Air Week 9 Monday

Do Now Prompts: Choose 2-3. Fill your DO NOW box.

• How would you describe our final project to a friend or classmate? How would you connect it to our learning in this class?
• Describe your design for a solar-heated water system? What are it's most important parts? How will it absorb the maximum amount of radiation?
• What did you know about solar-heated water systems before this class/project?--where did you learn this?
• What factors affect the amount of pollution in the air? What does economic status have to do with it?

Viruses Week 9 Monday

Do Now Prompts: Choose 2-3. Fill your DO NOW box.

• Make a list of STI/STDs that are viral. What makes STIs/STDs different than other pathogens/viruses? What make them similar?
• What factors affect how a virus is transmitted? 
• What stands out to you most from this class?
• What would you tell the principal our objective was for this class?--based on what evidence/examples?

LINK for Project TASK

Math in Space Monday Week 3

Part 2 Do Now Prompts: Choose 2-3. Fill your DO NOW box.

• Describe your distance calculations from lab. What was your percent error? What does this mean?
• Describe a light year or an astronomical unit and how it's used to measure distance?
• Describe parallax angle/effect. What does it look like? (draw or describe)
• Why do stars, over their lifetimes create different elements? What is occurring? How do we know?--what evidence do we have? What does this look like? 

Viruses and Bacteria Week 8 Thursday

• Describe the chain of Infection. What would be the most important detail to include?
• What subject areas did you choose for your project?--explain why you chose these.
• What pathogen did you choose for your project?--explain why you chose this.
• What new information did you gain yesterday about your pathogen/project?
• What are your next steps for your project? What do you need to do in order to complete these steps?
• If you were to add a question to the list, what question would you add? 

LINK for VIDEO

Air Week 8 Thursday

• What do you think about the effects of air pollution? Do you think they could be connected to other health problems other than respiratory?--explain your thinking.
• What countries do you think have the worst air pollution?--why do you think this is?
• What social/economic factors do you think play a role in a country's air pollution?--explain your thinking.
• What new learning did you gain yesterday about solar heated water systems? 

Viruses and Bacteria Week 8 Wednesday

CHOOSE 2-3. THINK/WRITE for 10 minutes. FILL your do now box.

• What was the simulation about yesterday? What did the data show? What did the data not show?
• How would you describe herd immunity to a friend or family member? 
• What is the impact of herd immunity on transmission rate of pathogens?
• What do you think would happen if less people were immune (vaccinated) in our country?
• Do you think people should be required to be vaccinated against the flu to create herd immunity?--explain your thinking.

Air Week 8 Wednesday

DO NOW PROMPTS: Choose 2-3. Think/write for 10 minutes. Fill your do now box. 

• What factors did you use to help you rank air pollutants? What factors are most important to you in determining whether an air pollutant is a threat? Do you think your classmates used the same factors?--explain your thinking.
• What do you think is the greatest contributor to air pollution in our area? In our country? Worldwide? 
• Why do you think different countries/areas of the world have different air pollution levels?
• Who and/or what is impacted most by air pollution?--explain why you think this is.

Math in Space Week 2 Wednesday

Part 1 Do Now Prompts: Choose 2-3. Fill your DO NOW box.

• What evidence/information can we gather about stars? What do these measurements tell us? 
• What is indirect evidence? What would be an example? 
• What is direct evidence? What would be an example?
• What is the difference between apparent and absolute magnitude?
• Why is it important to measure/gather evidence about stars?
• What information can we gather from a right triangle? How could this information be useful?

Part 2 Do Now Prompts: Choose 2-3. Fill your DO NOW box.

• How would you explain parallax to classmate? What would be the most difficult part for you to explain. 
• Summarize what we did in the lab during part 1. 
• What does parallax look like? (draw or describe)
• Is parallax an example of indirect or direct evidence?--explain your thinking.

Viruses Week 8 Tuesday

• How did you/will you tell the story of a virus life cycle? What words are most important to include?--explain your thinking.
• How would you describe the chain of infection? Why is it described as a chain verses a chain reaction?
• What do you think is herd immunity? How do you think herd immunity is achieved?
• What have you been most successful at in this class?--explain why you think this is so.

