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Environmental Science. Daily Agenda Fall 2011. Environmental Science: Thurs. 10/20. Turn in biodiversity article with notes Project: Georgia endangered animals. Environmental Science: Wed. 10/19. Finish reviewing Concept Review ws from yesterday - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Environmental ScienceDaily Agenda
Fall 2011
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Environmental Science: Thurs. 10/20
• Turn in biodiversity article with notes
Project: Georgia endangered animals
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Environmental Science: Wed. 10/19
• Finish reviewing Concept Review ws from yesterday
• CW/HW: Aquatic Biodiversity Active Reading with questions
• Last 10 minutes: Great Pacific Garbage Patch video
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Environmental Science: Tues. 10/18
Debrief on End of the Line movie
Sign up for “Where does your fish come from?”
Stamp book work 7.2Review ch 7 book work
CW/HW: Ch 7 Concept Review sheet
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Environmental Science: Thurs. 10/13Warm Up1. What is the defining difference between freshwater
and marine habitats?2. In what part of the ocean would you expect to find
the greatest biodiversity? Explain.
Review text work Ch 7.1CW/HW: Text Ch 7.2 marine ecosystems • vocab• Read • answer section review Q’s p. 197• Read Case Study P. 192-3. Answer Q’s.
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Environmental Science: Tues. 10/11
Warm Up1. What abiotic factors determine an aquatic
biome?
• Stamp text section 7.1 work• Terrestrial biome presentations
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Environmental Science: Mon. 10/10
• Complete biome presentations
CW/HW:Aquatic Biomes, Ch 71. Define Section 1 vocabulary (p. 185)2. Read Ch 7, Section 13. Answer Section 1 Review Q’s, p. 190
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Environmental Science: Friday! 10/7
1. Get into groups2. grade your project on rubric3. Turn in rubric
• Project presentations– Each person presents their role
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Environmental Science: Tues. 10/4• Turn in biomes organizer
• Begin biomes project – due Friday1. (Ace) trop. RF2. savanna3. desert 4. Temp rain forest5. Temp deciduous forest6. Tundra7. Temperate grassland8. Chaparral9. taiga
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Environmental Science: Mon. 10/3
Warm-up1. What is a deciduous tree?2. What is a coniferous tree?
CW/HWBiomes graphBiomes Organizer – complete
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Environmental Science: Fri. 9/30
Stamp and keep Current Event
Warm Up1. What factors determine a biome? (ch 6)
Start biomes unit
• Active Reading: What is a Biome?
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Biomes Unit Standards
SEV2. Students will demonstrate an understanding that the Earth is one interconnected system. • c. Characterize the components that define a
Biome. – Abiotic Factors – to include precipitation,
temperature and soils. – Biotic Factors – plant and animal adaptations that
create success in that biome.
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Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/29
• Complete lab write-up and turn in
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Environmental Science: Wed. 9/28• Turn in packet
1. Ch 4 vocab2. ch 4 textbook work3. ch 5 vocab4. ch 5 textbook work5. Transfer of Energy in Ecosystems ws6. Kingdom VENN diagrams ws7. The Organization of Life ws (2 triangles)
• Clear desk for test• Journal check after test• Current event due Friday
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Environmental Science: Tues. 9/27
• Lab write-up on computers• Complete lab write-up Thursday
Test tomorrowPacket due tomorrowJournal check tomorrow
Current event due Friday
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Environmental Science: Mon. 9/26
Warm Up1. What kind of graph will you use for data?
• Review text work• Vocab review sheet• demo lab format
Ecology Test Wednesday
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Environmental Science: Fri. 9/23
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data – last time
• Review text work• Succession
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Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/22• Radish Lab – Water/Record data• Stamp text work pp. 143 – 145 #1-10, 24-26, 34-35
Warm Up1. Compare and contrast primary and secondary succession.2. What events can lead to primary succession?3. What events can lead to secondary succession?
• Complete Matter Cycles Notes• Review Text workEcology Test Friday (Ch 4 & 5 + activities)Journal Check tomorrowPacket Due tomorrow (add text pp. 115-117 + VENN ws to packet TOC)
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Environmental Science: Wed. 9/21Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Turn in Web Quest
Warm up:1. What are biofuels? (Break the word down)2. Given what you know about phosphorus (and oil) shortages,
argue how biofuels could be thought of as nonrenewable.
• Carbon cycle & succession notes• HW: Read ch 5, section 3. • Ch 5 review pp. 143 – 145 #1-10, 24-26, 34-35Ecology Test Friday (Ch 4 & 5 + activities)
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Environmental Science: Tues 9/20
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
• Complete web quest
• Ecology Test Friday (Ch 4 & 5 + activities)
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Environmental Science: Mon 9/19 Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm up:1. What are the three main components of fertilizer?2. What would happen if excess fertilizer got into
natural water bodies?
