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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus: Organization of Life/Nutrient Cycles

Chapter 3:  The Biosphere

Beginning Assignment: Copy vocabulary words

Work time: 

*Notes:  Organization of Life - Organism to Biosphere

*Organization of Life Worksheet

*Analytical Skills - Zoological

*Begin nutrient cycles

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus: Nutrient Cycles  

Chapter 3:  The Biosphere

Beginning Assignment: List the organization levels of life from cell to biosphere

Work time: 

*Notes: Nutrient Cycles

*Internet Assignments and Worksheets for the Water Cycle, the Nitrogen Cycle, the Carbon Cycle and the Phosphorous Cycle

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Flow of energy

Chapter 3:  The Biosphere

Beginning Assignment: How is energy transferred through ecosystems differently than matter

Work time: 

*Finish Acid Rain/Global Warming Internet Research

*USA Test Prep

*Vocabulary Review/Study Guide

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:   Flow of energy

Chapter 3:  The Biosphere

Beginning Assignment: How is heat transferred from the sun?  Be specific.

Work time: 

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary Test

*Unit Test

Homework:  N/A

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Transfer of Energy

Chapter 3:  The Biosphere

Beginning Assignment: Copy vocabulary words

Work time: 

*Notes: Transfer of energy

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Transfer of Energy

Chapter 3:  The Biosphere

Beginning Assignment: Compare and contrast producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Work time: 

*Food Web - Concept Map

*Diagram the Food Web

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Biomes

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment: Describe the differences between an oak tree and a cactus

Work time: 

*Boreal Forest - Food Web

*Energy Pyramids

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus: Biomes

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment: Describe the tundra

Work time: 

*Logic - Biomes

*Notes:  Climate and Hadley cells

*Reading diagrams - seasons

*Vocabulary Review

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus: Biomes

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment: What two characteristics define a biome?

Work time: 

*North American biomes - color coding

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary Test

Homework:  N/A

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Describe the different biomes

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment: Copy vocabulary words

Work time: 

North American Biomes

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Describe the different biomes

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment: Compare and contrast desert and tundra

Work time: 

*Video:  From Pole to Pole

*Reading:  Binomial nomenclature

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus: Describe the different biomes

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment: Compare and contrast deciduous and coniferous

Work time: 

*Internet assignment - Research biomes

*Habitat vs. niche research

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Succession

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment:

Work time: 

*Climatographs

*Define habitat and niche

*Vocabulary Review

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

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Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Population Size

Chapter 5: Populations

Beginning Assignment:

Work time: 

*Finish biomes

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary Test

Homework:  N/A

Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Primary and secondary succession

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment: Copy vocabulary words

Work time: 

*Notes:  Succession

*Ecological succession foldables

*Reading: Binary nomenclature

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Distinguish between habitat and niche

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Beginning Assignment: Compare and contrast primary and secondary succession

Work time: 

*Internet research assignment

*Choose a plant and animal.  Begin looking at its habitat

*Finish succession foldables

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Populations

Chapter 5: Populations

Beginning Assignment: What is a population?

Work time: 

*Notes:  Populations

*Deer-Predation graphs

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Population

Chapter 5: Populations

Beginning Assignment: Compare and contrast exponential and logistic growth.

Work time: 

*Finish Deer-Predation graph

*Reading: Zebra Mussels

*Invasive species

*Keystone species

Homework:   Define, illustrate, and study the vocabulary words

Standard: SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus:  Populations

Chapter 5: Populations

Beginning Assignment: What determines population size?

Work time: 

*Focus on Organisms - Paramecium and Euglena

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary Test

*Begin symbiosis

Homework:  N/A