DO NOW (Pg. 46 in journal)

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DO NOW (Pg. 46 in journal)


March 17, 2014
Cedillo
Objective SWBAT observe how matter cycles and changes through living systems.
Prompt What is happening to the apples in this picture? How does this happen?
?Reminders --Write HW in agenda --Voice level at 0 during Do Now --Tutorials this week Monday lunch, Monday afterschool, Thurs. Lunch
This weeks HW Cycles Overview Due FRIDAY
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Announcements/Pass back work

• Thurs./Friday before break GOOD JOB!! ?
• Reward??
• Pass back and tape in journal
• Energy Pyramid worksheet Page 50
• Ecosystems HW Page 51
• If you were absent on the Friday before break,
  turn in HW and finish Energy Pyramid worksheet by
  your block day
• TUTORIALS (next slide)

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Tutorials

• Tutorial Days/Times
• Monday Lunch
• Monday After School
• Thursday Lunch
• SIGN UP SHEET
• Location next to TURN IN TRAYS
• You MUST sign up if you want to attend
  tutorials!!!! This is to help you AND I remember
  that you are coming!
• If you do not sign up, I may not be here!

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION How does matter cycle and change through living systems?
OBJECTIVES -Observe cycles of matter -Discuss how and why matter cycles -Define Cycles and Biomass
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Decaying Watermelon Timelapse

• 35 Days shortened to 1 minute.
• Turn and Talk
• What decomposers are at work in this video?
• What might be the benefits to decay?
• Are there any negative consequences to decay?

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What if?

• Turn and Talk
• Describe what it would be like if no organisms
  were ever broken down, if that they remained
  preserved at the surface of the Earth.

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Bacteria

• What do you know about bacteria?
• Bacteria

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Cycles Glossary Page 52

• Make a new glossary page on page 52
• Title Cycles Glossary and set up page like
  this

Word Definition Examples
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Add to Glossary page 52

• Cycle
• A periodically repeated sequence of events.

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3 Cycles

• WATER
• NITROGEN
• CARBON

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Add to Glossary page 52

• Biomass
• The matter that comes from living, or previously
  living organisms.
• Turn and talk
• Give some examples of biomass in your life.

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Thanks! Page 53

• Write a thank you letter to bacteria for breaking
  down all of the organic material left by dead
  plants and animals.
• Include the reasons the bacteria are a good thing
  for breaking down matter.

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DO NOW (Pg. 46 in journal)


March 18, 2014
Cedillo
Objective SWBAT observe how matter cycles and changes through living systems.
Prompt Which of the following compounds are organic? How do you know? A. C6H12O6 D. B. CO2 C. H2O2
?Reminders --HW Due Friday --Voice level at 0 during Do Now --SIGN UP for tutorials if you want to come (Thurs. Lunch)
This weeks HW Cycles Overview Due FRIDAY
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION How does matter cycle and change through living systems?
OBJECTIVES -Discuss where we can find Carbon -Explore the carbon cycle on laptops -Talk about composting bins
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Where in the world is?

• Carbon Sandiego??
• Think/Pair/Share
• Where can Carbon be found in your world?

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Brainpop

• Carbon Cycle

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Carbon Cycle Game

• Go to the following webpage
• www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/carbon_
  cycle.html
• Fill out your foldable as you play the game.

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Carbon Cycle Debrief
Tape To Page 54
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Composting

• Vermicomposting
• VERMI Worm

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DO NOW (Pg. 46 in journal)


March 19-20, 2014
Cedillo
Objective SWBAT observe how matter cycles and changes through living systems.
Prompt Look at the graph at your table and read the information. What are the possible causes for the changes in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
?Reminders --HW Due Friday --Voice level at 0 during Do Now --SIGN UP for tutorials if you want to come (Thurs. Lunch) --Quiz Friday over Transfer of Energy in Food Webs/Cycles
This weeks HW Cycles Overview Due FRIDAY
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION How does matter cycle and change through living systems?
OBJECTIVES -Watch a clip from Rocky Mtn. Natl Park about ammonia pollution -Explore the Nitrogen Cycle Stations -Observe compost bin in garden
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Video

