WEEK SEVEN           Sept  23  -  27      Ecology  

9/23                   Nutria, Removing Rats and Ferrets from Islands/ Begin Food for thought worksheet  

9/25                   Finish Food for thought / Set up Ocean Acidification lab

9/26                   Great Barrier reef interactive - Internet

9/27                   Food web card game  

WEEK EIGHT       Sept 30- Oct 4.       Biogeochemical cycles  (module 4,5,6,7)

9/30                    Finish food for thought / Making connections - Photosynthesis and Respiration / GPP/ NPP

10/2                    Owl Pellet Lab - Energy levels  Module  7

10/3                    Serengeti and Wildebeest Migration / Surveying Gorongosa /  Nutrient cycles in the serengeti game/ check sea shells 

                            for data

10/4                   Biogeochemical cycles of nature 

WEEK NINE         Oct 7 - 11   Population and Community Ecology   (module 8,9,10)

10/7                     Carbon and Phosphorus cycle

10/9                    Tree Biomass Lab

10/10                  Test Review / Some animals are more equal than others     HHMI  / check sea shells for data       

10/11                   Nitrogen cycle / Biodiversity Video Ted Ed/ Finish write up for tree biomass lab

WEEK TEN         Oct 14 -18     Population and Community Ecology  (module 

10/14                   Test Review biogeochemical cycles of nature

10/16                    Major test                                  

10/17                   Trophic Cascades  HHMI/ check seashells for data 

10/18 .                 Seagrass and Snails natural experiment for the "top down theory"  HHMI                                         

WEEK ELEVEN         Oct 21 - 25   

10/21                  PEP rally 37 mins lesson   Serengeti Scenarios : Quit Monkeying Around  

10/23                   Island Biogeography Lab/ Video HHMI Ants to Grizzlies -saving biodiversity

10/24                  Complete Ocean Acidification lab + write up. /  HHMI Ants to Grizzlies -Saving biodiversity Worksheet

10/25                  NOVA Wild Ways Video - Island Biogeography  and Biodiversity

  END OF 2ND GRADING PERIOD                        

WEEK TWELVE Oct 28 - Nov 1 Populations   Module 14

10/28 Succession - Primary and Secondary  / Biodiversity hotspots

10/30               Termite mounds - Analyzing Patterns in the Savannah Landscape / Population notes

10/31   Population dynamics - Rat Attack NOVA  

11/1   Holiday ( Read module 12 and 13 - know the key ideas) 

Ecosystem Resilience vs Ecosystem Resistance

                         Ecosystem tolerance   / Levels of disruption 

Adaptations - genes and genetic variation

Natural selection vs artificial selection

        Allopatric speciation vs Sympatric speciation 

WEEK  THIRTEEN       Nov 4 - Nov 8   Population  Demographics:  Module 18  Unit 3 

11/4                       Generalists vs specialists/ Finish population notes

11/6                       Population Demographics 

11/7                        Quadrat Technique Lab - Population count

11/8                        Finish Quadrat Lab 

WEEK   FOURTEEN    Nov  11 - 15    

11/11                    Public Holiday    Veterans Day

11/13                    Age structure diagrams Lecture + google classroom                                                                      

11/14                    Population Calculations  /Human Demographics - China Population Policy

11/15                    Population calculations No 2 / finish China Policy

WEEK  FIFTEEN    Nov 18 -  22    Finishing Earth Systems

11/18                        Faults and Earthquakes Map / Ring of Fire/ Plate tectonics      

11/20                        Invasive species - ants .  UCSD (long pants/ covered shoes) no sandals  /collect traps

11/21                         Soil Lab                

11/22                         Soil Lab  

THANKSGIVING       Nov 25 -  29      Cornell notes and questions     

WEEK  SIXTEEN        Nov 29- Dec 3     Conservation Biodiversity +  Earth Systems

12/ 2                         Ant species 

12/4                         Invasive species - ants   UCSD -Identifying Ants

12/5                        MIning -Forms/ Poster gallery walk     

12/6                        Top minerals - gold, lead, aluminium, diamonds,  Copper, Iron ore, Manganese, Zinc, 

                                 Nickel, Cobalt, Arsenic and Mercury -Making a google slides presentation.

WEEK Seventeen        Dec 9 - 13   Earth Systems +   Land use    

12/9                         Mining Presentations

12/11                       Mining for Cookies Lab .  Impact of Coal Mining.

12/12                       Forests Land use - Fire management Discovery education

12/13                      Fire management.

WEEK eighteen    Dec 16- 20    Land Management 

12/16                      Exam Review 

12/17                       Exam review                  

12/ 18                      Exam  Period 1 and 2

12/19                        Exam Period 3 and 4 

12/20                        Exam Period 5 and 6 

Christmas Break            Dec 23 -Jan 7

Semester Two begins Jan  11th  for students