Earth Science 2 Unit 5 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will diagram and describe sources of energy on vocab posters using the words biomass, geothermal energy, asbestos, wind energy, solar energy, nuclear energy, fossil fuels.

Questions:
1) What is logistic population growth?
2) What is carrying capacity? When does a population reach this point?
3) What is exponential population growth? Is this growth sustainable?

Exit Ticket:
There are many types of renewable energy resources. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph describing how 1 type works? Use the following sentence starter to explain how it works, "Potential energy is converted to kinetic energy by..."

Physical Science 2 Unit 5 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will diagram and describe nuclear reactions on vocab charts using the words isotope, alpha decay, beta decay, gamma decay, transmutation.

Question:
1) what is a strong nuclear force?
2) Where are protons and nuetrons located?
3) What is an isotope? Give an example.

Exit Ticket:
There are 3 types of nuclear reactions. Describe one type in a perfect 3 sentence paragraph. Use the following sentence starter "__________ decay happens when...". 

Earth Science 2 Unit 5 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and describe Earth's energy on unit 5 assignment using the words biomass, fossil fuels, greenhouse effect, global warming, geothermal energy, solar energy.

Question:
1) What is sustainability? What energy sources are most sustainable?
2) What's the greenhouse effect? What is it caused by?
3) What type of renewable resource also contributes to the greenhouse effect?

Exit Ticket:
What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resource? Use the following sentence starter "Renewable resources and nonrewable resources are different because..." and at least one of the words in green from the objective to write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph.

Physical Science 2 Unit 5 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and describe nuclear reactions on assignments using the words nuclear fusion, alpha decay, law of conservation of mass, half-life, radiation, radioactivity. 

Question:
1) What is a nuclear reaction? Chemical reaction?
2) What are the results of a nuclear reaction?
3) List 3 types of nuclear reactions.


Exit Ticket:
How is a nuclear reaction different than a chemical reaction? Use the following sentence starter "Nuclear reactions and chemical reactions differ because..." and one green word from the objective in your perfect 3 sentence paragraph.

Biology 2 Unit 5 day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will identify and describe the function of parts of the human anatomy.

Question:
1) What part of the brain controls breathing and heart rate?
2) What part of the brain connects the brain and the eyes?
3) What part of the brain is known as the pleasure center?
4) Which of the following are responsible for sending messages from the spinal cord to the brain?

Earth Science 2 Unit 5 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and describe vocabulary related to energy and populations on assignments using the words geothermal, biomass, carrying capacity, nuclear.


Question:
1) Where does the US get the majority of it's energy? (from what source).
2) What is a renewable energy resource? Give 2 examples.
3) What is a nonrenewable energy resource? Give 2 examples.

Physical Science Unit 4 Day 6

Day Starter
Objective: Students will review and draw conclusions about gas laws and thermodynamics on unit 4 review sheet and CST.


Questions (REVIEW!!!)
1)

Which is warmest? Explain.
	A. 5 K B. 5°F C. 5°C D. 0 K

2) The specific heat of water is 4,186 J/(kg·°C). How much heat does it take to raise 2 kg of water 1°C?

3) 

Which of the following reactions have more entropy in the reactants than the products? Check all that apply.
	A. 2H2(g) + O2(g)  2H2O(l) B. 2C2H6(g) + 5O2(g) 2CO2(g) + 6H2O(l) C. SiO2(s)  Si(s) + O2(g) D. 2MgO(s)  2Mg(s) + O2(g)

Biology 2 Unit 4

Day Starter
Objective:  Students will create classification systems and draw conclusions on Unit 4 TST and CST.

Question:

1) How many kingdoms are there in the domain Bacteria? 2) Which best describes the first organisms on Earth? 3) An organism has the following traits: Unicellular No nucleus Contains DNA What domain does this most likely belong in?

Earth Science 2 Unit 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will make conclusions and recall information about geological history on the Unit 4 CST and TST.

Question:
1) How has Earth changed during our current era?
2) How many years ago did ancient humans appear?
3) Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,730 years. How long does it take a 200-gram sample of carbon-14 to decay to a mass of 100 grams?

Physical Science 2 Unit 4 Day 5

Day Starter
Objective: Students will review and draw conclusions about gas laws and thermodynamics on unit 4 review sheet and CST.

Question:
1) What is the Kelvin scale?
2) What is absolute zero?
3) How much does 1 mol of an atom weigh?

Biology 2 Unit 4 Day 4

Day Starter

Objective: Students will examine  and infer relationships of classification systems using the words cladogram, Linnaean Classification, kingdoms, domains. Question: 1) What are the 5 kingdoms that all living things are divided into? 2) What is Linnaean Classification? 3) What is a cladogram? Exit Ticket: Summarize your notes from the pictures. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph. Use the following sentence stater, "From these pictures, I learned...".

Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Day 4

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will analyze geological history and make predictions about the future of Earth on Unit 4 TST.


