Ellie Rice
CEIRP Project

I am working at Marcus Whitman Junior/Senior High School with Pete Saracino's 7th grade biology class and John Fiori's 10th grade living environment class. In both classes, we have been focusing on plants, genes and insects. We have been working with a bunch of cucumber plants which are segregating for a bitterness trait and thinking about the effects those genes might have on a predator like the cucumber beetle. We've also used the plants as a vehicle to apply subjects as diverse as photosynthesis, genetics and the scientific method.