Monday
Quick Questions: 1. What can you do TODAY to make this school a more pleasant place to be? ~ Not being here Essential Questions: 1. What are three fun facts about your park? ~ The first European explorer known to have arrived in the North Cascades was Alexander Ross, a Scottish employee of the Pacific Fur Company, North Cascades National Park has more plant species within its boundaries than any other national park has recorded, and There are more than 300 glaciers in North Cascades National Park. This is equal to one third of the glaciers found in the lower 48 states in the U.S. Tuesday Quick Question: 1. What did you learn about our park doing the profile yesterday that you didn't know before? ~ I haven't done it yet Essential Question: 1. What three parks stood out to you the most in the images you saw in the video today? ~ Grand teton national park Wyoming, crater lake national park Oregon, and hurricane ridge olympic national park Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. What do you have left to do on your national park project? ~ All of it 2. Have you completed the second reading assignment in the workpacket (pages 11-18?)? ~ No Essential Question: 1. What are three things you could do to help reduce solid waste in the environment? ~ Reduce, reuse, and recycle Friday Quick Question: 1. Where is Smoky Mountain National Park? ~Tennessee and north Carolina 2. What is the Appalachian Trail? ~a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine Essential Question: 1. How can citizens help preserve the national parks? ~ Be respectful of the parks while visiting them
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Monday Quick Questions: 1. Which national park are you going to do your research project on? ~The North Cascades 2. Why did you pick that park? ~It is one that I would love to visit. It is my kind of area. Essential Questions: 1. What are three things that you learned from the first reading assignment in the Unit 5 packet? ~Yellowstone was the first national park. Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. What are wilderness corridors? ~An area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures 2. Why is it important for wildlife to have access to mates beyond those that live nearby? Essential Questions: 1. When was your park first protected as a national park? ~ 1968 2. Upload a map of your park.
Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. How big is the park you're researching for your project? ~ 504,781 acres Essential Questions: 1. What did you accomplish today? ~Absent Thursday Quick Questions: 1. Approximately how many people visit your park each year? ~ about 25,000 people per year Essential Questions: 1. What did you accomplish today? ~Absent Friday Quick Questions: 1. U.S. National Parks were in the news this week. Read THIS ARTICLE to answer today's quick questions and essential questions. 2. What announcement did President Trump make on Monday with regard to two national monuments in Utah? ~ He would shrink the size of two national monuments in Utah by approximately 2 million combined acres. Essential Questions: 1. What are the two sides to the debate surrounding the President's recent decision regarding the two national monuments in Utah? ~Fiery debate has ensued across the country between those who argue that the monuments were an overstep of federal power in the first place and those who say the monuments protected sacred Native American land from mining or development. 2. Post your nature center picture. Monday
Quick Question: 1. Last week we watched a few videos that showed the ways that humans live closely with nature around the world. Do you think there is value to watching these videos in class? Explain your response. ~ Yes because they show how different humans values are around the world. Essential Questions: 1. What are some of the major threats to biodiversity? ~ Pollution, global warming, habitat fragmentation 2. What is the evidence for ozone depletion? ~Satellites show holes forming in the ozone 3. What is the evidence for global warming? ~Overall raise in the globes temperature year round Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. Explain why pollution is a bigger problem to organisms at higher trophic levels than those at lower trophic levels. ~Because the higher the trophic level the more concentrated the pollutant gets 2. Please get out your WORKPACKET. Essential Questions: 1. What is habitat fragmentation? ~ When habitat loss causes the division of large chunks of the habitat 2. When do scientists predict the Ozone layer will be repaired? ~When we completely stop emitting carbon 3. What are three things you learned from reading the article "A World Without Water"? Wednesday Quick Question: 1. We've talked about many threats to biodiversity. Which threat do you think is the most severe? Explain your answer with a reason. ~Global warming because it effects every ecosystem all over the Earth Essential Question: 1. What are some of the major threats to our national parks and other protected areas? ~ Deforestation and commercialization Thursday Quick Questions: 1. Use the Google-- why are national parks important? ~ They preserve and protect many species and the country's history 2. Have you ever been to a national park/forest/lakeshore? (There are some here in Michigan!) ~ No Essential Questions: 1. What are three things from the video that you didn't know before. ~National parks weren't a thing not too long ago, specific people tend to bring certain ones to attention, and it takes a while for an area to get approved to be a national park Friday Quick Question: 1. How do you feel yesterday's test went? ~ I think I did pretty good on it Essential Question: 1. Post your pic from the nature center. Monday
