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Sept 6 (1 hr class) Tues |
Students will be introduced to the course of A.P.E.S and introduce themselves. | 1) Course Syllabus |
Sept 7 (1 hr class) Wed |
Students will explain the relationships between human behavior and environmental problems in terms of sustainability. | 1) Groups prepare presentations for chapter 1 |
 Sept 8 (2hrs) Thurs |
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1) 1.4-1.6/"Easy Notes" due |
| Sept 12 (1hr) Mon | Students will explain the relationships between human behavior and environmental problems in terms of sustainability. | 1) Do hypotheses |
| Sept 13 (2 hr) Tues | 1) Vocabulary Due 2) Finish presentations 3) Vocab discusssion (adding cues) 4) Take data on "Salinization Lab" |
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| Sept 15 (2 hr) Thurs | Students will explain the relationships between human behavior and environmental problems in terms of sustainability. | 1) Vocab Test Unit 1 2) $100,000 group project |
Sept 19 Mon (1 hr) |
Students will relate current environmental issues to environmental history |
1) Easy note ch 2 -1 through 2-4 2) Ch 2 Vocab & Questions 3) Important Environmental Impact Individuals |
| Sept 20 Tues (2 hr) | Students will relate current environmental issues to environmental history. | 1) 2nd vocab Ch 1 & 2 accumulative quiz 2) Presentations of key questions and key players 3) Extinction Video (cont.) |
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1) Ch 1 & 2 assessment (MC & FR) |
| Sept 26 Mon (1 hr) | Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. | 1) Due: Posted ecological article summary & lab writeup of intro & procedure (submit by email kpitts@cnusd.k12.ca.us or by hardcopy) 2) Go over tests 3) Vocabulary & Concepts for Ch 3 4) Assign 3-1 to 3-3 for reading |
| Sept 27 Tues (2 hr) | Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. | 1) Presentation of difficult concepts in Ch 3 |
| Sept 28 Thurs (2 hr) | Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. | 1) Cumulative vocab exam (1- |
| Oct 3 Tues (2 hr) | Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. | DUE: Salinization Labs 1) Discussion of peer evaluation 2 Finish Extinction video 3) Vocabulary for CH4 4) biogeochemical cycles |
| Oct 4 Wed (43 sec) | Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. | 1) Discussion of trophic levels, food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids |
| Oct 5 Thurs (2 hr) | Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. | 1) Peer Evals Due 2) Work on biogeochemical cycle plays 3) Comparing those pyramids |
| Oct 10 Mon (1 hr) | Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. | 1) Organization of Life 2) Student presentation of biogeochemical cycles. |
| Oct 11 Tues (2 hr) | Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. | 1) 2) finish biogeochemical cycles |
| Oct 13 Thurs (2 hr) | Students will know how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle between abiotic resources and organic matter in the ecosystem and how oxygen cycles through photosynthesis and respiration. | 1) Vocab discussion |
| Oct 17 Mon (1 hr) | Students will know how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle between abiotic resources and organic matter in the ecosystem and how oxygen cycles through photosynthesis and respiration. |
Test over CH 3 & 4 |
| Oct 18 Tues (2 hr) | Students will know how natural selection determines the differential survival of groups of organisms. Students will know a great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms survive major changes in the environment. |
1) Go over test 2) Set up "eco-columns" by custom cutting 6 2-liter bottles 3) Lecture on Earth history timeline and Darwin's 5 ideas of how evolution occurs. |
| Oct 20 Thurs (2 hr) | Students will know how natural selection determines the differential survival of groups of organisms. Students will know a great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms survive major changes in the environment. |
1) Discussion of the mechanisms of evolution |
| Oct 24 Mon (1hr) | Students will know how natural selection determines the differential survival of groups of organisms. Students will know a great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms survive major changes in the environment. |
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| Oct 25 Tues (2 hr) | Students will know how natural selection determines the differential survival of groups of organisms. Students will know a great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms survive major changes in the environment. |
1) Vocab exam accum over ch 5 2) Take data on ecocolumns (water quality) |
