Calendar Items:
Nov 2 – Biome Presentations
Nov 9 – Guest Speaker on Fungus – I know you are thinking, “oh gross!” but this is so fascinating, that I hope you leave the presentation thinking, “oh gross, but so fascinating!”
Nov 16 – DUE: ALL your reaction papers that you haven’t turned in yet. Bring your Nature Journal to show me the 8 pages you’ve done so I can check that off. ALSO, In-class field trip. If it snows, we’ll try to track down some animals. If it doesn’t, we’ll just track down some plants and other ecological wonders.
WINTERIM – Get AHEAD on your book/documentary reaction papers and nature journaling pages. ALSO – If you haven’t chosen a Personal Enrichment Project or two yet, you’ll really want to use your winter break time to make good progress on those.
Homework Items:
BIOME PRESENTATIONS – Daniel (Urban), Simon (Grassland), Isabelle (Marine), Liberty (Cloud Forest), Lila (Tundra), Rebecca (Cave), and Esther L (Swamp.) Information on how to do your presentation can be found HERE (this is just the last homework blog post – scroll down to the info you need). Please remember to have a poster or a diorama prepared that you can physically bring to class to show as part of your presentation. Also, keep your presentation as close to 10 minutes as possible. I won’t cut you off, but this is good practice for NEXT semester, when you will have a 20 minute presentation and I WILL cut you off. 😉
READ Botany in a Day pages 210 through 222 on medicinal properties of plants.
READ How Plants Work chapter 6 – pages 131-149 on “How Plants Tell Time.”
ALSO, If you are still looking to do a personal enrichment project but aren’t sure what to do, come talk to me! I have some fun ideas!
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