Quick Question: 1. In your daily life, how much thought do you put into your impact on the environment? ~ Not a lot 2. Now that we've surveyed some of the world's biodiversity, we're going to study some of the ways biodiversity is threatened. Google HIPPO threats to biodiversity and record what the HIPPO threats are. ~ Habitat Loss, Invasive Species, Pollution, Human Population, and Overharvesting Essential Questions: 1. Comment on the changes you see between your first nature site photo and the most recent photo. ~ Everything has started to lose more color, the trees are more grey and the ground cover is also more grey Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. Explain the connection between the terms "climate change" and "global warming". ~ Global warming is a subcategory under climate change 2. Do you feel well-informed on the issue of climate change? ~ Yes 3. Do you currently have a firm stance on the issue of climate change? ~ Yes Essential Questions: 1. What writing strategy do you think would be the LEAST effective in terms of trying to convince your audience? Why? ~ Emotional appeal because it is most common and it is usually a backup strategy. 2. What writing strategy do you think would be the MOST effective in terms of trying to convince your audience? Why? ~ Connecting to the audience because if I don't understand or relate to what I'm reading I usually don't care about it or take it seriously. Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. What are the benefits of human agriculture? ~It allowed humans to have their own stable food source 2. What are the costs of human agriculture? ~It made the earths soil less nutrient and caused desertification 3. What is monoculture? ~One area used to grow only one species of plant Essential Question: 1. What are three components of biodiversity? ~Ecosystem, species, and genetic Thursday Quick Questions: 1. What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources? ~ Renewable are resources that can be reused and/or have an unlimited supply, whereas non-renewable resources are limited and can't be replenished 2. What are some things that can be done to sustain our freshwater resources? ~ Reduction of pollution and chemical runoff Essential Question: 1. Why are major companies starting to change their approach in managing water? ~ They are trying to conserve water usage Friday Quick Questions: 1. What does biodiversity provide? ~ Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play. 2. Check your grade. If you currently do NOT have a grade for NOTEPACKET 3, it means I don't have it. A 0 will be entered soon! Essential Questions: 1. Post today's Nature Site Photo 2. Turn in today's learning log link in Google Classroom Monday
Quick Questions: 1. In what ways are reptiles and amphibians similar? ~They both are cold blooded and have endoskeletons 2. In what ways are reptiles and amphibians different? ~Reptiles live on land but amphibians live in water for the first stage of their life Essential Questions: 1. What are the 4 traits that all chordates share? ~ Notochord, hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal pouches, and a tail 2. True or false: all chordates are vertebrates. ~False Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. How old is the earth? ~ 4.5 billion years 2. How long ago did life first appear on earth. ~1 billion years ago 3. How has our species, Homo sapiens, been around? 200,000 years Essential Questions: 1. What is ecological feedback? ~ The effect that change in one part of an ecosystem or social system has on the very same part after passing through a chain of effects in other parts of the system. 2. What are some possible causes of the Cambrian explosion? ~An increase of available oxygen, the development of vision, and recovery of a mass extinction. Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. What is the name of the "biological big bang". ~The Cambrian explosion 2. What are the 8 levels of classification in biology? ~Sponges,cnidarians, flatworms, roundworms, annelids, mollusks, arthropods and echinoderms. Essential Questions: 1. All vertebrates have an amniotic egg. What is the amniotic egg in humans? ~While the fetus is developing in the womb 2. Are humans oviparous, ovoviviparous, or viviparous? ~Viviparous Thursday Quick Question: What is the most interesting thing you saw in the video yesterday? ~ Nothing Essential Questions: What did you accomplish today? ~Nothing Friday Quick Questions: 1. What was one (or more) good thing about creating the animal kingdom web project? ~It was a good learning experience 2. What was one (or more) bad thing about creating the animal kingdom web project? ~It hurt my grades because this class is too fast paced for me. Essential Questions: 1. What was the most interesting thing you saw in today's video? ~Absent 2. Post the picture you took today at the nature site. Monday
