Beginning of the Year!

Here is what we have already done and will be doing at the beginning of this year:

• Mon 8/27:  Full 8 Day!  30 minutes of brief introduction to the year.  Read 4.1.
• Wed 8/29:  Classroom procedures.  Hand out Safety Contract and Academic Contract to be signed by next Friday 9/7.  Group work on Ecology.  Individual bookwork done in your notebook.  Read 4.2.
• Fri 8/31:  Go over 4.1 bookwork.  Discuss how to do Chi-Squared and do it.  Get 4.1 work checked off today or next Wednesday.  Notes on nutrient cycling, sustainability, and mesocosms.  Jane Poynter video on Biosphere 2.
• Wed 9/5:  Finish checking off 4.1 work and go over it.  Energy transformation notes.  At your table group, make an illustrated food web that includes at least 10 organisms and draw an energy pyramid that represents one of the food chains.  Read 4.3.
• Fri 9/7:  Carbon cycling.  Distinguish between carbon pools and carbon fluxes.  Pick 2 out of the 4 DBQ's in 4.3 and do them in your notebook.  Draw a labeled carbon cycle in your notebook.  Read 4.4 for next Tuesday.