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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Daily Summary 09-15

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to describe strengths and weaknesses of our modern food production systems citing evidence from Food, Inc.

- Warm-up: What individual or collective actions are you willing to take to improve our food system and what could be their impact [10]

- Conclude and clean up your experiments and work on your final lab reports / TSOTS blogs [35]

- Continue watching Food Inc., chapters 5 – 7 [35]

- Student Blog Post Assignment #2 [25]

- Continue ESLP signups [~25]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish your seed germination lab reports and publish by 9/20

- Finish Student Blog Post Assignment #2



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Use knowledge of energy flow and trophic levels to complete Trophic Level Activity with no more than 1 error

- Warm-up: Sketch the water cycle and label your drawing. [8]

- Finish Unit 2: Lecture 5: Nutrients [10]

- Unit 2: Lecture 6: Energy Movement (through Earth systems) [15]

- Go over Dimensional Analysis Practice [15]

- Continue scrAPESbook presentations [15]

- Go over Unit 1 Exam, MC and FR [15]

- Trophic Level Activity (problem sheet is on website) [20]

- Lab notebooks due by end of day Monday for 1st scoring round

NOTE: SUMMER READING QUESTIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 IN ORDER TO RECEIVE ANY CREDIT!


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Trophic Level Activity (DUE 9/19)

- NPP hypothesis and procedure in lab notebook by Monday

- Review for Unit 2 exam



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to describe strengths and weaknesses of our modern food production systems citing evidence from Food, Inc.

- Warm-up: What individual or collective actions are you willing to take to improve our food system and what could be their impact [10]

- Continue watching Food Inc., chapters 5 – 7 [25]

- Q and A / discussion on chapters watched so far [10]

- Finish watching Food Inc., chapters 8 – 9 [20]

- Concluding Q and A / discussion on the film [10]

- Student Blog Post Assignment #2 [25]

- Continue ESLP signups [~25]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish Student Blog Post Assignment #2

- Begin planning your ESLP project



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