Unit 1: Photosynthesis |
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Table of Contents
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If you are ABSENT, look at the ToC (see link above) to see if pages have been added. You are responsible for keeping your notebook up to date. Left-hand pages are ones that are student-thinking and this must be your own work. Right-hand pages are group or teacher-directed and can be photocopied using the class photocopier.
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Task
You are a group of soil scientists and have been commissioned by a government agency to help reverse global warming. You need to design a natural, low cost method that is effective and scalable to pull extra carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in plants and the soil.
Big Aha!
Can photosynthesis cause or solve environmental crisis? (ELL & support)
Enduring Understanding
- The transfer of energy can be tracked as energy flows through a natural system.
- Plants need energy from the sun, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and water to produce energy in the form of glucose.
- The biotic part of an ecosystem have producers, consumers, and decomposers.
- Matter moves through the biotic part of the ecosystems as organisms consumer each other.
- The biotic and abiotic parts of an ecosystem interact as matter cycles between them.
- Organisms consumer food for growth and to release energy.
- Food molecules are rearranged and release energy for organisms to use for the processes of life.
- Food molecules contain carbon. They react with oxygen to release energy. Carbon dioxide and water are byproducts.
- Photosynthesis and respiration are opposite reactions.
Vocabulary
Here is the list of vocabulary words translated into Spanish and Portuguese.
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abiotic
biotic carbon dioxide carbon sequestration carnivore cellular respiration chemical reaction |
chlorophyll
chloroplasts consumer (primary, secondary, tertiary) decomposer ecosystem energy |
fish kill
herbivore matter mitochondria omnivore photosynthesis stomata trophic level |
Science Word Roots
Here are the lists of science word roots: word roots and prefixes & numbers.
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a - without, not
auto - self bio - life carn - meat di - two eco - |
hetero - different
graph - chart, draw kilo - 1000 macro - large micro - small milli- 1000, 1/1000 |
omni - all, many
photo - light phyto - plant semi - half vor - to eat |
Resources
The Soil Solution to Climate Change - 30 min. documentary - stop and explain vocabulary throughout (ex. carbon sequestration, long-term carbon vs. short-term carbon, pool, annuals, perennials, 350 PPM (here is the current CO2 Level), rangeland
Soil Carbon Cowboys (Spanish subtitles)
The Story of Soil - Kiss the Ground
Effects of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Plants - Nature (possible reading)
Botany: A Blooming History - Part 2 with van Helmont and what makes a plant grow
Soil Carbon Cowboys (Spanish subtitles)
The Story of Soil - Kiss the Ground
Effects of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Plants - Nature (possible reading)
Botany: A Blooming History - Part 2 with van Helmont and what makes a plant grow
Lessons - This is from 2019/2020 - All material is revised for distance learning and only on Google Classroom.
Lesson 0 - Setup Interactive Science Notebook & Phenomena
Day 1 (Aug. 21/22) - 7.1.0 - 1 Welcome; Procedures; About the class, birthday chart, I notice/I wonder
Day 2 (Aug.22/23)- 7.1.0 - 2 Setup Interactive Science Notebook; number pages 1-10, set up Table of Contents (ToC), glue in pages 1-10 & discuss ISN Rubric
Day 3 (Aug. 26) -7.1.0 - 3 Introduce Interactive Science Notebook - front covers designed
