Life Science Unit
Florida Endangered Species Project
Project Resources below
(Students may use approved books and other online resources as well)
(Students may use approved books and other online resources as well)
Ch 14 Populations and Communities
(Interdependence of Living and Nonliving things)
Directions: Going in the order listed, watch each video clip and compete in each game to learn about the Interdependence of Living and Non-living things. After you are through you must be able to...
- Explain how living things interact and depend on one another in the environment
- Identify examples of how energy flows through ecosystems
- Identify different energy roles in the ecosystem and provide examples
- Compare and Contrast carrying capacity and limiting factors and provide examples
- Identify different types of relationships in ecosystems and provide examples for each
- Youtube video – Food chains - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZOvqYypOuo
- Youtube video – Food Web - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGODmyXkkPU
- food chain game - http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
- producers and consumers game - http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/producersconsumersgame.htm
- Endangered species game - http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/endangered_animals/endangered_game.htm
- Food Webs crash course (introduces what happens when ecosystems get out of balance and limiting factors) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtb3I8Vzlfg
- Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI2ixJeIxEU
- Untamed science- Relationships in an ecosystem (all the isms) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSmL2F1t81Q
- Symbiotic relationships - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktZ1CbhkU8o
Physical Science Unit
Sound versus Light Waves
SOUND
The following site has experiments, pages to read, things to watch, hear, etc.
Proof that sound cannot travel in a vacuum, like outer space! (The bell jar demonstration)
Enrichment: Whale sounds and other interesting things about sound:
The following site has experiments, pages to read, things to watch, hear, etc.
Proof that sound cannot travel in a vacuum, like outer space! (The bell jar demonstration)
Enrichment: Whale sounds and other interesting things about sound:
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Research pages DUE Wednesday, 11/18
Handouts provided in class:
Refraction Lab: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/bending-light
class work in the science computer lab Monday 11/10/14; The worksheet for this assignment is listed below and you may download and print it at home to complete make up work from an absence on Monday. |
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Use the following websites for research...
Types of Waves & Characteristics
EM Waves - Where do they all come from?
What are all the EM waves USED FOR?
-- http://purchon.com/physics/?page_id=42
--http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html
--http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/emspectrum.html
--http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/radio.html
MRI - https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=bodymr
CT Scan - https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=bodyct
Video Clips
-http://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvsl.sci.space.spectrum/the-electromagnetic-spectrum/
- http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/emspectrum2.html
Diagram of the EM spectrum (with some info on characteristics)
- https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=em+spectrum&view=detailv2&&id=C83CBC0F33C60015410CD29431922CCDDDAB6BD0&selectedIndex=0&ccid=8Koj%2fwcv&simid=608028513608534952&thid=OIP.Mf0aa23ff072f984bcee9545c2ecd7ec9H0&ajaxhist=0
--quiz me --http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/quiz_l2/emspectrum_quiz.html --
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/exhibit/exhibits.html
--Animals that can see Infrared or Ultraviolet Rays --Two animals are mentioned in the NASA websites. --Here are a few more:
--http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/how-animals-see-the-world
--https://askabiologist.asu.edu/colors-animals-see
Types of Waves & Characteristics
EM Waves - Where do they all come from?
- Fact: the word EMIT means "produced by" or "given off by" so this is telling you where the waves "come from"
What are all the EM waves USED FOR?
-- http://purchon.com/physics/?page_id=42
--http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html
--http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/emspectrum.html
--http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/radio.html
MRI - https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=bodymr
CT Scan - https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=bodyct
Video Clips
-http://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvsl.sci.space.spectrum/the-electromagnetic-spectrum/
- http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/emspectrum2.html
Diagram of the EM spectrum (with some info on characteristics)
- https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=em+spectrum&view=detailv2&&id=C83CBC0F33C60015410CD29431922CCDDDAB6BD0&selectedIndex=0&ccid=8Koj%2fwcv&simid=608028513608534952&thid=OIP.Mf0aa23ff072f984bcee9545c2ecd7ec9H0&ajaxhist=0
--quiz me --http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/quiz_l2/emspectrum_quiz.html --
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/exhibit/exhibits.html
--Animals that can see Infrared or Ultraviolet Rays --Two animals are mentioned in the NASA websites. --Here are a few more:
--http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/how-animals-see-the-world
--https://askabiologist.asu.edu/colors-animals-see
EARTH SCIENCE UNIT
Ch 8 Land, Air, and Water
Human Impact on Earth: Resources for Research
http://www.factmonster.com/dk/encyclopedia/human-impact.html
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/default.asp
http://www.epa.gov/students/homework.html
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/?ar_a=1
North Pacific Gyre (the Great Ocean Garbage Patch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qvf_zesN9Y
Human Impact on Earth: Resources for Research
http://www.factmonster.com/dk/encyclopedia/human-impact.html
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/default.asp
http://www.epa.gov/students/homework.html
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/?ar_a=1
North Pacific Gyre (the Great Ocean Garbage Patch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qvf_zesN9Y
CH 4 Fossils and Earth's History
A. Watch this video and answer the questions that follow: Utah Dino Hunt- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYjx8oacID8
B. Read and complete this animated activity then answer the questions that follow: http://www.phschool.com/atschool/phsciexp/active_art/index_fossils/index.html
C. Read and complete this animated activity and answer the questions that follow: http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2902/es2902page01.cfm
- What are the names of the scientists on this fossil search?
- Why were they searching for marine fossils on dry land?
- What types of fossils did they find? a) what animals, b) what body parts
- What will the discoveries of this team help us learn?
B. Read and complete this animated activity then answer the questions that follow: http://www.phschool.com/atschool/phsciexp/active_art/index_fossils/index.html
- How do fossils form?
- How do scientists determine the relative age of rocks?
- Define the law of Superposition.
- Define index fossils.
- Explain how index fossils help scientists determine the relative age of rock layers.
- Click the mode button labeled "identify rock layers" and follow the directions at the top of the web animation to complete this step.
- Explain why the trilobite, brachiopod, and ammonite are considered index fossils, but the turritella is not.
C. Read and complete this animated activity and answer the questions that follow: http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2902/es2902page01.cfm
- Click the play button and watch the animation all the way through one time.
- Replay by clicking the next button to watch the changes in slow motion and carefully read the information posted
- Describe the steps that occurred to transform the land. (There are at least 6)
- Define unconformity and describe in your own words how it forms.
- Predict what effect(s) an unconformity has on our ability to gather information about the age of Earth's layers and organisms alive at that time.
- Go back to the animation on index fossils and list the locations that have developed an unconformity at the end of the animation.
Ch 3 Rock Cycle Virtual LAB: http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES04/ES04.html
Rock Classification: Virtual Lab Due 2/2/16 at the end of class
- Purpose: to be able to classify rocks as either Igneous, Metamorphic, or Sedimentary based on observable characteristics.
- Go to http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES04/ES04.html
- Get Lab worksheet from teacher
- Sit with lab partner and Follow all step-by step directions on your worksheet to complete this virtual lab.
Types of Weathering that occurs with Rocks/Minerals
Mechanical Weathering (also known as Physical Weathering):
http://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformationmodule=1124303183&topicorder=3&maxto=7&minto=1
Chemical Weathering:
http://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformationmodule=1124303183&topicorder=4&maxto=7
Mechanical Weathering (also known as Physical Weathering):
http://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformationmodule=1124303183&topicorder=3&maxto=7&minto=1
Chemical Weathering:
http://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformationmodule=1124303183&topicorder=4&maxto=7
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