Industrial Tech: Beginning Hot Air Balloon project
Life Science: Transcription and Translation, Mutations, Fly Lab setup
Government: Social Mobility, Constitutional Amendments
General Science: Mitosis, Meiosis, DNA
Art: Wax pictures, Planning for junk art sculptures
For junk art, students will be be building a sculpture, at least 12 inches tall, using discarded or otherwise junk items such as empty boxes, newspaper, soda cans and paper towel rolls. Please start collecting these materials so we have plenty to work with.
In the Fly Lab, students will be working with common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), and keeping track of the ratios of male to female offspring.
Question of the Week:
The paper towel rolls used by the school are eight inches wide and 630 feet long. What is their total area in square meters?