Vocabulary List:
- biosphere
- biota
- hydrosphere
- geosphere
- atmosphere
- abiotic
- biotic
- Gaia hypothesis
Classroom Resources:
- Textbook readings - you can access the online version of our book by following these directions.
- Life in the Earth System Notes
- Life in the Earth System Study Guide
- Life in the Earth System Power Notes
- Climate Notes
- Climate Study Guide
- Climate Power Notes
- Biomes Book PPT Notes
- Biomes Study Guide
- Biomes Power Notes
- POGIL: Biomes of North America
- Marine Ecosystems Notes
- Marine Ecosystems Study Guide
- Marine Ecosystems Power Notes
- Estuaries and Freshwater Ecosystems Notes
- Estuaries and Freshwater Ecosystems Study Guide
- Estuaries and Freshwater Ecosystems Power Notes
Learning Targets:
- Demonstrate
organizational skills such as keeping a daily calendar of assignments
and activities and maintaining a notebook of class work.
- Keep your binder organized and updated.
- Apply strategies before, during, and after reading to increase fluency and comprehension (e.g., adjusting purpose, previewing, scanning, making predictions, comparing, inferring, summarizing, using graphic organizers) with increasingly challenging texts.
- Improve understanding of material by outlining material presented in class.
- Use a variety of appropriate sources (e.g.
Internet, scientific journals) to retrieve relevant information; cite
references properly.
- Apply active reading, listening, and viewing techniques by taking notes on classroom discussions, lectures, oral and/or video presentations, or assigned at-home reading, and by underlining key passages and writing comments in journals or in margins of texts, where permitted.
- Stay on task during class, annotate provided PowerPoint notes and take additional notes during board discussions.
- Outline provided materials and assimilate this information into material presented in class.
- Apply knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon affixes, inflections, and roots to understand unfamiliar words and new subject area vocabulary in increasingly challenging texts.
- Be able to define and correctly spell all vocabulary words.
- Actively participate in small-group and large-group discussions, assuming various roles.
- Participate in class discussions and ask questions when needed on a daily basis.
- Define and provide examples of habitat and niche.
- Explain
how the amount of life any environment can support is limited by the
available matter and energy and by the ability of ecosystems to recycle
the residue of dead organic materials.
- Explain
how organisms cooperate and compete in ecosystems and how
interrelationships and inter-dependencies of organism may generate
ecosystems that are stable for thousands of years.
- Describe examples of competition, symbiosis, and predation.
- Explain the concept of carrying capacity
- Describe
the growth of populations, including exponential and logistic growth
(e.g., design and conduct an experiment investigating bacterial growth
using appropriate calculations).
- Explain the process of ecological succession, and describe the different communities that result.
- Read
and describe current journal articles relating to environmental
concerns (e.g., loss of biodiversity, habitat loss, pollution).
- Discuss
and evaluate the significance of human interference with major
ecosystems (e.g., the loss of genetic diversity in cloned crops or
animals).
- Revise, refine, and proofread own and others
writing, using appropriate tools to find strengths and weaknesses and
to seek strategies for improvement (using good writing methods).
- State, elaborate, use an example and draw a connection when answering open - ended questions.
- Safely use laboratory equipment and techniques when conducting scientific investigations.
- Manipulate variables in experiments using appropriate procedures (e.g. controls, multiple trials).
- Collect, organize, and analyze data accurately and precisely (e.g. using scientific techniques and mathematics in experiments)
- Interpret
results and draw conclusions, revising hypothesis as necessary and/or
formulating additional questions or explanations.
- Use mathematics to enhance the scientific inquiry process (e.g., choosing appropriate units of measurement, graphing and manipulating experimental data)
- Write and speak effectively to present and explain scientific results, using appropriate terminology and graphics.
- Use appropriate essay-test taking and timed-writing strategies that address and analyze the questions.
- Demonstrate familiarity with test formats and test administration procedures to increase speed and accuracy.
- Complete tests within permitted time limits.
Online Resources: