12/16-12/20           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 2 -Begin Evolution of Plants: Form Fits Function Lab (stations A-G) -Discuss vocabulary and hypothesis -Phenomenon: plant chromatography (what do all plants and algae have in common?) HW Stuck in Cement due on Friday 12/20
Tuesday	DAY 3 -Work on lab stations -Observe plant chromatography -Mycorrhizal symbiosis with plants HW 1. Stuck in Cement due on Friday 12/20         2. Mycorrhizae plant assignment
Wednesday	DAY 4 -Work on lab stations -What adaptations do plants have to live on dry land? HW Stuck in Cement due on Friday 12/20
Thursday	DAY 5 -Work on lab stations -Cladistics and Plant diversification HW Stuck in Cement due on Friday 12/20
Friday	DAY 6 -Complete Evolution of Plants: Form Fits Function Lab -Wrap-up -Cladogram, classification and phylogenetic tree task card

12/9-12/13           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 3 -Review for Ecology Test -Succession Game HW Succession Drawing and Writing Project, due on Tuesday 12/10
Tuesday	DAY 4 -Share Succession Drawing and Writing Project -Review for Ecology Test -Symbiosis Card sort/Memory Game HW 1. Study for Ecology Test (study guide on Classroom) 2. Portfolio Review due on Friday 12/13
Wednesday	DAY 5 -Field Trip: North Shore Theater, A Christmas Carol
Thursday	DAY 6 -Ecology Test HW Portfolio Review due tomorrow
Friday	DAY 1 -The Omnivore's Dilemma, Chapter 2 -What is a GMO? HW Complete the Pre-lab assignment for Evolution of Plants: Form Fits Function

12/2-12/6           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 4 (2 HOUR DELAY) -Finish Turkey Trouble Lab and Graph HW Complete Turkey Trouble graph and lab questions 2-7
Tuesday	SNOW DAY
Wednesday	DAY 5 -Push-Ups!! -Begin Ecological Succession -2 Parking Lot questions -The Log Hotel HW Succession Reading and comprehension questions
Thursday	DAY 6 -Ecological Succession Activity (QR Code Reader) HW Finish activity
Friday	DAY 1 -Succession Skits -Ecological Succession Game HW Complete Game questions

11/25-11/29           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 1 -Interactions in Nature Cartoon, due on Wednesday 11/27 -Symbiosis Card Sort Activity HW Interactions in Nature Cartoon, due on Wednesday 11/27
Tuesday	DAY 2 -Population Dynamics and Carrying Capacity -Turkey Trouble HW Interactions in Nature Cartoon, due on Wednesday 11/27
Wednesday	DAY 3 Half Day -Push-Ups!!! -Finish Turkey Trouble -Share Interactions in Nature Cartoon -Thanksgiving Trivia Extra-Credit Assignment
Thursday	No School
Friday	No School

11/18-11/22           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 2 -Complete the reading for Omnivore's Dilemma, Chapter 1 -Complete Food For Thought, Chapter 1 -Anchoring Phenomenon: Feeding Relationships -Create models of food webs -Hand out Ecology Textbooks HW 1. Food Webs and Food Chains worksheet         2. Quiz on Ecology, chapters 1&2 on Friday, 11/22
Tuesday	DAY 3 -Finish creating models of food webs and look at every group's food web model and come to a consensus -Correct Food Chains and Webs HW -Finish Anchoring Phenomena Routine HW Niche Business Card Assignment, due on Friday 11/22
Wednesday	DAY 4 -Push-Ups!! -Finish Anchoring Phenomena Routine -Using the Theme of Energy Activity, 10% Rule -Relationships in Nature; Symbiosis HW Niche Business Card Assignment, due on Friday 11/22
Thursday	DAY 5 -Symbiosis matching movement exercise -Interactions in Nature Cartoon activity HW 1. Study for quiz, Notes are on Classroom         2. Niche Business Card Assignment, due on Friday 11/22
Friday	DAY 6 -Quiz on Ecology chapters 1&2 -Share Niche Business Cards -Finish Omnivore's Dilemma, Chapter 1 Food For Thought HW None

11/11-11/15           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	No School
Tuesday	No School
Wednesday	No School
Thursday	DAY 6 -pH Lab is due today! -Finish pH Whodunnit activity -Omnivore's Dilemma  -Read Chapter 1, pgs. 17-29  -Chapter 1, Food For Thought  -Exploring Food Webs and energy flow through a community HW Food Webs and Food Chains worksheet
Friday	DAY 1 -Notes on Chapter 1&2 Ecology -10% Rule and Trophic Levels (Energy Pyramid) -Using the Theme of Energy Activity and Visual Demonstration HW

11/4-11/8           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 2 -Finish the Carbon Cycle -Cycles in Nature Webquest (on Classroom) -pH HW Finish Cycles in Nature Webquest, due on Wednesday 11/6
Tuesday	DAY 3 -pH Lab -pH of living organisms HW 1. Finish Cycles in Nature Webquest, due on Wednesday 11/6         2. Complete all pH Lab Questions, due on Thursday 11/7
Wednesday	DAY 4 -Push-Ups!! -Omnivore's Dilemma  -Read Chapter 1  -Complete Chapter 1 Food For Thought Exercise  -Begin Video: Secret Ingredients HW Complete all pH Lab Questions, due on Thursday 11/7
Thursday	DAY 5 -2-Column Notes -pH Scale Who Dunnit? Activity Review HW None
Friday	21st Century Learning Conference -Fun with Forensics!

