12/16-12/20

Goals for the week

• Investigate how salinity impacts the growth and survival of brine shrimp
• Discuss how cells respond to various levels of salt water
• Explain how cells maintain homeostasis in their environment

SEPs

• Asking questions and defining problems
• Developing and using models
• Planning and carrying out investigations
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Using mathematical and computational reasoning
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions
• Engaging in argument from evidence
• Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information

Monday and Tuesday

Collect brine shrimp data - please be sure to use the spreadsheet AND place your data in the correct spot!

• Create a graph that reflects your data.  Your graph should be created using google sheets.  Please see the template in Google Classroom
• Using the spreadsheet as a template, answer the questions provided.  Stop before you get to the reasoning!  

Wednesday and Thursday

Explain the reasoning behind the brine shrimp data 

• How do brine shrimp maintain homeostasis?
• How do cells maintain homeostasis
• How can some organisms live in high salinity whereas others cannot
• Words to use in your reasoning
• osmosis
• homeostasis
• high concentration
• low concentration
• salinity

Submit your data analysis (CER) using the template in Google Classroom by the end of the hour on Thursday

Friday

Rough draft of Mid-Term is due today!!

12/9-12/13

Goals for the Week

• Identify the carrying capacities of several species in the Alaskan Kelp Forest
• Determine what determines a species carrying capacity
• Roll out individual portion of Mid-Term
• Begin work on the group portion of the Mid-Term

SEPs

• Asking questions and defining problems
  Developing and using models
  Analyzing and interpreting data
  Constructing explanations and designing solutions
  Engaging in argument from evidence
  Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information

Monday

Finish carrying capacity group assignment

Roll out individual portion of the Mid-Term

• Rubric
• Need to Knows

Tuesday
Work on the individual portion of the project

Wednesday

Mrs. Trosin out of the building today

Rubric for group portion of the mid-term

• Focus on bullet point 3 today
• Due by the end of the hour for completion points - no late work accepted!
• You may enter this into a slide, draw a picture and upload, or use a whiteboard - or any other way that makes sense to your group.  Just please make sure you turn this in by the end of the hour!!

Thursday

Individual work time for Mid-Term

Please work on the individual portion of the mid-term - draft due December 20

Friday

Today we will begin an investigation that explores the question, How can environmental factors impact the growth and survival of organisms?

• What organism will be our model?
• How can we use this organism to answer our driving question?
• How will we design our experiment to test our driving question?

Google sheet for our class data - please follow the directions carefully

12/2-12/6

Goals for the Week

• Describe various food chains and food webs for the Pacific Northwest Kelp forests
• Explain how the change in population of one species can impact an entire community
• Explain how energy flows through an ecosystem
• Identify and discuss keystone species in various ecosystems

SEPs

• Asking questions and defining problems
• Developing and using models
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Using mathematical and computational reasoning
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions
• Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information

Monday
Final Exam Groups - Please complete the google form

Some species are more equal than others

• Pull vocabulary from the video that pertains to ecosystems and communities

Tuesday and Wednesday

Submit Your Team Contract - Use the "common cards" from the card sort activity

Group Rubric Draft

Food Chains and Food Webs in the Pacific Northwest

How does energy flow through an ecosystem - what are the energy needs of organisms and how does that dictate the flow of energy from one trophic level to the next?

Successful groups will be able to model a simple food chain and use that model to make predictions about how energy flows through the ecosystem

Thursday and Friday

What factors may limit the success of your food chain in the Alaskan Kelp Forest, specifically the sea otter, the sea urchin and kelp?

Successful groups will be able to explore and explain the abiotic factors that impact the Alaskan Kelp Forest