Quick Question: What are the 4 main body parts of organisms in the phylum Mollusca? ~The shell, mantle, foot, and visceral mass Essential Questions: 1. How did you use your time today? ~ I worked on my weebly page for annelida 2. How do we know that annelids are more closely related to mollusks than roundworms? ~They have a coelom Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. What is the most interesting thing you learned about annelids? ~ Annelids have to be in wet environments 2. What is the most interesting thing you learned about mollusks? ~Scallops can propel themselves by flapping their shells Essential Questions: According the the Encyclopedia Brittanica, about 84% of all known species in the animal kingdom are arthropods. What are some characteristics of arthropods make them so successful? ~Extreme diversity and adaptability and they have a hard exoskeleton Wednesday Quick Question: What was one of the most amazing insect survival strategies you saw in the video yesterday? ~ Spraying of acids to protect from predators Essential Questions: 1. Approximately how many arthropods are there in the world? ~ 1 million 2. What are the three body parts of an arthropod? ~Head, thorax, and abdomen Thursday Quick Question: Why are Echinoderms considered more closely related to Chordates than Cnidarians? ~They are more complex and have more similar characteristics Essential Questions: 1. What is the most interesting thing you learned about Arthropods? ~There's 1 million different species 2. What is the most interesting thing you learned about Echinoderms? ~They are more like us than jellyfish or coral Friday Quick Questions: 1. In what ways are the organisms getting more complex as we move through the phyla? ~They start to develop more complex cephalization and coelom 2. Why do you think the organisms are getting more complex and varied as we move through the phyla? ~They Become more intelligent as they develop more complex cephalization Essential Questions: 1. What was the most interesting thing you saw in today's video? ~There is a lizard that can run on water for up to 100m. 2. Post the picture you took today at the nature site. Monday
Quick Question: Why is it important to wash fruits and vegetables before eating them? ~ To prevent diseases and the chance of digesting worms Essential Questions: 1. Submit a link to your animal kingdom web project page in Google Classroom. 2. What is the most interesting thing you've learned about Porifera from your independent research? ~ They can function without true organs or even a mouth/gut. 3. What is the most interesting thing you've learned about Cnidaria from your independent research? ~They are carnivorous Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. What is a pharynx? ~The membrane-lined cavity behind the nose and mouth, connecting them to the esophagus. 2. Which phylum might you be observing if you see an organism with a pharynx? ~ Platyhelminthes Essential Questions: 1. What is the most interesting thing you've learned about Platyhelminthes from your independent research? ~ They can be very pretty 2. What is the most interesting thing you've learned about Nematoda from your independent research? ~ They can be deadly Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. Check your grade. 2. In what ways are round worms essential to our ecosystem? ~ They provide the earth with nutrients Essential Question: Looking over the posted deadlines in today's agenda, does it seem like a reasonable pace? Too slow? Too fast? Explain your answer with a specific reason. ~Slightly too fast because I have always been a slower worker than most of the class. Thursday: Quick Questions: 1. What is due right now? ~ The platyhelminthes and nematoda pages of our weebly project 2. Pull that assignment up now Essential Questions: What 2 things do you need to be prepared for tomorrow? ~ Going outside and to have our notes done for annelida and mollusca Friday: Quick Questions: 1. What is the common name of Annelida? ~ Segmented worms 2. Please get your notes out and open to Annelida and Mollusca. Essential Questions: 1. What do the mollusks and annelids have that the first 4 phyla lacked? ~ They have a true coelom 2. Post the picture that you took today. 3. What differences do you notice between today's picture and last Friday's picture? ~ The leaves are changing colors more, and there are more on the ground. it is also starting to stay darker longer in the mornings. Monday:
Quick Question: What is the relationship between exponential growth and logistic growth? ~ Exponential growth is a j shaped curve representing a constant multiplication of population which is followed by an s shaped curve called logistic growth where the population starts to stay consistent with little changes. Essential Question: What is the difference between intraspecific and interspecific competition. ~ Intraspecific is the competition between one specific species. Interspecific is competition between two or more different species. Tuesday: Quick Questions: 1. What is an ecotone? ~ A region of transition between two biological communities. 