Biology+Term+1

=Biology Term 1=
 * Date || Classwork || Homework ||
 * Aug. 22 || Self-starter: Cornell Notes pgs 38-40

Content Objectives: 1. Learn to use Cornell Notes to organize main ideas from a reading assignment 2. Learn lab safety procedures

Language Objectives: 1. Understand Microscope use to study for quiz 2. Understand lab safety procedures to study for quiz

-Take Cornell Notes on the reading assignment (pp 38-40). - Discuss Lab Safety procedures || Study for Lab Safety Quiz ||
 * Aug. 26 || Self-starter: Lab Safety Quiz

Content Objectives: 1. Understand relationships between living and non-living things in the Queen of Trees ecosystem 2. Be able to use these terms to describe the Queen of Trees ecosystem: predator, prey, symbiosis, competition, consumers, producers, biotic, abiotic, ecosystem, population, diversity, competition, decomposers, community

Language Objectives: 1. Take notes on the concepts of ecological systems 2. Take notes on the Queen of Trees video, applying ecological systems terms and concepts to the video.

-Watch the Queen of Trees video ||  ||
 * Aug. 28 || Self-starter: Microscope Use procedure

Content Objectives: 1. Understand relationships between living and non-living things in the Queen of Trees ecosystem 2. Be able to use these terms to describe the Queen of Trees ecosystem: predator, prey, symbiosis, competition, consumers, producers, biotic, abiotic, ecosystem, population, diversity, decomposers, community

Language Objectives: 1. Take notes on the concepts of ecological systems 2. Take notes on the Queen of Trees video, applying ecological systems terms and concepts to the video.

-Finish Queen of Trees Video -Write Queen of Trees paragraph - Microscope Use instructions || Study for Microscope Use Quiz ||
 * Aug. 30 || Self-starter: Microscope Use Quiz

Content Objectives: -Learn members of a pond water ecosystem -Measuring with a microscope -Consider ways that human activity affects pond water ecosystems -Understand a controlled experiment

Language Objectives -Pond water ecosystems and measuring with a microscope worksheet -Notes: Controlled experiments: variable, evidence, inference,, quantitative, qualitative

-Experiment Plans || Study Ecosystem Vocabulary for Self-starter quiz: predator, prey, symbiosis, competition, consumers, producers, biotic, abiotic, ecosystem, population, diversity, decomposers, community ||
 * Sept. 4 || Self-starter: Ecosystem Vocabulary Quiz

Content Objectives: -Understand controlled experiments -Consider human affects on pond water ecosystems

Language Objectives: -Complete baseline observations of Pond Water Experiment

-Begin and Set up Water Ecosystem Experiment -Hand out Ecosystems Notes List || Complete Ecosystems Notes Packet and answer questions.

Study Notes Packet for test Friday || -Hand in Ecosystems Notes Packet -Water, Carbon/Oxygen and Nitrogen Cycles Worksheet ||  || cycle, oxygen cycle, limiting factors -Matter Cycles Group Activity -Introduce Global Climate Change Assignment ||  || media type="youtube" key="xwpnmsLwinI" width="274" height="156" -Global Climate Change PowerPoint Assignment: select topics and begin work. ||  || -Matter Cycles Notes List ||   || Matter Cycles Notes Packet is due -Cornell Notes pp 41-44 ||  || media type="youtube" key="TE6wqG4nb3M" width="268" height="204" ||  || [|Resting Metabolic Rate Calculator] Metabolic Rates in Birds group assignment. Unit 3 Vocabulary || Study Unit 3 Vocabulary for quiz next class period: energy pyramid, food chain, basal metabolism, homeothermic, poikilothermic || -How Many Bears Simulation Activity -How Many Bears Graph and Questions ||  || -Finish How Many Bears Graphs -How much energy does it take to eat? Unit 3 Notes List ||  || Unit 3 Notes Packet is due Chemistry Review Worksheet ||  ||
 * Sept. 6 || -Ecosystems Test
 * Sept. 10 || Flex Day: As needed ||  ||
 * Sept. 12 || Finish Pond Water Experiment and complete report ||  ||
 * Sept. 16 || -Matter Cycles Vocabulary: carbon cycle, nitrogen
 * Sept. 18 || -Climate Change Essentials video
 * Sept. 20 || -Global Climate Change PowerPoint Assignment: work time ||  ||
 * Sept. 24 || -Global Climate Change PowerPoint Assignments are due: ||  ||
 * Sept. 26 || -Matter Cycles Review
 * Oct. 1 || Matter Cycles Test
 * Oct. 3 || Self-starter:
 * Oct. 7 || Self-starter: [|Budget Calculator]
 * Oct. 9 || Self-starter: Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz
 * Oct. 11 || Self-starter: Cornell Notes pp 97-99
 * Oct. 15 || Unit 3 Test
 * Oct. 17 || Self-starter: CHNOPS worksheet

[|Properties of Water Video] || Properties of water Vocabulary: solvent, solute, adhesion, cohesion, protein, || Notes: Macromolecules || Macromolecules Vocabulary: fat, nucleic acid, enzyme, chlorophyll, carbohydrate, || Video Notes: Energy and Chemical Reactions Cornell Notes: Chemical Reactions ||  ||
 * Oct. 21 || Self-starter Quiz: Water Vocabulary Quiz
 * Oct. 23 || Self-starter: Macromolecules Vocabulary Quiz
 * Oct. 25 || Enzyme Lab Introduction ||  ||
 * Oct. 29 || Enzyme Lab

Unit 4 Notes List ||  || Hand In Unit 4 Notes Packet ||  ||
 * Oct. 31 || Write Enzyme Lab report