Daily Summary 09-29

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to explain how an area’s climate influences/shapes the biogeochemical cycles that occur there and how this, in turn, determines the kinds of life able to exist in that place

- Warm-up: Why is the number of top-level (3rd level and higher) consumers usually so much smaller than the number of producer organisms in any given food chain? [5]

- TSOTS peer scoring [25 - 30]

- TSOTS Brassica oleracea seedling transplanting [30]

- Complete part II of Ecology Field Day [30]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Take some extra time to rest during the fall break



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Complete NPP lab report with all sections done per lab report guidelines

- Warm-up: Weather, climate, and biomes quiz [25]

- Finish 1st round scrAPESbook presentations [20]

- Work on NPP lab report / Check NPP Introduction draft [45]

- Check/stamp Biome Graphic Organizer [~20]

- Water NPP grass patch [8]

- Must mass/dry/mass second NPP sample before 3:30 pm Friday


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on NPP Lab: introduction, materials and methods (first draft should be finished by 9/29, WHOLE REPORT DUE 10/11)

- Read p. 181-187



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Be able to explain how an area’s climate influences/shapes the biogeochemical cycles that occur there and how this, in turn, determines the kinds of life able to exist in that place

- Warm-up: Why is the number of top-level (3rd level and higher) consumers usually so much smaller than the number of producer organisms in any given food chain? [5]

- Explanation of quiz retake option for Ecology Quiz 1 [2]

- TSOTS peer scoring [25 - 30]

- TSOTS Brassica oleracea seedling transplanting [30]

- Complete part II of Ecology Field Day [30]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Take some extra time to rest during the fall break



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