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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Daily Summary 03-16

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Analyze and critique the most plausible hypotheses presently promoted by evolutionary scientists to explain the beginnings of life on Earth

- Warm-up: Describe a hypothesis you have studied, heard about, or imagined that explains how life might have begun on young planet Earth [8]

- Origins of Life on Earth Timeline Assignment [65]

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8 [35]

- Don’t forget about the Genetics Engineering Challenge!


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:


- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8 (DUE TOMORROW)

- Wrap up service projects—don’t forget your project blog! (DUE TOMORROW)



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Discuss the major known causes of global climate change and, using multiple publicly available vetted data sets, make a determination as to what our present understanding is of the likely impacts to the biosphere and humanity during this century

 - Warm-up: Take out and head a sheet of lined paper, titling it “Air Pollution Quiz 2” [1]

- Air Pollution Quiz 2 [15]

- Stamp Labs write-ups [~15]

- Unit 10: Lectures 3 and 4: Climate Change [35]

- Climate Change / Global Warming open discussion [25 - 35]

- Work/Study Time


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Reading Assignment: Determining Who Is Releasing Greenhouse Gases



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Analyze and critique the most plausible hypotheses presently promoted by evolutionary scientists to explain the beginnings of life on Earth

- Warm-up: Describe a hypothesis you have studied, heard about, or imagined that explains how life might have begun on young planet Earth [8]

- Origins of Life on Earth Timeline Assignment [65]

- Fossils and their formation [25 - 30]

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8 [35]

- Don’t forget about the Genetics Engineering Challenge!


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8 (DUE TOMORROW)

- Wrap up service projects—don’t forget your project blog! (DUE TOMORROW)



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