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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Daily Summary 09-27

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to explain how an area’s climate influences/shapes the biogeochemical cycles that occur there and how this, in turn, determines the kinds of life able to exist in that place

- Warm-up: If you had to argue for two organism classes (trophic levels) as being essential to the operation and survival of any ecosystem type, for which two kinds of organisms would you argue and how would you defend your argument? [5]

- Community Interactions [20]

- Ecology Quiz #1 [25]

- Climate, microclimates, and the Ecology Field Day [50]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish final draft of Food Issue Essay (based on Food Inc. focus question) and make sure the document is in your Google Drive shared biology folder

- Finish Ecology Field Day



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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:

- Name/describe the 4 major atmospheric layers [8]

- Unit 3: Lecture 2: Ocean Circulation [20]

- Water NPP grass patch / stamp Trophic Level Activity (p.3) [8]

- Unit 3: Lecture 3: Terrestrial Biomes [20]

- Finish 1st round scrAPESbook presentations

- Work on Biome Graphic Organizer

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

- Weather, climate, and biomes quiz on Thursday


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on NPP Lab: introduction, materials and methods (first draft should be finished by 9/29, WHOLE REPORT DUE 10/11)

- Read p. 169-172



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to explain how an area’s climate influences/shapes the biogeochemical cycles that occur there and how this, in turn, determines the kinds of life able to exist in that place

- Warm-up: If you had to argue for two organism classes (trophic levels) as being essential to the operation and survival of any ecosystem type, for which two kinds of organisms would you argue and how would you defend your argument? [5]

- Community Interactions [20]

- Ecology Quiz #1 [25]

- Climate, microclimates, and the Ecology Field Day [50]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish final draft of Food Issue Essay (based on Food Inc. focus question) and make sure the document is in your Google Drive shared biology folder

- Finish Ecology Field Day



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