Earth Science Week 8 Wednesday

Questions:

1. Where in the US do you think water supply is greatest?
2. Where in the US do you think water demand is greatest? Explain your thinking.
3. Where do you think population density and distribution has the most impact on water resources?

Biology Block Wednesday Part 2

Students will learn about the causes and effects of deforestation and the role of humans in the process by analyzing and synthesizing information into a one pager and an illustrated story.

Questions:

1. What was your article about during part 1?
2. What stood out to you most in this article?
3. What do you think are possible solutions to deforestation?

1.Research (20-25 minutes)

Choose 1 Area:

Hotspot	Remaining habitat
1	Indo-Burma (southern Asia)	5%
2	New Caledonia (Pacific Islands)	5%
3	Sundaland (Indonesia/Malaysia)	7%
4	Philippines	7%
5	Atlantic Forest (South America)	8%
6	Mountains of Southwest China	8%
7	California Floristic Province (U.S. and Mexico)	10%
8	Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa	10%
9	Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands	10%
10	Eastern Afromontane (Africa)	11%

Questions:

• What are the main causes of deforestation in this region? 

• Who benefits from this deforestation? How do they benefit? 

• What are the negative consequences of deforestation? For people? For animals? For the environment?

 • Are the trees being replanted? What types of trees? Is the forest being replanted as a diverse ecosystem, as mono-crop with very little diversity? Something else?

Links:
5 of the World's Most Endangered Forests
A Look at Some of the World's Most Endangered Forests
The World's 10 Most Threatened HotSpots
Top 10 Most Threatened Forests

2.Story Board (30-45 minutes)

Imagine a future scene, in 500 years, in which the world has lost most of its forests. Many ecosystems have been lost forever. What happened? How and why did the forests disappear? Write and illustrate (draw or paint) a 4 frame story board. Describe the landscape in the present tense. Describe what happened in the past tense.

Biology Block Part 1 Wednesday

Students will learn about the causes and effects of deforestation and the role of humans in the process by analyzing and synthesizing information into a one pager and an illustrated story.

Questions:

1. What do you think is a the cause of deforestation? Explain your thinking.
2. What role to humans play in deforestation?
3. Where do you think deforestation is happening the most? Explain your thinking.

Biology Week 8 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What was our lab about that we started yesterday?
2. What were we trying to measure?
3. What do you think is carrying capacity of a population?

Biology Block Tuesday Week 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. What did you learn in your research in part 1?
2. What surprises you most about public policy around land use?
3. Do you think our government does a good job of protecting the land (ecosystems and species)? Explain your thinking.

Biology Week 2 Tuesday Part 1

Students will learn about land use/misuse by studying policies/acts/laws and analyzing and interpreting information.

Questions:

1. How does a large human population affect ecosystems and species?
2. Does money play a role in how ecosystems and species are managed? Explain your thinking.
3. How do you think land should (ecosystems and species in it) be managed and controlled?

Biology Week 8 Tuesday

Questions:

1. Why would it be better to use random sampling to measure plant populations instead of animals?
2. Do you think it would be better to use Random Sampling or Mark and Recapture to measure population size of endangered species? Explain your thinking.
3. What does a clustered or clumped population look like? (draw or describe)

Earth Science Week 8 Tuesday

Students will learn about water sustainability and availability by analyzing and synthesizing data and information.

Questions:

1. What have you done in the last couple class periods to make progress toward our learning objective (see above)?
2. What does high population density look like?
3. What does population density have to do with sustainability?

Earth Science Week 8 Monday

Questions:

1. What do you think about the case study you started last week?
2. What do you think it takes to make water use most sustainable?
3. Do you think all places on Earth have the same issues with water sustainability?

