Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Earth science HW

1) Read and notes for Ch 14, pgs 358- 377

2) Amnesty work is due for ch 17,19,18,11.2 +3, 12, 13 by 2:45 pm Friday 3/23

Biology HW

EEP presentations: All students be ready to present with your completed visuals!!  See you thursday

Monday, March 19, 2012

Earth Science HW 3/19/2012

1) read and take notes for ch 13.3 + 13.4, pgs 341-351.

2) Amnesty chapter work is due anytime before 3pm Friday March 23rd.  Chapters that can be revisited for amnesty credit include Ch 17, Ch 19.1 +2, Ch 19.3 +4, Ch18, Ch 11.2 +3, ch 12.1 + 2 and ch 12.3 +4.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Biology HW 3/15/2012

ECOEVOlution project due.  All Students need to bee ready to present on their FUTURE organism and how it evolved from their modern one.  See project postings on 3/2 and 3/9.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Earth Science

Good Luck on Humanities presentations for Natural dissaster proposals.

Read and Take  Cornell notes for Ch 13.1 + 13.2 , Pgs. 329 - 340 ,on storms and tornadoes

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Biology 3/13/2012

Finish Future Organism worksheet

Final project due Tuesday march 20th.  Be prepared to present.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Earth Science HW 3/12/2012

1) read and Notes ch 12.3 + 12.4 , pgs. 312 -321.

2)  work on ND proposal for Humanities.  Good luck on presentations Wed. and Thurs. 

** Yeah , annivesary of Japan 9.1 quake on 3/11/2012 and NO reoccurance over 5.5 !!!  

Friday, March 9, 2012

Biology HW 3/9/2012

Modern animal worksheet due 3/13/2012

Read and take notes for pgs, 129 - 136, Ch 5.3 On preserving biodiversity

Biology EEp rubric- Due tuesday march 20th


Exceptional (5)
Good (4)
Satisfactory (3)
Revisit (1)
(0)
Content that should be included in your final product
Taxonomy
All of 4 and:
the future organism is given a common name and a Genus species name based on Latin/Greek roots
All of 3 and:
Complete taxonomy (K,P,C,O,F, Gs) for the ancestral organism
A complete taxonomy (K,P,C,O,F, Gs & common name) is included for the modern organism
Incomplete/incorrect taxonomy (K,P,C,O,F, Gs & common name) is given for the modern organism

Environmental Factors
All of 4 and:
Identify the environmental pressures caused by human activity that the future organism responded to
All of 3 and:
Include maps that show the geographic range of the modern organism
Identify the biome (climate & geography) for the ancestral, modern & future organism
Biome information lacking/incorrect for the modern organism

Ecology
All of 4 and:
Construct/ Predict a possible food chain for the ancestral organism
All of 3 and:
Predict a possible food chain for the future organism
Identify the niche and trophic level for the ancestral, modern & future organism and a food chain for the modern organism
Info. lacking/incorrect for the niche and trophic level for the ancestral, modern & future organism and/or food chain

Morphological & Behavioral Changes
All of 3 and:
Describe the significance of these adaptations in terms of fitness

Identify the morphological and behavioral adaptations for ancestral, modern & future organism
Info. lacking/incorrect for morphological & behavioral in ancestral, modern & future

Illustrations
Student makes obvious effort to accurately illustrate ancestral, modern & future organism
Student attempts to accurately illustrate ancestral, modern & future organism
Photocopies/print outs of ancestral, modern & future organism
Illustrations are missing or obviously done with out attention to detail

Presentation should include the following information on the future organism only
Evolutionary Principles
All of 3 and:
Explain in detail the evolutionary processes that lead to origin of future organism
All of 3 and:
Explain basic evolutionary processes that lead to origin of future organism
Present future organisms scientific name/meaning, biome, ecology and adaptations
Info. lacking/incorrect for future organisms scientific name/meaning, biome, ecology and adaptations

Eye contact
Eye contact good for all
Good eye contact
Eye contact attempted most of the time
Reading off poster etc.

