Transplant beans, pond & midterm study guide

Agenda for today:

1. Transplant beans to larger cup -- what observations can you make?
2. trip to the pond -- Observations on pg 47
3. Mid-term study guide -- make a copy on your google drive, so that you can edit it and takes notes, make a plan, etc. . .Test is on Thursday

Ecosystem Ecology

Today we are going to watch a brief video on Ecosystem Ecology.
Why do we care about all of these interactions?
Use the information learned in the video to help you answer the questions in your notebook on pgs 41-45

pgs 41 & 42

We discussed the information on pgs 41 & 42
Components of an ecosystem & food chains.  Make sure you have marked up the text on those pages as well as answered all of the questions.

Bean Dissection and Ecology info (pgs 37-45)

What is in a bean?

Agenda
Reading Science World -- weekly summaries on pg 37

pg 38 -- Bean dissection observations and drawings (try to label them using info on pg 39)
pg 39 -- Seed Structure & Germination
pg 40 -- Events in Germination
pg 41 -- Components of an Ecosystem
pg 42 -- Food Chains 
pg 43 -- Energy Inputs and Outputs
pg 44 -- Food Webs
pg 45 -- Food webs continued . . .

M&M lab and CER conclusion for Mystery due today

There are two assignments that should be submitted on canvas today.

• M&M Lab
• Mr. Xavier Mystery -- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning conclusion

Remember to submit your assignment on canvas

• Go to Google Drive
• Select your document & click on share (top right hand corner of the screen)

• Then click on "get shareable link" and copy the link (if you have a different version, it may say private, click there and then change it to "anyone with a link")

• Go to Canvas, click on assignment and submit then,
• Paste the link into canvas

Intro to Energy (pgs 33-35)

Question
What is energy?

Agenda
Read current science and write summary on pg 33
Burning a peanut

1. Put on googles and leave them on until the end of the lab.
2. Double check that there is 100 mL of water in your 250mL beaker (with a graduated cylinder)
3. Place beaker on wire stand
4. Take initial temperature and record
5. Weigh your peanut and record the mass
6. Careully make a stand with a paperclip and place it inside the jar lid.
7. Place the peanut on the paperclip
8. Once it is stable, let the teacher know you are ready to light your peanut.
9. Once the peanut is lit, start your stopwatch and measure & record the temperature every 30 seconds.
10. When the peanut burns, let it cool and then weigh and record the mass again.
11. Pour the water into a graduated cylinder to measure the amount left.

   Record your information in a data table.  

   Analysis

Create a line graph of the temperature changes. Also, compare information with another table

Energy of a peanut	Your trial	Another groups trial
Mass of peanut (g)
Mass of remaining material (g)
Calculate mass burned (g)
Volume of liquid water (beginning)	100 mL	100 mL
Volume of water after heated

Qualitative observations

Describe how the peanut burned

How did the peanut look after it burned?

Compare the mass of the peanut before and after burning it.  Explain what happened.  Tell where the mass went.

Compare your trial results with that of other groups.  Discuss how are they similar and how are they different.  Give reasons for each.

Claim Evidence Reasoning (Canvas Submission)

All of the following information can also be found on Canvas.   Your job is to write a CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) conclusion based on the information gathered around Mr. Xavier's murder.  The question you are answering, is "What really happened to Mr. Xavier?" Please make sure that you reference which scenario you used for the additional information.


More Practice

Pick one of the following links for additional information to help in your claim

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

Characteristics of life (pgs 31 & 32)

Question for the day
What are the characteristics of life?

Agenda
Get a Science world and read for 5 minutes, summary continuing on pg 29
In the last quadrant from the "Alive or not alive" activity,list all of the things you think makes something alive.  Also brainstorm with your group and write on the whiteboards on your table

As we discuss and come to a consensus about the characteristics of life, write the finished list in the tiger and tape it into your notebook on pg 32
On that page, also write

• 3 things you learned today
• 1 question you still have about characteristics of life

Alive or not alive? (pg 30)

Question for the day
What characteristics make something alive?

Agenda
Read Science World -- summary on pg 29 for this week

on pgs 30-31 -- split the pages into 8 parts (basically make quadrants on the two sides).  
In each square you should have 

• Minimum of 5 observations of the object at the station
• Answer to the question "Is it alive or not alive?"
• Justification for your answer

Work Day

Read for 5 minutes (summary on pg 26)
Continue to work on your M&M lab and/or anything else that needs to be completed :)

Getting Started on Canvas & Making a graph on Google Drive

Canvas is the platform that we will use to turn in some assignments throughout the school year.
Please write the following website on the inside front cover of your notebook

canvas.instructure.com

Check you gmail account.  There should be an invitation to join a class from canvas (it might just say notifications in the "from" field).  Click on the link on the bottom of the e-mail (see the picture below -- it might say "click here to get started" instead of "click here to view the course page")

Then follow the directions to create a canvas account.  If you are worried that you will forget your password, please write down your e-mail and password in your notebook as well.

Continue working on your lab report for the M&M lab.  
Click here for a tutorial on how to insert a graph into google docs.

Share your contact information

M&M lab (pgs 27-29)

Agenda

• Read Science World -- summary on pg 26
• Click here for the lab for today (Do M&M's packages contain the expected amount of colors?)
• Remember for this lab, you need to make sure you have
• Hypothesis
• Data table
• Graph
• Conclusion