Request Soil Carbon Kits - Look up the CSU Soil Carbon activity to link the carbon cycle more deeply. At least get soil samples.
Lesson Outline:
Unit Guide - Systems and Cycles
No Backpack Day - Aug 14
Team Challenge and Class Routines (get a Notebook - single subject, will occasionally be collected) - Aug 15
Parts of a System - Aug 18 - Start the unit guide (set a deadline for the end of the unit)
Wildfires and Succession - Aug 19
Water Cycle - Aug 20
Wildfires and the Water Cycle - Turbidity Experiment - Aug 21
Water Cycle and Living Things - Aug 22
Conservation of Mass - (outside?) - Aug 25
What is soil? - Aug 26
Soil and Carbon (2 days) - Aug 27 and 28 (can I get these kits?)
Nitrogen Cycle - (Samples in class) Aug 29
Carbon Cycle and Test Review - Sept 2
Test - Sept 3 - Check notebooks during the test. (Notebook check grade with unit guide completed)
After your test - Look at what a Health Service Manager is. They help all of the parts of a system to function and be more efficient.
Been absent? - Make up data processing work from a missed experiment.
Extra - Watch - What is the definition of "living thing?" (20 min)
After your test - How are does engineering relate to biology? Be sure to look at the different "tabs" on the top of the page.
notebook check during test - Question - Are you staying organized with your notebook? What is working well or what can you try to do better? warm ups, table of contents, etc.
Been absent? - Make up data processing work from a missed experiment.
Conclusion - Claim, evidence, reason
A claim that answers the question.
Evidence from students' data.
Reasoning that involves a rule or scientific principle that describes why the evidence supports the claim.
Sub lesson ideas -
See sub folder - Earth School Lesson
Create - the master notebook (reflect on the science notebook with Google Classroom as the support if we are out of school) - A good guide, but not totally my style.
(next unit - Ecology - video if time - What would many people agree with? What would be difficult to achieve? - remember, this is the voice of one group - many groups have ideas about our Earth systems and ecology)
Colorado Science Standard
Life Sci - 5. Matter and energy necessary for life are conserved as they move through ecosystems.