Warm-up - Review soil qualities
Common gardening practices
Review the soil triangle
NOTES F - Determining the texture of our soil
Measure soil column
Use triangle to determine soil type
Warm-up - What do we know about our soil sample?
Weatering and soil project - Finished?
Look at my feedback on "common gardening practices" and repair
NOTES G - Do a prositity test of our soil
Infiltration test - Notes H
Learn how to make conclusions about infiltration and water retention
Warm-up - How could you MAKE your own soil if you lived in a city with none?
Fill out notes I by looking at your completed notes D
Fill out the last column of notes I using your data
Use our soil data to write a conclusion about our soil sample
Standard or honors
TEST MONDAY
Warm-up - Fill out THIS chart
Notebook check and reflection on unit
Use our soil data to write a conclusion about our soil sample
Standard or honors
When you finish....
Time to finish old work not completed
QUIZLET on Weathering, Erosion and Soil Properties Period 2, Period 3)
Study guide if you are finished with everything
HOMEWORK:
Finish your conclusions
Use the study guide to study for our test
Use QUIZET to practice: Period 2, Period 3 (Weathering, Erosion and Soil Properties)
Warm-up -
Look at someone else's soil conclusion and use THIS RUBRIC to give feedback
QUIZLET LIVE!
Work on Studyguide
HOMEWORK:
Use the study guide to study for our test
Use QUIZET to practice: Period 3, Period 5 (Weathering, Erosion and Soil Properties)
Warm-up - Review soil qualities
QUIZLET on Weathering, Erosion and Soil Properties Period 2, Period 3)
TEST on Weathering/Erosion/Soils
Warm-up - Add a nice drawing to your Soils title page
"Where is the fresh water?" activity - NOTES A
NOTES A1 - State changes of water (CANVA practice) - Make a copy and complete
When finished, add the vocabulary to your notes
Warm-up - What are some ways you use water?
Third block catch up:
Reflect on your grade
Add new title page for water and start new warm-up page
NOTES A1 - State changes of water (CANVA practice) - Make a copy and complete
When finished, add the vocabulary to your notes
Start NOTES B - How does water move around the environment?
Water cycle and surface features
Warm-up - The water that comes out of your faucet at home used to be in the ocean
How did it get from the ocean to your water faucet?
Water cycle GIZMO
Go to your CHCCS bookmarks and click on "Clever"
Find GIZMO and choose Water Cycle
Follow the directions on your handout. Use the GIZMO as needed to answer the questions
MLL, Standard/Honors
When you finish the GIZMO, turn in your paper and do the assessment at the bottom of the simulation page
Water cycle reading - Read and answer the questions
Honors students
Standard student reading
MLL students
Discussion of articles
HOMEWORK:
Finish Water cycle reading - Read and answer the questions
Honors students
Standard student reading
MLL students
Warm-up -
Discuss reading
Add information about wells to notes B
Groundwater model and questions (Notes E)
Warm-up - Check your grade in Infinite campus - What do you need to complete?
Time to make up old work, redo soil lab conclusions
For those that are finished,
Warm-up - Make a water cycle diagram on the whiteboard with your table
NOTES C - Groups brainstorm answers
Problems with groundwater - (Notes D)
Stations (HERE are the online slides)
Fill out THESE notes at each station
HOMEWORK:
Warm-up - What are the problems associated with overusing aquifers?
Review groundwater issues (notes D)
Add stormwater features to NOTES B
NOTES F - Use NOTES B to answer these questions
Work in pairs on Creek profiles
Wear sturdy shoes tomorrow! We are going on a walking field trip!
Warm-up -
Walking field trip to Morgan Creek
Notes G - The problem with runoff
Play with Google Earth a bit
Homework
Find out where your roof drains to
Take a few pictures of the downspouts and where the water goes
Warm-up - What do you remember about yesterday's hike?
Notes G
Introduce stormwater project
Notes I
Work on project using Google Earth
Warm-up - Today, we are finishing our stormwater project. What is the purpose of our stormwater system? Describe it in a way that your parents would understand.
Time to work on stormwater project
If you are installing a rain garden, you should include the names of at least THREE kinds of PLANTS
HERE, HERE and HERE are some links with information about plants
If you are installing a cistern, you need to show an overflow pipe AND a drawdown valve that slowly empties the cistern between storms. HERE is some information about cisterns
Warm-up - Green roof
Finish project (calculations, artwork, and questions)
Rain gardens, you should include the names of at least THREE kinds of PLANTS
HERE, HERE and HERE are some links with information about plants
Cisterns, you need to show an overflow pipe AND a drawdown valve that slowly empties the cistern between storms. HERE is some information about cisterns
HONORS students also need to complete THIS Assignment
Unit review (Notes H)
Finish stormwater project
HONORS students also need to complete THIS Assignment
Make up any missed work
Warm-up -
Stormwater test
Water vials
Warm-up - What are things in water that make it polluted?
Watch THIS edpuzzle about watersheds
Build a watershed model
Watershed model (Notes A)
Starts notes on water pollution (Notes B)
Warm-up - What are rivers and streams good for?
Finish notes on water pollution (Notes B)
THIS water pollution GIZMO - Carefully follow the directions on your handout
Get back old work (do corrections on stormwater project)
Make up tests for those absent
Warm-up - Make a list of important things that you cannot see.
PPM Mini lab (Notes C)
Discussion of oxygen in water (Notes C1)
Activity - Changing the PPM of oxygen
Warm-up - What kinds of experiments did you do when you were a little kid? What memories do you have trying to figure stuff out?
