Biology Week 2 Thursday

Questions:

1. What were the simulations you did yesterday about?
2. What role do chloroplasts play in photosynthesis?
3. What factors affect photosynthesis?

Additional Simulations

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS12/LS12.html

https://www.newpathonline.com/api_player/enus_54_6206/h7sIbz/index.html

• Make a data table of your results like the one shown.
• Record the lab purpose.
• Write a 3 sentence conclusion about what happened and, scientifically, why you think this is so.

Earth Science Week 2 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. How did your sail car compare to your classmates? Explain your thinking.
2. Draw or describe the design that worked best.
3. What supplies or equipment would you add to your car to make it better at being wind-powered?

https://goo.gl/forms/OBSSstWuZf8p9K6L2 

Earth Science Week 2 Thursday

Questions:

1. What ideas did you have for your wind-powered car?
2. What has been the most difficult part about designing, creating a wind-powered car?
3. Do you think it's possible to incorporate these ideas into actual cars? Explain your thinking.

Human An Week 2 Thursday

Questions:

1. How are tissues organized into organs?
2. What are some examples of connective tissue?
3. What makes types of tissues different from each other?

Types of Tissues Art and Science

1. Using this source or this source, find an image of a tissue that interests or inspires you. 
2. Print out the image by emailing it to Ms Friedrich.
3. On the back of the image, research and record the following thoughts and information: 

• tissue name
• tissue type
• characteristics of the tissue (2-3)
• location of the tissue
• look at the image and decide what this image reminds you of (this could be a lake, a river, a crowd at a concert, nearly anything). explain your thinking.
• brainstorm sketch 2 ideas for an impressionistic painting inspired by your tissue image
• Impressionism is a theory or practice in painting made famous in the late 1800's by artists such as Monet and Van Gogh. Impressionists do not paint objects with lines but rather with dots, dabs and swirls to tell a story.

Last, Create an impressionistic painting inspired by your chosen tissue's image, structure and/or function. 

Biology Week 2 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What do you know about photosynthesis?
2. Why do plants do photosynthesis?
3. What do you think photosynthesis looks like? (draw or describe)

LINKS for activity

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/512/deploy/interface.html

http://www.reading.ac.uk/virtualexperiments/ves/preloader-photosynthesis-full.html 

http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/photolab.swf

http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/biocoach/photosynth/overview.html

Earth Science Week 2 Wednesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What was your article about during part 1?
2. What new learning have you gained about renewable resources?
3. What is one cost (con) of using renewable energy sources?

Earth Science Week 2 Wednesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did the data from yesterday say about renewable resources?
2. Based on the data yesterday, what renewable resource do you think would be best for Colorado? Explain your thinking.
3. Describe biomass as fuel/energy.

Biology Week 2 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What did you notice about your seeds?
2. What do you think about your germinating seeds/results so far?
3. How do stomata and guard cells help with photosynthesis?

Human An Week 2 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What are tissues?
2. What do tissues look like? (draw or describe)
3. What's the connection between cells and tissues? Tissues and homeostasis?

Earth Science Week 2 Tuesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What are renewable resources? Give 3 examples.
2. What do you already know about renewable resources?
3. Write 2 questions you have about renewable resources.

LINK for Activity

Navigate to http://www.teachengineering.org/livinglabs/index.php > click on Renewable Energy Living Lab.

Earth Science Week 2 Tuesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did we do in our lab yesterday?
2. What did you notice from your lab?
3. Why is soil considered a nonrenewable resource?

Earth Scence Week 2 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What did you notice about your classmates Superfund site posters?
2. new learning did you gain from looking at/studying all the Superfund sites?
3. What did you find most surprising from looking at all the superfund sites?

Earth Science Week 2 Monday Part 1

Questions:

1. If you could do one thing differently this week in this class, what would it be? Explain your thinking.
2. What do you think superfund sites can tell us about processing natural resources?
3. What do you think should be done to manage superfund sites better?

Biology Week 2 Monday

Questions:

1. What are stomata?
2. What do stomata look like and do for plants? 
3. Why do you think some plants have more stomata than others?

Human An Week 2 Monday

Questions:

1. What makes skin cells different from muscle cells?
2. If Steven Hawking was debilitated by Lou Gehrig's disease, which eventually killed him, why do you think it did not affect his brain?
3. How are brain/nerve cells connected?

Earth Science Week 1 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained this week about natural resources/nonrenewable resources?
2. What have you been most successful at so far in this class?
3. Write 2 questions you still have about the pros/cons of development and use of nonrenewable resources.

