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Monday - Friday Nov 26 - 30 8th Science

Monday

TURN IN: Food Web/Food Chain Venn Diagram if you didn't already (Nov 20th)

Copy these words on paper with heading, then:

w/ CP pick one of the words in BLACK and tell me which you chose

look up five different (worded differently) science definitions for your word and write them in Powerpoint

	must use at least three different sources, one must be a book from my library
	look in computer dictionary first (START / look above the line, should be two there)
	Other places to try (books in my library shelf, sites lower on this page, encyclopedia, dictionary.com, )

pick the best definition

	or compose from pieces of the ones you found,
	put it on its own slide with graphic that helps explain it
	add any needed explanation

save in My Documents / your folder

backup to :
Albin7 - 12: AlbinStudents / Backup Here / your folder (make one, you pick how to name it)
Albin1-6, 13, 14: Xenon / Backup Here / your folder (make one, you pick how to name it)

turn in to:
Albin7 - 12: AlbinStudents / aa EcoVocab turn in here
Albin1-6, 13, 14: Xenon / aa EcoVocab turn in here

decomposer

ecosystem

environment

carbon cycle

nitrogen cycle

water cycle

trophic levels

photosynthesis

Light energy and its flow thru an ecosystem

producer

consumer

consumer levels (primary, secondary, tertiary; 1^st level, 2^nd level, 3^rd level, 1^o, 2^o, 3^o)

adaptation

cold-blooded

warm-blooded

food web

food chain

Tuesday

Have you checked your grade? Let's get in the missing assignments!

finish EcoVocab ppts

class discussion: ecosystem vocabulary

Wednesday

while I take roll

turn in your Vocabulary ppt (complete or not) to:
Albin7 - 12: AlbinStudents / aa EcoVocab turn in here
Albin1-6, 13, 14: Xenon / aa EcoVocab turn in here

EcoVocab discussion

Thursday

finish EcoVocab discussion

Friday

no school, darn

coming soon

understand trophic levels
click here: build a food web and build each of the webs

After completing a food web, write the names of the organisms where they fit in the table on the worksheet

class discussion: components and flow in a ___________ ecosystem

Introduce E transfers & transforms in ecosystems

	class discussion: trophic levels: E pyramid
	energy sources; transformation; transfers; loss;
	at each level

food webs food chains

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http://www.smithsonianeducation.org

QUIZ : Ecosystems more

ttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/pond/pondlife.shtml

in PowerPoint make a nine slide show of a Food Pyramid for a pond ecosystem

slide one: Title slide : use your names

Save the ppt in My Documents / your folder
name it:as: lastname lastname Pond

at the end of the period backup to either Tiger or Xenon Sharedocs / ab backup here / your period

slide two: draw a better version of this pyramid, and show/label somehow that each level gets energy from the one before it.

slides 3-7 will each 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? (yes)

hint: Be sure each trophic level slide includes:

	how energy is flowing (where their energy comes from, where it goes next);
	type energy used;
	trophic levels;
	at least three examples of organisms from each trophic level (from my list/linked)

slide 8: In the pond Ecosystem: What else is Energy doing besides moving from one trophic level to the next?

	(hint: How is energy lost?
	What forms of energy are lost)
	mainly graphics,
	a few words to explain what this means

games

NEW http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/games/

NEW http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/

NEW http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16/site/science.shtml

ecosystems sites

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.geography4kids.com/files/land_foodchain.html

Whoa!

look at these

NEW : http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7037366.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7011738.stm needles

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/default.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/tv/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/lifeintheundergrowth/video.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/lifeonair/archive.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/tv/#winning_design

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/challenges/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/quiz_more/

current science news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4780876.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4815230.stm

	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7009798.stm
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6105500.stm
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1304796.stm
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7016079.stm

musuems

http://vlmp.museophile.com/

http://www.museumca.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/museumca/usa_search.cgi?star

current
websites

WASL expectations: What You Should Know

Translate

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
or
http://translate.google.com/translate_t

current
science

Science/Nature various
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm

current
birds

http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide

http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds

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