student motivation and the willingness to accept Science as practical, necessary and important in today’s modern

Mrs. Duplessis is an amazing teacher with great teaching strategies that everyone can benefit from. We all think as her 7th grade accelerated class, she should teach 8th grade accelerated english classes next year. According to our class, we all enjoy learning together. Most of all, Mrs. Duplessis encourages students to work together as a team and end up with an amazing work. One of the things we do in that class that everyone likes to do is Socratic Seminar. A socratic seminar is a discussion based on a story we’ve read. Most of us did not know what a socratic seminar was, but because of Mrs. Duplessis we found out something that everybody likes. Sometimes our discussion can get intense and might turn into a debate, but that's the thing we

I feel strongly and I am convince that the fact that I had a headache and blocked sinuses affected my learning during the course time.

No, wrong! Even though, you will be using other the ideas and information of others to support your topic, you cannot just type it all in and be done with it.

Offspring differ somewhat from their parents and from one another. Instructions for development are passed from parents to offspring in thousands of discrete genes, each of which is now known to be a segment of a molecule of DNA. This essay will explore some of the reasons behind how and why these differences in appearance arise, from the base sequence of DNA through to the observed phenotype.

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?