November 26, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can analyze bat detector data to help me answer my investigative question about bats at AJHS.

Warm Up: 

1. Read "Bat Investigation Graph" directions.
2. On the next blank page of your notebook, plan out your graph.
3. If you are not finished collecting your data, get your Chromebook

AGENDA

1. Warm Up

2. Bat Investigation Data Table
3. Bat Investigation Graph

• Bat Data - use this link 
• Bat Species Codes - use this link

Homework:

• Have a great Thanksgiving! Don't forget to eat some pie.

November 25, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can analyze bat detector data to help me answer my investigative question about bats at AJHS.

Warm Up: 

1. Record weekly homework in your binder reminder.
2. Read your Bat Investigation Question with your table group. Do you need to revise it to make it more specific? 
3. Discuss with your table group and decide which data you will need to answer your question. Is everyone ready to create their data tables?
4. Get your Chromebook and log in to the class blog.

AGENDA

1. Warm Up

2. Bat Squad Episode 4: Link
3. Bat Investigation Data Table
4. Bat Investigation Graph

• Bat Data - use this link 
• Bat Species Codes - use this link

Homework:

• Complete Weekly Reflection (Due Tuesday)

November 22, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can analyze bat detector data to help me answer my investigative question about bats at AJHS.

Warm Up: 

1. Glue/tape Weekly Reflection 11/22, update TOC
2. Compare your answers to "Bats help grow our crops..." with your table group
3. Compare your answers to "White Nose Syndrome Boxes" with your table group

AGENDA

1. Warm Up (homework check)

2. Bat Squad Episode 3: Link  Map of WNS in USA 2019
3. Bat Data - use this link 
4. Bat Species Codes - use this link

Homework:

• Complete Weekly Reflection (Due Tuesday)

November 21, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can learn about the impact of White Nose Syndrome on bat populations.

Warm Up: 

1. Glue/tape "Battle for Bats Video", update TOC
2. Glue/tape "White Nose Syndrome Boxes", update TOC
3. Put your name and period on the "White Nose Syndrome" reading. DO NOT GLUE IN!!! 

AGENDA

1. Warm-up
2. Battle for Bats video - use this link 
3. White Nose Syndrome boxes - use this link

• Read the article and highlight where you find answers you need to fill in the boxes on the worksheet
• Annotate with questions and/or summary statements for each paragraph
• You will turn in the highlighted reading WITH YOUR NAME ON IT on Friday

Homework:

• Finish White Nose Syndrome (WNS) Boxes

November 20, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can develop an investigation question to help me learn about the bat populations at Aptos Junior High.

Warm Up: 

1. Glue/tape "Bats help grow our crops... Article Questions", update TOC
2. Get your Chromebook and log in to the class blog.

AGENDA

1. Warm-up - use this link
2. Bat Data - use this link 
3. Bat Species Codes - use this link
4. Bats help grow our crops Article - use this link

Homework:

• Finish Bats help grow our crops Article - use this link

November 19, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can learn about bat habitats and research bat species that may be found in Aptos.

Warm Up: 

1. Glue/tape "Neighborhood Bats", update TOC
2. Turn to "Bat Squad Episodes" and share your notes from yesterday's episode with your table group.

AGENDA

1. Warm Up (homework check, Weekly Reflection)

2. Bat Squad Episode 2: Link
3. Neighborhood Bats: Maps   and   Species Profiles

Homework:

• Science AR

November 18, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can discover what makes bats unique and valuable.

Warm Up: 

1. Copy this week's homework into your binder reminder
2. Glue/tape Unit Introduction: Bats and White Nose Syndrome, update TOC
3. Glue/tape Bat Squad Episodes, update TOC
4. Read the Learning Intention and Success Criteria for the new unit.

AGENDA

1. Warm Up 

2. Unit Phenomena: Link 
3. Bats vs. Birds Venn Diagram
4. Bat Squad Episode 1: Link

Homework:

• Complete Weekly Reflection (Due Tuesday)

November 15, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can show what I have learned about matter and energy in ecosystems by completing the unit assessment and Unit Introduction Reflection.

Warm Up: 

1. Glue/tape "Weekly Reflection - 11/15". Update your T of C.
2. Use your table of contents in your science notebook to find the Unit Introduction: Matter and Energy in Ecosystems.
3. Complete the checks and evidence of the success criteria to reflect on your learning in this unit. 

4. Get your Chromebook and log in to Amplify

AGENDA

1. Warm Up 

2. Post Assessment, Lesson 4.4, Activity 1
3. What's new at Biosphere 2

Homework:

• Complete Weekly Reflection (Due Tuesday)

November 14, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can explain what happened in the Biodome to cause it to collapse.

