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Day 1 - 3/16 - 3/17

8.1 (Responses to the Environment)

Main Points:
Organisms respond with behavioral and Physiological mechanisms.
Organisms exchange info with each other with internal and external cues.
Organisms can act on information and communicated to others.
     Mechanisms of communication
     Info and communication are vital to natural selection and evolution

Will be doing short example presentations on each of the topics listed above. 

​HOMEWORK:
Watch this video on Ecosystem Ecology​
​Watch this video on Energy Flow through Ecosystems

Day 2 - 3/18 - 3/19

8.2 (Energy Flow Through Ecosystems)

Discussion on Trophic Levels and Ecological Pyramids

Ecological Pyramids POGIL
Ecosystem Study Guide

HOMEWORK:
​Finish the POGIL and Study Guide

Day 3 - 3/22 - 3/23

8.2 (Energy Flow Through Ecosystems) Continued...

Review Trophic Levels and Ecological Pyramids

Lab 13 Energy Dynamics - We aren't actually going to grow the plants, the Wet Mass of the plants are 19.6g and the dry mass was 4.2g.
Key

HOMEWORK:
Finish Lab 13 If you aren't done
Watch this video on Population Ecology
Watch this video on Exponential Growth

Day 4 - 3/24 - 3/25

8.3 (Population Ecology)

Chapter 53 Power Point - Population Growth Equation, Exponential Growth Equation

Population Ecology Reading Guide
Population Growth POGIL

​HOMEWORK:
Finish Assignments you didn't get done in class
Watch this video on Logistic Growth​
Watch this video on Simpson's Diversity Index

Day 5 - 3/26 - 3/29

8.4 (Effect of Density of Populations)

Go over Exponential Growth Equations and Population Growth Equation Again

Discussion on Density of populations - Simpson's Diversity Index/logistic Growth

Population Growth Practice Problems​
Simpson's Diversity Index Question
Population Distribution POGIL

​HOMEWORK:
Finish Assignments from class
Watch this video on Organisms Relationships
Watch this video on Ecological Communities

Day 6 - 3/30 - 3/31

8.5 (Community Ecology)

Chapter 54 Power Point 
Simpson's Diversity Index Review
Changes in Communities
Interactions = access to energy and matter
                       = Predator/prey, trophic cascades, niche partitioning, symbiosis (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, competition, cooperation/coordination, etc..)

Community Ecology Reading Guide

​HOMEWORK:
Finish Any assignments from today
​Watch this video on Ecosystems​www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_KmOTYfRA
Watch this video on Ecosystem Change
Watch this video on Homeostatic Disruptions

Day 7 - 4/1 - 4/2

8.6 (Biodiversity) & 8.7 (Disruptions to Ecosystems)

Discussion on Diversity and how it changes organisms/ecosystems
Keystone species (Disproportionate effects), producers and biotic/abotic factors and their contributions

Get into groups, research the organisms, disease, human impacts, and geographical/meteorological events that can disrupt and ecosystem. Tell how your assigned topic has disrupted an ecosystem.

Organisms
Kudzu
Zebra Mussels

Diseases
Dutch Elm Disease
Potato Blight
Smallpox

Human Impacts
Global Climate Change
Logging
Urbanization
Mono-cropping

Geographical/Meteorological
El Nino
Continental Drift
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​HOMEWORK:
Finish any assignments you don't have done

Day 8 - 4/12 - 4/13

8.7 Review/Study

AP Classroom Progress Check
Ecology Review

HOMEWORK:
​Study for the Test

Day 9 - 4/14 - 4/15 - Test Day

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