LINK for simulation TASK

Math in Space Tuesday Week 2

• What have you been most successful at so far in this class? Least? What do you need to do in order to be more successful? 
• What has stuck with you most about math/space through this class?
• Summarize the math you did during part 1 today. What part would be the most difficult for you to explain? 
• How would you explain luminosity to a friend or classmate? What would be key words or ideas you would need to tell them?

Air Week 8 Tuesday

• What has been going well for you in this class? 
• What hasn't been going well?
• What do you need more of in order to learn better? Less of?
• If we had more time, what other topics would you like to study, projects/labs related to air and climate?

LINKS for Interpreting the Effects of Air Pollution TASK

Environment and Resources Authority

Conservation Energy Future
Effects of 6 Common Air Pollutants
Effects of Ozone

Effects of Benzene

Viruses and Bacteria Week 8 Monday

• How would you describe the life cycle of a virus? What does it look like? (draw or describe)
• What's the difference(s) between the Lytic cycle and the Lysogenic cycle of a virus?
• What do you think is a cause of different viruses spending different amounts of time in each cycle?
• How would you describe the word host specific to a friend or family member?
• After learning about virus life cycles, how has your thinking changed about vaccines?
• After learning about viruses, what would you tell someone who wanted to take antibiotics for a cold or the flu?

Air Week 8 Monday

• How has your thinking changed about indoor air quality? What questions do you still have about indoor air quality?
• How do you think we could measure indoor air quality? How would you get the most reliable data? What steps would you have to take?
• What do you know about the effects of air pollution?
• What do you know about the respiratory system? What are the structures involved? How does it function?

LINKS for TASK

Environment and Resources Authority

Conservation Energy Future
Effects of 6 Common Air Pollutants
Effects of Ozone

Effects of Benzene

Math in Space Monday Week 2

• What does the word luminosity mean? 
• What do you know about stars? Where have you learned this information? What questions do you still have about stars?
• Are all stars the same? What makes them alike? Different?
• What new learning did you gain from the museum and planetarium visit on Thursday? What stuck with you most? What surprised you least?

Viruses and Bacteria Week 7 Thursday

• What new learning have you gained about viruses this week?
• What was the simulation about yesterday? 
• Was this simulation an accurate way to analyze viral outbreaks? What did the data tell us? What were the limitations of this simulation? (what did the data not tell us?)
• What words would you use to describe virus structure/function?
• How has your thinking changed about viruses and outbreaks?

LINK for Simulation TASK

LINKS for Cartoon StripTASK

https://www.askscientific.com/ebola-virus-life-cycle-and-pathogenicity-in-humans/

https://www.ck12.org/biology/lytic-cycle/lesson/Lytic-Cycle-Advanced-BIO-ADV/

https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/articles/lytic-vs-lysogenic-understanding-bacteriophage-life-cycles-308094

https://www.ck12.org/biology/lysogenic-cycle/lesson/Lysogenic-Cycle-Advanced-BIO-ADV/?referrer=concept_details

Air Week 7 Thursday

• How do humans affect the outdoor air?
• What impact do humans have on indoor air?
• What is the Clean Air Act? Who does it affect? Why was it written?
• Where does indoor air pollution come from? Why is it getting worse?

Viruses and Bacteria Wednesday Week 7

• What was our simulation about yesterday?
• Summarize what occurred during this simulation.
• Was this simulation an accurate way to model virus outbreaks? What were its strengths? (what did it show)? What were its limitations? (what didn't it show)
• What is a scientific reason a virus might  not spread like you think it would?
• What factors do you think have the most impact on virus outbreaks? Explain your thinking.

LINK for TASK

Air Wednesday Week 7

• What are important components of a solid claim? Explain your thinking.
• When a peer reads your response, what do you want them to notice?
• Why is it important to have peer-reviewed scientific claims/papers?
• What is the strength of your writing for this piece so far? 
• If you were to do this research process again, what would you do differently? What would you add? Remove?