Case Studies

1. Thompson (2008). The Aral Sea Crisis. Columbia University.

http://www.columbia.edu/~tmt2120/introduction.htm [Read through the 4 web pages]

2. Symmes, P (2003). River Impossible. Outside, 28(8):64-68, 108-111.

http://www.outsideonline.com/1821746/river-impossible

3. Di Nunzio, J (2013).  Conflict on the Nile: The Future of Transboundary Water Disputes Over the World’s Longest River. Future Directions International. http://futuredirections.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Nile_Conflict_Potential.pdf

4. McKinney, D, Czekanski, AJ, Pitman, SH, Al Awar, Z and Akcay, M (2011). Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in Transboundary Water Challenge: Case Studies. Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. Pp. 87-94. http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/ce397/Readings/TransboundaryWaterIssues.pdf

Biology Block Week 2 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part of creating your infographic? 
2. What grade did you give yourself on your infographic? Explain why.
3. What role did humans play in the endangered species?

Biology Block Week 2 Monday Part 1

Questions:

1. What data did you uncover about your endangered species? (number left? number killed each year?, etc?)
2. What surprises you most about your endangered species? Explain your thinking.
3. What steps do you think would be most helpful in helping endangered species? Try to think of at least 3 things that could be done.

Biology Week 8 Monday

Questions:

1. What was our lab simulation about on Thursday?
2. What does mark and recapture mean?
3. Do you think mark and recapture is an accurate way to measure population size? Explain your thinking.

Earth Science Week 7

Questions:

1. What was your case study about yesterday?
2. What were the drivers of your water issues in your case study?
3. How was agriculture involved in your case study?

Biology Block Week 1 Thursday Part 2

Students will learn about the impact of humans on endangered species by synthesizing information to create an infographic.

Questions:

1. What have you done so far to make progress toward our learning objective (see above)?
2. What new learning have you gained this week about biodiveristy and human impact?
3. What did you find most surprising in your endangered species research?

Link for Infographic 

Biology Block Thursday Part 1

Students will learn about the impact of humans on endangered species by synthesizing information to create an infographic.

Questions:

1. What did you notice yesterday about endangered species during your research?
2. What characteristics of animals or plants do you think make them "valuable"?
3. What do you think happens to ecosystems when species are removed?

Research Questions 

1. What is the common and scientific name of the species?

2. Where does it live?

3. What is it's natural habitat? (describe)

4. What does it eat? What is it's role in the ecosystem?

5. Describe the features of the species, and include a photo. Remember to give credit if you attach a photo to the location of the original photo (such as wikipedia)

6. Describe the threats to the species.

7. Are there any laws or projects that are already in existence to help the animal.

8. Propose two ways in which that the animal can be helped. (explain)

As you design your publication, imagine that you want to convince others to donate to the cause or help the animal in some way. Treat it like a persuasive essay, your goal is to get people interested and to get them involved.

Research Links

Animal Planet

Endangered Species.org

A-Z Animals

Biology Week 7 Thursday

Students will learn about factors that affect population density and distribution by analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. How does our radish plant lab demonstrate population density?
2. What is the effect of high population density?
3. How do you think scientists collect data on animal or plant populations?

Biology Block Week 1 Wednesday part 2

Questions:

1. Why is biodiversity good for Earth?
2. What is ecosystem stability?
3. Do you think humans are good or bad for ecosystem stability?

Links for Endangered Animals Chart

Animal Planet

Endangered Species.org

A-Z Animals

Biology Block Week 1 Wednesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What was the article you read yesterday about?
2. What surprised you most about the author's point of view? 
3. In the past, how/why have mass extinctions of species occurred? 

Earth Science Week 7 Wednesday

Students will learn about the sustainability of water resources by analyzing, interpreting  and evaluating case studies.

Questions:

1. What do you think sustainable water use means?
2. What factors do you think impact water use sustainability?
3. How can groundwater be used unsustainably? 

Case Studies

1. Thompson (2008). The Aral Sea Crisis. Columbia University.

http://www.columbia.edu/~tmt2120/introduction.htm [Read through the 4 web pages]

2. Symmes, P (2003). River Impossible. Outside, 28(8):64-68, 108-111.

http://www.outsideonline.com/1821746/river-impossible

3. Di Nunzio, J (2013).  Conflict on the Nile: The Future of Transboundary Water Disputes Over the World’s Longest River. Future Directions International. http://futuredirections.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Nile_Conflict_Potential.pdf

4. McKinney, D, Czekanski, AJ, Pitman, SH, Al Awar, Z and Akcay, M (2011). Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in Transboundary Water Challenge: Case Studies. Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. Pp. 87-94. http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/ce397/Readings/TransboundaryWaterIssues.pdf

Biology Week 6 Wednesday

Students will learn about factors that affect population density and distribution by analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What does population distribution look like? (draw or describe)
2. What does population density look like? (draw or describe)
3. Describe an example of a plant or animal that demonstrates random distribution (and why they exhibit that pattern).

