Introduction

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Daily Summary 09-04

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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Finish your team’s seed germination experiment, create TSOTS team blog, earn 70% 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 questions to the attention of Mr. Bursch during pre-quiz review session [8]

- Pre-quiz review session: go over metric conversion practice and Essential Science Skills Unit Pre-Test [15 - 20]

- Essential Science Skills Unit Quiz [25]

- Work on Seed Germination Lab: collect final data and graph it [40]

- TSOTS blog creation (instructions: storyoftheseed.blogspot.com) [~40]

- LINK TO UNTAMED SCIENCE VIDEOS ON BRASSICA OLERACEA:
http://www.untamedscience.com/biodiversity/wild-cabbage/


HOMEWORK:

- Continue setting up TSOTS blogs



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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 [35]

- Work on Germination of Seeds lab with TSOTS teams [50]

- TSOTS blog creation (instructions: storyoftheseed.blogspot.com) [~50]

- Begin ESLP signups [~50]

- More information on Brassica oleracea (5th period only) [10]

- LINK TO UNTAMED SCIENCE VIDEOS ON BRASSICA OLERACEA:
http://www.untamedscience.com/biodiversity/wild-cabbage/


HOMEWORK:

- Continue working on your seed germination labs



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