• Ammonia Deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park

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Station Activity

• Complete your handout as you rotate through
  stations.
• Expectations
• -Stay on task
• -Do not leave your group
• -Voice level 2

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Brainpop

• Nitrogen Cycle

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Nitrogen Cycle Debrief
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
or
Lightning strikes! Nitrogen gas is make into a
solid and travels to the soil!
Bacteria have transformed you into nitrogen gas
and you are now part of the atmosphere!
Blue green algae and bacteria convert you into a
solid bringing you to the soil!
Atmosphere (air)

• Debrief Question(s)
• Based on the pie chart above, what percentage ()
  of the atmosphere is nitrogen?
• 21 b. 0.1 c. 78

Bean plants extract you from the air and bring
you to the soil!
Forest Fire! The wood you were within is burnt
and you have been released into the atmosphere.
or
Some nitrogen can get into the water in clouds
and then fall as rain!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
You fall into a lake or stream so now you are
part of surface water.
or
You are just the sort of nitrogen that plants
need to live. You are now within a live plant!
You are decomposed and become dissolved in
surface water!
or
Surface Water
Whats that in the water? You have dissolved
into surface water!
You travel through the rivers and streams to the
ocean!

• Debrief Question(s)
• 2. If plants need nitrogen to grow, then how will
  adding extra nitrogen to the water affect the
  growth of aquatic (water) plants like algae?
• Aquatic plants will die
• Aquatic plants will grow rapidly
• Aquatic plants will not be able to preform
  photosynthesis.

You dissolve and wash into the surface water!
or
The groundwater you are dissolved within travels
and you become part of the surface water!
You percolate deep underground in the groundwater!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
Some nitrogen can get into the water in clouds
and then fall as rain!
You fall into a lake or stream so now you are
part of surface water.
or
You fall on the land and become part of the soil!
Rain Water
You percolate deep underground in the groundwater!

• Debrief Question(s)
• 3. According to the map above, which parts of the
  United states from 1989 to 1991 had higher
  concentrations of nitrogen in the their rain.
• South West United States
• North East United States
• North West United States

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You rain into the ocean!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
You percolate deep underground in the groundwater!
or
or
You dissolve and wash into the groundwater!
The groundwater you are dissolved within travels
and you become part of the surface water!
Ground Water
or
or

• Debrief Question(s)
• 4. Aquifers are like underground likes that store
  water. Texas has many aquifers, which we draw
  from for our drinking water. Which major aquifer
  does Austin sit above? (see large map on back)

The groundwater you are dissolved within travels
and you become part of the ocean!
Look out! Water is on the move! You have washed
into the groundwater!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
or
You dissolve and wash into the surface water!
A farm supply company has picked you up and made
you into fertilizer!
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You become part of the soil!
Fertilizers

• Debrief Question(s)
• 5. If nitrogen is present in the waste of
  animals, like cows and humans, then which
  statement below must be true?
• Animals must consume organisms that contain
  nitrogen.
• Animals must breathe in and absorb nitrogen gas
  into their bodies.
• Animals must transform other elements in their
  bodies into nitrogen.

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You are just the sort of nitrogen that plants
need to live. You are now within a live plant!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
Bean plants extract you from the air and bring
you to the soil!
You dissolve and wash into the groundwater!
Blue green algae and bacteria convert you into a
solid bringing you to the soil!
You become part of the soil!
You dissolve and wash into the surface water!
Soil (Dirt)
Lightning strikes! Nitrogen gas is make into a
solid and travels to the soil!
or
You are just the sort of nitrogen that plants
need to live. You are now within a live plant!

• Debrief Question(s)
• 6. Ammonium, NH4, is a nitrogen compound found in
  animal waste and in soil. Ammonium, NH4, is an
  organic compound True or False.

You are decomposed and become part of the soil!
or
Bacteria have transformed you into nitrogen gas
and you are now part of the atmosphere!
You fall on the land and become part of the soil!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
You travel through the rivers and streams to the
ocean!
Texas
Louisiana
Look out! Water is on the move! You have washed
into the groundwater!
You rain into the ocean!
Gulf of Mexico
or
Ocean
You are just the sort of nitrogen that plants
need to live. You are now within a live plant!