Earth Science Week 7 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What was our data study about on Thursday?
2. Describe what you notice in your data so far?
3. Why do you think some glaciers are disappearing faster than others?

Biology Block Week 1 Tuesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What does high biodiversity mean?
2. Which areas of the world have high biodiversity?
3. Why do you think some areas of the world have higher biodiversity than others? 

Biology Block Week 1 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What is one expectation you have of yourself in this class? One expectation of the teacher? (try to think of more than just "to learn" and "to teach"....)
2. What is one thing your want Ms Friedrich to know about you?
3. What do you know about the human impact on ecosystems and species? (explain)

Biology Period 1 Week 7 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What is density? How would you describe or draw it?
2. What does it mean if a population is dense?
3. What do you think will happen to the ecosystem stability if the population is dense?

Earth Science Week 6 Thursday

Questions:

1. Where on the planet do you think glaciers melt the fastest? Explain your thinking.
2. Do you think any glaciers on Earth are growing? Explain your thinking.

Chemistry Week 3 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. What were your strengths in this class?
2. If you could do this class again, what would you do differently?
3. What new learning have you gained about matter, atoms, and elements?

Chemistry Week 3 Thursday Part 1

Questions:

1. What was your article about that you read yesterday?
2. What kinds of properties did your article describe? Explain two examples you found in your article.

Biology Week 6 Thursday

Questions:

1. What types of relationships exist in ecosystems?
2. Describe 1 example of a mutualistic relationship?
3. Do you think competition is good for ecosystems? Explain your thinking.

Chemistry Week 3 Wednesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What new properties have you learned about? Describe at least 2.
2. Why is it important to know about properties of elements and atoms ?
3. What do you think is the most important property of an element to know?

Biology Week 6 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part for you about writing your extended response (CER) yesterday?
2. What is competition? Give an example in nature.
3. How does competition affect ecosystems?

Animal partnerships - David Attenborough - BBC wildlife

Symbiosis: Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism

Symbiosis In The Sea | JONATHAN BIRD'S BLUE WORLD

Community Ecology II: Predators - Crash Course Ecology

Examples of Commensalism 

10 Mutualism Examples

Anemonies Attack

Competition Reading

Predation Reading and Video

Chemistry Week 3 Wednesday Part 1

Questions:

1. Based on your research yesterday, what did you find most interesting about your element?
2. What questions do you still have about your element? Think of at least 1.
3.  What properties of your element stand out to you most? Explain your thinking!

Earth Science Week 6 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part for you about writing your extended CER response yesterday?
2. What are 2 things you could add to make your response more technical/scientific?
3. Where could you add data to your writing? What data would you add? Explain your thinking.

Chemistry Week 3 Tuesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What was our lab about during part 1?
2. Summarize your results from the lab.
3. How does the lab relate to properties of atoms and elements?

Link 1

Link 2 

Link 3

Chemistry Week 6 Tuesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What was our simulation about yesterday?
2. What's the particle difference between Lithium and Beryllium?
3. How are atoms different from each other?

Earth Science Week 6 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What factors cause a glacier to grow?
2. In what ways can glaciers change? Explain your thinking.
3. How does a glacier stay at equilibrium (melting and growing are equal)?

Biology Week 6 Tuesday

Students will learn about factors that affect ecosystem stability by synthesizing and evaluating information and data.

Questions:

1. Translate our learning objective for today (see above)--This means that...
2. What was the most difficult part for you about writing your extended response yesterday?
3. What do you think is the most important point to include in your extended response about the impact of invasive species?

Chemistry Week 3 Monday Part 2

Students will learn about properties of atoms and elements by analyzing and interpreting data and creating models.

