Scribe post thingy

Summary: On Monday (9/13) The class was taught by Mr. Paek. He didn't collect or check our homework from the last night but he did assign us new work. We first watched a video about animals that killed themselves, Lemmings. Than we did notes for the rest of class. (The notes are under the second summary)



Summary 2: On Tuesday (9/14) we went to the computer lab at the TLC. Ms. stein came back from whatever happened that made her miss a day and checked our homework due on that day and the night before. At the lab, we got with our partners, gathered our oil spill pictures due that day ans got started on the project. The project is to make a 2 minute narration/movie combo with movie maker addressing the issues of the oil spill for half of it and for the other half, explain the issues from a single type of person or animals point o' view.



Notes (9/13): Mr. Paek showed us slides of notes given to him by Ms. Stein about communites. mostly about comunity interactions. An example of this is Predation, where an organism kills and feeds off another. The other types of these interactions where all symbiosis interactions, meaning living together. They include, Mutualism, where both organisms benefit, commensalism, one benefits and other is unharmed, and parasitism, one benefits, one is harmed. We also had notes on niches, the physical and biological conditions an organism survives with. Lasty, we took notes exponential growth curves, a curve on a line graph showing a rapidly raising population growth, and factors affecting and density of populations.



Homework (9/13): Have 10 oil spill pics ready for tommorow and finish unit packet pages 35-41. Also, if you really want to you could read chapter 5.1 and 5.2 with the anticipation guide for 5.2 but thats not due until wednesday.



Homework (9/14): Read 5.1 and 5.2 and do anticipation guide, work on project, and study for the QUIZ THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the next scribe is Krystian.

SUMMARY: On friday (9/10/10) in class we first we did our stars and wishes for Bridgets post from Thursday (9/9/10). Afterward, we went over the homework which was the double-bouble map where we compared secondary consumers with primary consumers. Before we went over the homework Mrs. Stein came around and stamped our sheets to make sure we actually did our homework. Aftewe went over the homework we recived a chart for our notes.


NOTES: The notes we took on friday were about biomes and how they are terrestrial communites. The chart we were givin describes the three stages, Pioneer stage, Intermidiate, and Climax community. we also talked a lot about Lichens and how Mrs. Stein described them as "Living succesion....". Then she showed us 2 really cool pictures she took of lichens in Maine.


HOMEWORK: Finish Biome Chart: UP 29-30 (pages 114-117 in textbook)
Gold Sheet (rate your words- vocab)
10 oil spill pictures for tuesday

The next scribe is J.R.

Cornell Notes

Issues in Ecology

SUMMARY: Today in class we started the class by turning in our rip-o-meter lab write ups, and we handed in our section 3.3 "picture this" guided notes. We got to new hand outs as well. We recieved one sheet that is for our new oil spill preject and we recieved a sheet to tape into our notes with 3 different pyrimids on it. In class we also went over the worksheet in our UP on page 19 that we started working on in class on Tuesday.

NOTES:

We toke some more notes from a power point that Mrs Stein had for us. these notes were about 3 different pyramids that have to deal with consumers and producers. (These are the notes that the pyramid hand out gets tapped to). The 3 pyramids were about 1. Energy 2. biomass 3. numbers.
The energy pyramid showed that each level in the pyramid the energy gets less and less by 10%. The biomass pyramid showed that the producers have the biggest catagory and the the catagories get less and less as you continue to go up. and the numer pyramid shows the relative number of individual organisms at each level of the pyramid.

NEW PROJECT:

Today we also talked about a project about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We picked partners for the project and we also decided in our partners what view point we wanted to take in the project whether it was an animal, tourist, or fisherman ect. Along with talking about the new project we also looked at page 21 in our UP and answered the first 2 questions.

HOMEWORK:

our homework is to read section 4.3 and complete the double-bubble reading strategy in our packet. DO NOT MAKE A VEN DIAGRAM! we also have to get 10 oil spill pictures for our new project by tuesday. and if you have not joined the blog yet you have to join by FRIDAY.



tomorrows scribe is Zack

Summary: Today we handed in our cornell notes (section 3.1) and received a stamp for page 14 in your unit packet. After we checked in homework we talked about how to correctly tag or label a scribe. The steps are below.


1. look for the pencil icon and click on it to edit.
2. a box where you can type named "labels" will appear
3. then type in you first name and last initial, if its a "scribe" or "on my mind" and the title of the unit we are in

We also received a chance for extra credit. If you go to the TLC and spend at least 20 minutes with a tutor and want extra credit fill out the little yellow sheet we got today and turn it into Mrs. S sometime this quarter.
What we did on Friday:
We reviewed what producer and consumers are.
-Producers are mostly green because they are plants and they do Photosynthesis. They have chlorophyl and consume sunlight and turn the energy into sugar.
-Consumers are mostly brown and black and are usually animals.

Homework:
- Lab write-up due tomorrow. (If your printer isn't working email Mrs. Stein at dstein@glenbrook225.org)
- Read section 3.3 with "picture this"

The next scribe is Bridget

Outdoor Walk

SUMMARY: Yesterday in class we reviewed what to do for the rip-o-meter lab write up. We talked about the format it is supposed to be in and what we should say in it. IF YOUR PRINTER ISNT WORKING JUST EMAIL IT TO MRS.STEIN!!!!!! We looked at our reading strategies on how to take cornell notes. After that we started talking about ecology (the study of how living things interact with each other). We talked about ecosystems and producers and consumers. Then we went outside and classified plants and some animals as producers and consumers. We were asked to estimate the number of grass, trees, and cattails. I took pictures of it but i don't know how to get it on the computer!


HOMEWORK: Read 3.1 and 3.2 and take cornell notes, finish 13-14, rip-o-meter lab write up due 9/8

Tomorrow's Scribe is Taylor

Microscope Lab

SUMMARY- In class of Wednesday, September 1st, We came into class and wrote down the homework. As usual we sat in our seats and Mrs. Stein prompted us on todays activities. Today we had to perform our microscope lab. In this lab we would look at specimens such as pond water, yeast, insects, or paramecium. We spent today trying to get comfortable with our microscopes. We learned the basics of the microscope. After we would observe the specimen we draw our best version of it in our Unit Packet. You can find these pages from pg. 33-37. Overall another fine day in period 7 biology class!

HOMEWORK-finish pages 33-37, and your rip-o-meter write up by september 9th!
Here are pictures of some of the organisms and things we were observing.

Paramecium                                                         Yeast

The next Scribe is Jacob