Changing the PPM of water
Groups design experiment
Set up lab and collect data (or set it up and collect data)
Warm-up - graph this data
Time to collect data (if necessary)
Make graphs and write conclusion
When you are finished:
Complete this Water Pollution Review
Work on THESE puzzles (hardcopy in class) (solutions)
Online water pollution activity
Share experimental results with class
Warm-up - Can you think of something that is good but also bad?
Eutrophication card activity (sort the cards into a story that makes sense)
NOTES D - the steps of eutrophication - Make a cartoon version to help you remember
Discuss our water quality lab (presentation)
Fill out NOTES E - Water tests we will perform by going around in groups
Go over each parameter as a class
Warm-up - What kinds of pollutants would you expect in Morgan Creek? Where might these pollutants come from?
Review Eutrophication (NOTES D) in pairs and notes B (types of pollutants)
Practice using data to make conclusions
Collect data for your one water sample into notes E
Transfer your data to your lab handout
Add your data to THIS spreadsheet
Write a conclusion about your water sample. Your conclusion needs to have two parts. For humans and for fish
Warm-up - Which tests are important for people/fish?
Time to work on water quality conclusion
HONORS students need to find patterns in the class data and come up with an idea for a new test
(Answer questions on the other side of the handout)
PART I of THIS PROJECT
Find your house on the map of the first page and make an X on the map.
You may need to use Google Earth or Google maps to help you.
Water pollution study guide (HERE is a link)
Work on other missing assignments
HOMEWORK:
Warm-up - If you could change the world in one way to make it better, what would you do?
Work on project
Create a poster with a partner
Warm-up - Notebook check - (put these in your notebook)
Finish project
HERE is my example of a poster
Be sure to use the RUBRIC!!! and put your names on it!
When done, you should study for our test next TUESDAY
Work on Study Guide
Take a practice test (Answers on the next page)
Write a story
Test next Tuesday
Warm-up -
Time to study! Work on some of these:
Study Guide
Take a practice test
Practice with Quizlet
Write a story
HOMEWORK:
Study for water pollution test
Look at your notes
Use quizlit to help you practice (do more than just flashcards, do a test, matching....)
Refer to the review activies above if you did not get a chance to do those
Warm-up - Make water pollution bingo gameboard
Quizlet live!
Complete missing work
Warm-up - Make a list of things that make up the environment
Work on CANVA 1 with a partner (make into groups)
Start new unit on Biomes and complete notes A
Use QUIZLET to learn new vocabulary words in (Intro to ecology)
Period 2, Period 3)
Complete CANVA 2
When finished, use Canva 2 to fill out notes B
Warm-up - Answer this question on your Warm-up page
List a few ways you INTERACT with the environment
You will need a computer for today's activities
Watch THIS video that describes the interactions between biotic and abiotic things in an environment
Watch THIS VIDEO to find examples of interactions (start at 9:12 to 25?)
Choose one section of the video to record your responses on one side of the page
Choose ANOTHER section of the video to record your repsonse on the other side.
Turn in your completed page to the turn in tray
Time to make up missing assignments
Boro Blowout!
Warm-up - Check your grades in Infinite campus. What are you missing?
Review Notes B
Start Notes C - Biomes
BIOME STATIONS
Read THESE descriptions of biomes to finish Notes C and D
You may not have enough info for the last two columns of notes D
Warm-up - Which biome is this?
Review biomes with Quizlet (as a class)
Work on Biomes of North America
If you finish early, work on new vocabulary words in quizlet.
There are two sets: Intro to Ecology and Biomes
Period 2, Period 3
Warm-up - What information is on this graph?
NOTES E - Climatograms
Each group gets a climatogram to identify
Share out
Each student in table groups makes one climatogram (directions)
HERE is the assignment if you are home and not able to access the hard copy
When you finish your graph, use the textbook (pages 101-107) to learn about animals, plants and location
Share your plants and animals with others in your group so you can complete NOTES D
Do some research for biomes that still have missing information
Finish Biomes of NA
Work on new vocabulary words in quizlet (Biomes)
Period 2, Period 3
Warm-up -
Use your group climatograms to add notes to notes D
Turn in your Bioimes of NA and mystery climatogram
Take THIS QUIZ - You have 2 attempts to get then all right!
Assign biome project and give groups their biomes
Work on biome project - Research (NOTES F)
Here are some websites that you can use or you can find your own
World biomes and ecosystems
NASA
Nature.com
Biome reading from notes C
Bioimes of North America
Warm-up - What have you learned about your assigned biome? What questions do you still have?
Continue finding information about your biome
Share biome research
Warm-up - What are some important features of brochures?
Look over brochures made last year and discuss important features
Finish research for biome project
Get images that you want to use
Create your brochure (HERE is a blank template you can use)
HERE is a world map you can use to show where your Biome is (color in KAMI, get a screenshot and use)
When you finish, show Mr. Klakovich and make 2 copies on the color printer (two sided, flip on SHORT edge!)
Warm-up - Put in new notebook pages
30 min to finish your brochure and get it printed and folded
Share your project with Mr. Klakovich and he will print it
If you are finished, practice your biome knowledge with the new biomes quizlet called Biomes ADVANCED!.
Period 2, Period 3
After studying all the words, try the matching game
Walkabout to look at Brochures
Fill out biome graphic organizer while you are looking at them.
THREE interesting things for each biome
Study biomes with quizlet called Biomes ADVANCED!
Make up any missing work
Get ready for our test Tomorrow
Make sure your notes are completed (A, B, C, E, F, G, H)
Review Notes A and B and use the Quizlet "Intro to Ecology"
Create your own studyguide
Warm-up - How many of these biomes do you recognize
LAST Warm-up - Flip through your notebook and make some observations about its organization
Is it organized? Complete? Give yourself some feedback / Kudos on how you did this year
Study for Final
HERE is a study guide for the Final