| Oct 27 Thurs (2 hr) | Students will know a great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms survive major changes in the environment. | 1) Vocab exam (retry) 2) Finish ecocolumn data 3) Video on "Arms Race"/Coevolution of species |
| Oct 30 Sun (12:00 midnight) | eBoard responses to articles (3 minimum) due | |
| Oct 31 Mon (1 hr) | Ch 5 Questions due 1) biome posters assigned 2) Ch 6 vocab & concepts |
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| Nov 1 Tues (2 hr) | 1) biome poster work 2) presentation of biomes to class |
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| Nov 3 Thurs (2 hr) | 1) Vocab test cumulative on Ch 6 2) Eboards peer evals due (so they can be on this 9 weeks grade) |
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| Nov 8 Tues (2 hr) | 1) Vocab and concepts for ch7 2) Prep & Present 3) Estuaries Video |
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| Nov 10 Thurs (2 hr) | 1) Ch 7 vocab accumulative 2) Data taken on Ecocolumns after Vocabulary Exam |
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| Nov 14 Mon (1 hr) | 1) Test Review of Ch 5, 6, & 7 2) Hand back graded papers from 5, 6, & 7 |
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| Nov 15 Tues (2 hr) | 1) Ch 5, 6, & 7 MC Test 2) Begin ch 8 Easynotes 3) Habitat Island Simulation |
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| Nov 17 Thurs (2 hr) | 1) FRQ's (Essays on Ch 5,6,&7) 2) Take qualitative data on ecocolumns |
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| Nov 21 Mon (1 hr) | 1) Question from Ch 8 due 2) Ch 8 Concepts & Vocabulary 3) Preparation of student presentations for Tuesday 4) Ch 8 online discussions |
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| Nov 22 Tues (2 hr) | 1) Island biogeography model 2) Presentations of concepts by students 3) Online response to CH8 articles due by 3:30pm |
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| Nov 23 Wed | Responses to other students due by 3:30 pm | |
| Nov 28 Mon | 1) Deer oh Deer (A simulation in Carrying Capacity) 2) Reading & Easynotes for Ch 9-1; 9-2 |
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| Nov 29 Tues | Students will know how fluctuations in population size in an ecosystem are determined by the relative rates of birth, immigration, emigration, and death. | 1) Ch 8 Vocabulary Assessment (Cumulative) 2) Ch 9 Presentations 3) Kaibob Plateau Case Study 4) Easynotes for 9-3; 9-4; 9-5 |
| Dec 1 Thurs | 1) Ch 9 Vocab Assess |
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| Dec 6 Tues | 1) Go over vocab and mc tests 2) Review for Ch 8 & 9 Test |
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| Dec 7 Wed | 1) Finish Ch 9 review 2) Parasite video |
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| Dec 8 Thurs | 1) Ch 10 vocab & concepts 2) Ch 10 presentations 3) Living Planet Portrait of the Earth |
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| Dec 12 Mon | 1) "Portrait of the Earth" Video 2) Summarize processes seen in movie using vocabulary words |
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| Dec 13 Tues | 1) Test Ch 8 & 9 2) Lab: Soil Porosity and Permeability |
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| Dec 14 Thurs | 1) Ch 11 vocab & concepts |
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| Dec 19 Mon | 1) Prepare presentation of Ch 11 concepts 2) ECOCOLUMN Questions due |
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| Dec 20 Tues | 1) Presentations of Ch 11 2) LD 50 toxicity lab on bloodworms |
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| Dec 22 Thurs | 1) Vocabulary Test over Ch 10 and Ch 11 & cumulative 2) Ch 10 & 11 take home test given for over break |
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| Jan 9 Mon | 1) Ch 10 & 11 take home test due at beginning of period 2) Ch 12 concepts & vocabulary |
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| Jan 10 Tues | 1) "Pop" quiz on reading ch12 through 12.3 2) presentations of Ch 12 concepts |
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| Jan 12 Thurs | 1) Vocabulary Quiz 2) Obituaries Lab (Comparing survivorship now vs 100 yrs ago) |
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| Jan 17 Tues | 1) Obituary data due 2) Posting summaries due before class on eBoard discussion 3) Ch 13 concepts & vocab |
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| Jan 19 Thurs | 1) Response to 3 postings due by beginning of period. 2) Presentations of Ch 13 3) Ch 12 & 13 take home test 4) Peer evals due by Sunday evening at midnight |
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| Jan 26 Thurs | Semester Final |