2. Do you think abundance or diversity is "better" in terms of environmental health? ~ Diversity Essential Questions: 1. What is the relationship between the resilience and stability of a community? ~ The ability to resist change and maintain the same community 2. Are you happy with your grade in here? ~Yes 3. What can you do THIS WEEK to ensure your grade improves or remains high? ~Complete all my work to the best of my ability Wednesday: Quick Question: Explain the relationship between latitude, species diversity and species abundance. ~ The closer to the equator, the more diversity in species there is, and as you move away from the equator, there is more abundance. Essential Question: 1. After correcting your workpacket, do you notice any patterns in the questions you got wrong? ~ No 2. What topics are the least clear to you right now? ~ Symbiosis Thursday: Quick Questions: 1. If you found two organisms in the same niche at the same time, what must be true about those two organisms? ~ They are the same species 2. How do you know? ~ The competition exclusion principle Essential Questions: 1. Is a constant reproductive rate of any organism beneficial or harmful to the environment? ~ It could be both depending on the species. 2. Explain your answer to question #1. ~ if it is a species like trees or keystone species it is a good thing and will keep an ecosystem stable but if it is an invasive species it would be harmful to the environment Friday: Quick Questions: Do you plan on presenting today? ~ No Essential Question: How do you think the test went? ~ I think I did relatively well Monday:
Quick Question: What do you need to work on with your group in order to be prepared to present on Wednesday? ~Cut and paste pictures and label Essential Questions: 1. Explain how humans could be considered a keystone species. ~ us leaving would make a major impact on every other species 2. Explain how humans could be considered an invasive species. ~ We enter territories we haven't been native too and effect species negatively. Tuesday: Quick Question: List 5 abiotic factors of he ecosystem you and your group are presenting on. ~ Amount of sunlight, PH of water, temperature, pollution, and salt concentration Essential Question: What are you responsible for saying in tomorrow's presentation. ~ The Abiotic factors Wednesday: Quick Question: We've talked about three different kinds of pyramids. What 3 things are represented by pyramids when we're talking about trophic levels? ~Energy, Biomass, and Numbers all decrease as you move up the pyramid. Essential Question: Name three things you learned from presentations today. ~ A lot of Abiotic factors are the same or similar throughout different ecosystems, A keystone species in the taiga is the wolf, and elephants are a keystone species in the savanna. Thursday: Quick Question: What is the difference between a primary and secondary consumer? ~ Primary consumers are herbivores, and secondary consumers are omnivores or carnivores. Essential Question: What are three factors that affect population size? ~ Number of births/deaths, immigration, and emigration. Friday: Quick Question: How did you use your class time yesterday? ~ I did not use my class time very wisely yesterday because I've been sick and left during first block. Essential Questions: 1. What is the difference between density-dependent and density-independent factors? ~ Density-dependent factors are limiting factors that depend on the population size, and density-independent affect all populations similarly regardless of size. 2. What is a carrying capacity? ~ Single factor closest to the tolerance/survival limit that determines where an organism lives. Monday:
Quick Questions: What is an example of a micro-climate? ~ A tropical garden in a desert area. Do you think that tentacles or suction cups are a trait adapted for life in flowing water? Explain your answer. ~ Yes because they can be used for movement and holding on to surfaces in the water to prevent the species from being swept away by the flowing water. Essential Question: What are seven principals of the U.S. Constitution? ~ Federalism, Limited government, Popular sovereignty, Separation of powers, Checks and balances, Individual rights, and Republicanism. Tuesday: Quick Question: What does interdependence mean? ~ Two or more things that equally depend on each other. Essential Questions: What is an invasive species? ~ A non-native species whose introduction causes harm to an ecosystem. What are three examples of invasive species? ~ Sea Lamprey, Emerald ash borers, and Asian lady beetles. Wednesday: Quick Questions: Why are sea otters a keystone species? ~ Otters are a keystone species because they control the population of urchins which control the population of kelp. Essential Questions: What is a trophic level? ~ A position in the food triangle How does the energy flow through an ecosystem? ~ The sun provides energy for producers and those producers get consumed by the first level consumers (Herbivores) which get eaten by second or third level consumers (Carnivores and omnivores) and when those species die, their remains get used by detritivores (Decomposers). Thursday: Quick Question: Why is it more efficient to be a vegetarian than not? ~You would get more energy because producers are at the bottom of the trophic and energy pyramids. Essential Question: What species are you going to do your project on? ~ The hummingbird Friday: Quick Question: Draw a concept map of the following terms: -Autotroph -Producer -Consumer -Heterotroph -Decomposer -Omnivore -Herbivore -Detritivore Essential Question: What is the most interesting thing you've learned about your ecosystem today? ~ Whales eat jellyfish |
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