November 2025

Friday, November 21st, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, Legacy of a Maple info sheet, Wisconsin Forests, Then & Now
Learning objective: The value and influences of forests

Next
Continue the Legacy of a Maple activity 

Then
Groups will work together to complete the "Wisconsin Forests & Communities Then & Now" worksheet.
Use this link to view a highway map of Wisconsin to answer question #2.

Exit Ticket
What is your favorite thing to pair with chocolate: Peanut butter, caramel, mint, or marshmallow?

Thursday, November 20th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, Legacy of a Maple info sheet
Learning objective: The value and influences of forests

Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
No academic classes today - ACT practice and senior community service 

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook
Learning objective: The value of forests

Do Now
Quick jot -why are forests are important to you? Write down as many reasons as you can think of. 

Next
Discuss and organize into values

Then
Forest value statement game (teams of four)
Choose a tree or forest related name for your team
Directions: Rose will read a statement. A single person from the team will have ten seconds to decide which value it matches with (no discussing with teammates). Ten points awarded for a correct answer. If the answer is incorrect, a person from your team may raise their hand to answer it to gain 5 points for the team if correct. Noisy teams forfeit their second chance at the questions. Play continues until all statements have been read. 

Exit Ticket
What is one thing you wish you could always find in your refrigerator?

Monday, November 17th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, your travel brochure
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest communities

Do Now
Take out your forest brochure - 15 minutes of studio time
Make sure your name is on the brochure somewhere

Next
Place your completed brochure on the tall lab table in the back
Back to assigned seats
Rose will shuffle them and randomly pass them out  
Five minutes of feedback - leave a post-it note
Pass it to the right
4-5 rotations

Then
Submit your brochure for grading

Exit Ticket
Something good that happened over the weekend

Friday, November 14th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, your travel brochure
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest communities

Happy American National Teddy Bear Day!

Do Now
Turn & talk - Do you know where term teddy bear came from?

Next
Studio time to work on your brochure (due today!)

• Remember to include: trees and other plants that live there, animals, soil conditions, climate, how glaciation and humans shaped the landscape, unique features, where in Wisconsin this forest can be found. 

• Use pencil first. 

• Make it colorful and creative. 

• Use pictures and graphics (drawn, not printed).

• Use a ruler to make straight lines for any boarders or squares.

Last
If time remains you use it for GWT 1. Science classes 2. Learning statement in your ePortfolio/PoL prep

Exit Ticket
If you had $100 to go out to eat anywhere tonight, where would you go and who would you bring?

Thursday, November 13th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, your travel brochure
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest communities

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, "Wisconsin's Forest Communities" worksheet
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest communities

Do Now
Circle up with your brochure - one success and/or one challenge you have had so far.

Next
Studio time to work on your brochure (due Friday)

• Remember to include: trees and other plants that live there, animals, soil conditions, climate, how glaciation and humans shaped the landscape, unique features, where in Wisconsin this forest can be found. 

• Use pencil first. 

• Make it colorful and creative. 

• Use pictures and graphics (drawn, not printed).

• Use a ruler to make straight lines for any boarders or squares.

Last
If time remains you use it for GWT 1. Science classes 2. Learning statement in your ePortfolio/PoL prep

Exit Ticket
If you had to recommend one book to somebody, what would your top pick be?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, "Wisconsin's Forest Communities" worksheet
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest communities

Do Now
Did you hang up your Odyssey project food web and story in the hall? If not, do so.

Next
Studio time to work on your brochure (due Friday)

• Remember to include: trees and other plants that live there, animals, soil conditions, climate, how glaciation and humans shaped the landscape, unique features, where in Wisconsin this forest can be found. 

• Use pencil first. 

• Make it colorful and creative. 

• Use pictures and graphics (drawn, not printed).

• Use a ruler to make straight lines for any boarders or squares.

Last
If time remains you use it for GWT 1. Science classes 2. Learning statement & PoL prep

Exit Ticket
What is one way that you can make your week amazing?

Monday, November 10th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, "Wisconsin's Forest Communities" worksheet
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest communities

Do Now
Go around - what forest ecosystem are you creating a brochure about?

