Unit+2-+Ecology+and+Ecosystems+-+Coral+Reef+Focus


 * Date || Class Topics and Activities || Homework - due the next class unless otherwise stated ||
 * November 17 || What is Ecology? What does the word mean?

1) Complete preassessment online - what do you know? || 1) Read pg 4-7 2) Vocabulary Organizer - complete online after reading || 2) Ecology Scavenger Hunt - shared document || HW: 1) Read pg. 8-13 2) Complete vocabulary organizer || 2) Add to notes: Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore and Scavenger 3) Pond Water Habitat - being web activity || HW: [|Review this link for new organisms to add for Monday]: - be ready to share one with your group || HW: Begin reviewing for 12/2 Content Assessment on Chapter 1 Lesson 1 and 2 || 2) Conduct 4 trials || HW: Study for Quiz 12/2 || 2) Complete Energy Flow Activity
 * Nov 19 || 1) Review Ecology Vocabulary from pg 4-7
 * Nov 21 || 1) Review all new vocabulary
 * Nov 25 || 1) Complete Food Web Activity- summary questions || Extension:[| Read about the Icefish and their blood]
 * Nov 27 || 1) Energy Flow Activity - mock feeding and energy passes or taken
 * Dec 2 || 1) Take Interactions of Living Things Quiz

Complete Section 3 Vocabulary Homework- Study Guide - shared and linked here: || 1) Prepare with background on Owl Pellets [|Watch this: What is a Barn Owl] Answer these in your notes: What is a barn owl pellet? How would it help identify a food chain for the owl?

2) Complete Section 3 Vocabulary on shared doc || Begin Owl Pellet Dissection - what did the owl eat? Can we construct a food chain or web from the pellet?
 * Dec 4 || Review Quiz and pass back classwork

Complete Skeleton Reconstruction on Sunday || HW: Read over Chapter 1 Section 3 if needed to clarify new terms more || Food Web Reconstruction Complete Lab Sheet and Turn in Reference for Barn Owl Web: || HW: Check over section 3 reading
 * Dec 8 || Skeleton Reconstruction

B/D period- Complete back of owl pellet lab sheet for Tuesday || Symbiosis Discussion Notes Good Buddies Activity || [|Video clip] Review the three types of symbiotic relationship we discussed in class || || HW: Begin to review study shared with you on Google Drive
 * Dec 10 || Complete Barn Owl Web and review questions
 * DEc 12 || Symbiotic Letters- choose on relationship and write a letter - see attached for directions and rubric

Assessment - Content on Wed. 12/18 - See Mrs. Dillon before if you will not be here for it ||
 * Dec 16 || Limiting Factors and Carrying Capacity - The Lesson of the Kaibab Deer

Share Symbiosis Letters

Review Games and Links here for Assessment on Wednesday [|Food Web Game] [|Food Fight] Log in: cacegypt password: cacegypt

[|Web Interactions]

[|Build a Web]

[|Interdependence]

[|Hangman]

[|Predator / Prey Simulation] || * **Review Section 3 for Assessment - Study guide as well - vocab organizers and in class work**


 * **Complete the Lesson of the Kaibab Deer - graph and analysis for Wed. if not done** ||
 * Dec 18 || 1) Assessment - content of Lesson 3

2) update e-portfolios || NO HW

We will be using the green text books after the holiday so keep them safe. ||