10/28-11/1           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 3 -Pumpkin Data -Go Over Lichen Reading and questions -Continue Water Bear Lab -2-Column Notes for Ecology HW Water Bear Lab Questions
Tuesday	DAY 4 -Pumpkin Data -Omnivore's Dilemma  -Finish Vocabulary HW "The Demise of the Halloween Pumpkins" Wkst.  Due on Thurs. 10/31
Wednesday	DAY 5 -Pumpkin Data -Push-Ups!!! -Topic: Cycles in Nature -Traveling Nitrogen Stamp activity -Carbon Cycle Pathways HW 1. Complete activity questions         2. "The Demise of the Halloween Pumpkins" Wkst.  Due on Thurs. 10/31
Thursday	DAY 6 -Pumpkin Data -Finish Traveling Nitrogen Activity -Carbon Cycle HW None
Friday	DAY 1 -Pumpkin Data -Carbon Cycle -Cycles in Nature Webquest HW Finish Webquest

10/21-10/25           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 4 -Go over Levels of Organization in Nature -Search for and soak Lichen for Water Bear Lab -The Demise of the Halloween Pumpkins! (take pictures, discuss, notes) HW None
Tuesday	DAY 5 -Take pictures and record pumpkin data -Pond Water Lab (Using microscopes) HW Complete Pond water Lab questions 1-9, due on Thursday, 10/24
Wednesday	DAY 6 -Push-Ups! -Take pictures and record pumpkin data -Pond Water Lab continued -Omnivore's Dilemma  -Introduction, Read pgs. 7-13  -Vocabulary  -MyPlate and find the calories of a meal HW
Thursday	DAY 1 -Take pictures and record pumpkin data -Water Bear Pre-Lab Activity (pg. 1 of Lab) -Lichen HW Lichen: A Pioneer Species (use active reading strategies) and complete questions 1-11, due on Monday, 10/28
Friday	DAY 2 -Take pictures and record pumpkin data -Water Bear Lab HW 1. Lichen: A Pioneer Species (use active reading strategies) and complete questions 1-11, due on Monday, 10/28         2. Be sure Water Bear Lab is complete

Tardigrades

10/14-10/18           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	Columbus Day - No School
Tuesday	DAY 6 -Project is due today! Museum activity (students visit everyone's project and write one positive comment) -Pass back assignments and check Aspen account -Omnivore's Dilemma  -Read Intro. pgs. 1-13  -Food For Thought Introduction  -Pre-Vocabulary HW Living Things Project Reflection, write 1-2 sentences.
Wednesday	DAY 1 -Quiz on Characteristics of Living Things -Push-Ups! -Omnivore's Dilemma  -Read Intro. pgs. 1-13  -Food For Thought Introduction  -Pre-Vocabulary HW None
Thursday	DAY 2 -Begin Ecology Unit -Biotic and Abiotic Factors in the environment -Top-Down Web -Virtual Lab: Abiotic/Biotic Factors http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT08/CT08.html HW Complete Virtual Lab questions 1-6
Friday	DAY 3 -Go Over Virtual Lab -Levels of Organization in Nature class activity HW Levels of organization in Nature Worksheet

10/7-10/11           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 1 -Finish Homeostasis Activities, balancing and heart rate -Begin Homeostasis of the Eye Lab HW Homeostasis of the Eye Lab questions 1-8, due Wednesday, 10/9
Tuesday	DAY 2 -Finish Homeostasis of the Eye Lab -Begin Features of Life Project -Graphic Organizer Research HW 1. Homeostasis of the Eye Lab questions 1-8, due Wednesday, 10/9         2. Features of Life Project, due next Tuesday, 10/15
Wednesday	DAY 3 Yom Kippur -Homeostasis of the Eye Lab is due -Work on Project -Lesson on Citations, Citing references http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-website HW Features of Life Project, due next Tuesday, 10/15
Thursday	DAY 4 -Push Ups! -Notes on Characteristics of Life (2-column) -Work on Project HW 1. Study for Quiz, use notes and web, on Tuesday, 10/15         2. Features of Life Project, due next Tuesday, 10/15
Friday	DAY 5 -Review for Quiz -Characteristics Task Cards -Work on Project in class HW 1. Study for Quiz on Characteristics of Life, Web and Notes, on          Tuesday, 10/15         2. Features of Life Project is due on Tuesday, 10/15

9/30-10/4           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 2 -Continue with Characteristics of Life Station Lab HW Top 10 Killers reading and questions due on Wed, 10/2
Tuesday	DAY 3 -Omnivore's Dilemma -Begin Intro. pgs 1-13 -Food For Thought questions and discussion HW Top 10 Killers reading and questions due on Wed, 10/2
Wednesday	DAY 4 -Push-Ups! -Go over Top 10 Killers HW 1. Take a picture with phone of a living thing interacting with something non-living         2. Homeostasis Reading and questions 1-5
Thursday	DAY 5 -Top-down Web Living Things -Discuss picture of living thing interacting with non-living thing -Go over Homeostasis reading and questions 1-5 HW Read Homeostasis of the Eye Lab
Friday	DAY 6 -Balancing on One Foot Activity and pulse activity -Positive and Negative Feedback Loops podcast and top down web -Homeostasis of the Eye Lab HW None