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Schedule Dates	State Standards / Objectives	Honors Biology
Aug 29 Mon Periods 1-6	Students will know stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects.	1) Evaluate salinization lab writeups 2) Intro to ecosystems lecture Homework: 2 pages of Cornell notes on trophic levels in ecosystems Ch 18 Sect 3 (Energy Transfer)
Aug 30 Tues Periods 1,3,5	Students will know a vital part of an ecosystem is the stability of its producers and decomposers.	1) Homework Check ch 18 cornell notes 2) Copy vocab from right white board into SNB 3) Trophic Levels Social Activity (15 organisms in chaparral) Homework: Vocab & Cues for Ecology words set 1 copied into notebook on Tuesday
Sept 1 Thurs periods 1,3,5	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 and Cues checked. 2) Food Web & Food Chains activity 3) Begin biogeochemical cycles project 4) Video: Story of Stuff Homework: Cornell Notes Section 18-4 (pp385-389)
Sept 6 Tues periods 1,3,5	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) Ch 18-4 notes checked 2) Deer oh Deer simulation 3) Limiting factors and population growth curves Homework: eco vocab set 3
Sept 8 Thurs periods 1,3,5	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) Check 18 - 4 Notes 2) Study guide questions 1-4 3) Story of Stuff video and Biomagnification discussion 4) biogeochemical cycles time Homework: finish biogeochemical cycles drawings and question 1-11 in study guide
Sept 12 Mon PLC 1-6		1) What do Age Structure Diagrams tell us about population? 2) When do exponential and logistic growth occur in populations? Homework: finish all questions on the study guide
Sept 13 Tues 1,3,5		1) Eval questions while copying down 6 vocab n cues 2) Relationships Discussions and videos (predator/prey; symbiotic) 3) Video illustrating parasitism (eeeew) Homework: Finish Vocab Cues; Study for ecology unit vocabulary test (see list of words and definitions on test; play matching game)
Sept 15		1) Ecology Vocabulary Test