Earth Science Week 1 Thursday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did you learn yesterday in your research about superfund sites?
2. Describe what a superfund site is.
3. What do you think your grade is so far this week? Explain why you think so.

Biology Week 1 Thursday

Questions:

1. What did we do in lab yesterday?
2. What was your hypothesis?
3. Describe seed dormancy and germination.

Human Anatomy Week 1 Thursday

Questions:

1. What did you notice about your cheek cells yesterday?
2. Why is the mitochondria so important to maintaining homeostasis?
3. What makes the mitochondria unique/specialized?

Earth Science Week 1 Wednesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What are minerals? Give 2 examples.
2. What are minerals used for? Give 2 examples.
3. What did you learn about your superfund site from your research?

Earth Science Week 1 Wednesday Part 1

Questions:

1. Describe the pros/cons of surface mining. Think of at least 1 pro and 1 con.
2. What was the article you received yesterday about?
3. What surprises you most about fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)?

Instructions for Superfund Sights Research

1. Select an AML/NPL site. 
2. Go to the website: https://www.epa.gov/superfund/superfund-national-priorities-list-npl and locate your AML/NPL site.
3. Click on the link to read about your site and complete the table and analysis questions.
4. Search a little offsite, as necessary, to help understand the information (i.e., unfamiliar terms or health problems associated with certain contaminants, etc.)
5. Make a poster of all your information. Make it neat, use color and font size to emphasize information. 

Some helpful hints:

·     The summaries you write for the table should be 2–3 sentences long.

·     Most information should be readily available on your website’s opening page or by clicking the link on the right side called “More In-Depth Site Details (EPA Regional Content).”

o   If different ways exist to access pertinent information about your particular site, then they were mentioned on the sign-up sheet (“Info Assess Details”). 

Biology Week 1 Wednesday

Questions:

1. Describe 2 new things you learned about plants yesterday.
2. Contrast 2 of the plants that you researched? Describe 1 difference between them.
3. What's the difference between vascular and non-vascular plants?

Human Anatomy Week 1 Wednesday

Questions:

1. Draw and describe the structure and function of the cell nucleus.
2. What do you think is the most important organelle in the cell? Explain your thinking.
3. What makes cell organelles specialized?

Earth Science Week 1 Tuesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What are the costs/benefits of exploring for fossil fuels? Try to think of at least 1 cost and 1 benefit.
2. Do you think it's possible to make fossil fuels more sustainable? Explain your thinking.
3. What tools or skills do you need in order to be most successful in your learning?

Earth Science Week 1 Tuesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What new learning did you gain yesterday from your research?
2. How is coal used to make energy?
3. What are some barriers to your learning? 

Human Anatomy Week 1 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What do you know already about cells?
2. Describe one organelle you learned about yesterday? (structure and function)
3. What does homeostasis look like? (draw or describe)

Biology Week 1 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about plant properties?
2. How are plants classified? What properties are used?
3. What do you need in order to learn best?

Earth Science Week 1 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What new learning did you gain about your natural resource?
2. What did you find most surprising about your natural resource?
3. What would be the most important detail to know about your natural resource?

Earth Science Week 1 Monday Part 1

Questions:

1. Write 3 expectations you have of this class, your classmates and/or your teacher. (Try to think of more than just "to teach" or "to learn".
2. Write 2 questions you have about oil, coal, natural gas, or minerals (gold, silver, copper...etc).
3. Write 1 thing you want the teacher to know about you.

Research

Questions:

1. How is it formed?
2. Where can it be found (mined)?
3. How is it used? What kind of products does it make?
4. Can it be recycled? If so, how is it reused?
5. What are the pros/cons of using it?
6. How much does it cost to buy? What does it cost to mine/extract?

Sources/Helpful Links

Energy Explained

Our Energy Choices

Natural Resources Explained 
Nonrenewable Sources of Energy

Make an Informational Infographic Using Piktochart

• Login or create an account using your Google account.

A successful Informational infographic has four key factors:

• An established hierarchy, using icons or bullet points.
• Header points that introduce steps or parts of a topic.
• Concise body text that explains each header point.
• Diagrams, charts, pictures or graphs to help explain important points.

Biology Week 1 Monday

Questions:

1. Write 3 expectations you have of this class, your classmates and/or your teacher. (Try to think of more than just "to teach" or "to learn".
2. Write 2 questions you have about plants and animals.
3. Write 1 thing you want the teacher to know about you.

Links for Chart

Types of Plants

Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts

Gymnosperms

What are algae?

Conifers

What is a flowering plant?
Fern Basics

Human Anatomy Week 1 Monday

Questions:

1. Write 3 expectations you have of this class, your classmates and/or your teacher. (Try to think of more than just "to teach" or "to learn".
2. Write 2 questions you have about the human body and how it works.
3. Write 1 thing you want the teacher to know about you.