Day 4 (Aug. 27) - 7.1.0 - 4 Interactive Science Notebook Unit Title Page & Garden Stewardship - Garden Stewardship & setup unit title page
Day 5 (Aug. 28/29) - 7.1.0 - 5 Photosynthesis: Task, Big Ahas, Unit ToC, & Appendix
Day 6 (Aug. 29 & 30 - short class on 30th) - 7.1.0 - 6 Photosynthesis Phenomenon: Fish Tank
Lesson 1: The Cycling of Matter & The Flow of Energy
Day 7 (Sept. 3) - 7.1.1 - 1 Carbon Cycle Part 1 & 2 Steps a Month- discuss what is a cycle & do carbon cycle simulation & revise Fish Tank
Day 8 (Sept. 4/5 & Sept. 5/6) - 7.1.1 - 2 Carbon Cycle Part 2 - Carbon cycle comic and total organic carbon
Day 9 (Sept. 9) 7.1.1 - 3 Card Sort: Producers, Consumers & Decomposers
Day 10 (Sept.10) - 7.1.1 - 4 Soil Testing & Praise, Ponder, Polish: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Day 11 (Sept. 11/12) -7.1.1 - 5 Trophic Levels & Conservation of Energy & Matter Revisit Producers, Consumers, & Decomposers & Conservation of Energy & Matter
Lesson 2: Photosynthesis
Day 12 (Sept. 12/13) - 7.1.2 - Sorting Stations & Revise Trophic Levels & Plant Cells
Day 13 (Sept. 16) - 7.1.2 - 3 What makes a tree grow? - Read van Helmont's Experiment and answer questions for homework - Do Sorting Stations Quiz on Canvas for Homework
Day 14 (Sept. 17) - 7.1.2-1 - Food Storage in plants on Canvas,
Day 15 (Sept. 18/19) - Stomata & Lab Safety Quiz & Discuss Dependent & Independent Variables
Day 16 (Sept. 23) - Reading Photosynthesis - Ask kids who have finished Food Storage CER to upload first - Give feedback
Day 17 (Sept. 24) - 7.1.2 - 5 Elodea - Send Reminder 2 Steps a Month - Month 1 & Academic Conversations Intro.
Day 18 (Sept. 25/26) - 7.1.2 - 6 Elodea CER -NEXT YEAR: Look at how to incorporate more data. Example from OUSD.
Day 19 (Sept. 27) - Elodea class data and Introduce Zero Waste Challenge
Day 20 (Sept. 30) - 7.1.2 -7 Ginkgos & Climate Change Link to Zooniverse: Fossil Atmosphere & Reminder Zero Waste Challenge Begins tomorrow
Day 21 (Oct. 1 & 2/3) - 7.1.2 - 8 Ginkgo: Fossil Atmosphere - 1st day start reading; 2nd day continue reading & access notebooks & discuss Graphic notes; give time for graphic notes on Day 2
Day 22 (Oct. 4) 2 Steps a Month - Month 2 7.1.2 - 9 - First Big Ahas & discuss Zero Waste Challenge
Lesson 3: From Molecules to Organisms
Day 23 (Oct. 7) - Phytoplankton Model & Praise, Ponder & Polish
Day 24 (Oct. 8 & 10 - Walk-a-thon; no school on Wed.) - 7.1.2 - 1 Fish Kill Reading & Video
REVISE ORDER NEXT YEAR. Start working on Engineering task.
Day 25 (Oct. 10 P1 & Oct. 11 P4- SUB) 7.1.3 - 2 The Carbon Cycle Reading
Day 26 (Oct. 14 - SUB short day Conferences) - 7.1.3 - 3 Soil videos and Sketch the Carbon Cycle One-Pager
Day 27 (Oct. 15 - SUB short day Conferences) - 7.1.3 - 4 The Carbon Cycle One-Pager
Day 28 (Oct. 16/17 - SUB short day Conferences) - 7.1.3 - 5 Gallery Walk & Write Big Ahas!
Day 29 (Oct. 17/18 - SUB short day Conferences) 7.1.3 - 6 Carbon Sequestration & Drawdown Reading
Day 30 (Oct. 21 - SUB) 7.1.3 - 6 Feedback on Big Aha! & End of Unit CER
Day 31 (Oct. 23/24) - Respiration and Photosynthesis videos and handout & create Team Contracts
NO SCHOOL - Oct. 28 - Power Outage
Oct. 31 - Work day
Nov. 1 - Work day
Lesson S: Summative Assessment
Day 32 (Oct. 25) - 7.1.2 - 11 Engineering Task (2019-20: Gap due to power outages; gave a work day upon return)
Day 33 (Nov. 4) - 7.1.S - 3 Engineering for Good: Setting Up Containers and Writing the Method
Nov. 5 (SUB) - Canvas assignment: "Complexity of Life" & take notes on video (absent? video is on Canvas)
Day 34 (Nov. 6/7) - 7.1.S - 5 Data form creation & Transition Improv & Prep for Modeling Assessment
Start Unit 2: Then come back and finish engineering task when plants have grown
NOT Updated below here...
