First Couple Weeks of School!

• Fri 8/28:  Hand out Topic Sequence for this year and a book assignment for 4.1 (the first section of ecology).  Do the work on your own sheet of paper to be turned in next Tuesday.  Hand out Safety and Academic Honesty contracts to be signed and turned in by next Thursday 9/4.
• Tues 9/1:  Go over what we will be covering this year and review class expectations.  Go over ecology definitions and how to calculate the chi-squared.  Finish 4.1 worksheet and turn in.  Watch Jane Poynter video on Biosphere 2.  If time, do trials on the Sustainability Game.
• Thurs 9/3:  Turn in signed contracts if not already.  In your notes, record results for 4-5 trials of the Sustainability Game.  Do data-based questions on pages 214, 216, and 219 of IB text in your notes.  To be checked off on Tuesday 9/8.
• Tues 9/8:  Finish data-based questions in notes and get both the Sustainability game results and the data-based questions checked off.  Review energy transformations and trophic levels.  At your tables, make an illustrated food web poster that includes at least 10 organisms, one chain of at least 4 links, and using species names.  Start Carbon Cycle.  
• Thurs 9/10:  Exchange Food Web Posters to determine trophic levels and offer feedback.  Make illustrated posters of the Carbon Cycle including important pools of carbon and fluxes (transformations).  Use the Carbon Cycle links on this website and the IB syllabus in the class books to guide what you include.  Start Carbon Cycling and Climate Change Worksheet using IB books.  Due Wednesday, 9/16.