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Friday, September 27, 2019

Daily Summary 09-27

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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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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]

Ecology Quiz 1 [25]

(1) Complete Climate Diagram practice and get stamped;
(2) finish Ecology Field Day (Part 1) and get stamped; and
(3) finish Ecosystem Map Poster assignment and submit [60]

Seed Lab accessibility/completeness check, TSOTS scoring [~60]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

Make sure your team’s Ecosystem Map Poster is turned in no later than this afternoon, 2:30 pm and have a great fall break!



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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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Objectives:

Complete NPP lab report with all sections done per lab report guidelines

Warm-up: Weather, climate, and biomes quiz [20]

Continue 1st round scrAPESbook presentations (4-6) [25]

Work on NPP experiment, lab report / Check NPP first draft [45]

Check/stamp Biome Graphic Organizer, if finished [~20]

Water NPP grass patch (optional) [4]

Must mass/dry/mass second NPP sample before 2:30 pm today


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

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

Miller: read pp. 181-187

Finish Biome Graphic Organizer—10/9 is last chance for stamp



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