For many students, the week following Christmas vacation is something to be dreaded, but not at Watershed, where back-to-school means a week of exploring new interests and discovering hidden talents. “Project Week” is a chance for students to choose a topic they want to learn more about, and, under the guidance of a “subject matter [...]
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Here’s a nice article in this week’s Courier-Gazette about the biology class DNA work.
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The Honors Biology class has been studying biotechnology and last week, they put their knowledge to use to debate some of the tough ethical questions that biotechnology presents.
Check out these most recent blog posts to see what the Biology classes have been studying:
DNA Fingerprinting
Insect bacteria called Wolbochia
Modern use of the term usually refers to genetic [...]
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Imagine:…
physicians across the United States…documenting similar events. In each case, an unfertilized egg in a woman had spontaneously begun to develop, ultimately producing a healthy female baby.
One young researcher, who had analyzed the timing and locales of the virgin births, suggested a spreading infection might be causing the incidents. The Federal Centers for Disease [...]
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Wellness Block on Tuesday, November 17th was dedicated to the concept of staying healthy with the seasons using Chinese Five-Element Theory. Autumn is represented by the metal element, and its qualities include clear communication, productive work, consolidation and cleaning up. In this light, Watershed students raked leaves and cleaned up trash from [...]
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Watershed Honors Biology students spent last week learning to use some of the basic tools and techniques associated with DNA science. Using 6 samples of plasmid (bacterial) DNA, and a restriction enzyme to cut the DNA at specific sequences of base-pairs, they conducted a model DNA paternity test. They used a method called gel electrophoresis [...]
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Watershed School sophomore Devin Fletcher has qualified as a United States representative in the Junior World Cup fencing tournament, to be held next March in Sweden and France. Fletcher, who is 15 and lives in Warren, won her berth during competition last weekend at the North American Cup in Kansas City, Mo. In the open [...]
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The Watershed Conceptual Physics class held its annual egg drop contest today at the Lincoln Street Center. Several teams launched their E.D.D.’s (egg delivery devices) out the second floor window after having spent the class period designing and building them.
Without direct hands-on real world experience, equations chalked up on the blackboard don’t often resonate with [...]
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On Sunday September 6, 2009, three Watershed faculty members joined forces to take on the field at the annual Maine Sport Triathlon. Pete Kalajian led the way in the half-mile swim followed by Will Galloway in the 26 mile bike ride and Jude Masseur finished in the 6.6 mile run. The team finished with a [...]
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