This week in class Mr. Finley wasnt here most of the week so we just did worksheets. When he came back did some other work. We also talked about how evaporation and how clouds are made.

This week in class we switched groups in the evolution experament and we discussed how to classafy diffrent things. We also went over what Carl Linne did in history. Then on friday we went over some videos about what religion did when the theory of evolution was trying to be brought to schools across America.

This week in class we've been going over more of the evolution of humans. So I was going to write about the new fossol they found that is beleaved to the missing link. Its the oldest known reletive to humans at 47.8 million years. This is an image of the skeleton they found. Its name is Ida. To find out more info go to this link:http://http://www.history.com/content/the-link

All last week we were talking about the evolution in three types of iguanas. There were two spicies. Marine, and land iguanas. Here is a List of the charateristics of the two we dicussed.

LAND
Yellow
Extra Skin
Long Claws
Spikes
Small Eyes
Nose Holes
Angrey
Loose Skin
Lives On Land


AQUATIC
Red
Black
Tight Skin
Small Spikes
Large Eyes
Lives Near Water
Small Claws
Smaller Mouth
Fater

Today we dicussed gene flow and genetic drift. Gene flow is based on evolution when things migrate and genetic drift is evolution at random. I found A realy great link on youtube that explains alot about what we've learned this year.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Y34zrJjtk

This week we were useing alot of websites to do work with miosis and mitosis. We were also useing the smart board to make concept maps. Mr. finley also brought up alot of cell pictures to explan miosis and mitosis. I had to type this early because my computer was broken. heres a link to a good miosis picture.http://lc.brooklyn.cuny.edu/smarttutor/core3_21/images/division/mitosis-miosis.jpg

Today in class we looked over our study guide wich I spent all night doing.Its on everything we learned in the last couple weeks. It was realy chalengeing so my mom helped me. tonight we have to do 25 % more of it.Then we looked at things under the microscopes

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i thought the homework assignment that we had a couple days ago was pretty fun. it was when we had to put 10 100 1000 dots on a page. i took two pensles to dot with to make the prosess go faster.