pH lab: Students testing pH of liquids from home.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
Pakistan Flooding 2010
Learn about the floods in Pakistan.
Q:1 How is the flooding going to affect food supply for the people of the country? What else will be affected? Why?
Q:2 How is food reaching the people in need?
Listen to an article. The World PRI
Read articles.
BBC: Damage and Challenges
BBC: More flooding cause more people to leave their homes
USA: Aid to Pakistan
See pictures about the flooding.
Huffington Post
BBC
Friday, September 3, 2010
Student Council 2010
Good job Candidates! Each of you did a fantastic job speaking to the class.
And the winners are......
And the winners are......
President
Kevin McCaffrey
Vice President
Cayman Browder
Secretary
Jennifer Thomas
Treasure
Reid Mitchell
Parliamentarian
Mary Stuart Markham
Representatives
Skye Braden
Meg Parry
Katie Meadows
Mary Eliza Hendricks
Jessica Wicker
Advisory Representatives will be announced next week!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Signal Mountain Food Web
Get to know your environment!Make a Signal Mountain food web with 15 plus organisms from our deciduous forest ecosystem. Take special care to show correct relationships between each organism, arrows should point from the food source to the organism eating the source thus showing the flow of energy. If both organisms could eat each other such as a black rat snake and a red tail hawk a double-ended arrow should be used to demonstrate the fact that both creatures could eat each other. Those seeking to earn an "A" should add scientific names to five or more of the organisms.
Helpful list:
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Oh Deer: Limiting Factors & Carrying Capacity!
Main Point: Students will have a working knowledge for carrying capacity and understand how limiting factors contribute to population size.
Helpful Information:
2. Understanding carrying capacity. Link
Q:1 What caused the population decline in 1987?Q:2 How can the data collected be used to describe the population? Give examples.
Q:3 How can scientist use environmental carrying capacity studies to decide hunting and fishing quotas?
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Quick Frozen Critters
Q:1 Why do limiting factors affect the number of organisms living?
Q:2 If you are a country leader, how would you direct a plan to feed your starving nation? Support your answer with facts learned in class.
Main Point is to help students better understand the 10% rule within trophic levels.
Vocabulary: Energy Pyramid, Trophic Levels, Food Chain
Additional Help:
3. How to play
DDT: Peregrine Falcon
How has DDT affected living organisms? Explain how this affects a food chain? Give examples.
Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper and bring them back to class. Directions for Garland.
2. Learn more about DDT or
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (ClC6H4)2CH(CCl3) Link
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