Daily Summary 09-19

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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 part(s) of our modern food system do you think are the most mysterious or most poorly understood by the public? How do you think this lack of understanding affects us? [8]

- Finish watching Food Inc., chapters 7, 8, and 9 [35]
Assignment Stamp Log #1 will be collected on the next class day


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish your Seed Germination/Growth experiment lab reports and publish them to your team’s The

- Story of the Seed blogs (DUE 9/22 BY MIDNIGHT)
Finish Student Blog Post Assignment #2 (DUE 9/22 BY MIDNIGHT)



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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: At which trophic levels do you feed? Sketch a food web diagram based on your typical eating habits with you in the middle and including all of the organisms that go into your food. [10]

- Show Trophic Level Activity and Dimensional Analysis Practice (if I did not get to you on

- Thursday) for stamp [~10]

- NPP sampling procedure and data collection [10]

- Go over Unit 1 Exam FR [10]

- Continue scrAPESbook presentations [10]

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

- Watch State of the Planet with David Attenborough on YouTube (recommended but not required)


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Review for Unit 2 exam (testing tomorrow)



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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 part(s) of our modern food system do you think are the most mysterious or most poorly understood by the public? How do you think this lack of understanding affects us? [8]

- Finish watching Food Inc., chapters 7, 8, and 9 [35]

- Concluding Q and A / discussion on the film [5]

- Assignment Stamp Log #1 will be collected on the next class day

- Turn in Seed Germination Lab if you have not yet done so—don’t forget the graph! This assignment is now late!


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish Student Blog Post Assignment #2 (DUE 9/23 BY MIDNIGHT)

- Begin planning your ESLP project



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