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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:
- Objectives: Continue your team’s seed germination experiment, create TSOTS team blog, earn 80% or better on ESS Unit Quiz
- Warm-up: Take out Essential Science Skills (ESS) Unit Pre-Test; compare answers with your seat neighbors and note differences in any of your answers; bring unresolved discrepancies to the attention of Mr. Bursch during pre-quiz review session [8]
- Pre-quiz review session [10]
- Essential Science Skills Unit Quiz [25]
- Work on Germination of Seeds lab with TSOTS teams [50]
- TSOTS blog creation (instructions: storyoftheseed.blogspot.com) [~50]
- Begin ESLP signups [~50]
OUTSIDE OF CLASS:
- Continue working on your seed germination labs
- Finish and publish your SBPA #1 on The Story of the Seed blog
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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:
- Objectives: Carry out NPP and HOC experiments independently
- Warm-up: What is the essence of the second law of thermodynamics? Provide a real-life example of this law. [8]
- Video clip: Earth’s Energy Explained [5]
- Unit 2: Lecture 2: Earth’s Layers [15]
- Share Heat of Combustion (HOC) Experiment data [10]
- Unit 2: Lecture 3: Geologic Change [15]
- Unit 2: Lecture 4: Rocks and Minerals (including "rock walk”) [30]
- Go over Unit 1 Exam MC OR scrAPESbook presentations (2) [10]
OUTSIDE OF CLASS:
- Finish Rock ID Book (DUE 9/13)
- Energy and geological processes quiz on Monday [15]
- Heat of Combustion Lab Write-up: Analysis questions (DUE 9/13)
Read pp. 355-357
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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:
- Objectives: (1) Submit your seed germination experiment lab write-up; (2) Review for Fundamental
- Science Skills Unit Test
- Warm-up: Take out Essential Science Skills (ESS) Unit Review/Pre-Test; compare answers with your seat neighbors and note differences in any of your answers [8]
- Go over Fundamental Science Skills Unit Review [10]
- Fundamental Science Skills quiz [30]
- Discuss Germination of Seeds lab results, look at sample graph then create your own turn in the lab [20]
- Finish Student Blog Post Assignment #1 from TSOTS
- Begin ESLP signups
- Tour of WGHS GOLD gardens [15 – 20]
OUTSIDE OF CLASS:
- Finish and publish your SBPA #1 on The Story of the Seed blog before midnight tonight
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