Course Overview

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 Aug 16-18

• Course Overview
  • website/syllabus
  • Plagiarism video
  • Textbook orientation
  • Engage discussion post
• Phenomenom:
  • Tarantula hawk
  • Larvae
    • Questions
    • Model system
    • Explain
    • Gallery walk
    • Revise
• Language Development
• 1.1 Life in the Earth System
  • Explore/Explain 1: Systems and System Models
  • Explore Explain 2: The Earth System
  • Explore/Explain 3: Interactions in Ecosystems
  • Checkpoints
• How Trees Talk to Each Other -  Edpuzzle
• Baleen whales eat (and poop) a lot more than we realized

Aug 21-25 Unit 1 Living Systems

• Quiz 1.1
• Lab: observational studies vs. experimental
• Quadrants Survey Lab
• Engage discussion post
• Feed the Dingo
• Make a Mangrove
• Mountain Scramble
• Jungle Jeopardy
  • CER
• 1.2 Analyzing Populations
  • Explore/Explain 1: Population Density and Dispersion
  • Explore Explain 2: Population Growth Patterns
  • Explore/Explain 3: Factors That Limit Population Growth
  • Take it Further: Career Biogeographer
  • Checkpoints
  • Quiz 1.2

Aug 28-Sept 1 Unit 1 Living Systems

• Some Animals are More Equal than Others
• Exploring Trophic Cascades
  • CERs about case studies
• 1.3 Changes in Ecosystems
  • Engage 1.3
  • Explore/Explain 1: Disturbances in Ecosystems
  • Explore Explain 2: Stability & Change in Ecosystems
  • Succession (Take it Further)
    • Fires in Chapparel
    • Mount Saint Helens eruption
    • Hawaiian Island chain + sea mounts (Demo map & discuss)
  • Overfishing
  • Fishing & Farming Methods
  • Seafood Watch app
  • Overfishing TedEd Edpuzzle
  • Overfishing Bozeman Edupuzzle
  • Checkpoints
• Engage discussion post
• 1.4 Environmental Engineering
  • Explore/Explain 1: Technology and Living Systems
  • Explore Explain 2: Engineering in Life Science
  • Elaborate: Take it Further
  • Checkpoints
• Building a Habitat for Burrowing Owls

Sept 5-8 Unit 1 Living Systems

• Quiz 1.3
• Quiz 1.4
• Project
  • Analyzing Red Squirrel Populations
    • CER

Sept 11-15 Unit 1 Living Systems

• Project presentations
• Review
• Unit 1Test

Sept 18-22 Unit 2 - Carbon in the Earth System

• Engage discussion post
• Language Development
• 2.1 Photosynthesis
  • Explore/Explain 1: Carbon in Living Things
  • Explore/Explain 2: Matter and Energy in Photosynthesis
  • Explore/Explain 3: Transforming Light Energy
  • Checkpoints
  • Quiz 2.1
• This animal is also a plant...wait, what?
• Photosynthesis Lab: Leaf Discs
• Photosynthesis Edpuzzle
• Draw a model of photosynthesis
• Carbon Cycle Models
  • present day
  • ancient past

Sept 25-29 - Carbon in the Earth System

• Engage discussion post
• Language Development
• 2.2 Cellular Respiration
  • Explore/Explain 1: Matter and Energy in Cellular Respiration
  • Explore/Explain 3: Using Chemical Energy
  • Explore/Explain 4: Applications in Waste Water Treatment
  • Checkpoints
• Exercise Lab
• Cellular Respiration Edpuzzle
• Hyperion Virtual Tour
• Model the anaerobic and aerobic digestion processes used at wastewater treatment facilities
• Quiz 2.2

Oct 2-6 - Carbon in the Earth System

• Project: Modeling Carbon Sinks
  • Models to include:
    • Photosynthesis equation
    • Conceptual or physical model

Oct 9-13 - Carbon in the Earth System PSAT (10th & 11th)

• Project Presentations
• Review
• Unit 2 Test