Science Classroom Connection

We will discuss the topic of understanding populations in terms of its main properties that scientists tend to measure as they work with populations, compare the three general patterns of population dispersion, identify the measurements that are used to describe changing populations, and discuss the three general types of survivorship curves.

Students will be evaluated upon the interdependence process between and among organisms and their environment with a focus on the energy transfer process through food webs as well as how the nutrients get recycled through the biogeochemical cycles of nature.

We will answer and correct the concept map along with the brief assessment that we did yesterday and answer the scheduled homework assignment question #’s: 6, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, and 23 on page 376. Furthermore, we will answer question #’s: 1 through 8 and the short response on page 377.

NOTE THAT WE WILL BE HAVING A CHAPTER 18  TEST ON TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012 UPON THE STUDENTS RETURN FROM THE FOUR-DAY WEEKEND.

We will go over the study guide on the biogeochemical cycles and complete a concept map that is based upon the given clues. When students are done they may continue their work on the chapter review questions on pages 376-377. They are to do question #’s: 6, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, and 23 on page 376. Furthermore, they are to do question #’s: 1 through 8 and the short response on page 377.

Students will reinforce and document their comprehension skills of the four key biogeochemical cycles that include the water cycle, carbon-oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the phosphorus cycle.

We will briefly review the classwork on energy transfer from Friday, and begin the class discussion upon the biogeochemical cycles, namely, the water cycle, the carbon-oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the phosphorus cycle, whereby a group of four students will comment about each selected cycle individually within the assigned group and report out to the class when called upon after a period of time.