April 27 (A Day) and April 30 (B day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will discuss food chains and food webs in order to explain the flow of energy in an ecosystem.

WARM-UP: List out the taxa used in the classification system.

CLASSWORK:
1) Food web activity
2) Ecology Movie (15. min.)
3) Do BCR #10

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Read pages 7-1 through 7-4 in the Green HSA book.
2) Do flashcards through #50.

HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Flashcards through #40
2) Read Evolution pages 6-1 through 6-12 in green HSA book.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HSA is on May 22!!! Strive for five every day!!!

April 25 (A Day) and April 26 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform a laboratory activity in order to classify items.

WARM-UP: Identify the five factors that affect evolution.

CLASSWORK:
1) Review Evolution
2) Classification lab

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Make flashcards for the following words:
31) habitat
32) limiting factors
33) population
34) predator
35) prey
36) autotroph
37) carnivore
38) commensalism
39) consumer
40) decomposer

Read pp. 6-1 through 6-12 in green HSA book. Skip the review sections.
Spend five minutes reviewing flashcards.

HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards, reading in Green HSA book (B Day students)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 22 is your HSA, STRIVE FOR FIVE

April 23 (A Day) and April 24 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform a laboratory activity in order to classify items.

WARM-UP: Explain current evidence for evolution.

CLASSWORK:
1) Review Evolution
2) Classification lab

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Make flashcards for the following words:
21) abiotice
22) Biosphere
23) biotic
24) carrying capacity
25) comminity
26) competition
27) ecology
28) ecosystem
29) environment
30) habitat

HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 22 is your HSA

April 19 (A Day) and April 20 (B Day): Evolution Lesson 4

OBJECTIVE: Students will review the mechanisms of evolution in order to understand what factors influence evolutionary change.

WARM-UP: What is meant by the phrase "survival of the fittest"? (All except period 1A)

CLASSWORK:
1) Evolution Review
2) Review Bird Adaptation Lab
3) Make flashcards for the following words:
12) classification
13) eukaryotes
14) prokaryotes
15) kingdom
16) organ
17) organelle
18) organ system
19) taxonomy
20) tissue

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Finish flashcards, I will check all 20 from 4th quarter next class.

HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Spring Break Packet
2) Letter to companies for field trip
3) Flashcards from last class

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BIOLOGY HSA is on May 22

April 18 (B Day): Evolution Lesson 3

OBJECTIVE: Students will review the mechanisms of evolution in order to understand what factors influence evolutionary change.

WARM-UP: None today

CLASSWORK:
1) Review Bird Adaptation Lab
2) DNA Day presentation
3) Make flashcards for the following words:
12) classification
13) eukaryotes
14) prokaryotes
15) kingdom
16) organ
17) organelle
18) organ system
19) taxonomy
20) tissue

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Letter to companies if you haven't done so.
Finish flashcards

HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Spring Break Packet
2) Letter to companies for field trip
3) Flashcards from last class

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BIOLOGY HSA is on May 22

April 16 (B Day) and April 17 (A Day): Evolution Lesson 2 (B day) and 3 (A day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will compare beak structure of birds in order to review adaptation.

WARM-UP: Draw 3 different bird beaks and explain the type of food each bird would eat.

CLASSWORK:
1) Lab
2) Flashcards: Write flashcards for all Evolution words from Green HSA book.
a) evolution
b) fossil record
c) geologic time
d) adaptive value
e) natural selection
f) overproduction
g) genetic variation
h) common ancestry
i) homologous structures
j) vestigial
k) extinction

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Spring Break Packet due next class
2) Letter to Johnson Controls, Inc. and Chesapeake Bay Foundation

HOMEWORK DUE:
1) N/A

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Biology HSA is on May 22.

April 4 (B Day) and April 5 (A Day)

Review and discuss the following items:

1) Pictures from field trip.
2) What did you learn on the trip?
3) Start Spring Break packet.
4) Get final 3rd quarter grades.

April 2 (B Day) and April 3 (A Day)

LIVING CLASSROOMS FIELD TRIP!!! No assignments today since most of us will be on the trip.