Essential Understanding- 8.1 Responses to the Environment

Section Questions

1. REMEMBER- AP Physiology and Circulatory System LAB- remember- we did this (Heart Rate Lab)
2. WATCH : Physiology of Circulatory System (worksheet)
3. WATCH: Response to External Environments (concept map/ppt)

3) WATCH: Cooperative Interactions (worksheet)

4) WATCH: Behavior and Natural Selection (worksheet)

5) AP Animal Behavior LAB- we are going to do this AFTER AP test with Pillbugs

6) 8.1 Examples Partner work

6) Read and Prepare: AP Transpiration LAB

HWK: Skim and Complete notes for Chapter 51

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day 2

AP Transpiration LAB

HWK: Lab

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day 3

Follow up on lab

Essential Understanding- 8.2 Energy Flow Through Environment

Section Questions

1) POGIL: Energy Transfer in Organisms (key)

2) Quick Skim- Energy Flow in an Ecosystem Worksheet (not printing)

3) Quick Skim- Worksheet (not printing)

4) Food Chains and Energy in Ecosystems Activity

5) AP Dissolved Oxygen and Primary Productivity LAB

AP Dissolved Oxygen and Primary Productivity LAB

Essential Understanding- 8.3 Populations Ecology

Section Questions

1) WATCH BOZEMAN: Populations (video worksheet)

2) Mark-Recapture Activity (not going to print- write out on notebook paper)

• What are some other ways scientists count/estimate populations

Counting Wild Animals

Essential Understanding- 8.4 Effect of Density of Populations

Section Questions

1) Bozeman: Exponential Growth (take notes)

2) Bozeman: Logistic Growth (take notes)

3) WATCH: Bozeman: r and K Selected Species (take notes)

4) Complete POGIL: Population Growth

5)Complete: Graphing Population Growth and Carrying Capacity (teacher key)

Essential Understanding- 8.5 Community Ecology

Section Questions

1. WATCH: Communities (video worksheet)
2. COMPLETE: Simpson's Diversity Index

Essential Understanding- 8.6 Biodiversity

Section Questions

1. WATCH BOZEMAN: Biodiversity (video worksheet)
2. Density and Biodiversity Activity using Plant Identification Packet
3. WATCH Biotic and Abiotic Factors
4. AP Physiology and Circulatory System LAB

Essential Understanding- 8.7 Disruptions to Ecosystems

Section Questions

WATCH Ecosystem Changes

Invasive Species Cat's in Boreno

Ecology Quiz (teacher key)

Complete: Global Climate Change POGIL

Chapter 52- An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere

Powerpoint: Chapter 52

Chapter 53- Population Ecology

Powerpoint: Chapter 53

Chapter 54- Community Ecology

Powerpoint: Chapter 54

Chapter 55- Ecosystems and Restoration Ecology

Powerpoint: Chapter 55