Day ? (Oct. 22) - 7.1.S - 2 Engineering for Good: Team Contract & Initial Claim Overview of Engineering Task & Team Contracts / Team Building & Initial Claim
Day 30 (Oct. 24/25) - 7.1.S - 6 Collect Data from plants
Day 33 (Oct. 31/Nov. 1) - Government Report & Background - Give each group 5 minutes to help the government report person go through the checklist and take notes and 5 minutes for the group to give the "background" person ideas - rest of period is a work day. Make sure you write a plan out of what you are doing. Keep a record on your whiteboard of what is completed.
Day 34 (Nov. 2) - Work Day: Finish Government Reports & Background; proof other's work Work on End of Unit CER & Feedback on Photosynthesis unit - write your plan out first before getting on computers. Remember to keep checking off things that are done on the group whiteboard.
Start Unit 2: Ecosystems
Day 36 (Nov. 9) - Summative Assessment: Model "How can photosynthesis solve environmental crisis?"
Day 37 (After Thanksgiving) - 7.1.S Review government reports & fill in survey "Feedback Photosynthesis Unit" on Google Classroom
2018-20 - Things moved around in 2019/20 because out from Oct. 9 -21.
Day 23 (Oct. 2/3) - 7.1.S - 1 Engineering for Good: Introduction
Day 1 (Aug. 21/22) - 7.1.0 - 1 Welcome; Procedures; About the class, birthday chart, I notice/I wonder
Day 2 (Aug.22/23)- 7.1.0 - 2 Setup Interactive Science Notebook; number pages 1-10, set up Table of Contents (ToC), glue in pages 1-10 & discuss ISN Rubric
Day 3 (Aug. 26) -7.1.0 - 3 Introduce Interactive Science Notebook - front covers designed
Day 4 (Aug. 27) - 7.1.0 - 4 Interactive Science Notebook Unit Title Page & Garden Stewardship - Garden Stewardship & setup unit title page
Day 5 (Aug. 28/29) - 7.1.0 - 5 Photosynthesis: Task, Big Ahas, Unit ToC, & Appendix
Day 6 (Aug. 29 & 30 - short class on 30th) - 7.1.0 - 6 Photosynthesis Phenomenon: Fish Tank
Lesson 1: The Cycling of Matter & The Flow of Energy
Day 7 (Sept. 3) - 7.1.1 - 1 Carbon Cycle Part 1 & 2 Steps a Month- discuss what is a cycle & do carbon cycle simulation & revise Fish Tank
Day 8 (Sept. 4/5 & Sept. 5/6) - 7.1.1 - 2 Carbon Cycle Part 2 - Carbon cycle comic and total organic carbon
Day 9 (Sept. 9) 7.1.1 - 3 Card Sort: Producers, Consumers & Decomposers
Day 10 (Sept.10) - 7.1.1 - 4 Soil Testing & Praise, Ponder, Polish: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Day 11 (Sept. 11/12) -7.1.1 - 5 Trophic Levels & Conservation of Energy & Matter Revisit Producers, Consumers, & Decomposers & Conservation of Energy & Matter
Lesson 2: Photosynthesis
Day 12 (Sept. 12/13) - 7.1.2 - Sorting Stations & Revise Trophic Levels & Plant Cells
Day 13 (Sept. 16) - 7.1.2 - 3 What makes a tree grow? - Read van Helmont's Experiment and answer questions for homework - Do Sorting Stations Quiz on Canvas for Homework
Day 14 (Sept. 17) - 7.1.2-1 - Food Storage in plants on Canvas,
Day 15 (Sept. 18/19) - Stomata & Lab Safety Quiz & Discuss Dependent & Independent Variables
Day 16 (Sept. 23) - Reading Photosynthesis - Ask kids who have finished Food Storage CER to upload first - Give feedback
Day 17 (Sept. 24) - 7.1.2 - 5 Elodea - Send Reminder 2 Steps a Month - Month 1 & Academic Conversations Intro.
