1. Discussion Questions Discussion Questions *Did you check in with me at the door? *Please find your assigned seat and sit in it. *Answer these questions in your science journal (using complete sentences. Be sure to list it as “ecology discussion questions” to list it as “ecology discussion questions” in your table of contents. Include the page in your table of contents. Include the page number in your table of contents too. ______________ mahalo video clip______________________________________ ______________ mahalo video clip______________________________________ 1.Please explain how a predator and prey are related and give an example. 2. What is a primary consumer? Give an example. 3.How are primary consumers related to herbivores? 4.What is a secondary consumer? Give an example. 5. Define a population, give an example and explain how it is different from a community. 9/03/14 Journal

3. QUIZ Clear your desks of everything Do NOT write on the quiz please Use CAPITAL letters please Keep your answers covered If you need to make up a quiz due to an absence… let me know Flip it over when you are finished and hang on to it.

4. QUIZ If you have Scientific Method 1….put a number 1 next to the title of the quiz on your answer document and pass the quizzes and answer documents back at this time If you have Scientific Method quiz 2….put a number 2 next to the title of the quiz on your answer document and pass the quizzes and answer documents back at this time. If you have Scientific Method quiz 3….put a number 3 next to the title of the quiz on your answer document and pass the quizzes and answer documents back at this time.

5. Reminders Science Fair topic PAST DUE – completed online Friday you need five sources in MLA format……use easybib.com. Save this….you will need to turn in another copy later. Get a composition notebook for your science fair project. You will need a TOC in it also. Root Quiz TOMORROW Remind 101? Webpage How’s your journal? Safety Lab, Scientific Method ppt. Salsa Lab, Interpreting and Analyzing Scientific Data sheet, TOC updated HAC/SAC- This is how you check your grades. Read Chapter 2 – 3 in your textbook

6. 1 st period please bring packing tape &glue sticks 2 nd period please bring Sanitizer & scotch tape 5 th period please bring Box of Gloves & glue sticks 6 th period please bring tissues & scotch tape 7 th period please bring map pencils and crayons and glue sticks

7. HW 2 nd -7th Analyzing and Interpreting Scientific Data handout is HW 2 nd -7th This sheet goes in your Science Journals. Be sure to list in your TOC Have this ready to be checked by Friday

8. EcoRegion Project Hang on to your rubric! Hang on to your rubric! You must turn it in when you present your project Short video clips 2-3 min or less; lots of pictures; climatogram can be written if you can’t find a graph Presentations begin Tuesday, 9-9-14

9. EcoRegion Project You will be assigned to a group of 2-3 to create a Google Doc Presentation over your assigned ecoregion. We will work on these presentations in class each day this week after we complete the discussion questions and reminders. You and your partners also need to work on the project at home. You can all access the project once it has been shared with all group members from any computer with internet. You can even work at the same time. *You will anonymously evaluate your partners! Login is last name.First name@mymisd.orgname@mymisd.org Password is First Initial, Last initial and 8 digit bday. Example AB110498 The presentations are due Tuesday, the 9 th. We will present them in class.

10. Root Words Quiz tomorrow over Nature of Science Root Words you received on 8-26 Fill in your chart…use the textbook to help Tape into your journal List in your TOC

11. YouTube- Video intro to bio

12. What a Beautiful World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ZvZQT8 1OY ~2 min

13. EXIT TICKET 1. Where would you predict that autotrophs are on the trophic pyramid? 2. Give an example of one abiotic factor found in ecosystems. 9/3/14