Clarity/pacing
Clarity and pace are good understandable by all
Clarity and pace are good understandable by most
Presenter understandable by most
not understandable

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Earth Science HW 3/8/2012

Read and notes (Cornell style please) for Ch 12.1 + 12.2, pgs.  298 - 311.

Continue to work on your Natural Dissaster proposal.

Finish wave minlab including answering the following questions using complete sentences.
Answer the following questions:
  1. Which of the seismic waves move fastest?____________________________
  2. Which wave do you think would be more destructive?____________________
     Why?_______________________________________________________
  1. How might each wave move the ground and affect the buildings and roads and such?  You can draw a picture.

Conclusion:

Write about experimental error and suggest a next step for investigation. Finally, tell me something you learned and what could be done to improve the lab.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

biology HW 3/7/2012

1) Ancient organism research due friday

2)  read and notes ch 5.1 + 5.2 , pgs 116-128.

3)  Continue working on EEP,for modern organism (due Tuesday)

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Earth science hw

1)  Read pgs 278-291, sections 11.2 + 11.3.  take notes for 11.3 in Cornell notes style , please.

2)  Continue working on ND  project.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Biology HW 3/5/2012

1)  Continue working on research for Ancient families and your modern species.  Project due date is March 20th.

2)  Read and notes for Ch 4, population ecology, pgs, 90-105.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Earth science HW

You should be focusing on your Natural dissaster project research and proposal for humanities as some of the points may transfer to science grades.

Here is the Link to the Nova program on the japan earthquake of 2011, pt 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3vmLh-v3X8

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Biology Ecology Evolution project- EEP

Species:                                                                         Name:

Eco/Evolution Project:  Research Notes for Ancestral Organism

Geologic time(s) this organism lived:

Environment: What type of biome does your ancestral organism live in? Describe the climatic and geographic range for your organism.  Maps could be useful visual aids.







Ecology:  What is your organism’s niche? What significant relationships did the organism have with other organisms and their environment?  Try to establish a food chain for your organism; if information is lacking identify your organism’s trophic level.  This information may be spotty; try to find the dominant plants and dominant animals for your organism’s geologic time. 









Morphology: What are the basic structures that make up the organisms body and appearance?










Survival traits: What adaptations were necessary for this organism to be successful in its environment?





Why the adaptations occur?  What evolutionary concepts?




Species:                                                                         Name:

Eco/Evolution Project:  Research Notes for Modern Organism

Environment: What type of biome does your modern organism live in? Describe the climatic and geographic range for your organism.  Maps could be useful visual aids.







Ecology:  What is your organism’s niche? What significant relationships did the organism have with other organisms and their environment?  Establish a food chain for your organism.  What are the dominant plants and dominant animals for your organism’s biome? 











Morphology: What are the basic structures that make up the organisms body and appearance?










Survival traits: What adaptations were necessary for this organism to be successful in its environment?  How are Human activities influencing this species?




Why the adaptations occur?  What evolutionary concepts?






Species:                                                                         Name:
Eco/Evolution Project:  Research Notes for Future Organism

Millions of years from now (consider the evolutionary trends your organism has been following from ancestral to modern; predict what selective pressures and adaptations will occur for the future descendent sp.)
Environment: What type of biome does your future organism live in? Research how Human activities are expected to alter the environment in a worst case scenario.  Teacher will provide some basic suggestion on how biomes might be changed and maps.







Ecology:  What is your organism’s niche? What significant relationships did the organism have with other organisms and their environment?  Establish a food chain for your organism.  What are the dominant plants and dominant animals for your organism’s biome?  Assume mass extinctions wiped out most modern plants and animals; you do not need to predict the specific biology/ecology of future plants& animals.  With your group just make generalizations about future  plants or animals that fill the niches of the extinct modern organisms.









Morphology: What are the basic structures that make up the organisms body and appearance?









Survival traits: What adaptations were necessary for this organism to be successful in its environment?
(refer to the Intro hand out has some details, I have more detailed information once you have determined your biome)  For this project we are assuming mass extinctions




Why the adaptations occur?  What evolutionary concepts?



