Albin's 8th Science

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Makeup work
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Monday - Friday  Dec 6 - 10
Monday
bulletafter I take roll, pick a new seat if you want.
bulleton paper:  compare and contrast a Food Chain w/ a Food Web
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Compared (what's the same) Contrasted (what's different)
   
bulletdraw food chain for a pond ecosystems on your paper
bulletlabel steps in the chain:  producer ; primary consumer ; secondary consumer ; tertiary consumer (what?)
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 comparecontrastfoodchainweb

Tuesday in PowerPoint make a six slide show of a Food Pyramid for a pond ecosystem
bulletslide one:  Title slide :  use your code names
bulletSave the ppt in My Documents / your folder
name it:as:  codename codename Pond
bulletslide two:  draw a better version of this pyramid, and show/label somehow that each level eats the one before it. 
bulleteach successive slide will be one level of the pyramid, starting at the bottom, what do you think is the important information to put on them?  What will you title each slide?   Should you have any pictures at each level?
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Wednesday pond plankton - producers and consumers

What are plankton, anyway?  click

pond life forms click

continue PPT food pyramid for pond ecosystem
Be sure the slides include:

bullethow energy is flowing (where their energy comes from, where it goes next)
bullettype energy used
bullettrophic levels
bulletseveral examples of organisms from each trophic level
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Thursday

finish .ppt food pyramid for pond ecosystem
Friday  

Quiz on Ecosystems

SSR

   
   

food webs & food chains

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

food web:  http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/foodweb/foodweb.html

http://www.oceansonline.com/oceanicfoodwebs.htm

http://www3.umassd.edu/Public/Exhibit/DES300/game/web-fr.htm

http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/human/foodweb.html

 

online build an african web: http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

food chain:
http://www.planetpals.com/foodchain.html

http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/4e.html

 

SPACE LINKS

check these out in your spare time

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1470480.html

NASA: Earth From Space

More NASA Photos of the Sun

NASA: Solar System Exploration Images

NASA: Mercury Photo Gallery

SolarViews.com: Photos of Mercury

NASA: Index of Images from Space Missions

Spaceref.com: Jupiter Photo Gallery

CosmicLight: Mars Images

 

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01253/flashsite.html#top

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01253/flashsite.html

http://www.thinkquest.org/

 

 

 




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