Question:
1) Why have scientists not found any rocks from older than 4 billion years old?
2) Why did the most coal and limestone form during the paleozoic era?
3) What was Earth's atmosphere like during the precambrian period?

Physical Science 2 Unit 4 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will practice and interpret states of matter and their behavior on a video notes and a practice worksheet using the words latent heat, specific heat, Boyle’s Law, Charles Law, Ideal Gas Law, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, entropy.

Question:
1) What is the equation for specific heat capacity? What does each letter stand for?
2) What does latent heat of vaporization mean?
3) What does latent heat of fusion mean?



Exit Ticket:
What is entropy in chemistry? Draw a diagram to show entropy. Explain your diagram using the following sentence starter, "This diagram shows entropy because...". Write at least 2 complete sentences.

Biology 2 Unit 4 Day 3

Day Starter
Objective:

Students will illustrate and explain mechanisms of evolution on vocab charts using the words gene flow, genetic drift, stabilizing selection, disruptive selection, directional selection, adaptive radiation, and speciation. Question: 1) List 4 types of natural selection. 2) Give an example of directional selection. 3) What is speciation? What causes speciation? Exit Ticket: Speciation is caused by many factors. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining what causes speciation using the following sentence starter "High rates of speciation is...".

Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Day 3

Day Starter
Objective:Students will analyze, draw conclusions and make predictions about the history of the earth using timelines and graphs on the Unit 4 TST.


Question:
1) What is radiometric dating?
2) What is half-life? Give an example.
3) During what era did plants first appear? Why is this so important?

Physcial Science 2 Unit 4 Day 3

Day Starter
Objecrtive: Students will diagram and distinguish Gas Law and the behavior of gases on posters and cornell notes and using the words Boyle’s Law, Charles Law, Ideal Gas Law, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, entropy, kinetic energy, thermal energy.

Question:
1) What is scientific notation? Write an example of a number in scientific notation.
2) What is Boyles Law?
3) Draw a diagram of Boyles Law.

Exit Ticket:
How does volume, temperature and pressure affect gases? Draw a diagram of either boyle's law or charles law. Explain your diagram using the following sentence starter "This diagram shows..." and at least 1 green word from the objective.

Biology 2 Unit 4 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will illustrate and explain mechanisms of evolution on vocab charts using the words gene flow, genetic drift, stabilizing selection, disruptive selection, directional selection, adaptive radiation, and speciation. 

Question: 
1) What is sexual selection? Give an example.
2) Why does gene flow cause evolution?
3) What is genetic drift? Give an example.

Exit Ticket:
Evolution is a change in a population over time. What causes a population to change over time? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) using the following sentence starter, "Evolution is caused by..." and at least 1 green word from the day starter objective.

Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will use posters and timelines to distinguish geological time periods using the words Precambrian, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, and Cenozoic.

Question:
1) List the 4 eras in geological history.
2) What era did the dinosaurs live? First humans appear?
3) In what conditions are fossils most easily created?


Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) summarizing your era. Use the following sentence starter "The ___________ era included..."

Physical Science 2 Unit 4 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will diagram and distinguish Gas Law and the behavior of gases on posters and cornell notes and using the words Boyle’s Law, Charles Law, Ideal Gas Law, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, entropy.

Question:
1) Describe the movement of molecules in a solid, liquid, and gas.
2) List 5 phase changes matter can undergo.
3)What is latent heat?

Exit Ticket:
How is matter affected by changes in temperature? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic+2 details) using the following sentence starter "Temperature affects matter..." and at least 1 green word from the objective.

Biology 2 Unit 4 Day 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and describe evidence and mechanisms for evolution on assignments and using the words homologous structures, vestigial structures, speciation, adaptive radiation, gene flow,  index fossils, cladogram.

Question:
1) What is the theory of evolution?
2) What is a theory?
3) How does natural selection relate to evolution?


Exit Ticket:
What evidence exists that supports the theory of evolution? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragarph (topic + 2 details) about evidence. Use the following sentence starter "The theory of evolution is supported by..." and at least 1 green word from the objective.

Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will explore evidence of geological time using the words index fossil, trace fossil, superposition, uniformitarianism, original horizontality, carbon-14 dating.

Question
1) What is an geological era? Give an example.
2) What geological era and period are we currently in?
3) Order the following from smallest to largest division: epoch, era, eon, period.

Exit Ticket:
What evidence is used to determine the age of Earth? Use the following sentence starter, "The geological age of Earth can be determined..." and at least 1 of the green words from the objective to write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic+2 details).

Physical Science Unit 4 PREVIEW

Day Starter:
Students will analyze and predict the outcomes of chemical reactions on unit 3 TST.

Questions:
1) What is temperature? What does it have to do with atoms?
2) What is thermodynamics?
3) List the 4 phases of matter. Give an example of each.

Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining temperature. How do you change temperature? Include the word kinetic energy or thermal energy in your response and use the following sentence starter: "In chemistry, temperature is..."

