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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Daily Summary 03-09

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Explain the concept of natural selection and how this process, along with chance events, drives evolution of biological systems

- Warm-up: How do you think new species come into being? [5]

- Speciation [20]

- TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8 [55]

- Turn in Driftworm activity

- Evolution Quiz #3 [20]

- Show responses to “Who Wants to Live a Million Years” questions

- Don’t forget about the Genetics Engineering Challenge


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Determine FEV1 for each individual in class and discuss relevance of this value to epidemiological studies of pulmonary diseases and their relationship to air pollution

- Warm-up: Set up a sheet of lined paper with the standard APES heading and title it “Air Pollution: Quiz 1” [1]

- Unit 10: Quiz 1 [10]

- Unit 10: Lecture 2: Outdoor Air Pollution, part II [15]

- Unit 10: Lab 1: Lung Volume and Pollution [45]

- AP Test payments turned in to respective AP teachers by 3/15

- Lab notebooks due for scoring today by 3:00 pm


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Reread pp. 465-476; read pp. 498-510; Vehicles & Smog Questions; Finish FEV1 Lab Analysis



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Explain the concept of natural selection and how this process, along with chance events, drives evolution of biological systems

- Warm-up: How do you think new species come into being? [5]

- Speciation [20]

- TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8 [55]

- Turn in Driftworm activity

- Evolution Quiz #2 [20]

- Show responses to “Who Wants to Live a Million Years” questions

- Don’t forget about the Genetics Engineering Challenge


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8



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