Living Earth-Periods 4, 5 &6 Assignments

Hi kiddos!

Here is your LAST ASSIGNMENT for Living Earth for this year!

Next week your Final Product is due (nothing due this Friday!). Next week you'll also have a Final Reflection Assessment posted to Google Classroom on Tuesday.

do your doggon best work cause what ya got to lose?!

<3 OBrien

Hello scholars!

Here is your final final reflection assessment for 2020 science :) Please respond thoughtfully and thoroughly. I will be looking at your responses in detail (as I do all of them).

It has been an honor to serve as your science teacher this year. Stay curious, and always notice, wonder, connect, and predict <3

Join us on Wednesday 6/3 at 1:00 pm on Zoom for a lil farewell party :) I'll be doing some cool science!

Hi friends! You know what to do :)

Let me know what your questions are. Please take your time and do good work on this. I know you are capable! I am already so proud of you, keep up your effort and focus. You're so close :)

Hi! You're doing great :) Please remember how proud I am of you for all your focus and effort!

Please ask me your questions as you go!

See you Monday and Wednesday for Zoom class :)

Go listen to this album: "What Kinda Music" by Tom Misch :)

And do your quiz <3

Heeeeelllllooo!!!

This morning I looked at the sun and said "Again?" She replied "Again." You know what to do! These last few weeks are ALL ABOUT HUMANS AND WHAT WE GOTTA DO TO MAKE THIS WORLD BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT :) <3

Please complete the following reflection! I love knowing how you are doing and why and your general FEELINGS about all this mayhem :)

Hellllooo scholars!!

This week you will be learning all about the technologies humans have created now that we understand much more about genetics. You Final Product will be a FlipGrid recording. If you don't already have an account, please make one!

Let me know of your questions :) <3

Learning Goal: I can create and revise an explanation about epigenetic changes using the ideas and wording of my classmates.

Your stronger and clearer explanation is a revision of your response from Day 3. You MUST complete the day 3 work before you attempt this quiz (you can't revise something you didn't write a first draft for...).

The link to your classmates responses that you need to cite is in the google form. You must cite their "name."

Hey nerds!

Here's Week 6 work. Through this you will be able to:
* explain why your genes at birth are not the gene you are "stuck" with over your lifetime
* explain why identical twins are not identical later in life
* define epigenetics
* predict how the environment and your ancestors experiences affect the genes you have today

Please continue to help your brain and skills grow by completing the work in these activities! Ask me your questions on Remind or email.

Remember, I grade your final product :)

<3

This is a quiz! You have to complete this week's work BEFORE trying to do the quiz. Ask me your questions :)

Ms. O'Brien

Hi Scholar!!

Please work through the following activities in your notebook OR on the document assigned to you.

On Thursday I will post a quiz to assess your understanding that is due Sunday! I will also assess your Final Product of this week's work, due on Friday 4/24.

If you do the Final Product in your notebook (yay!) then please take a photo of it and attach it to the assignment BEFORE you turn it in.

As always, I am here to support your learning and understanding! Text me on remind, email me, I'm back online! YOU ROCK! YAY SCIENCE!

This is a quiz! You can revise your responses until Tuesday, only if you participate in the Padlet Collaboration:

Period 4: https://padlet.com/aobrien66/ni8t7pmifw01
Period 5: https://padlet.com/aobrien66/sw98usac0zyj
Period 6: https://padlet.com/aobrien66/dcm3m3v5gm99

1. Open the folder with photos of the SLz garden plants.
2. Find the photo of your plant! If it's not there, tell Ms. O'Brien. If the photo really sucks, tell Ms. O'Brien - but do your best!!
3. Complete an observation AND a sketch in your notebook as you would if you could go see it.

The observation sheet is attached here too. Use it as a template for what to make noticings about. :)

SUBMITTING YOUR WORK: When you finish, attach a picture of your work to this assignment, then turn it in. See "Update Letter" on how to do that.

SPRING IS POPPIN Y'ALL!!! SO MANY CUTE LITTLE FRUITS ON YOUR TREES!!! SO MUCH NEW GROWTH!!! How did I get into the garden to take photos?! I *may* or *MAY NOT* have had a key. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Love and miss you all. And so do your plants. They told me so.

Week 4, Inheritance Part II: How do we get our traits?

Please work through the following assignments! You can either type directly into the document assigned to you, OR write it out in your notebook.

I will assess your FINAL PRODUCT! Producing quality work relies on you doing ALL of the activities and thinking in this assignment.

Your Final Product is due Friday, April 10 at midnight. It is a written explanation. Either type it into the document at the end, OR write it in your notes, take a photo, and attach the photo of your work to the assignment before you turn it in. You will receive a 0-4 score for your Final Product :)

hmu with any questions or concerns. :) remind, email, or ms.o.brien (ig)

Complete the quiz! This is to assess your understanding of the resources and information from the work from Week 3: Introduction to Inheritance.

You score will be put into your grade book.

Hi scholars!

Please complete the following survey by Sunday night 3/22 at midnight (11:59 pm). YES, YOU HAVE TO! <3

Ms. OBrien

Watch the following videos. Write down 3 facts that help you explain artificial selection (or breeding).

Follow the links below to find the following information. Write it down in your notes:
1. Function of stomata
2. The conditions that would influence the number of stomata
3. The conditions that would influence the frequency of open stomata
4. How stomata are able to open and close
5. How to find and identify stomata under a microscope

Watch the following 2 videos.

Take notes on:
1. What is the direction of water transport in plants?
2. How does the water get from the roots to the top of the plant?
3. What are the main properties of water?
4. How do those properties help it move in plants?

Draw out a model of a few water molecules. Label the atoms. Label the forces that connect water molecules to one another.

Write down 2 unanswered questions you have after watching the videos.

1. Click the link below. It will take you to another website to run a "game."
2. Click “Start”, “Skip Tutorial”, then “Start First Scenario”.
3. Click “Play” and look at the graph that is generated.

WRITE ALL YOUR ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR NOTES!!

4. What are two noticings and three wonderings you have?
5. Explore what happens to the population as you change the three options (Reproduction, Migration, Death). Record your noticings of what happens.
6. What settings cause the population growth rate to increase? Decrease? Stay steady?
7. What could be some limiting factors for the fish population?
8. How does changing those limiting factors affect the fish population?