Introduction

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Friday, September 6, 2019

Daily Summary 09-06

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BIOLOGY
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NO CLASS TODAY (SEE YESTERDAY'S POST)



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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]

Plant your team’s seeds for The Story of the Seed! [~50]

TSOTS blog post work [~50] Begin ESLP signups [~50]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

Continue working on your seed germination labs

Finish and publish your SBPA #1 and SBPA #2 on TSOTS 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]

Unit 2: Lecture 2: Earth’s Layers [10] (READ THROUGH ON YOUR OWN AND TAKE NOTES IN YOUR CLASS NOTEBOOK)

Share/discuss Heat of Combustion (HOC) Experiment data [10]

Unit 2: Lecture 3: Geologic Change [15] (READ THROUGH ON YOUR OWN AND TAKE NOTES IN YOUR CLASS NOTEBOOK)

Unit 2: Lecture 4: Rocks and Minerals (including "rock walk”) [30] (READ THROUGH ON YOUR OWN AND TAKE NOTES IN YOUR CLASS NOTEBOOK)

Start Rock ID Book [20]

Go over Unit 1 Exam MC OR scrAPESbook presentations (2) [10] (POSTPONED)

Get HOC lab write-up checked/stamped [~40] (If you did not get checked today, show me on Monday)


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

Work on Rock ID Book (DUE 9/13)

Energy and geological processes quiz on Monday [15]

Read pp. 355-357



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