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 5

Day Starter
Objective: Students will analyze rock samples and use evidence to determine their origin.

Question: REVIEW!!!
1) What is dynamic metamorphism?
2) What is stratification?
3) List 4 ways sediments get deposited.

Physical Science Unit 3 Day 5

Day Starter
Objective: Students will recall and identify information learned to complete unit 3 CST.


Questions: (REVIEW!!!)
1) Is this chemical equation balanced or unbalanced? C₃H₈ + O₂  CO₂ + H₂O 
2) What type of chemical reaction is the reaction in question 1. Explain.
3) What would the products of a double-replacement reaction between Na₂S and MgF₂ be? Explain.


Exit Ticket:
Complete the self-evaluation at the bottom of the unit checklist.

Biology Unit 3 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will recall and restate unit 3 information on CST.


Question:
1) What is the aphotic zone of a lake? Photic zone?
2)  What causes exponential growth to stop?
3) How does biodiversity relate to natural selection?

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 4

Day Starter:

Objective: Students will recall and restate information on the unit 3 CST.

Question: (REVIEW!!!)

1) What causes large crystals to form in igneous rock? Small crystals?

2) How were the Maroon Bells formed? 

3) What are the 2 most common rocks found in colorado?

Physical Science 2 Unit 3 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will review and recall information to take their unit CST using all the words from word window.

Questions (REVIEW!!):
1) List 3 signs a chemical reaction has occurred.
2) List 3 ways to change the rate of a chemical reaction.
3) What is a heterogeneous mixture? What is a solution?

Exit Ticket:
Our TST lab tomorrow will be about acids and bases in neutralization reactions. What do you know about acids or bases? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) about acids OR bases. Include at least 1 of the following words in your paragraph: dissociate, dissociation, or ion.

Biology Unit 3 Day 3

Day Starter
Objective:  Students will examine video clips of various organisms and infer their adaptations using the words adaptations, natural selection, genetic diversity, biodiversity.

Question:
1) What is biodiversity? Why is this a good thing?
2) What are adaptations? Why are adaptations a good thing?
3) What is logistical population growth? How is it different than exponential population growth?


Exit Ticket:
How do adaptations and natural selection relate? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) using the following sentence starter, "Adaptation and natural selection are related because..." and 2 green words from the objective in your writing.

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 3

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will evaluate their knowledge on unit 3 CST using the words from the word window.

Question:
1) At what temperature does rock melt? At what depth of the Earth's crust does this occur?
2) What are intrusive igneous body's of rock called?
3) What is a mineral? Give 3 examples of minerals found in rocks.

Exit Ticket:
How do rocks compare and contrast? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) using the following sentence starter, "___________ and _____________ rocks are different because ..." and 2 words from the word window.

Physcial Science Unit 3 Day 3

Day Starter
Objective: Students will practice and interpret Law of Conservation of Mass by watching videos and taking notes using the words coefficients, products and reactants.

Question:
1) What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
2) What are the first 4 steps in balancing chemical reactions?
3) How do you know what type of chemical reaction is occurring?



Exit Ticket:
Why is it important to balance chemical reactions? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic sentence + 2 details) using the following sentence starter, "The Law of conservation of matter..."  and 2 green words from the objective.

Biology Unit 3 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and describe hardy-weinberg equilibrium theory on assignments and using the words exponential growth carrying capacity, density dependent factor, density-independent factor, homozygous allele (p), heterozygous allele (pq), and homozygous recessive allele (q), invasive c.

Question:
1) What is biodiversity?
2) What is a keystone species? How does a keystone species maintain a population?
3) What is a carrying capacity? What factors affect the carrying capacity of a population?

Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph about populations and species. Use the following sentence starter, "Biodiversity is..." and 2 green words from the objective in your paragraph.

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 2

Day Starter
Objective:Students will diagram and describe types of rocks and their formation on posters and notes using the words contact metamorphism, lithification, stratification, rock cycle, cementation/compaction, recrystallization, extrusive igneous, intrusive igneous rock, dynamic metmorphism, minerals.
 Question
1) How are metamorphic rocks formed?
2) What is recrystallization?
3) What is lithification? How do rocks become lithified?


Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 details) about how rocks are formed. Use the following sentence starter, "Rocks are formed in many ways..." and use at least 2 green words from the daily objective in your writing. 

Physical Science Unit 3 Day 2

Day Starter:
Objective: Students will illustrate and explain types of chemical reactions on posters and notes and using the words soluble, precipitation (precipitate), dissociation, acid/base, pH, and activity series, neutralization reaction, combustion reaction, decomposition reaction, single replacement, double replacement.

Questions:
1) What is dissociation? During what type of reaction does dissociation occur?
2) What is an acid? Base? 
3) What does soluble mean? 

Exit Ticket:
Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic + 2 supporting details) summarizing what you learned today. Use the following sentence starter, "These vocabulary words all relate because..." and use at least 2 green vocabulary words from the objective above.