Introduction

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Daily Summary 03-15

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BIOLOGY
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NO CLASS TODAY (SEE YESTERDAY'S POST)



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HONORS BIOLOGY
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IN CLASS: ESLP Requirements Reminder!

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

Warm-up: Does natural selection operate directly on the phenotype or the genotype? Explain your reasoning. [5]

Continue watching Darwin’s Dangerous Idea [20]

Natural selection and adaptation continued [15]

Who Wants to Live a Million Years [30 - 45]

Evolution Quiz #1 [25]

(Evolution quiz #2 next week)

Last week to get Genetics disorder questions stamped

Finish Plasmids and Restriction Enzymes Modeling Activity


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea questions

Finish Plasmids…Modeling Activity--DUE Today, 3/15

Work on TSOTS blog post #6 and/or #7 re-dos



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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Objectives: Discuss the major known causes of global climate change and, using multiple publicly available vetted data sets, make a determination as to what our present understanding is of the likely impacts to the biosphere and humanity during this century

Warm-up: Take out and head a sheet of lined paper, titling it “Air Pollution Quiz 2” [1]

Air Pollution Quiz 2 [15]

Stamp Labs write-ups [~15]

Unit 10: Lectures 3, 4, & 5: Climate Change Cont’d, Other Air Pollution Issues [35]

Climate Change / Global Warming open discussion [25 - 35]

Work/Study Time


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

Reading Assignment: Determining Who Is Releasing Greenhouse Gases

Study for Unit 10 exam!



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