April 29 th , 2013
Bellringer:
Please get your clickers and review your ecology notes in order to be ready to take an ecology quiz (pre-test questions).
DLTs:
1.
I can apply my knowledge of ecological principles in order to correctly answer questions pertaining to ecology.
2.
I can discuss and evaluate the significance of human interference with major ecosystems (e.g., the loss of genetic diversity in cloned crops or animals). (F.1.m)
Today:
1.
Ecology quiz (pre-test questions) a.
20 minutes for 20 questions b.
Compare to pre-test results
2.
Planet Earth: The Future video + questions a.
Worksheets are due at the end of the video (30 points)
3.
Ecology Unit test will be on Flex days – please review your notes and be prepared!

April 30 th , 2013
Bellringer: Please read the handout titled, “Evolution”, and answer the four multiple choice questions using your clickers.
DLT:
1.
I can use information to create my own biological definition of evolution, and differentiate among chemical evolution, organic evolution, and the evolutionary steps along the way to aerobic heterotrophs and photosynthetic autotrophs.
Today:
1.
Definitions (7 through 14)
2.
Planet Earth video question points
3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svHQ4BQY__o a.
Bill Nye video with worksheet questions
4.
Ecology test, or combined Ecology/Evolution test

May 1 st – 2 nd , 2013
Bellringer: Please get your clickers and review your ecology notes in order to be ready to take an ecology test.
DLT’s:
1. I can apply my knowledge of ecological principles in order to correctly answer questions pertaining to ecology.
2. I can analyze a laboratory simulation of natural selection on a working population during a lab activity.
Today:
1.
Ecology Review
2.
Test/constructed response
3.
Review Bill Nye questions/discuss
4.
Natural Selection Lab Simulation
NATURAL SELECTION: in biology, the process by which environmental effects lead to varying degrees of reproductive success among individuals of a population of organisms with different hereditary characters, or traits. The characters that inhibit reproductive success decrease in frequency from generation to generation. The resulting increase in the proportion of reproductively successful individuals usually enhances the adaptation of the population to its environment.
Natural selection thus tends to promote adaptation by

maintaining favorable adaptations in a constant environment
(stabilizing selection) or improving adaptation in a direction appropriate to environmental changes (directional selection).
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace first proposed this concept in
1858. J.W.V., JAMES W. VALENTINE, M.A., Ph.D.

May 3 rd /6 th
Bellringer: Please get your clickers and prepare to take the EOC
Review Quiz #3.
DLT’s:
1. I can apply my knowledge of biological principles in order to correctly answer questions pertaining to biology.
2. I can analyze a laboratory simulation of natural selection on a working population during a lab activity.
Today:
1.
EOC Review Quiz #3
2.
Review Ecology Unit Constructed Response
3.
Complete Natural Selection Lab Simulation