Warm up today is on how humans are causing the next extinction. Clink on this link to open the article. Once you read the article, answer the questions from the board in your warm up folder. Next we organzied our notebooks for the new unit. New cover sheet(50), new table of contents(51)...our unit will be called EVOLUTION, ENERGY and ECOSYSTEMS. Our unit on evolution sometimes can be a bit controversial so to start the unit we go over the differences between Laws and Theories on the back of page 51. Evolution is a theory. For the new unit, we started off with some vocabulary. On page 52 in your notebook. Define the following words(use the textbook). You will have to use the glossary and/or the index. Please skip 2 lines between each word once you have defined them. 1.Mutation 2.Natural selection 3.Adaptation 4.Vestigial organs 5.Evolution 6.Speciation Next we watched some video clips on biological evolution through Discovery Education. DISCOVERY EDUCATION- make sure you log into Discovery Ed first through your student portal and then click the link below. You do not have to watch all of the clips, just the 6 listed below. Click here for video. Elements of Biology: Biological Evolution Watch the following and fill in the video guide. 1.Introduction to Charles Darwin 2.A new Understanding of Life 3.From the Big Bang to Early Life 4.The Evolution of Complex Organisms (questions 7-8) 5.The Proliferation of Species 6.The Evidence for the Theory of Evolution Attach the video guide to the back of page 52.
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First day of school January 3rd 2018!!!
Hello. Last Monday of school for 2017!!! Today we ALL will be taking our test. B day will be taking it in Baysinger's room, A day will be with me. You may use your study guide on the test, so I hope it is completed. A day - We will be dong our notebook check at the beginning of class today. B day - If I can, I will sneak over to Baysinger's room and do your notebook check in her room. After the test, you may work on the following. - Make sure your continental drift is completed, I extended the date because the internet was sketchy on Friday. -Complete the dinosaur extinction essay -Make sure you complete all the stuff that is due for Mrs. Baysinger You were given two blue sheets in class today. The back sheet was the study of the guide. The study guide is due on Monday. If you have lost the paper, here is a copy of the study guide from today. Our warm up today was a review of the different dating techniques as well as a review of the geologic time scale. We also finished up the posters on Dinosaur extinctions. You have an assignment in canvas that discusses these extinction theories. This assignment is due by Tuesday at 3:15. If you did not finish the posters in class today, here is the links to the posters. Next, we did a scavenger hunt around the room to review for our test on Monday. I am also attaching the study guide here. IF you complete it, you will be able to use it on the test. Lastly, we watched the video The Day the Mesozoic Died. Our warm up today is a review of plate boundaries - Convergent, Divergent and Transform.
Homework - The following assignment has been added to canvas. This assignment needs be turned in by Tuesday December 19th at 3:15. The directions are on canvas as well as below. Notebook check and test are MONDAY!!! Below a copy of the table of contents.
Read the following document and answer the question
We then added the following events to the timeline.
Layers of the Earth
Continental Drift Sea Floor Spreading Mid ocean ridge convection currents Our warm up today is a poem on Wegener and Continental Drift. While you working on your warm up, I went around and checked page 45 in your notebooks. Next we took a quick 10 minute quiz on Pangaea, continental drift, convection current, etc. After you complete the quiz, you will answer the following questions on page 45 in your notebooks. The file below has the links to the websites you will need.
We added to the front of page 45 in our notebooks a chart on plate boundaries. As you watch the following video, fill in the chart Lastly, we started our essay on continental drift. This will be due next week on Friday December 15th, 2017. This will be a formal grade and will be submitted through canvas. Paragraph 1:
-What is continental drift? Who’s theory was it? -What are the 7 pieces of evidence that support continental drift? - Which one do you think is the best evidence? Why? -The worst piece of evidence? Why? -With all of the evidence, why did people still not believe Wegener’s theory? Paragraph 2: -What are the 3 pieces of evidence from the ocean that supports continental drift? -Describe the evidence from the sea floor. Paragraph 3: -How does convection current create the plate movement? -What does temperature/density have to do with the creation of convection currents. Paragraph 4 : conclusion |
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