Daily+Agendas+for+August

__Monday, August 08, 2011 __ Test Your Environmental IQ Class Policies & Procedures Activity: Find Someone Who… Essay: My Summer Vacation (describe what you did outside and elaborate using your five senses, for example, don’t just tell me you went to the beach, describe how the sand felt, hearing the waves, the smell of the ocean, etc.) Should be at least a page in length.

Standard: **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. __Tuesday, August 09 __ Raider Rev Up: Define 1. Observe 2. Inquire Activity: Tragedy of Commons WS: Understanding the Vocabulary of the Standard Drawing: Biogeochemical Cycles

__Wednesday, August 10 __ Raider Rev Up: What is environmental science the study of? Work on Biogeochemical Cycles drawings

__Thursday, August 11 __ Raider Rev: How do humans affect CO2 in the atmosphere? Finish drawing the cycles WS: Interpreting the Cycles

__Friday, August 12 __ Raider Rev: Where do we get our energy from? WS: Interpreting the Cycles

__Monday, August 15 __ Raider Rev: Why are the matter cycles important? Whiteboarding Activity: Share answers from Friday’s WS Word Wall assignments

__Tuesday, August 16 __ Raider Rev: How do you personally affect the water cycle? Word Wall activity continued & finished Make a vocab list from the Word Wall

__Wednesday, August 17 __ Raider Rev: What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem? Notes: Food chains, food webs, and energy flow <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">WS: #3 “A Food Web” & #4 “Biological Pyramids”
 * <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Standard: SEV1: 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. 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. **

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Thursday, August 18 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: What is the difference between a food chain and a food web? <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Activity: Make Your Own Food Chain & Food Web

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Friday, August 19 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: Why are decomposers so important? <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Finish Food Chain Activity <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Notes: Laws of Conservation of Matter & Energy; Population Growth <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">WS: Finding a Niche in a New Environment

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Monday, August 22 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: What are examples of abiotic factors? <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Finish WS: Finding a Niche <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Discuss Food Web worksheets and Niche worksheet <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Crossword Puzzle for Review

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Tuesday, August 23 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: What are detritivores? <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Review Activity <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Final Questions

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Wednesday, August 24 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: Study! <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Tests: Matter Cycling & Energy Flow <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">WS: Old bio book, Chapter 4.1


 * <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">SEV2: Students will demonstrate an understanding that the Earth is one interconnected system. **<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">a.Describe how the abiotic components (water, air, and energy) affect the biosphere.

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Thursday, August 25 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: Distinguish between climate and weather. <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Notes: Abiotic Components and the Biosphere <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Lab: Greenhouse Effect

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Friday, August 26 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: What force drives winds and ocean currents? <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Finish Lab: Greenhouse Effect <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">WS: Locating Biomes


 * <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">SEV2: **<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">b. Recognize and give examples of the hierarchy of the biological entities of the biosphere. 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)

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Monday, August 29 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: What is the difference between latitude and longitude? <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Discuss Levels of Biological Organization <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Ecosystem Project-assignment, choose partner, expectations, start research <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Research in Media Center 12:15-1:15

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Tuesday, August 30 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: none….report directly to media center <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Finish research 11:45-12:45 <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">12:45-1:15, back in class, plan posters

__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Wednesday, August 31 __ <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Raider Rev: What is the main heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere? <span style="font-family: 'Andalus','serif';">Ecosystem project: construct posters and plan for speeches

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