Links for Cell Organelles
Cell Organelles Structure and Function
Cell Organelles from CK12

Biology Block Thursday Week 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part about building and testing your landfill?
2. What did your results tell you about landfills and pollution?
3. What would you do differently next time?

Biology Block Thursday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did you find out based on your particulate pollution collector?
2. What do you think these results tell us about particulates in the air?
3. What do you think about the case study about the birds and noise pollution?

Biology Block Wednesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What is the purpose of building a model landfill?
2. What impact do landfills have on the land and the water?
3. What can we do to reduce the amount of trash in landfills?

Biology Week 9 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What were you most successful at during this class?
2. What was most helpful for your learning? Least?
3. What did you struggle most with during this class? Explain why you think this is.

Earth Science Week 9 Wednesday

Questions:

1. What were you most successful at during this class?
2. What was most helpful for your learning? Least?
3. What did you struggle most with during this class? Explain why you think this is.

Final: Choose 1 option below.

• Option 1: Create a test about Water Resources and sustainability. 

1. Your test will have multiple choice questions only.
2. Should include 5-6 What questions, 5-6 why questions, and 5-6 how/when/where  questions.
3. Total of 16 questions with answer choices.

• Option 2: Create a concept map.

1. Use at least 20 the terms and ideas studied in this class (including the ones listed in our notes).
2. Include at least 2 diagrams/pictures.
3. Arrows should connect related terms/ideas together.
4. "Connector words" should be used to explain the relationship between terms/ideas:
includes...is an example...shows...is defined by...is the same as...is also...might be....looks like

• Option 3: Create a scientific explanation (CER extended response)

1. Read and annotate an article about water--highlight 5 details that tell about how water is used/misused. Annotate each by finishing: This is important because... or This shows...
2. Write a scientific extended response to answer: Based on this article, is water a renewable or a nonrenewable resource?
3. Use the CER form from Ms Friedrich.

                       

Biology Block Week 3 Wednesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did you find out from making air filters yesterday?
2. How can air filters be used to solve pollution problems?
3. What other ways could be used to clean the air?

Earth Science Week 9 Tuesday

Questions:

1. What have you learned from this class about water sources?
2. What have you learned from this class about water sustainability?
3. What did you find most interesting about the learning in this class?

Biology Block Week 3 Tuesday Part 2

Questions:

1. Describe your air filter designs.
2. Which one do you think will work better? Explain your thinking.
3. How do other types of pollution (light or noise) affect ecosystems?

Biology Block Week 3 Tuesday Part 1

Questions:

1. What are particulates? And what do they have to do with air pollution?
2. What causes air pollution? List at least 3 causes.
3. What factors impact the levels of air pollution?

Biology Week 9 Tuesday

Questions:

1. Summarize your results from your plant population density lab.
2. What factors could have affected your data?
3. If you were to do this lab again, what would you do differently?

Earth Science Week 9 Monday

Questions:

1. What do you think about water use in different states?
2. What are the causes and effects of water manipulation?
3. What factors make some states use water differently than others? (think of at least 2)

Biology Block Week 1 Monday Part 2

Questions:

1. What was your first article about?
2. What did your second article say about pollution?
3. What do you think about pollution? Solutions?

Biology Block Week 3 Monday Part 1

Questions:

1. What is pollution? Give three examples of pollution contaimanets.
2. What do you think is the impact of pollution on plants? Animals?
3. What do you think is the largest contributor to pollution in the air? Water?

Biology Week 9 Monday

Questions:

1. What could be some possible sources of error in your yeast population lab? Explain how these may have affected your data.
2. Do you think your data for your yeast population lab was reliable? What makes you sure/unsure?

Survey Link 

https://goo.gl/forms/X0VHXWIgecZz9NIR2 

Earth Science Week 8 Thursday

Questions:

1. What was our data showing yesterday?
2. What surprised you most about the water use data for irrigation?
3. Why do some states use more water for irrigation than others?

Biology Block Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part about creating your deforestation story?
2. What new learning have you gained this week about the human impact on ecosystems? 
3. Write 2 questions you still have about deforestation.

Biology Block Thursday Part 1

Questions:

1. What did you find out in your rainforest/deforestation research yesterday?
2. What surprised you most about the forest you researched?
3. What are the effects of deforestation?

Biology Week 8 Thursday

Questions:

1. What is carrying capacity?
2. What determines the carrying capacity?
3. Do you think the human population is at carrying capacity? Explain your thinking.