Fri Oct 9th

General Plan:

  1. Expand your knowledge of plant and animal adaptations
  2. Practice creating line graphs
  3. Last chance to turn-in late work!
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
  • You should receive your 1st 6 weeks grades today
  • Please turn in any makeup assignments today to clear incompletes (results won’t be visible until next week)
  • PreAP classes:  please ensure you turn in your Invasive Species Project TODAY if you have not already done so!
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Thurs Oct 8th

General Plan:

  1. Reflect on Microscope Lab
  2. Review for and take Microscope parts and Functions quiz
  3. Examine Ecological Adaptations website and answer related questions
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
  • Report cards will be distributed tomorrow (Friday)
  • All makeup assignments must be completed by tomorrow to clear incomplete grades!
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Wed Oct 7th

General Plan:

  1. Preview Adaptations Information
  2. Continue Microscope Lab with water samples
  3. Review Microscope parts locations and functions
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
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Tues Oct 6th

General Plan:

  1. Due to the fact that this is the 1st 6 weeks and I would like all students to have an opportunity to start the year out with a passing grade, I’ve assigned an Incomplete grade for all failing students.  I will allow this week for students who are behind to complete makeup work.  All incomplete grades (due to failures) will be posted next Tues, so please complete missing assignments prior to that date! 
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
  • PreAP classes:  If you did not turn in your project and it caused you to fail, you have been given an incomplete grade for the 1st 6 weeks.  You have the rest of this week to turn in your project.  If I don’t receive it by this Friday, your failing grade will be posted.  Please turn in a project!
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Mon Oct 5th

General Plan:

  1. Introduce Interactive Notebooks (iN)
  2. Practice creating and labeling Bar Graphs
  3. Label parts of a microscope
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
  • PreAP projects were due last Friday Oct 2nd
    1. Projects turned in today (Mon Oct 5th) will lose 15% (penalty for late turn-in)
    2. Projects turned in tomorrow (Tues Oct 6th) will lose 30% (penalty for late turn-in)
    3. Projects turned in after that will receive no greater than a 50% and will not show up on 1st 6 Weeks report cards.  Don’t give up though, because even a 50% on a major project grade helps!
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Fri Oct 2nd

General Plan:

  1. Review graphing components and procedures
  2. Complete Seed Dispersal Lab graphs
  3. Review basic microscope functions for next week’s pond water lab
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
    1. Basic bar graph generator
    2. More advanced  bar graph generator
    3. Need other types of graphs?  Try this site
    4. Advice on how NOT to graph!
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Thurs Oct 1st

General Plan:

  1. Today we will be designing paper ‘seeds’ which should either stay in the air as long as possible or travel the greatest distance away from the ‘tree’ (release point).  This activity will simulate seed dispersal (a concept we have recently discussed), and in the process we will be reviewing linear measurements, completing data tables, and practicing basic graphing skills.
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
  • PreAP classes: please name your file ‘project1’ with no spaces and save it to your S-drive folder.  It’s due tomorrow! 
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Wed Sep 30th

General Plan:

  1. Review for and take the 1st 6 weeks test
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
  • Please switch to LanSchool channel 3308 (I’ll be monitoring your review)
  • Play Jeopardy review game on your own or with a partner
    1. open the link above
    2. resize your Excel window so it’s about the size of the gameboard
    3. click on the gameboard values to choose your question
    4. click on the question to see the answer
    5. click on the answer to go to the scoring screen
    6. enter your score (optional) and click on the word Gameboard to return to the game
    7. If you click in the wrong place and see a strange looking symbol, click on the tab that says Gameboard at the bottom of your Excel window
  • Take 6 weeks exam
Additional Information:
  • PreAP classes: please name your file ‘project1’ with no spaces and save it to your S-drive folder.  It’s due this Friday!  Early turn-ins get extra credit (I’ll use the file modified date to determine the completed date for extra credit).
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Tues Sep 29th

General Plan:

  1. View unusual animal species
  2. Introduce new Biogeography concepts and terms
  3. Review for 1st 6 weeks test (which we will take Wednesday!)
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
  • PreAP Invasive Species project example .  This is due Friday, but you can receive 1 extra credit point for each day this project is completed early.
  • If you make an electronic version of your project (using InterWrite, OneNote, PowerPoint, etc), please name your file ‘project1’ with no spaces and save it to your S-drive folder so I can find it easily!
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Mon Sep 28th

General Plan:

  1. This is the last week of the 1st 6 weeks grading period.  Please check your online grades for missing assignments, especially near the end of the week.
  2. Today and tomorrow we will be looking at perhaps the biggest threat to our environment today… the loss of biodiversity.  The first link below shows the current assessment of that threat.
  3. Next, we’ll look at a very diverse location (the Ngorongoro Crater) which is actually a volcano caldera.
  4. Then, we will review information using InterWrite software on 1) Food Chains and Webs and Energy Pyramids and then 2) on Primary and Secondary Succession.  These should be saved to your desktop, then opened and edited and finally saved in your S-drive folder to be graded.
  5. Finally, we will look at some video clips on the topic of Biodiversity.
Links and Tasks for today: (save files to your desktop before opening!)
Additional Information:
  • PreAP Invasive Species project example .  This is due Friday, but you can receive 1 extra credit point for each day this project is turned in early.  If you make an electronic version of your project (using InterWrite, OneNote, PowerPoint, etc), please name your file ‘project1’ with no spaces and save it to your S-drive folder so I can find it easily!
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