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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Daily Summary 12-08

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Demonstrate a basic understanding of the cell cycle, cell growth, and mitosis by creating a cell growth and division mini-project with no major factual errors

- Microscope Lab #2: Mitosis Microscope Lab

- Cell growth and division stop-motion video or comic strip mini-project


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish mitosis microscope lab questions

- Work on cell growth and division mini-project

- Continue working on ESLP project



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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 factors affecting soil formation? Considering these factors, where do you suppose the richest agricultural soils are? And the poorest? [7]

- Finish Lecture 2: Soil [15 - 20]

- Continue watching Dirt! The Movie [30]

- Soil Analysis Lab work time

OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on Soil Analysis Lab

- Brazil case study reading



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Demonstrate a basic understanding of the cell cycle, cell growth, and mitosis by creating a cell growth and division mini-project with no major factual errors

- Microscope Lab #2: Mitosis Microscope Lab

- Cell growth and division stop-motion video or comic strip mini-project

- Make sure cell analogies slideshow peer eval forms are in your Google Drive shared biology folders—I will be scoring this week


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish mitosis microscope lab questions

- Work on cell growth and division mini-project

- Continue working on ESLP project



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