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IB Biology: Notice, work is due on Monday at 8am. This is because we don't want to interfere with the work your other teacher is giving you on Monday. I will be on Zoom all morning if you need clarification: Join URL: https://guhsd.zoom.us/j/99042145983?pwd=M2tOT0tycG1zODgyYkEwNzhObU42UT09 Last Week you did… Let’s review some of this: Please watch the following video/simulation as a reminder of what we worked on last week. The Most Amazing Things About Trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BickMFHAZR0 Watch the interactive on: Phloem Loading.: http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/9834092339/student_view0/chapter38/animation_-_phloem_loading.html Now that you have learned some amazing facts about last week's work, this week we’ll be closing out two more big ideas about plant biology, Growth and Reproduction. Just like last week, you made two website site pages titled Phloem and Xylem, this week your two new website pages, one will be titled, “Growth” and the other, “Reproduction.” To start this week, if you have a phone, take a picture of yourself using PlantSnap. This is a free app that helps you identify plants. It’s a really useful tool to use in nature (or at our house) to figure out what type of plant you are looking at, but it’s also funny to see what kind of plant it thinks your face looks like. (I’m a type of rose...don’t ask me why) Once downloaded, I want you to take a picture of your face and find out what plant the program thinks you most look like. If the app thinks that you are a fungi (this is common), please select a flowering plant of your choice instead. The app will provide a list of possible matches. Please place a selfie, as well as a picture of the flowering plant the app selected, on BOTH pages you created for this week (Growth and Reproduction). Underneath each picture please place the genus and species, as well as common name, of the plant the app selected you as, as well as your selfie (Homo Sapien). We will use this to frame all of our work for this week. On the webpage titled “Growth” I want you to use the online text for chapter 9.3, as well as online resources, and of course use your “Soul” plant (The one the app said you look like), to discuss how these big concepts manifest in your plant.
On the webpage titled “Reproduction” I want you to use the online text for chapter 9.4, as well as online resources, and of course your “Soul” plant (The one the app said you look like), to discuss how the following big concepts manifest in your plant.
Here are some amazing video resources on pollination and seeds, watch these:
Once you have finished this week’s work, be happy as you have completed everything that you need to know about plants. Hopefully you have seen some of your biochemistry pop up last week, and some stem cell information this week as a review. All work will be reviewed on Monday morning starting at 8am. . MEDICAL PATHWAY COMPLETERS: We are currently working on how to get your medical pathway completer awards, stethoscopes, medallions, but we haven’t finalized what that will look like. We may do a drive-by situation, and then post the details online. Regardless, as I start to sort out all of this out to recognize you for your achievements I need information from you. Please fill out the following Google Form, and do not forget to ALSO fill out the forms on the medpath page for volunteer hours, internships, and job shadows. If you had planned on doing one, but COVID-19 got in the way, please list what you had expected to do. Here is the Google Form for those who believe they will have completed the program: https://forms.gle/mx5duEukVo79Sr9R7 To be clear, if you believe you are a completer, you must fill out THIS form, AND the 3 forms found on the medical pathway webpage: https://scisavvy.weebly.com/medical-pathway.html One last thing: Does anyone want a box tortoise? The video at the bottom of this page will introduce you to "Fake Frijole," one of the tortoises that roam my backyard. You may not know, but these tortoises are very territorial. I suppose when you live in an environment that is lacking resources, you try to protect them. Well, this behavior has made FF harass Big Myrtle (my ancient 70+ year old tortoise) for the past few seasons, and I think he needs to go! I have a lot of plants in my backyard so 90% of the time they just eat the snails and plants that they find. The other 10% of the time I feed them veggie scraps, but FF loves a bit of wet cat/dog food from time to time. Very easy to care for, but he'll want to live outside so you need to seal off your yard, or make a pen area. I let mine free roam, but my yard is sealed off. No escapees! I'm not sure how to get it to you, but text me if you are interested. First come first serve. Biology and Community Health: How do the organisms in an ecosystem interact? (4/27-5/1) If you need any clarification of help, I'll be on Zoom all morning: Join URL: https://guhsd.zoom.us/j/99042145983?pwd=M2tOT0tycG1zODgyYkEwNzhObU42UT09 NOTICE: Last week, many of you did a nice job! ...but for some of you others I’m not totally sure because:
For this week: 1) Thinking about only your park: Looking at your Biodiversity page: Why do you think the distribution of animals is the way it is? In other words, why might there be more of one animal than another? Do you think you collected enough data? Did you talk to others about your data, and was it similar? In other words, do you think your data is good, and given the data you do have, what does it say about the park that these creatures are plentiful or rare? Please place this brief paragraph under your graph on the “Biodiversity” page. Reflection on other parks: Now, look at any two of the following websites from your classmates. Now pick one that is a different park than yours. What do you notice different about them when looking at the numbers of organisms, and why do you think it’s different from your park? On the bottom of the “biodiversity” page from last week, tell me what you notice and what you think in a small paragraph. Be sure to include your reasoning. You do not have to research at all, just speculate. Gorongsa: https://sites.google.com/guhsd.net/rmoore/gorongosa Karoo: https://sites.google.com/guhsd.net/gilliansbiologywork/karoo-preserve Kgalagadi: https://sites.google.com/view/enonkeshu-conservatory/home Grumeti: https://sites.google.com/guhsd.net/349367biology/grumeti/biodiversity What do I need to set up for this week? Now create two more pages for your African Park webpage titled, “Geography” and “Interactions” 2) On the page titled “Geography”: Obtain a map of the park that describes the terrain (mountains, water, etc.) as well as a map showing the location of the park in the world. (BONUS: If you can find one that shows animal distribution, even better!) That's two maps. One that shows just the park and the other that shows where it is in the world. You can use Google Earth and annotate it. You could even make a screencast showing and talking about your park, that could be really cool. You can draw it by hand, photograph it and upload it, or use google draw. Underneath your map(s) make sure to include some numbers for the park underneath this/these map(s). In other words, how many square kilometers is it? What is it’s longitude and latitude (you can use the center of the park), etc? 3) On the page titled “Animal Interactions”: On this page you will be learning about how animals interact with each other, and a little bit about how they interact with the environment (more on this next week). You may want to play around with the following simulation to see how organisms can affect each other, but you don't have to. https://www.learner.org/wp-content/interactive/envsci/ecology/ecology.html?initLesson=1
Checklist, due on Monday at 8am:
One last thing: Does anyone want a box tortoise? The video at the bottom of this page will introduce you to "Fake Frijole," one of the tortoises that roam my backyard. You may not know, but these tortoises are very territorial. I suppose when you live in an environment that is lacking resources, you try to protect them. Well, this behavior has made FF harass Big Myrtle (my ancient 70+ year old tortoise) for the past few seasons, and I think he needs to go! I have a lot of plants in my backyard so 90% of the time they just eat the snails and plants that they find. The other 10% of the time I feed them veggie scraps, but FF loves a bit of wet cat/dog food from time to time. Very easy to care for, but he'll want to live outside so you need to seal off your yard, or make a pen area. I let mine free roam, but my yard is sealed off. No escapees! I'm not sure how to get it to you, but text me if you are interested. First come first serve.
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