October 28, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students will develop a letter in order to analyze how humans impact the ecosystem.

WARM-UP: Are you a once-ler or a lorax and why?

VOCABULARY:
1) omnivore
2) parasitism
3) pollution
4) predation
5) producer

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Review activity with manipulatives
3) Powerpoint/discussion of human impact on ecosystems.
3) Discussion of Lorax book
4) Development of Lorax letter
5) Closure

October 21, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students will develop a letter in order to analyze the impact humans have on ecosystems.

WARM-UP: List 3 natural resources

VOCABULARY:
1) GENETIC DIVERSITY
2) GREENHOUSE EFFECT
3) HABITAT
4) HERBIVORE
5) HETEROTROPH

CLASSWORK:
1) warm-up/vocabulary
2) finish lab
3) letter
4) closure

October 14, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze a book in order to understand how organisms rely on each other.

WARM-UP: What would happen in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem if the blue crab went extinct?

VOCABULARY:
1) biosphere
2) biotic factor
3) chemosynthesis
4) climate
5) community

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ vocabulary
2) Powerpoint presentation and/or movie
3) Review trophic levels
4) Lorax
5) Closure

October 7, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students develop a food web in order to examine how organisms depend on one another.

WARM-UP: List 2 organisms that rely on each other so much that the death of one would cause the death of the other.

VOCABULARY:
1) abiotic factor
2) autotroph
3) biodiversity
4) biomass
5) biome

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ vocabulary
2) Review Test
3) Begin ecology/food web
4) Review Ecology worksheets
5) Closure

September 30, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test on Unit 1 in order to gauge progress towards success on the HSA

WARM-UP: Write 4 characteristics of living things.

VOCABULARY:
1) abiotic factor
2) autotroph
3) biodiversity
4) biomass
5) biome

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ vocabulary
2) Review for test
3) Take test
4) Begin ecology/food web
5) Closure

September 25

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Unit 1 in order to prepare for the test next class.

WARM-UP: Write the number 3000000000000 into scientific notation.

VOCABULARY:
1) experiment
2) experimental design
3) graduated cylinder
4) Gram
5) hypothesis

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ vocabulary
2) Review for test
3) Scientific Notation
4) closure

September 23- Unit 1

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Unit 1 in order to prepare for the test next class.

WARM-UP: Write the number 3000000000000000000000000000 m in Scientific Notation.

VOCABULARY:
1) analysis
2) centi-
3) conclustion
4) control
5) data

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ Vocabulary
2) Review Scientific Notation and metric system.
3) Graphing lab
4) Test questions
5) Closure

HANDOUTS:
Graphing Lab

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test next class. Review notes, warm-ups and labs and read all of Chapter 1 to prepare for test.

HOMEWORK DUE:
none

ANNOUNCEMENTS
TEST NEXT CLASS