2nd: Complete nitrogen cycle notes + P cycle4th: phosphorus cycleWEB QUESTCh 4 & 5 test Friday
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Environmental Science: Fri. 9/16
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm up:1. What is nitrogen used for?
• Stamp and share current events
• Nitrogen Cycle Notes/video clips
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Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/15• Radish Lab – Water/Record dataWarm Up1. What is a “trophic level”? (use your vocab)
• Energy pyramid discussion
CW: Complete and review Energy in Ecosystems ws
• Notes on nitrogen cycle• Current event due tomorrow
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Environmental Science: Wed. 9/14• Radish Lab – Water/Record dataWarm-up1. What do the arrows represent in a food chain?2. What do you call a bunch of interconnected food chains?3. What is the energy source for almost all ecosystems?4. What kinds of organisms consume from every level of all
food chains?
• Correct yesterday’s warm-up in your journal.• Food web activity.
CW/HW: Food web diagramCurrent Event Due Friday
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Environmental Science: Tues. 9/13• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
• Check textbook work.
• Ch 4 quiz
Warm- up (after quiz)1. What kingdoms are the decomposers?2. Describe the planet without decomposers.3. Draw the longest realistic food chain you can think of.
CW/HW: Define terms from Ch 5
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Environmental Science: Mon. 9/12• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm-up1. Compare and contrast habitat & niche2. Describe your niche?
• Review VENN ws• Text p. 115-117 # 10-17, 18-19, 21-24, 28-29
The Organization of Life (Ch 4) quiz tomorrowCurrent event due Friday
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Environmental Science: Fri. 9/9• Radish Lab – Water/Record dataWarm-up1. Can organisms choose to evolve? Explain.2. Compare and contrast natural selection and pesticide
resistance.
• Diversity of Living Things (4.3) notes
CW/HW• VENN ws• Text p. 115-117 # 10-17, 18-19, 21-24, 28-29
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Answer to W.U. #2 9/9
• Same: In both cases, the organisms best adapted to the environment survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
• Diff.: With N.S., nature “selects” the best adaptations. With P.R., the pesticide becomes the main selector.
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Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/8• Record Data (2 minutes)
Warm-up1. Compare and contrast pesticide and herbicide
using a VENN diagram2. Can you remember the 6 kingdoms?
Complete Resistance wsDiversity of Living Things Note taking
Ch 4 Quiz Tuesday
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Environmental Science: Wed. 9/7
Warm-up1. Brainstorm some good lab safety practices.2. Brainstorm other common sense lab
practices.
Review evolutionPesticide resistance
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Lab Safety
• broken glass?• report immediately to teacher• Spills of every day materials?• Clean up immediately• Working with caustic or corrosive chemicals?• Close-toed shoes, safety goggles & apron• Chemical in eyes?• Eye-wash station
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Good Lab Practices1. Return equipment to cart, cleaned and dried2. Immediately clean up any spills to floor3. Use sponges, not paper towels, for all water
spills on counter4. ONLY WATER in the sinks. 5. Wash hands when finished6. ID your set-up (on drawing and cup)7. Measure and Record accurate volumes, using
small beakers or graduated cylinders8. On data sheet, include space for
notes/qualitative observations
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• Pesticide resistance• http://
www.npr.org/2011/01/19/133057071/bed-bug-genome-reveals-pesticide-resistance
• Herbicide resistance
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Environmental Science: Tues. 9/6
Warm-up1. What are adaptations?2. Give an example of co-evolution.3. Give one plant and one animal example of
artificial selection. (Selective breeding)Test returnsSet up radish experiment with group
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Environmental Science: Fri. 9/2
• Turn in current event• Current event group sharing• Design an experiment
• HW: bring supplies for experiment
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Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/1
Warm-up1. List some abiotic factors that affect plant life.2. Define “germinate”.
• Review scientific method - notes
CW: sci. meth. X-word & back of sheet
HW: Current Event due tomorrow
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Environmental Science: Wed., 8/31
• Turn in lab safety sheet• Stamp vocab• New Unit, new routine• Get a small (70 sht) spiral notebook to be used
exclusively for Environmental Science notes and warm-ups
• Date each page as you go• Copy every warm-up question• Answer each question when you enter the room• Correct any wrong answers when we go over them
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8/31
Reminders• Current Event due Friday• Open House Tomorrow
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Ecology Unit Standards
SEV2. Students will demonstrate an understanding that the Earth is one interconnected system. a. Describe how the abiotic components (water, air, and energy) affect the biosphere. b. Recognize and give examples of the hierarchy of the biological entities of the biosphere (organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, and biosphere).
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Ecology Unit Standards SEV2. Students will demonstrate an understanding that the Earth is one interconnected system. c. Characterize the components that define a Biome. Abiotic Factors – to include precipitation, temperature and soils. Biotic Factors – plant and animal adaptations that create success in that biome. d. Characterize the components that define fresh-water and marine systems. Abiotic Factors – to include light, dissolved oxygen, phosphorus, nitrogen, pH and substrate. Biotic Factors – plant and animal adaptations characteristic to that system.