Math in Space Week 1 Tuesday

Part 1DO NOW prompts: Choose 3-4 questions/prompts. Write + think for 10 minutes, until your DO NOW box is filled.

• What did the article you read yesterday say about the processes that influence our universe? 
• What words did the author use to describe the universe?--list at least 4.
• If you could add a diagram, chart, map or image to help the readers of this article better understand it, what would you add? Describe your thinking.
• What quantitative (number, statistics) information did the author use to describe space? (summarize)
• What claim do you think the author was trying to make about space?
• What was the strongest piece of evidence the author used to support his/her claim? Explain your thinking.

Part 2 Prompts: Choose 3-4 questions/prompts. Write + think for 10 minutes, until your DO NOW box is filled.

• What was the purpose of the lab you started?
• What do you notice about your data so far? Is it reliable? What makes you sure or unsure?
• Do you think this is an accurate way to model the expanding universe? Explain your thinking.
• What is Hubble's Law? What does it look like? 
• What did you know about the topic of deep space before this class? Where did you learn about it? 

Viruses Week 7 Tuesday

DO NOW: Choose 3-4 questions/prompts. Write + think for 10 minutes, until your DO NOW box is filled.

• What did the article you read yesterday say about the structure and/or function of viruses? 
• What words did the author use to describe viruses?--list at least 4.
• If you could add a diagram, chart, map or image to help the readers of this article better understand it, what would you add? Describe your thinking
• • What is the relationship between visual information and textual information? Do they always say the same thing? Explain your thinking.

Air Week 7 Tuesday

DO NOW: Choose 3-4 questions/prompts. Write + think for 10 minutes, until your DO NOW box is filled.

• Why is evidence important? 
• What makes "good" evidence?
• What does "sufficient" evidence mean? What does it look like?
• Which type of evidence do you think is more effective at communiating a claim--quantitiative data (numbers, stats) or qualitative data (descriptions, quotes)? Explain your thinking. 
• What factors affect indoor air quality?

Air Week 7 Monday

DO NOW: Choose at least one prompt set. Write/think for 10 minutes, until your DO NOW box is filled.

• Describe particulate matter--where does it come from? 
• What processes/components help make acid rain? 
• What did you find out about Denver air quality from your research? Were you surprised?
• How would you describe photochemical smog to a friend or family member? What would be difficult for you to explain?
• Do you think friends/family members would be surprised by your research findings?--explain your thinking.

Math in Space Week 1 Monday

Welcome to Math in Space! 

1. Please choose a seat/table where you can be most successful. 
2. Pick up a daily sheet from Ms Friedrich or Ms Christiansen
3. PART 1 DO NOW: Choose 3-4 questions/prompts. Think + write for 10 minutes, until your DO NOW box is filled 

• What do you need in order to be most successful in your learning? What do you need from your classmates? Teachers?
• What do you expect of your classmates and teachers?
• Why did you choose this class? 
• What is math?
• Why do we use math?
• What math do you think is used in space?
• What does it mean to evaluate something? Is it the same as solving?
• How does your confidence in math affect your learning?

Part 2 Do Now Prompts:  Choose 3-4 questions/prompts. Think + write for 10 minutes, until your DO NOW box is filled 

• How are math and science connected? How are they different?
• Why is evidence important? 
• What makes "good" evidence?
• What are your learning goals for this class? How will you know you've achieved them? What evidence will you have?
• How old is our universe?--How do we know? What evidence do we have?

Viruses and Bacteria Week 7 Monday

DO NOW: Choose 3-4 questions/prompts. Write/think for 10 minutes, until your DO NOW box is filled.

• Describe the structures of a virus.
• What structure(s) seems to be most important to virus function?
• Are viruses alive? Support your thinking.
• How do you think are viruses different from each other?
• What do you think makes some viruses easier to contract? 
• What do you think makes some viruses more infectious/hazardous?

1. Highlight 12 ideas in the text.
2. Annotate these ideas in the margins using one of the following thought starters:

• This means that...
• In other words, ....
• This shows...
• The author used this word to...
• This is important because...
• I would add...
• I agree/disagree with this because...