Date |
Assignment Due |
Topic |
Class Plan |
5/2 |
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- WU: Explain what an animal is.
- Discussion on types of animals
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5/3 |
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- WU: Explain 3 groups of animals
- Discussion on animal diversity
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5/4 |
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5/5 |
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4/25 |
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- WU: Why is classification important?
- Review Exams
- Complete questions
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4/26 |
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- WU: Explain scientific naming
- Discussion on classification system
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4/27 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Explain kingdom groups
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4/28 |
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4/18 |
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4/19 |
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4/20 |
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- WU: Questions
- Exam: Natural Selection
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4/21 |
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- WU: What is a scientific name
- Discussion on kingdoms and binomial naming
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4/11 |
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- WU: What happened to your data numbers
- Analysis of Lab
- Complete Lab Write Up
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4/12 |
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- WU: None
- Continuation of Methods of organism change
- Natural Selection RG
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4/13 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Review Guides
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4/14 |
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- WU: Questions
- Test--Natural Selection
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4/4
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- WU: Lab Quiz
- Lab: Natural Selection
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4/5 |
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- WU: None
- Lab: Natural Selection
- Explain work for rest of week
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4/6 |
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- WU: None
- Lab write up
- NS activity
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4/7 |
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3/28 |
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- WU: Give a short description of what natural selection is.
- Discuss natural selection processes and the Galapagos Islands
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3/29 |
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- WU: Give 3 important impacts of the Galapagos Islands
- Discussion on Evidence for natural selection processes
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3/30 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Discussion on Evidence for natural selection processes
- Set Lab: Natural Selection
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3/31 |
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- WU: Lab Quiz
- Lab: Natural Selection
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3/21 |
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- Genetics/Natural Selection
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- WU: What did Gregor Mendel not be be able to explain
- Show 5 trait squares
- Discussion on Charles Darwins Life
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3/22 |
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- WU: Explain 3 things of Charles Darwin
- Discussion on Natural Selection
- Discussion on Galapagos Islands
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3/23 |
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- WU: Weekly Report (next wk on GI)
- Set HW for Thursday
- Discussion on Natural Selection Evidence
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3/24 |
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- WU: None
- Natural Selection Diagrams
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3/7 |
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- WU: Explain what Punnett Square Ratios tell you.
- Dihybrid Cross Practices
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3/8 |
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- WU: What do you find the most challenging of Punnett Squares
- Punnett Square Practices
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3/9 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Punnett Square Exam
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3/10 |
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- WU: None
- Review Punnett Squares
- Introduce Charles Darwin
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2/29 |
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- WU: Explain 6 major genetic terms
- Discussion on monohybrid crosses
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3/1 |
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- WU: Explain the steps to Punnett Squares
- monohybrid practice
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3/2 |
- Weekly Reports
- Monohybrid Crosses
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Discussion on dihybrid crosses
- Notebook Quiz
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3/3 |
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- WU: Explain a dihybrid cross
- Dihybrid cross practice
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2/22 |
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- WU: What were 4 advantages of pea plants
- Discussion on genetics terminology
- Introduce Punnett Squares
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2/23 |
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- WU: Explain 5 genetic terms
- Introduce monohybrid crosses
- Practice crosses
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2/24 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Practice crosses
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2/25 |
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- WU: Explain the steps of Punnett Crosses
- Set Di-hybrid crosse
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2/15 |
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2/16 |
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- WU: What is Genetics
- Review Exams
- Discussion on Mendel and early genetics
- Set Vocab CW
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2/17 |
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- WU: None-WR on Thursday
- Vocab. CW
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2/18 |
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- WU: Explain the importance of Mendel
- Discussion on genetic terms
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2/8 |
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- WU: Lab quiz
- Discussion on lab
- Lab: Modeling protein synthesis
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2/9 |
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- WU: Summarize yesterdays lab
- Lab: Modeling protein synthesis
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2/10 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Test Questions/Review
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2/11 |
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- WU: Test Questions
- Exam-DNA to Protein Synthesis
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2/1 |
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- WU: Explain the phrase DNA is DNA is DNA.....
- Discussion on the structure of DNA
- DNA diagramming
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2/2 |
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- WU: Explain the double strand makeup
- Discussion on transcription
- DNA diagramming
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2/3 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Test Review
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2/4 |
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- WU: Questions
- Exam: Mitosis, Meiosis, and DNA
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1/25 |
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- WU: What is the purpose of meiosis
- Discussion over meiosis II
- Set Review
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1/26 |
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- WU: Explain Meiosis I and II
- Discussion on DNA
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1/27 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Review Guide
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1/28 |
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- WU: Explain the role of Watson and Crick
- Finish Discussion on DNA
- Review for exam
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1/18 |
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- WU: None
- Bio-drawing of Meiosis
- Complete Labs
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1/19 |
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1/20 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Discussion on Meiosis I
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1/21 |
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- WU: Explain Meiosis I
- Discussion on Meiosis II
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1/11 |
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- WU: Review the steps for microscope use
- Set Lab: Mitosis observations
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1/12 |
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- WU: Lab Quiz
- Lab: Mitosis
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1/13 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Lab: Mitosis
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1/14 |
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- WU: What did you discover with mitosis?
- Introduce meiosis.
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1/4 |
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- WU: What is a cell and why are they important
- Review on cells and cell organization
- Discussion on why cells need to divide
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1/5 |
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- WU: Why do cells need to divide?
