Create your Eureka Connections Page for Unit 2
The Eureka! Connections pages are located at the beginning of each new unit in your Interactive Science Notebook
- The next two side-by-side pages in your notebook.
- In the center (or close to it) write your big idea or problem statement for the unit. (Hint: look at the heading of this page)
- After each activity in the unit, write a statement on this page spread which conveys the concept learned.
- Share with lab partners and other classmates. Make connections between the content (Conceptually in your mind and Visually on the page with arrows.)
- Use these "lines of evidence" and their connections to write your Eureka! Thesis at the end of the unit.
Chapter 4: Population Ecology
- How do ecologists organize and study life?
- What are the important characteristics of populations?
- What factors determine whether, and how, a population's size changes?
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Monday (10/24): Left-side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - pg. 103: 1-3 and pg. 109: 1,3, & 5. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today. Watch the video: "Weekend Window to Katmai National Park."
Wednesday (10/26): Watch the video: "Year of the Passenger Pigeon." Left-side Work: Read and mark the texts, "Finding Gold in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest" and "Passenger Pigeon" (according to the "Marking the Text: Science Quick Reference" provided in class). Attach the texts in your notebook for today. Compare and Contrast, in your notebook, the decline and extinction of the golden toad to the decline and extinction of the Passenger Pigeon. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Monday (10/31): Left-side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - pg. 117: 1-3 and complete (and attach in your notebook) the Turkey Vulture (Real Data) Worksheet." Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Thursday (11/1): No Left Side Work. Watch the video: "Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery - Crash Course Ecology #2."
Monday (11/7): Left-side Work: Complete the Chapter 4 Study Guide. attach it in your notebook.
Complete by Sunday (11/13): Chapter 4 Test - Available on the class Schoology page.
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Chapter 5: Evolution and Community Ecology
- What role does the environment play in an organism's survival and reproduction?
- How do species interact in nature?
- How do energy and nutrients move through communities?
- How do communities respond to a disturbance?
![]() The research that the Grants conducted on Galapagos Finch Evolution is outlined in the book "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" by Jonathan Weiner (shown to the left). If this interests you more, the book is available in our library [598.8 WEI].
The two videos immediately above were produce by
the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) - an international not-for-profit organization that works to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. The videos are included here to demonstrate that Invasive Species are not just a North American problem - but a global problem. In the video "Invasive Species in Asia", however, CABI strongly promotes the use of "biological control" of invasive species. Consider the potential consequences of such measures of invasive species control - releasing non-native species to counter the negative effects non-native species that were introduced earlier. |
Wednesday (11/9): No Left Side Work. Watch the video: "Where's the Octopus?" and "Where's the Cuttlefish?" Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Monday (11/14): No Left Side Work. Watch the videos: "Galapagos Finch Evolution," "Speciation: Of Ligers and Men," and "The Sixth Extinction." Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Monday (11/14)- Friday (11/18): Watch the video: "The 12 Days of Evolution - Complete Series!" at some point during the course of the week.
Wednesday (11/16): Watch the video: "Eradicating Guinea Worm Disease: Taming the "Fiery Serpent" (Carter Center)." Left-side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - p.140: 1-4.
Thursday (11/17): Watch the video: "Sea Otters v. Climate Change," How Wolves Change Rivers,*" & "How Whales Change Climate." Left-side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - p.140: 1-4.
*Note: The video "How Wolves Change Rivers" is based upon ecological research entitled "Trophic Cascades in Yellowstone: The First 15 Years After Wolf Reintroduction" by W.J. Ripple and R.L. Beschta. Please read it if you are interested - though, it is not required reading for class. Monday (11/21): Left Side Work. Complete the analysis of the lab activity about Rock Pocket Mice. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Wednesday (11/23): Watch the videos: "Ecological Succession: Change Is Good," "The Threat of Invasive Species," Invasive Species Spreading Across America," "How Florida Is Handling Invasive Lionfish," "The Green Invasion," and "Invasive Species in Asia." Left-side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - p.155: 1 & 2.
Monday (11/28): In class, we watched "Scourge of the Lionfish." If you missed this video, which is only available on the PBS website (linked here:"Saving the Ocean: Scourge of the Lionfish), watch it when you get a chance. Left-side Work: Complete the "Energy Flow in Communities" and "Zebra Mussel Sightings Distribution" worksheets. They are available on the class Schoology page.
Complete by Friday (12/2): Chapter 5 Test - Available on the class Schoology page.
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Chapter 6: Biomes and Aquatic Ecosystems
- What biotic and abiotic factors are used for classifying biomes?
- What conditions and organisms characterize the world's biomes?
- What conditions and organisms characterize the world's aquatic ecosystems?
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Wednesday (11/30):
Thursday (12/1): Left-side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - p.167: 1-2.
Monday (12/5): Left-side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - p.180: 1-2.
Wednesday (12/7): Watch the video: How to Draw a Climate Graph. Left-side Work: Using the Climate Data for Seoul, create a climate graph that shows Average precipitation and rainfall for Seoul by month.
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Chapter 7: Biodiversity and Conservation
- What is biodiversity?
- Why is global biodiversity decreasing?
- How can we protect and preserve biodiversity?