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Biodiversity: CER

CW: Completed CER on Bananas.

DN: Read the article on Bananas.

Reminders: Don’t forget to prepare for your presentations.

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  • CW: Completed CER on Bananas.

  • DN: Read the article on Bananas.

  • Reminders: Don’t forget to prepare for your presentations.

RESOURCES

Bananas & Biodiversity Article Link

Biodiversity Calculations & CER Handout

LESSON OUTLINE

5min Students complete the Do Now by answering the question.

10min Level Up Presentations

10min Class read the and annotate Bananas Article (technically and edited excerpt from Never out of Season).

5min Watch Banana Videos.

5min> Students write the outline for the Claim using the ABC method.

5min> Students convert Claim outline into a full sentence. Students share claims.

5min> Students write outline for Evidence and find supporting text using the ABC method.

5min> Students convert Evidence outline into a full sentence. Students share evidence.

5min> Students write the outline for the Reasoning using the ABC method.

5min> Students convert Reasoning outline into a full sentence. Students share reasoning.

5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.

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Biodiversity: Practice Problems

  • CW: Biodiversity Practice Problems.

  • DN: Name all the types of apples and bananas you know.

  • Reminders: Prepare for your presentations.

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  • CW: Biodiversity Practice Problems.

  • DN: Name all the types of apples and bananas you know.

  • Reminders: Prepare for your presentations.

RESOURCES

Biodiversity Practice Problems

LESSON OUTLINE

5min Students complete the Do Now by answering the question.

10min Level Up Project Presentations.

10min Biodiversity Practice Problems. Students use examples (notebook p78-79) to calculate the biodiversity in different communities.

5min Review answers with class.

5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.

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Biodiversity: Potatoes

CW: [1] Potato Video Notes p70 [2] Potato Biodiversity Calculations p72.

DN: What are three types of diversity?

Reminders: Presentations start this week.

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  • CW: [1] Potato Video Notes p70 [2] Potato Biodiversity Calculations p72.

  • DN: What are three types of diversity?

  • Reminders: Presentations start this week.

RESOURCES

Potato Biodiversity Europe vs South America

Low Biodiversity Example Drawing & Calculations

LESSON OUTLINE

5min Students complete the Do Now by answering the question.

5min> Video 1. Student write down facts from the video p76.

5min> Video 2. Student write down facts from the video p76.

5min> Video 3. [First 5min Only] Student write down facts from the video p76.

5min Biodiversity Example Drawings and Calculations. Students calculate the biodiversity for a desert area (p78).

5min Potato Biodiversity Drawings and Calculations for Europe vs S. America. Students calculate the biodiversity for a potato farm in Europe and S. America during the Potato Famine caused by blight (p78). Why did blight destroy most of the potatoes in Europe but not South America?

5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.

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Biodiversity: Notes

  • CW/HW: Complete paragraph summaries and margin questions (p77).

  • DN: Take handout and glue at the top of p76. Take table and glue near top of p79.

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  • CW/HW: Complete paragraph summaries and margin questions (p77).

  • DN: Take handout and glue at the top of p76. Take table and glue near top of p79.

RESOURCES

Biodiversity Notes Calculations Example Handout

LESSON OUTLINE

5min Students complete the Do Now.

15-20min Biodiversity Notes. Students take notes, write summary, and margin questions on p77. Students glue handout on top of p76 and complete the example.

10min Biodiversity Example Calculations. Table handout glued on p79.

5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.

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Q3 Notebook Check #2

  • CW/HW: Complete Level Up Project Presentation Slideshow.

  • DN: Paste table of contents in notebook.

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  • CW/HW: Complete Level Up Project Presentation Slideshow.

  • DN: Paste table of contents in notebook.

Resources

Mini Level Up Project Handout

LESSON OUTLINE

5min Students complete the Do Now.

10min Notebook Check (1st Person).

10min Notebook Check (2nd Person).

10-15min ReUse Project Presentation Slideshow. Students use resources to address questions following the simplified quick presentation slide style (Bad Example, Good Example 1, & Good Example 2). Teacher checks slides and offers suggestions.

The following questions need to be answered in your presentation/slideshow. Make sure to follow the rules for a presentation.

Environmental Impact of Plastic, Cardboard, Fabrics, and Rubber
1. Title slide (brand name of your product).
2. How much plastic/cardboard/fabric is made/used/thrown away every year?*
3. What is the resource used to make plastic/cardboard/fabric/rubber?
(Example: Glass is made from sand. Sand is the resource.)
4. Is the resource renewable or nonrenewable?
5. How much of that resource is used a year?*
6. How much water is used to make plastic/cardboard/fabric/rubber?*
7. How does getting/using/making/disposing of plastic/cardboard/fabric/rubber directly or indirectly contribute to the death/illness of living organisms)?* 
* Requires numbers and a link to your resource.
8. “What's the solution?” (This is just a set up for your product.)
9.  Product (Include picture of your project item.)
10. Cost & Selling Price
11. Final Message

Rules for Slides
- BIG Sans Serif Fonts (30+)
- NO Sentences, NO Paragraphs, NO Bullet Points
- ONE FACT + ONE PIC per slide. (If the picture is that important, it should have its own slide.)
- URL should be tiny at the bottom
- NO crazy colors. NO animations.

Notes
[1] Styrofoam is a type of plastic. [2] Cardboard is a type of paper. [3] There are two types of fabrics, natural and synthetic. Synthetic fabrics like polyester are made from plastic. [4] The term “effluent” means liquid waste/wastewater [5] One cubic meter of liquid (1 m³ or 1 m^3) is 1000L or 264 gallons. [6] Natural Rubber Latex, NRL, and Latex are the same thing, which are different from Natural Rubber. [7] Many things that are ‘rubber’ or ‘Natural Rubber’ are vulcanized (heat + sulfur) to become stronger and more durable (such as rubber bouncy balls, rubber mats, or rubber tires).

USE ONLY THESE LINKS
Water
https://www.watercalculator.org/water-use/the-hidden-water-in-everyday-products/
http://teacher.depaul.edu/MathConnectResources/All%20Data%20pdf/Chicago%20Water%20Usage%20Facts.pdf
https://www.uvm.edu/~wbowden/Teaching/xInvited%20lectures/Water%20trivia%20%28EPA%29.pdf

Cotton
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-fashion-blog/2014/oct/01/cotton-production-linked-to-images-of-the-dried-up-aral-sea-basin
https://www.sustainyourstyle.org/old-environmental-impacts
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/nuos-cfa072618.php
https://www.wpr.org/despite-efforts-head-nutrient-runoff-dead-zones-growing-problem
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2006/Cotton-and-Pesticides

Plastic
https://science.howstuffworks.com/plastic.htm
https://www.plasticseurope.org/en/about-plastics/what-are-plastics/how-plastics-are-made
https://www.earthday.org/2018/04/05/fact-sheet-plastics-in-the-ocean/
http://www.oneworldoneocean.com/images/blog/OWOO_PlasticsInfographic_2012_b.jpg

Paper
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-4-july-august/ask-mr-green/how-much-paper-does-one-tree-produce
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-many-trees-does-it-take-to-make-1-ton-of-paper.html
https://www.ran.org/the-understory/how_many_trees_are_cut_down_every_year/
https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2013/deforestation-and-role-paper-products/59071
https://rainforests.mongabay.com/0807a.htm

Rubber
https://www.ace-laboratories.com/latex-vs-rubber/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653523017794 https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/ALL/year/2021/tradeflow/Exports/partner/WLD/product/400110
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210308-rubber-the-wonder-material-we-are-running-out-of
https://www.azocleantech.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1227

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