Day 18 (Sept. 25/26) - 7.1.2 - 6 Elodea CER -NEXT YEAR: Look at how to incorporate more data. Example from OUSD.
Day 19 (Sept. 27) - Elodea class data and Introduce Zero Waste Challenge
Day 20 (Sept. 30) - 7.1.2 -7 Ginkgos & Climate Change Link to Zooniverse: Fossil Atmosphere & Reminder Zero Waste Challenge Begins tomorrow
Day 21 (Oct. 1 & 2/3) - 7.1.2 - 8 Ginkgo: Fossil Atmosphere - 1st day start reading; 2nd day continue reading & access notebooks & discuss Graphic notes; give time for graphic notes on Day 2
Day 22 (Oct. 4) 2 Steps a Month - Month 2 7.1.2 - 9 - First Big Ahas & discuss Zero Waste Challenge
Lesson 3: From Molecules to Organisms
Day 23 (Oct. 7) - Phytoplankton Model & Praise, Ponder & Polish
Day 24 (Oct. 8 & 10 - Walk-a-thon; no school on Wed.) - 7.1.2 - 1 Fish Kill Reading & Video
REVISE ORDER NEXT YEAR. Start working on Engineering task.
Day 25 (Oct. 10 P1 & Oct. 11 P4- SUB) 7.1.3 - 2 The Carbon Cycle Reading
Day 26 (Oct. 14 - SUB short day Conferences) - 7.1.3 - 3 Soil videos and Sketch the Carbon Cycle One-Pager
Day 27 (Oct. 15 - SUB short day Conferences) - 7.1.3 - 4 The Carbon Cycle One-Pager
Day 28 (Oct. 16/17 - SUB short day Conferences) - 7.1.3 - 5 Gallery Walk & Write Big Ahas!
Day 29 (Oct. 17/18 - SUB short day Conferences) 7.1.3 - 6 Carbon Sequestration & Drawdown Reading
Day 30 (Oct. 21 - SUB) 7.1.3 - 6 Feedback on Big Aha! & End of Unit CER
Day 31 (Oct. 23/24) - Respiration and Photosynthesis videos and handout & create Team Contracts
NO SCHOOL - Oct. 28 - Power Outage
Oct. 31 - Work day
Nov. 1 - Work day
Lesson S: Summative Assessment
Day 32 (Oct. 25) - 7.1.2 - 11 Engineering Task (2019-20: Gap due to power outages; gave a work day upon return)
Day 33 (Nov. 4) - 7.1.S - 3 Engineering for Good: Setting Up Containers and Writing the Method
Nov. 5 (SUB) - Canvas assignment: "Complexity of Life" & take notes on video (absent? video is on Canvas)
Day 34 (Nov. 6/7) - 7.1.S - 5 Data form creation & Transition Improv & Prep for Modeling Assessment
Start Unit 2: Then come back and finish engineering task when plants have grown
NOT Updated below here...
Day ? (Oct. 22) - 7.1.S - 2 Engineering for Good: Team Contract & Initial Claim Overview of Engineering Task & Team Contracts / Team Building & Initial Claim
Day 30 (Oct. 24/25) - 7.1.S - 6 Collect Data from plants
Day 33 (Oct. 31/Nov. 1) - Government Report & Background - Give each group 5 minutes to help the government report person go through the checklist and take notes and 5 minutes for the group to give the "background" person ideas - rest of period is a work day. Make sure you write a plan out of what you are doing. Keep a record on your whiteboard of what is completed.
Day 34 (Nov. 2) - Work Day: Finish Government Reports & Background; proof other's work Work on End of Unit CER & Feedback on Photosynthesis unit - write your plan out first before getting on computers. Remember to keep checking off things that are done on the group whiteboard.
Start Unit 2: Ecosystems
Day 36 (Nov. 9) - Summative Assessment: Model "How can photosynthesis solve environmental crisis?"
Day 37 (After Thanksgiving) - 7.1.S Review government reports & fill in survey "Feedback Photosynthesis Unit" on Google Classroom
2018-20 - Things moved around in 2019/20 because out from Oct. 9 -21.
Day 23 (Oct. 2/3) - 7.1.S - 1 Engineering for Good: Introduction