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Ecology Unit Standards
SEV1. Students will investigate the flow of energy and cycling of matter within an ecosystem and relate these phenomena to human society. a. Interpret biogeochemical cycles including hydrologic, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, and carbon cycles. Recognize that energy is not recycled in ecosystems. b. Relate energy changes to food chains, food webs, and to trophic levels in a generalized ecosystem, recognizing that entropy is a primary factor in the loss of usable food energy during movement up the trophic levels.
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Ecology Unit Standards
SEV1. Students will investigate the flow of energy and cycling of matter within an ecosystem and relate these phenomena to human society. c. Relate food production and quality of nutrition to population growth and the trophic levels d. Relate the cycling of matter and the flow of energy to the Laws of Conservation of matter and energy. Identify the role and importance of decomposers in the recycling process. e. Distinguish between abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem and describe how matter and energy move between these.
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Warm up 8/31
1. Organize the following from least to most complex: ecosystem, organism, population, community, biome, biosphere
2. Write in what is added between each level from #1.
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Environmental Science: Tues., 8/30• Stamp and review HW• Turn in packet1. Ch 1 Textbook questions 2. Ch 1 vocab3. Ch 1 ws4. “It’s Our Future” X-word
• Global Issues test
CW/HW: Define terms in Ch 4current event due Friday
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Environmental Science: Mon., 8/29
• Video on “commons”
CW/HW: Text book p. 23 – 25– # 9-15 (reflective answers); 22-24; 32 – 34
“Packet” due tomorrow (staple together)1. Ch 1 Textbook questions (today)2. Ch 1 vocab3. Ch 1 ws4. “It’s Our Future” X-word
Global Issues test tomorrow (Ch 1 + activities)BRING TEXTBOOK TOMORROW
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Environmental Science: Fri. 8/26
• Stamp and share or Turn in current event• complete Lorax project • Video clips: Biodiversity, Commons
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• Waste management from Thneed factory• Housing plan for workers• Maintain biodiversity• Sustainable truffuler tree resource• Pollution prevention program• Other eco-friendly and worker friendly ideas
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Environmental Science: Thurs. 8/25
• Turn in Lab Safety sheet• Vocab quiz (clear desk)• Lorax movie w/ notes• Start Lorax activity
• Current Event due tomorrow
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Environmental Science: Wed. 8/24
• Turn in lab safety contract• Stamp & review text book Ch 1 ws• Vocab activity• Vocab Quiz tomorrow
• Current event due Friday• Test Tuesday, Ch 1
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Environmental Science: Tues, 8/23
• Stamp vocab• Turn in Tragedy of the Commons Activity (if
you didn’t yesterday)• Discuss Tragedy of the Commons • Review vocabClasswork/Homework:• Complete ws for ch. 1• Get safety contract signed• Current event due Friday
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Environmental Science: Mon, 8/22
• Tragedy of the Commons activity and write-up• Bring textbook tomorrow
HW:Complete vocab shown on next slideCurrent event due Friday
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Define Vocab from ch.1• Vocab terms
1. Environmental science2. Ecology3. Agriculture4. Industrial revolution5. “spaceship earth”6. Natural resources7. Renewable resources8. Nonrenewable resources9. Pollution10. Biodiversity11. The Tragedy of the Commons12. Ecological footprint13. sustainability
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Environmental Science: Fri, 8/19
• Turn in syllabus – signature page only• Turn in eco-footprint activity• Stamp current event & share• Finish not-so trivial “trivia”
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Environmental Science: Thurs, 8/18
• Turn in syllabus – signature page only• Get text books– 2nd per 10:20– 4th per 12:05
• Environmental Footprint on-line• Finish “trivia” if timeHW: Current event due tomorrow
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Thursday, 8/18
• Login• Go to my blog• Scroll down to Thursday, 8/18• Open the file and complete it electronically• Email file to me
ELSE• Get a hard copy print out• Follow all directions and fill in with pencil or pen• Turn in
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Environmental Science: Wed 8/17• Turn in syllabus – signature page only• Global Issues x-word• Global Issues – trivia game
HW: • Get syllabus signed (if not done)• Get parents to email me (if not done)• Get home info for eco footprint activity
tomorrow• Current event – due Friday
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INFO FROM HOME
• Type of energy used for heating• Type of energy used for cooling• Type of energy clothes dryer uses• Average monthly electric bill• Average monthly gas bill• Average gas mileage• Amount of miles driven per year• House square footage• Average miles ride bus each year
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Environmental Science: Tuesday 8/16
• Turn in syllabus – signature page only• Current events assignment• Assumptions activity
HW: 1st current event due Friday
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Environmental Science: Monday 8/15
• Welcome!• Who Am I?• Who Are You? / Check Schedules• What is this course?• Philosophical chairs
HW: go to blog and have parents email me