Next
Studio time to work on your brochure

Remember to include: trees and other plants that live there, animals, soil conditions, climate, how glaciation and humans shaped the landscape, unique features, where in Wisconsin they can be found. Make it colorful and creative.

Exit Ticket
If you borrow a computer charger from Rose, where should you put it when you are finished?

a. let it hang from the outlet where you plugged it in

b. put it back in the charger bin

Friday, November 7th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, "Wisconsin's Forest Communities" worksheet
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest communities

Do Now
Take out your "Glaciers" worksheet.

Next
Watch this video, then, answer the last question on your worksheet.

Then
Use what you learned about your forest community to create a travel brochure about it

• Check out some travel brochure examples to get ideas

• Describe some of the natural (climate, glaciation, soils, etc.) influences that occurred over time and made it what it is today. 

Exit Ticket
Who is someone you know who has great style?

Thursday, November 6th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, "Wisconsin's Forest Communities" and "Glaciers" worksheet
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest ecosystems

Do Now
P1-Get into a group with other students who also researched the same forest type. Share answers and add an additional information to your worksheet that you learned from your peers. Then, groups will share out what was learned about those forest types.

P2 - Observe the Landforms of Wisconsin map and complete a see/think/wonder in your notebook

Next
Impacts of glaciers on the landscape - activity 

Then

Watch this video to help with your understanding of glaciers and complete the corresponding worksheet

Exit Ticket
What is one impact or effect that Glaciation had on Wisconsin?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer, "Wisconsin's Forest Communities" worksheet
Learning objective: Wisconsin forest ecosystems

Do Now
P1 - use your graphed data to think about the discussion questions from yesterday

• Which biome comes close to having the same temperature all year? How might that affect what lives there?

• What pattern is evident in boreal/taiga temperatures?

• Observe the temperate temperature patterns. Which three months are coldest? The warmest?

• Which biome does Wisconsin fit into?

P2 - take out your Wisconsin's Forest Communities worksheet from yesterday

Next
Watch this video on Wisconsin forest types. You will be assigned one forest type to document information about (pine, aspen/birch, spruce/fir, oak/hickory, maple/basswood, and urban). You will then need to do extra research online to finish answering some of the questions.

Then
Get into a group with other students who also researched the same forest type. Share answers and add an additional information to your worksheet that you learned from your peers. Then, groups will share out what was learned about those forest types.

Exit Ticket
Turn in your precipitation and temperature graphs

Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, computer
Learning objective: comparing and contrasting worldwide forest biomes

Do Now
Answer these questions in your head...

• Is my precipitation graph finished?

• Did I create a strip of paper to represent the annual precipitation for my biome? Is my name on it?

• Did my group collaborate on one temperature graph? Are our names on it? Did each person graph thier biome using a different color? Is there a color key?

Next

• Work on any of those things above that you need to finish

Then
Questions for discussion (whole class)

• Which biome comes close to having the same temperature all year?

  • How might that affect what lives there?

• What pattern is evident in boreal/taiga temperatures?

• Observe the temperate temperature patterns. Which three months are coldest? The warmest?

• Which biome does Wisconsin fit into?

Then
We will watch this video on Wisconsin forest types. You will be assigned one forest type to document information about (pine, aspen/birch, spruce/fir, oak/hickory, maple/basswood, and urban). You will need to do extra research online to finish answering some of the questions.

Exit Ticket
What is a commercial or jingle that gets stuck in your head?

Monday, November 3rd, 2025
Today you will need: pencil, sketchbook/notebook, Peel the Fruit
Learning objective: comparing and contrasting forest ecosystems

Do Now
Go around - what was the best Halloween costume you saw this year?

Next
Peel the Fruit

Beneath the Curriculum Vitae drop down menu, you should have a page titled Science + Technology.
On that page, create a title bar "POL Fall 2025".
Beneath that, create another title bar with the class name "Ecology & Art".
Then put their artifacts beneath that.

Exit Ticket
What artifact from Eco & Art will you use for evidence of your learning?