Daily Summary 09-12

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Continue your team’s seed germination experiment, work on setting up TSOTS team blog

- Warm-up: Can you name at least one farm or farmer directly responsible for producing some of the food you eat? Why do you think it might be important for us to know who manages the production of our foods? In what ways do you think farmers might behave/work as biologists (scientists)? [10]

- Tutorial policy (for Mr. Bursch) [5]

- Check in on your experiments / work on lab reports [25]

- Begin ESLP signups [~25]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Continue working on your seed germination labs



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Create Rock ID Book and be able to correctly identify and describe 90% or more of rock specimens displayed in class

- Warm-up: What are the three main types of rock? What is the difference between a mineral and a rock? Now, take out a sheet of lined paper for your quiz and put a proper heading on it. [8]

- Energy and geological processes quiz [15]

- Work on Rock ID book in preparation for lab practical [25]

- Get Heat of Combustion class data if you did not yet do so [~10]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

 - Finish Rock ID Book (DUE 9/13)

- Heat of Combustion Lab Write-up: Analysis questions (DUE 9/13)



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: (1) Submit your seed germination experiment lab write-up; (2) Brainstorm ideas for your ESLP project Warm-up: Take out Germination of Seeds lab write-up, make sure it is neat and complete and that your graph is properly stapled to the original lab handout—make sure your name is on it too! [5]

- Turn in Germination of Seeds lab [2]

- Tour of WGHS GOLD main garden [10 - 15]

- More about the Ecology Service Learning Project (ESLP) and why its primary focus is on food [5]

- ESLP Brainstorm [10 - 15]

- Begin ESLP signups [~10 - 15]

- Begin watching Food Inc., chapters 1 [10]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Continue thinking about your ESLP project



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