ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do interactions among organisms impact the changing environment?
BENCHMARKS: SC.912.L.17.5
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
-Identify the different roles of organisms in any ecosystem.
-Explain that different types of organisms exist within aquatic systems due to chemistry, geography, light, depth, salinity, and/or temperature.
-Investigate the chemical factors (pH, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, phosphorous, and salinity) in aquatic systems.
-Explain how succession changes ecosystems over time.
-Recognize the potential changes to an ecosystem resulting from seasonal variations, climate changes,
and/or succession.
BELL RINGER- EOC Review SC.L.16.10 Impact of Biotechnology
VOCABULARY: commensalism, ecosystem, global warming, greenhouse effect, invasive species, mutualism, parasitism, predation, primary succession, secondary succession, succession, symbiosis, abiotic, biome, biotic, biodiversity, climate, producer, consumer, decomposer, aquatic
HOME LEARNING: Study for Topic Assessment 1
AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP
Mrs. Goins spoke to the class about the upcoming PSAT exam next week.
Students completed the bell ringer question on biotechnology and discussed their reasoning for choosing the answer.
Home learning 6 was collected and reviewed. The home learning tonight is to study for the first topic assessment.
Students also received the information for their project, which is to write a proposal about a local environmental threat to South Florida. You can find the information below.
Students interacted with the Growing Beyond Earth project. Students were assigned a plant and we reviewed the data that is to be collected for each plant.
Students then completed the observations for the Seed Germination experiment. Unfortunately, only one group's seeds germinated. We used this a a discussion on how often our hypothesis is not supported by our data and that we must then go back and redesign our experiment.
We spent the remainder of the period reviewing for the first assessment. It will cover topics as listed on the year at a glance.
