Earth Science Week 4 Wednesday

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

Questions:

1. What is the water table? (draw and describe)
2. What does rate of percolation have to do with the soil?
3. Why does the depth of the aquifer matter?

Link for Infographic

Biology Week 4 Wednesday

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

Questions:

1. What is a keystone trophic? 
2. How do keystone species maintain ecosystem stability? 
3. If a keystone species disappeared, do you think another species be able to take its place/role in the ecosystem? Explain your thinking.

Chemistry Week 1 Wednesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What were we trying to find out during our first lab?
2. What are 2 ways to classify matter?
3. What does a suspension look like? (draw or describe)

Chemistry Week 1 Wednesday Part 1

Students will learn about matter (Particle Theory of Matter) and properties of matter by analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What does kinetic theory of matter look like? (draw or describe)
2. What was the purpose of our lab yesterday?
3. What did your graph look like?  (draw or describe)

Chemistry Week 1 Tuesday Part 1

Questions:

1. How do we classify matter? Based on what properties?
2. Is energy matter? Explain your thinking.
3. What does it mean to be a solid? Liquid? 

Link for Simulation

Chemistry Week 1 Tuesday Part 2

Students will learn about matter (Particle Theory of Matter) and properties of matter by analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What was our simulation about during part 1?
2. What did you notice about the effect of temperature and pressure? Describe at least 2 details you noticed.

Biology Week 4 Tuesday

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 do yesterday to make progress toward our learning objective (see above)?
2. Summarize our mini-lesson notes from yesterday.
3. Give an example of a keystone species that is not an apex predator.

Earth Science Week 4 Tuesday

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

Questions:

1. What was our simulation about yesterday?
2. Draw and describe one graph or diagram from the simulation.
3. How can groundwater become surface water?

Link for Simulation

Chemistry Week 1 Monday Part 2

Students will learn about matter (Particle Theory of Matter) and properties of matter by analyzing and interpreting data.

Do Now Questions:

1. What have you done so far to make progress towards our learning objective (see above)?
2. What was our simulation about during part 1?
3. How would you explain matter to a chemistry classmate? 

Chemistry Week 1 Monday Part 1

Students will learn about matter (Particle Theory of Matter) and properties of matter by analyzing and interpreting data.

Do Now Questions:

1. Write 1 expectation you have of yourself in this class.
2. What do you know about matter and atoms?
3. What is one thing you want the teacher of this class to know about you?

Link for Simulation

Biology Week 4 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 a keystone species?
2. How is a wolf an example of a keystone species?
3. What is the impact of keystone species on ecosystems?

Helpful Links for Keystone Species Chart Activity

• If These 8 Species Go Extinct, Whole Ecosystems will Disappear
• 12 Examples of Keystone Species
• Keystone Species--How they create Abundance and Stability

Earth Science Week 4 Monday

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

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained so far about groundwater?
2. Describe a correlation between surface water and groundwater. How are they connected?
3. What does the water table look like? Draw/describe.

Link for Simulation

Earth Science Week 3 Thursday

Learn about the use and misuse of aquifer water (sustainability) by analyzing and interpreting data.  

Questions:

1. What was our article from this week about?
2. Why are some aquifers more stressed than others?
3. How do you think we can measure how much water is in an aquifer?

Link for Activity Today

Biology Week 3 Thursday

Learning Objective: Students will learn about factors that affect ecosystems (predator/prey relationships) by predicting, collecting and analyzing data.

Questions:

1. What was our simulation about yesterday?
2. What is one thing you noticed about the predator/prey interactions in the simulation?
3. Describe 1 limitation of our predator/prey simulation. 

Chemistry Week 3 Thursday Part 2

Questions:

1. What would you tell other students about this class?
2. In what way(s) did you grow most as a learner in this class?
3. What is one thing you would add to this class? (explain your reasoning)

Chemistry Week 3 Thursday Part 1

Questions:

1. What were our labs about yesterday?
2. Why do you think some reactions lose heat (get colder) and some reactions release heat? 
3. What was the most difficult part of the labs for you?

Chemistry Week 3 Wednesday Part 2

Questions:

1. What was our lab about during part 1?
2. What does the heat energy of an endothermic reaction look like? (draw or describe)
3. Why does an endothermic reaction need more heat energy?

Chemistry Week 3 Wednesday Part 1

Students will learn about thermodynamics (exothermic and endothermic reactions) by collecting and analyzing data.

Questions:

1. What did our lab yesterday have to do with thermodynamics?
2. Why do some chemical reactions gain heat energy?
3. Why do you think some chemical reactions lose or release heat energy?

Biology Week 3 Wednesday

Learning Objective: Students will learn about factors that affect ecosystems (predator/prey relationships) by predicting, collecting and analyzing data.

Questions:

1. What is the correlation between predators and prey?
2. Do predator/prey relationships have a negative or positive affect on ecosystems?
3. What adaptations to predators have that allow them to catch prey? Give at least 2 examples. 

Earth Science Week 3 Wednesday

Learning Objective: Students will learn about sources of water and their sustainability by analyzing and interpreting models and text.

Questions:

1. What was our simulation about yesterday?
2. What makes soil more permeable? Less?
3. What soil types are most permeable? Explain why you think so.