Questions:

1. What have you done so far to make progress toward our learning objective (above)?
2. Compare and contrast 2 of the models you created/studied? Give at least 1 way they are different and one way they are alike.

LINK for Simulation

Chemistry Week 3 Monday Part 1

Students will learn about properties of atoms and elements by analyzing and interpreting data and creating models.

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part of making your models on Thursday?
2. Describe one of the models you created.
3. What is the electron cloud model?

Biology Week 6 Monday

Students will learn about factors that affect ecosystem stability.

Questions:

1. How do you know if you're learning in science class? What evidence do you have?
2. What was the article you read on Thursday about?
3. What did your article tell about invasive species?

Earth Science Week 6 Monday

Students will learn about glacier movement and sustainability by analyzing and interpreting data and text.

Questions:

1. How do you know if you're learning in science class? What evidence do you have?
2. What is your grade currently in this class? Why do you think you have the grade you do?
3. What new learning have you gained about glaciers and their role on Earth?

Earth Science Week 5 Thursday

Questions:

1. How does temperature affect size of glaciers? Explain why.
2. How does snowfall affect glacier growth? Explain why.
3. What does albedo look like? (draw)

Chemistry Week 2 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. Describe two points about the Plum Pudding Model (from the simulation).
2. Was Rutherford's model (from part 1 notes) correct? Explain your thinking.
3. Why do you think some scientists were on the right track with their models but others were not?

Chemistry Week 2 Thursday Part 1

Learn about properties of matter and atoms by analyzing and sythesizing data and information.


Questions:

1. What was our simulation about yesterday?
2. Draw and describe the Rutherford experiment (simulation yesterday).
3. What do you think was the most important finding that Rutherford made based on this experiment (simulation)?

Biology Week 5 Thursday

Students will learn about the impact of keystone and invasive species on ecosystems by analyzing and synthesizing data and information.
Questions:

1. What did you find most difficult about creating an infographic?
2. What parts did you struggle with?
3. What would you do differently next time to make your infographic a better representation and communication of what you've learned?

Earth Science Wednesday Week 5

Students will learn about sources of fresh water and the importance of the role of glaciers on Earth by analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What was the article we read yesterday about?
2. Do you think studying glaciers is important? Explain your thinking.
3. What effect(s) do you think melting glaciers have on Colorado?

Biology Wednesday Week 5

Students will learn about the impact of keystone and invasive species on ecosystems by analyzing and synthesizing data and information.

Questions:

1. What makes a species "native" to an ecosystem?
2. What factors make the Lion fish such an impactful invasive species?
3. Based on what you have learned so far, do you think humans are more of an invasive species, native species, or keystone species? Explain your thinking. 

Link for Infographic

• 5 questions and answers 
• What is an invasive species?
• What does an invasive species look like?
• How do invasive species get there?
• How can invasive species be controlled?
• How do invasive species compare to native or keystone species?
• What is the impact of an invasive species?
• Where can invasive species be found?
Links for Invasive Species Research

How to ... Invasive Species Information Tools

Frequently Asked Questions about Invasive Species

Invasive Species Information Center
• 4 statistics
• 3 pictures or diagrams
• 2 icons or shapes
• 1 box of sources used

Chemistry Week 2 Wednesday Part 2

Students will learn about properties of matter and atoms by synthesizing and communicating data and information.

Questions:

1. What would you do differently next time to make your infographic a better representation and communication of what you've learned?
2. What evidence do we have to support the atomic theory?
3. What do you think is the most important part of the atom? Explain why you think so.

Chemistry Week 2 Wednesday Part 1

Students will learn about properties of matter and atoms by synthesizing and communicating data and information.

Questions:

1. Describe 2 scientists' ideas you've learned about so far.
2. What evidence or experiments did they use to support their ideas?
3. What makes the electron cloud theory different from other theories of the atom from the past?

Link for Infographic

• 3 pictures or diagrams
• 2 icons or shapes to emphasize or make your ideas stand out
• 1 box of sources used

Earth Science Week 5 Tuesday

Students will learn about sources of fresh water (glaciers) by analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What is glacier accumulation?
2. What do you think is the hottest part of a glacier--top or bottom? Explain your thinking.
3. What do you think has more of an impact on glacier growth and sustainability--temperature or snow fall? 

