Friday, February 23, 2007

Week Twenty-Seven


We are still working on Chapter 23, it's a long one! This week we will be talking about cycles of matter in an ecosystem, and we will work more with energy flow in ecosystems by looking at owl pellets and micro slides of microscopic organisms.

A tentative schedule for this week:

Monday- Cycles of Matter Notes and Video
Tuesday- Owls: Top of Food Chain Lab
Wednesday- Continue Owls: Top of Food Chain Lab
Thursday- Making an Outline
Friday- Ecology Micro Slides

Homework this week includes the Energy Flow in an Ecosystem worksheet due on Monday, finishing the Cycles of Matter worksheet by Tuesday, Reading pages 723 - 727 and doing Chapter 23 Vocabulary 11 - 20 by Wednesday, CRCT Packet due by Friday, Finishing the Section 23.3 Outline for a Quiz on Friday, Reading page 731 and Section 23.4, and doing Chapter 23 Vocabulary 26 - 46 by Monday.

Webpages for Owls: Top of a Food Chain:
Owl Show
Owl Pages

For helpful links for Energy Flow and Cycles of matter, check out last week's post.