• Debrief Question(s)
• 7.A lot of nitrogen compounds enter the Gulf of
  Mexico (show in red on the map above) and settle
  near the coast. What is the most likely source
  of the excess (or extra) nitrogen.
• Organisms that live in the Gulf of Mexico produce
  more waste
• Nitrogen fertilizers from farms runoff into
  rivers that dump into the Gulf of Mexico.
• Hurricanes push nitrogen up to the coast where it
  collects.

You are decomposed and become dissolved in the
ocean!
or
or
Bacteria have transformed you into nitrogen gas
and you are now part of the atmosphere!
The groundwater you are dissolved within travels
and you become part of the ocean!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
Congratulations! The animal that you were within
has excreted and you are in its waste. Go to
animal waste!
or
Look out before someone steps in you! Now you
are decomposing in the soil!
or
A farm supply company has picked you up and made
you into fertilizer!
Animal Waste

• Debrief Question(s)
• 8. Many farmers use animal waste as fertilizer
  for their crops. Why would farmers use animal
  waste to help their crops grow?
• The smell of waste keeps away organisms that
  might eat the crops
• Plants need nitrogen to grow, and animal waste
  contains nitrogen
• Animal waste has lots of sugars in it that the
  plants can use for energy

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Whats that in the water? You have dissolved
into surface water!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
The plant that you are within has died. Go to
dead plants and animals.
or
You are decomposed and become part of the soil!
You are decomposed and become dissolved in
surface water!
Dead Plants Animals
You are decomposed and become dissolved in the
ocean!

• Debrief Question(s)
• 9. Organisms that break down and recycle dead
  matter are classified as _____.
• Herbivores
• Decomposers
• Producers

or
Forest Fire! The wood you were within is burnt
and you have been released into the atmosphere.
The animal that you are within has died. Go to
dead plants and animals.
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
You are just the sort of nitrogen that plants
need to live. You are now within a live plant!
or
or
The plant that you are within has died. Go to
dead plants and animals.
Live Plants

• Debrief Question(s)
• 10. Which plant structure allows the plant to
  absorb nitrogen from the soil?
• Leaves
• Stem
• Roots

or
or
An animal has eaten the plant that you are
within! Go to live animals!
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Where are you at?
Where are you going?
How did you arrive?
An animal has eaten the plant that you are
within! Go to live animals!
or
or
The animal that you are within has died. Go to
dead plants and animals.
Live Animals

• Debrief Question(s)
• 11. Animals that consume or eat only plant matter
  are classified as ____.
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores

or
or
Congratulations! The animal that you were within
has excreted and you are in its waste. Go to
animal waste!
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Dead Zones

• Dead Zones

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Video

• Eutrophication Song

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For Quiz Friday

• Vocabulary is important! Study your glossary
  handout.
• Study food chains, webs, and pyramids.
• Know your Water, Carbon, and Nitrogen Cycles.
• Also review Plant behaviors/stimuli (ex turgor
  pressure, geotropism)

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DO NOW (Pg. 46 in journal)


March 21, 2014
Cedillo
Objective SWBAT assess knowledge about how matter cycles and changes through living systems.
Prompt How is Nitrogen released back into the environment from living things?
?Reminders --HW Due today --Voice level at 0 during Do Now --Be on best behavior for substitute
This weeks HW Cycles Overview Due TODAY
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION How does matter cycle and change through living systems?
OBJECTIVES -Take a test on how Energy Flows and Matter Cycles through an ecosystem.
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Quiz

• Voice Level 0
• Read silently when finished

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Grade Quiz

• Trade papers with shoulder partner
• Pencils put away
• 10 points each

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Composting 101

• Composting 101

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Composting Survey

• Take a survey of your classmates about
  composting.
• Think of 2 questions to ask your classmates.
• Collect data on their responses.
• Choose the best way to graph your data pie, bar,
  or line?