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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Daily Summary 03-14

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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Explain the concept of natural selection and how this process, along with chance events, drives evolution of biological systems

- Warm-up: What is a fossil and how can fossils serve as evidence of evolution? [5]

- Fossils and their formation [25 - 30]

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8 [45]

- Today will be the last day to show responses to “Who Wants to Live a Million Years” questions for credit

- Don’t forget about the Genetics Engineering Challenge!

- Thursday: probable origins of life on Earth


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8

- Wrap up service projects (don’t forget your project blog!)



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Determine the exhaust volume for several internal combustion engine vehicles running at idling speeds and explain how the contents of these samples relates to various forms of air pollution

- Warm-up: What is a thermal inversion and how does it create potentially dangerous air conditions in heavily populated urban areas? [8]

- Unit 10: Lab 2: Auto Emissions and Pollution Lab [45]

- Unit 10: Lab 1: Lung Volume and Pollution, second trial (if necessary) [25]

- Unit 10: Lecture 3: Climate Change, part 3 [15]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Reading Assignment: Methane and Frozen Ground

- Finish FEV1 and Auto Emissions Lab Analyses



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Explain the concept of natural selection and how this process, along with chance events, drives evolution of biological systems

- Warm-up: What is a fossil and how can fossils serve as evidence of evolution? [5]

- Evolution Quiz #3 (4th and 5th period) [25]

- Fossils and their formation [25 - 30]

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8 [45]

- Today will be the last day to show responses to “Who Wants to Live a Million Years” questions for credit

- Don’t forget about the Genetics Engineering Challenge!

- Thursday/Friday: probable origins of life on Earth


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on TSOTS Student Blog Post Assignment #8

- Wrap up service projects (don’t forget your project blog!)



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