Biology Week 5 Tuesday

Students will learn about the impact of keystone and invasive species on ecosystems by analyzing and synthesizing data and information.

Questions:

1. Why are invasive species so successful?
2. What have you found most interesting or surprising about invasive species?
3. Which do you think has more of an impact on ecosystems--invasive species or keystone species? Explain your thinking. 

Link for Infographic

• 5 questions and answers
• 4 statistics
• 3 pictures or diagrams
• 2 icons or shapes
• 1 box of sources used

Examples of Infographics

Chemistry Week 2 Tuesday Part 2

Students will learn about properties of matter and atoms by synthesize and communicating data and information.

Questions:

1. What has been the most difficult part about creating an infographic?
2. What is the atomic theory?
3. Why has the view of the atom changed over time?

Chemistry Week 5 Tuesday Part 1

Students will learn about properties of matter and atoms by synthesize and communicating data and information.

Questions:

1. What did you learn about the scientists from yesterday? Describe 2 things.
2. How has the view of the atom changed over time?
3. Draw a diagram of an atom.

Link for Infographic

• 3 pictures or diagrams
• 2 icons or shapes to emphasize or make your ideas stand out
• 1 box of sources used

Examples of Infographics

Earth Science Week 5 Monday

Students will learn about sources of fresh water (glaciers) by analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What do you know about glaciers?
2. Where can glaciers be found?
3. How are glaciers formed?

Biology Week 5 Monday

Students will learn about the impact of keystone and invasive species on ecosystems by analyzing and synthesizing data and information.

Questions:

1. What is one difference between an invasive species and a keystone species? How are they alike?
2. What new learning have you gained about invasive species?
3. Describe what makes the Asian Jumping Carp so successful as an invasive species.

Link for Infographic

• 5 questions and answers
• 4 statistics
• 3 pictures or diagrams
• 2 icons or shapes
• 1 box of sources used

Examples of Infographics

Chemistry Week 2 Monday Part 1

Students will learn about properties of matter and atoms by synthesize and communicating data and information.

Questions:

1. List 3 properties of matter.
2. Molecularly speaking, ow do you know if matter is a solid, liquid or gas?
3. What is the difference between a solution and a mixture? How are they alike?

Chemistry Week 2 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What do you know about atoms?
2. What do you think is the most important part of an atom?
3. How do you think atoms differ from each other?

LINKS for Atomic Theory Research

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/ - scroll down to the bottom for links to scientists
https://www.ck12.org/section/Evolution-of-the-Atomic-Model/
http://www.ausetute.com.au/atomichist.html 
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=50

Chemistry Week 1 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. What changes would you make in order to better separate your mixture from part 1?
2. What errors could have affected your data in part 1?
3. What new learning have you gained about classification of matter and particles?

Chemistry Week 1 Thursday

Learn about properties and classification of matter by analzying and interpreting data and communicating scientific information.

Questions:

1. How do the sand, salt, and iron filings differ in properties?
2. How would you classify iron? Sand?
3. What have you done so far this week to make progress toward our learning objective (see above)?

Biology Week 4 Thursday

Students will learn about the impact of keystone and invasive species on ecosystems by analyzing and synthesizing data and information.

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about the impact of keystone species?
2. What is an invasive species?
3. What have been your strengths so far in this class?

Questions to Post on Your Infographic -- Choose 5 

Link for Infographic

• What is an invasive species?
• What does an invasive species look like?
• How do invasive species get there?
• How can invasive species be controlled?
• How do invasive species compare to native or keystone species?
• What is the impact of an invasive species?
• Where can invasive species be found?

Links for Invasive Species Research

How to ... Invasive Species Information Tools

Frequently Asked Questions about Invasive Species

Invasive Species Information Center

Earth Science Week 4 Thursday

Students will learn about mechanisms of ground and surface water by analyzing and interpreting models and data.

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about mechanisms of aquifers?
2. Write one question you still have about how aquifers work.
3. What have been your strengths so far in this class?

Link for Infographic