Warm Up: 

1. Get your Chromebook and log in to Amplify, Lesson 3.4, Activity 1
2. Follow the directions on IN 86

AGENDA

1. Warm Up (homework check, IN 83)
2. Cause and Effect in the Biodome, IN 87
3. Biodome Model, IN 88

Homework:

• Writing a Recommendation to the Econauts, IN 89
• Quiz Tomorrow: review by completing IN 90. If there are concepts you do not understand, but sure to look up the information you need and/or come in and ask questions.

November 13, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can use evidence to support a claim about where the missing carbon went in the Biodome ecosystem.

Warm Up: 

1. Complete Warm Up, IN 80
2. Get your Chromebook and log in the Amplify, Lesson 3.3, Activity 2, open the Sim.

AGENDA

1. Warm Up (homework check)
2. Finding Missing Carbon, IN 81-82
3. Researching the Biodome Files, IN 83

Homework:

• Complete IN 83

November 12, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can explain how carbon moves between the abiotic and biotic parts of an ecosystem.

Warm Up: 

1. Record this week's homework into your binder reminder.
2. Do IN 74 Warm Up

AGENDA

1. Warm Up (M1-M4 Annotations check)
2. Re-read pages M3-M4 and complete IN 75
3. Carbon Game IN 76-77

Homework:

• Complete Weekly Reflection

November 8, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can actively read an article about Carbon in the Global Ecosystem to help me explain what happened to the carbon in the closed system of the Biodome.

Please be respectful and helpful to the guest teacher today.

Warm Up: 

1. Glue/tape Weekly Reflection, update TOC
2. Warm Up, IN 70

AGENDA

1. Warm Up 
2. Read and Annotate "Carbon in the Global Ecosystem" IN M1-M4. Follow the directions and Active Reading Guidelines on IN 71

3. Extra Credit opportunity if you finish early: 

• Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration in Producers. Follow the directions on IN p. 46, 

Homework:

• Complete Weekly Reflection
• Finish annotations of Carbon in the Global Ecosystem

November 7, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can use evidence to explain whether or not a decrease in decomposers led to a decrease in carbon in the air of the biodome.

Warm Up: 

1. Discuss the graph on IN 48 with your table group. Can the graph help you explain why the amount of carbon dioxide in the air of the biodome decreased? 
2. Open your Chromebook and log in to Amplify.
3. Go to Lesson 2.3, Activity 3, and open the Sim.
4. Turn to p. 49 in your IN and follow the directions.

AGENDA

1. Warm Up, IN 48

2. Testing a Claim in the Sim, IN 49

• Today you will submit your responses online

• Period 3 Only: Complete this Google Form

3. Word Relationships Routine, IN 50
4. Writing to the Econauts, IN 51

Homework:

• Writing to the Econauts, IN 51

November 6, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can create a model that shows how organisms give off carbon dioxide.

Warm Up: 

1. Get your Chromebook and log in to Amplify
2. Go to Lesson 2.2, Activity 3 and open the modeling tool
3. Read ALL the directions on IN 44 as you make your model

AGENDA

1. Warm Up (homework check, Unit Vocabulary)
2. Modeling How Organisms Give Off Carbon Dioxide, IN 44
3. Sharing Models, IN 45
4. "Hand In" your model when you are finished

Homework:

• Complete 2.3 "Warm Up", IN 48

November 5, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can explain how organisms give off carbon dioxide in an ecosystem.

Warm Up: 

1. Get your Chromebook and log in to Amplify
2. Go to Lesson 2.1, Activity 4, Page 2: Carbon Dioxide in Ecosystems.
3. Revise your answers based on the new information you learned, and be sure to click "hand in"

AGENDA

1. Warm Up (homework check, reflection and "A Feast for Decomposers" annotations)
2. Complete "Warm Up", IN 42
3. Observing Cellular Respiration in the Sim, IN 43

Homework:

Unit Vocabulary - add the following terms and definitions to your science notebook using the glossary on pp. 111-113 of the IN (Amplify):

• cellular respiration
• decomposer

November 4, 2019

Success Criteria:  I can explain where carbon dioxide comes from in an ecosystem.

Warm Up: 

1. Copy this week's homework into your Binder Reminder
2. Warm-Up: Investigation Notebook p. 36
3. Get your Chromebook

AGENDA

1. Warm Up 
2. CO2 in Ecosystems Sorting Tool, (Lesson 2.1, Activity 2) IN p. 37
3. The Snail and Elodea Experiment, IN 38
4. Intro to A Feast for Decomposers, IN 39 Part 1

Homework:

• Complete Weekly Reflection
• Finish annotations of A Feast for Decomposers