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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Daily Summary 09-24

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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Complete NPP lab report with all sections done per lab report guidelines

- Warm-up: Weather, climate, and biomes quiz [25]

- Finish 1st round scrAPESbook presentations [20]

- Work on NPP lab report / Check NPP Introduction draft [45]

- Check/stamp Biome Graphic Organizer [~20]

- Water NPP grass patch [8]

- Must mass/dry/mass second NPP sample before 3:30 pm Friday

- Start 2nd round scrAPESbook presentations


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on NPP Lab: Introduction (Introduction first draft due 9/24) (WHOLE REPORT DUE 10/06)

- Read p. 181-187



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to draw and describe a detailed food web in which all trophic levels are identified and diagrams of the major biogeochemical cycles (water, carbon, and nitrogen) are shown

- Warm-up: Why is the number of top-level (3rd level and higher) consumers usually so much smaller than the number of producer organisms in any given food chain? [5]

- Review cycles of matter (biogeochemical cycles, e.g., H2O) [20]

- Work on Ecosystem Map Poster Assignment [75]

- Stamp Science Skills Review Guide and Collect Stamp Log #1 (except period 4)


HOMEWORK:

- TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #2 (DUE Friday by midnight)

- Work on poster over the break if all members of group agree one person should take it home, otherwise leave in classroom



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