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Monday

• succession ppt guided notes
  worksheet-for-succession-ppt
• Worksheet – pond succession
• succession-worksheet

Tuesday

Go over the worksheet on Pond succession – group discussion

Work on the Internet :  Ecology Simulation

Shows how ecosystems maintain a balance or respond to change

Wednesday

Man’s effect on the environment – readings and reporting out

Global warming

Invasive Species

Green house effect

• Where do you stand???

Thursday –

Global Warming

Stations – Students will rotate to different stations and gather information on the greeenhouse affect and global warming

global-warming-stations-worksheet

global-warming-sttions-worksheet-2

Friday (1/2) day

We will continue with our assignment from Thursday

If you did not finish the questions from Thursday about global warming go to this site – the info is there

Greenhouse gases and Global warming

Monday

• Complete and hand in Biogeochemical Cycle drawings
• Attach questions from the cycles done in stations
• In groups present each cycle:
  • The steps
  • The unique thing about the cycle
  • How humans have affected the cycle

Tuesday

Quiz on Biogeochemical cycles

Begin questions in group on Populations Ch. 19

  Write the questions on the presentation poster and answer them.  We will present on Wednesday

Wednesday

Presentations – Questions from Ch. 19

Answer questions on own paper from presentation posters or book

populations-questions-chapter-19-student-copy

Graphing populations worksheet – discuss in groups – explain

Thursday

Relationships – Pred Prey , Mutualism, Parasitism, …. notes from ppt

Video’s Shark and turtle, barber fish…….

Graphing Wolf

deef-wolf-graph-with-ques

Friday

Want Ads  – relationships

relations-ship-want-ads

Monday

Begin working on group food web energy transfer project

northern-michigan-food-web-1

Tuesday

Quiz 18-1 – 18-3 in text

continue working on food web

Wednesday

Finish Web – turn it in with rubric

Begin Ch. 18-4 Biogeochemical Cycles –

• Stations for each cycle
• STATIONS AND QUESTIONS:
• biogeochemical-cycles-stations

Thursday

Video on biogeochemical cycles

Drawings and explanations of drawings

biochemical-cycles-drawing

Friday

Complete Cycle worksheet

Monday – 

• Students will turn in their paragraphs on ecosystems interactions that they started last week
• Students will complete a concept map on section 18-2 infromation
• ecol-ppt-1-concept-map
• They will get into groups and collectively answer questions and prepare a poster for presentation

Tuesday

• Students will continue their prep for the group presentation
• They will present their questions and poster
• Students will be given the questions from section 18-3 that they can go poster to poster to answer or use the book
• 18-3-energy-transfer-questions

Wednesday

• Created bottle ecosystems and planted them
• completed energy transfer questions from tuesday

Thursday

• Observed and collected data on ecosystems
• Wrote procedure on how the ecosystem was made
• Began energy pyramid worksheet
• energy-pyramid-food-chain-with-cut-outs

Friday

• continue working on the energy pyramid worksheet
• anything not done will be homework

Monday –  off no school

Tuesday –

• Today students worked in groups to explain the characteristics of life
• These were written in their notebooks
• Vocabulary from Ch. 18 Ecosystems and Ch. 1 were put into a foldable

Wednesday –

• “Talked to the Diagram”  pg 361 and 360 in text
  • labeled and created summary statements
• Read and discussed the meaning of biosphere, community, population, organism

Thursday 

• Read the worksheet attached
• ecology-reading-intro
• Defined and discussed – ecosystem, habitat and niche
• Created and worked on the table for studying the interaction of organisms involved in Lyme disease and its spread

Friday –

• Complete relationships table – of oak, chipmunk, mouse, gypsy moth, tick, and lyme bacterium.
• Together discuss the relationships
• Short essay:  Explain how an increase in the white footed mouse will affect the ecosystem and the spread of Lyme disease

 Monday:

Review for finals

Tuesday – Thursday

EFHS Final Exam Schedule

Spring Semester 2015-16

NO LUNCHES – SCHOOL IS DISMISSED AT 10:30

Monday

Explaining speciation:

•  concept map
• concept map speciation power pt
• ppt notes Speciation
• Formation of Species – speciation

Tuesday

Review for final – slots

Wednesday

Review for Exam on Evolution

Evolution Exam Review for iLearn exam 2015

Thursday

Go over review on Evolution

Review for Final

Friday

Exam on Evolution

Final Review

Monday – off Memorial Day

Tuesday

Darwin 5 factors of natural selection

Notes and worksheet

Darwin’s Natural Selection Practice

Wednesday

Notes and graphs:  Types of Evolution

Types of Evolution worksheet (pgs 3 &4)

Darwin’s Natural Selection Practice

Thursday

Go over Types of Evolution worksheet –

Evolution in Action – Questions

Evolution in Action pg308 in text

Friday

Go over Evolution in Action:

use whiteboard and groups

Monday
Begin the Activity Lab on Evidence for Evolution

evidence of evolution

Tuesday

Continue with Evidence for Evolution

In groups discuss results

Hand in for grading

Wednesday

Online activtiy – Natural Selection and populations

Natural Selection online activity

Thursday

Complete on line activity

Friday

No school