Cellular Respiration Activity

Today in class we will review the chemical formula for cellular respiration.  Here is a simplified version.

Students will create a comic, job description or poem  depicting this process .  

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Here are some examples from past years.

Photosynthesis Activity - Comic or Job Description

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Here are some exemplars.

Blood Project ad Graphic Organizer

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Cell Cycle Simulations

Yesterday the students started cell cycle simulations.  The goal being to understand the behaviors of chromosomes during interphase, mitosis and cytokinesis.  

The full simulation guidelines can be found here on the project page.

Here is an example of what they will create.

When the students are done they should be able to easily answer the following worksheet.

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Link to Quizlet for Macro to Micro Assessment and Link to Project Page for Cell Analogy

Here is a link to the Quizlet flashcards for the Macro to Micro Assessment.

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Here is a link to the next project- Cell Analogy Project

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America's Most Unwanted Project and Ecology Review.

Today students reviewed some ideas in ecology with the following questions.

Four check-in questions:

1. Compare and contrast a food web to a food chain.  Which is more realistic?  Why?

2. How does a modeling program like Ecobeaker help us in science?  What are its limitations (What can't it provide for us)?

3. List three different trophic levels found in an ecosystem.  Give a specific organism that can be linked to each of the levels and what it feeds on (how does it get its energy?).

4. How does the energy in a food chain transfer from one trophic level to another?  How much energy actually passes from one organism to another organism?

We also started to discuss the America's Most Unwanted Project.

Here is the link for the project

Here you will find resources, graphic organizers, and the rubric.

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Ecology Food Web Project

Today you will be completing a food web of a habitat you are familiar with.

Have fun and be creative!

Here is an example of an Arctic Food Web to help guide you.

Food Web Project

Directions: Create a food web for an ecosystem that is nearby. For example a

forest, stream, backyard, saltmarsh, or beach. You are encourage to choose an

ecosystem that you are familiar with. You should organize your food web so that

relationships between organisms are demonstrated (like we did in class).

Vocabulary to keep in mind:

organism

ecosystem

decomposer

food web

producer

consumer

trophic level

Required Items

Your food web should:

• have 15 - 20 organisms represented in the food web.
• identify the name of each organism.
• include arrows to indicate the flow of energy.
• have at least 2 of every trophic level represented (decomposer, producer, consumer).
• show many organisms interacting.
• contain a sketch for each organism.
• use a ruler to draw straight lines.
• contain color.
• contain a title (example - A Tidal Pool Food Web).
• contain your name and group.