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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: Be able to (1) classify examples of factors that limit a population’s growth as either density-independent or density-dependent, (2) predict what will happen to a population’s size based on changes to growth / birth rates, migration in or out, (3) interpret/compare various graphs of population growth
Warm-up: Could the group of plants we are planting in the garden be considered as a population? Why or why not? What are some limiting factors that will affect the growth rates and numbers of plants growing in the garden? [5]
Poster Peer Evaluations [25]
Online population ecology lesson [60] (NOTE: Eco. Quiz retakes)
Have your Climate Diagram practice and Ecology Field Day Part 1 been checked and stamped?
Work on Ecology Field Day Parts 2--DUE FRIDAY [~60]
OUTSIDE OF CLASS:
Finish online population ecology lesson (DUE FRIDAY)
Finish Ecology Field Day Part 2--DUE FRIDAY
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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA: lab station cleanup reminder / class shirt
Objectives: Complete NPP lab report with all sections done per lab report guidelines
Warm-up: What is the major difference between marine and freshwater environments? How are they connected/related? [7]
Trees to the Rescue? A Look at Some Numbers [10]
Continue 1st round scrAPESbook presentations [15]
Unit 3, Quiz #2 [15]
Unit 3: Lecture 4: Freshwater Life Zones [20]
Unit 3: Lecture 4: Marine Life Zones [20]
Work on NPP experiment and lab report; check NPP first draft [35]
NPP report hard copy must be submitted by 2:30 pm on 10/11
Last chance to get Biome Graphic Organizer stamped [~20]
OUTSIDE OF CLASS:
Work on NPP Lab: introduction, materials and methods (first draft should be finished by today, WHOLE REPORT DUE 10/11)
Review for Unit 3 Exam
Read p. 168, 172-181; write threats to coral paragraph (DUE FRI.)
In a paragraph, summarize threats to coral and coral reefs as well as consequences of reef destruction and possible remedial actions humans could take
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