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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Daily Summary 12-13

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Demonstrate a basic understanding of photosynthesis by running a controlled scientific experiment to study the effects of varying CO2 concentration on rates of photosynthesis

- Brief review of photosynthesis and the chloroplast [10]

- Photosynthesis Lab (teams of 3 to 4) [70]

- Turn in cell growth and division stop-motion video or comic strip mini-project (last day to get credit)


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish photosynthesis lab write-up and place in your Google Drive shared Biology folder

- Finish ESLP project (make sure you have created a blog with all of the required information OR, if you were on the BioSITE team or the garden clean-up team, have posted the required summaries appropriate to the team of which you were a part)



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Describe in detail the methods of food production used by humanity and the impacts these practices have on all parts of the biosphere, especially the soils of the planet Warm-up: What are the major specific causes of soil degradation? [5]

- Finish Lecture 3: Soil Degradation [15 - 20]

- Video: Agenda Gotsch [15]

- Finish watching Dirt! The Movie on your own (it’s on YouTube) in order to complete movie companion question set (DUE FRIDAY)

- Soil Analysis Lab work time [60]

- AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT: Outline and Interview [~60]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on Soil Analysis Lab

- Reading from Miller: pp. 304-314



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Demonstrate a basic understanding of photosynthesis by running a controlled scientific experiment to study the effects of varying CO2 concentration on rates of photosynthesis

- Brief review of photosynthesis and the chloroplast [10]

- Photosynthesis Lab (teams of 3 to 4) [70]

- Turn in cell growth and division stop-motion video or comic strip mini-project (last day to get full credit)


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish photosynthesis lab write-up and place in your Google Drive shared Biology folder

- Finish ESLP project (make sure you have created a blog with all of the required information OR, if you were on the BioSITE team or the garden clean-up team, have posted the required summaries appropriate to the team of which you were a part)



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