Ecology/Evolution Project v.7 ‘12 Due tuesday march 20th
Project Description: Students will pick an ancestral organism and a modern descendant organism from the provided list. Students will need to conduct research on a modern descendent of the ancestral organism and its modern ecology. Students will also conduct research on the ancestral organism and the limited fossil evidence for the ecology of the ancestral organism and the geologic period(s) it lived in. Objectives:
1. Taxonomy of organisms (past, present, and future) use complete taxonomic information you research for the modern species and its ancestor. The future species taxonomy will be the same as the modern EXCEPT the scientific name will be chosen by the student using naming schemes that the teacher will provide. 2. Identify the organism’s ecology (past, present, and future) including:
a. biome, habitat, niche, predator/prey relations, trophism, food chain and any important interactions with other organisms
b. interactions with members of the same species (mates, solo/herds, migrations and offspring number/tending)
3. Identify the major environmental selective pressures (climate change, plate drift, natural/human caused disaster, waste, Human artifacts) to which your creature has responded to in the past-modern & modern-future examples.
4. Describe changes (adaptations) in your organism’s morphology and behavior for the species to be successful at each age? Part of this project is fantasy, but the best scores will be based on evidence and a sound understanding of evolutionary principles. Evolution is about small changes over vast time periods. I’m not impressed by flying penguins that shoot lasers from their eyes as an example of a future penguin.
5. Description of the mechanisms/principles of evolution related to you future organism.
a. Gradualism vs. Punctuated Equilibrium, natural selection, method of speciation, convergence/divergence, coevolution…
6. Student produced illustrations of organism (past, present, and future)
7. Present your future species, research and predictions with a visual aid (biology exhibition)
Final Product:
Poster board, models, technology, …? Whatever suits you best; we have a limited time and computer access for completion of this project make choices that suit the amount of time you can devote outside of class in addition to the time given in class! In your small group you will present on the future biomes and future ecology. Individually you will present the evolutionary changes that give rise to your future organism. All grades will be individual. A WCP following Golden Page format required for all research. Things to consider for the future:
-Future biomes: will be greatly altered by some Human activities and MANY natural phenomena. For example, runaway climate change may lead to human extinction but global temperatures will return to normal after thousands of years. Asphalt, steel, concrete and nuclear waste might be around much longer!
-Morphology: size, color, patterns, appendages, trophism, defense mechanisms…
-Behavior: migration, mating practices, raising young, loner, herding, nocturnalism…
-Relationships: prey, predators, reproduction, competition, shelter/nest materials…
List of ancient species/group of modern organisms (each member of a group must have a different modern species): ie I choose Pseudaelurus-cougar, another student chooses Pseudaelurus-house cat and another student Pseudaelurus-lynx. We may share the ancestral species research, but our modern and future species research is completely independent.

In small groups students that share similar biomes/geographic ranges will research, discuss and predict a worst case environmental scenario as a result of Human impact on the biosphere. Based on research and creative minds the groups will locate and describe the future biomes of Earth and the selective pressures that their modern species would adapt to for survival in these future biomes.
All throughout the project you will use the basic principles of evolution /ecology to show how organisms on Earth might have evolved into modern species and ultimately predict how Humans may be a driving selective evolutionary force for future life on Earth.
› Your modern organism can not be endangered, threatened or rare! It must be common in its habitat. Elephants are the only exception to this rule. Ancestral species/ Ancestral Family Modern Family
(common name)
Eurypterus/Eurypteridae arachnids
Pseudaelurus/Felidae felines
Cotylosaurs/Captorhinidae Lizards/snakes
Archaeopteryx/ Archaeopterygidae birds
Primelephas/ Elephantidae elephants (2 students max.)
Hyracotherium/Paleotheriidae horses (3 students max.)
Hybodus/ Hybodontidae sharks
Cynodictis/Amphicyonidae canines
Australopithecus/ Hominidae human (one student)
Cheirolepis/ Cheirolepidae ray finned fish
Eryops/Temnospondyli (-ls) amphibians
Ambulocetus/ Ambulocetidae whales

Biology HW feb. 28th/March 1st 2012

Read and take notes for Ch 3 on Biomes, pgs 60-81.


Continue tio research for the EcoEvolution project for your group's ancient family and your individual modern species.