- Discussion on cell division--Mitosis
- Introduce mitosis steps
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1/6 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Complete discussion on cell division and the cell cycle
- Modeling of mitosis
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1/7 |
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- WU: List and explain the stages of mitosis
- Complete modeling activity
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11/30 |
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- WU: Lab Review/Quiz
- Discussion on Lab
- Lab--Cell Membrane
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12/1 |
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12/2 |
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12/3 |
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- Organelle Quiz
- Lab-Cell Membrane
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11/16 |
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- WU: Explain the role of the cell membrane
- Discussion on the cell membrane
- Bio-drawing-cell membrane
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11/17 |
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- WU: Describe the makeup of the cell membrane
- Complete bio-drawing
- Set Lab: Chicken Egg Membrane
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11/18 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Lab Quiz
- Cell Membrane Lab
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11/19 |
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- WU: Lab
- Discussion on active and passive transport
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11/9 |
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- WU: List 3 factors that can influence if and how populations reach carrying capacity
- Review populations and set quiz for Wedn.
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11/10 |
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- WU: What is a cell?
- Cell Preassessment
- Population quiz study.
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11/12 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Population quiz
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11/13 |
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- WU: What is the difference between organic and inorganic
- Discussion on cell size
- Demo: surface area and volume
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11/02 |
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- WU: Explain carrying capacity
- Discussion on carrying capacity
- Video: Snow Geese in Peril
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11/03
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- WU: Explain what limits populations
- Set Activity and Assemble: How Many Bears Can Fit
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11./04 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Quiz on Acitivity
- Activity
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11/05 |
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- WU: Explain activity
- Activity Write Up
- Set: Carrying Capacity
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10/26 |
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- WU: Review Biomes
- Biome Quiz
- Clean Beakers
- Discussion on populations
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10/27 |
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- WU: What is a population?
- Discussion on population properties
- Brain Break: Walk and Talk-How can populations vary
- Walk and Talk Review
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10/28 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Brain Break--Balancing activity
- Discussion growth rates
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10/29 |
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- WU: What would you rather have 1 million for a month or 1 penny doubled
- Discussion on exponential growth
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10/19 |
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- WU: Quiz
- Ecosystem observations
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10/20 |
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- WU: How to focus a microscope
- Ecosystem observations
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10/21 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Lab write up
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10/22
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- WU: Study
- Quiz
- Explanation of cells
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10/12 |
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- WU: List 2 additional biomes
- Discussion on Microscope and use
- Preparing a wet mount
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10/13 |
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- WU: Explain ecosystems
- Ecosystem observations
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10/14 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Lab Write Up
- Biome project explanation
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10/15 |
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- WU: Gather Materials
- Biome Project
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10/5 |
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- WU: Explain what our environment is like
- Review Exams
- Collect Data
- Individual Notes on ecosystems
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10/6 |
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- WU: List 4 biomes and 3 characteristics of each
- Collect Data
- Complete Notes
- Explain Ecosystem Project
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10/7
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Ecosystem Project
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10/8 |
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- WU: None
- Ecosystem Project
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9/28 |
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- WU: Explain the makeup of your ecosystem
- Discussion of data tables
- Collect Information
- Study for exam
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9/29 |
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- WU: Collect lab information
- Study for exam
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9/30 |
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10/1 |
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- WU: Questions/Turn in WR
- Exam
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9/21 |
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- WU: Rd pgs 106 - 107
- Review Successions
- Pass out Review Guide for exam
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9/22 |
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- No Class Parent Teacher Conference
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9/23 |
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- WU: Weekly Report
- Set Lab: Succession in Aged Tap Water
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9/24 |
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- WU: Lab Quiz
- Assemble Lab Succession
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9/8 |
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- WU: Explain the carbon cycle
- Complete cycle drawings
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9/9 |
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- WU: Explain the nitrogen cycle
- Discussion on biotic and abiotic
- Brain break
- Compile biotic abiotic lists
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9/10 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Discussion on ecological interactions
- Set interaction research activity
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9/11 |
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- WU: List the 4 types of interactions
- Interaction activity
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9/1 |
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- WU: Rd pgs 67 - 73
- Discussion on the Ecological Pyramid
- Add Trophic Levels to your food webs
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9/2 |
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- WU: Explain the ecological pyramid
- Discussion on energy flow and carbon cycle
- Begin Drawings
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9/3 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Carbon and Nitrogen Cycle Drawings
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9/4 |
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- WU: Explain the carbon cycle
- Discussion on nitrogen cycle
- Nitrogen Cycle Drawings
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8/24 |
- Class Syllabus
- Binder and Dividers
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- WU: List and describe 10 pieces of equipment
- Equipment review
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8/25 |
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- WU: Questions on equipment
- Equipment ID Quiz
- Review of food chains and food webs
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8/26 |
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- WU: Weekly Reports
- Explanation of energy moving through food chains
- Food Chain diagrams
- Pass out books
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8/27 |
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- WU: Explain the difference between a food chain and food web
- Discussion on food web
- Complete food chain and food web diagrams
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8/17 |
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- Introduction to Ecology
- Equipment ID
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- Discussion on Syllabus and Classroom Procedures
- Discussion on notebook (due 8/24)
- Explanation of weekly reports
- Discussion on scale of biology
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8/18 |
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- Introduction to Ecology
- Equipment ID
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- Warm Up: Explain ecology and how it works
- Discussion on levels of organism interaction
- Begin Equipment ID
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8/19 |
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- Introduction to Ecology
- Equipment ID
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- Warm Up: Weekly Report
- Discussion on energy flow
- Continue Equipment ID
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8/20 |
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- Introduction to Ecology
- Equipment ID
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- Warm Up: List and explain 10 pieces of equipment
- Complete Equipment ID
- Review Equipment
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