Week 7 Blog

 Week 7 Blog 03/05/2025 



This week in lab we learned quite a bit. We started the lab off by looking at the monarch butterflies and the ones that were still in their cocoons. After we looked at our fast plants and observed if we saw any changes in them since we did the bee sticks last week. My groups plant is starting to wilt and looks like it is dying. After, we started learning about DNA and it's importance. We made a model using twizzlers and gum drops. Lastly, we did an activity with our table partner where we flipped a coin to determine the phenotype and genotype of a baby and then we drew the baby based on what the coin flipped and then wrote about how the baby got it's individual traits. 

From what we did this week, I am able to relate what we learned to my prior knowledge in elementary school. All of the topics we did this week I remember learning about in my younger years. 

I can apply what I learned this week to my future career as a teacher as all of the knowledge we learned will be topics I can use in my future classroom, and the activities we did will be ones I can use to help teach my students. Overall, this week's lab was very interesting and helpful for my future career. 

Comments

  1. Elise Ware6 March 2025 at 11:04

    Hi, Mckenna! I think it was interesting that you learned about genes and DNA throughout elementary school. I hadn't learned about any of that until I got to high school! I'm hoping with these new and creative hands-on activities I am able to start teaching younger students about genetics!

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  2. Taylor9 March 2025 at 08:40

    Hi Makenna! It was surprising you learned this information throughout elementary school since I did not learn about it until high school. Great post!

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