Homecoming Week Blog Entry & Test 10-11-13

So, you guys setup a blog as a summer assignment but we haven't done anything with it. That's about to change. Here's the info for your next blog writing assignment, which should be completed by no later than October 7.

Blog entry this week is a more fun one :) Since this is homecoming week here at SHS and we do the best homecoming in the world, I'd like you to reflect on your homecoming experiences over the past several years (including this year). Remember you are writing to a worldwide audience so show your readers that SHS homecoming has no equal. I suggest you start by giving a brief summary of how homecoming works here at SHS, then share your experiences with it. This is an open reflection entry so you can take this in whatever direction you wish. Pictures and/or videos are always a plus in a blog entry. Have fun with it :)

Additionally, I request that you read at least three class member's entries and leave a constructive comment for them. You can find every body's blogs on the left side of the my blog.

Mr. Landry

+ next entry will center on human stupidity!

Additionally, here's the schedule for the next several class periods:

Mon 9-30: Ecosystem structures discussion
Wed 10-2: Continue with ecosystems discussion, with focus on energy transfers and matter cycles
Thu 10-3: Conservation discussion
Mon 10-7: Behavior Lab & study guide work day (Landry absent)
Tue 10-8: Human impacts collaboration activity (Due 10-11)
                 BEHAVIOR LAB DUE
Thu 10-10: Test review
Fri 10-11: Ecological interactions test

There will not be any other videos to preview for this unit. I will put together a list and document sometime next week in anticipation of the start of the evolution unit. You should by the end of this weekend completed your readings of chapters 50-55.

New Method for Collecting Idea & Questions from You Prior to Class Discussion

Let's try something new. I've put together a google form that is embedded at the bottom of this posting that I'd like for you to fill out after you complete EACH assignment that I post to the blog. This will then become an assignment grade for each of you.

So here's the first attempt at this. Your assignments that should be completed prior to the date listed above the video.

1. Behavior Lab Preview: Watch this video AND read lab investigation 12 in your lab books. This is due prior to Monday, 9-23-13



2. Ecosystems Preview Video (due before 9-27-13):




3. Ecological Succession Preview Video (due before 9-27-13):


4. Biogeochemical Cycles Preview Video (due before 9-27-13):




GOOGLE FORM FOR RESPONSES
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AzuUmLzCFFxptV7kTLMAnMej1nVencB7G0bOSPK5XUI/viewform

Assignments for the week of September 16 - 23, 2013 & what's on the horizon

Here's a summary of assignments for class through next week:

1. Continue to read chapters 50-55. Extra credit reading guides are available on the learn site. Study guides will be handed out during class and all "guides" are due on the day of the test, which is yet to be determined.

2. Designing a Controlled Experiment packet was due 9-16-13.

3. Summer assignments are due Thursday 9-19-13:
      A. Vocab pics
      B. News and views - two articles with summaries

•  These assignments can be submitted digitally through the dropbox on the learn site, submitted through email (mrlandryshs@gmail.com), sharing of google or live docs, or turned in as a paper copies into the assignment bin.

4. Read lab investigation 12 on fruit fly behavior. We will be conducting a similar lab next week with the pill bugs that we have been collecting.

5. Watch for new "preview" videos to be posted along with a new method for submitting ideas for class.

Reading Guides Snafu

Please pardon my mistake in naming the reading guides. I've added a new one that is the actual chapter 50 reading guide and all of the other ones except for chapter 51 are one chapter off. Don't worry about the names; just know that they are all there now :)

Accessing and Posting to the Learn Site (aka wiki)

Here's a short video that shows how to use the learn.spartaschools.org sharepoint site (wiki) to upload your projects to. Please upload after each revision, as this will make it so you don't have to use a flash drive or need to email your project to yourself; ie. it saves you time :) For written instructions, click here

IMPORTANT: Please begin by creating a folder (use your name as the name of the folder) in the dropbox for AP biology tab and then click the 2013-2014 folder. Thank You.

The video is a previous video that I used for biology class so you will need to go to the AP biology link within the learn site and access the folders within it. Also, you may not find me in the high school tab for some reason.

If you can't get it to upload, then email it to mrlandryshs@gmail.com . Also, if you have it as a google doc, please share the file to the above address and make sure I have permission to at least make comments. Thanks.

Day One and Homework Already?

Day One and Homework Already?

Hopefully after day one, you are still in the class :) Just a reminder of things that you need to do before our next class:

1. Complete the quality inventory sheet for your textbook. Please click the link below to access the document:
QUALITY INVENTORY SHEET - MR LANDRY AP BIOLOGY

2. Turn in AP Biology contract.

3. Begin reading chapters 50-55. See wiki for extra credit reading guides.

4. Watch the following video to prepare for the next class:

 

Things to do prior to next week:

1. Respond to three other peoples blog entries in blog reel.

2. Continue plugging away at your summer assignments. If your blog is not up yet, please do so by the end of the first week and send me your url. All summer work will be due by September 19. Details will be given soon on how to submit your summer assignments.

3. Continue reading the assigned readings. It is extremely important to keep up with the readings in AP biology.

4. Watch the following videos:

 

Welcome to AP Biology

Hello and welcome to AP biology, the only AP science course offered at SHS. You are about to embark on an exciting journey that will explore many of the intricacies that are involved in making life what it is. This class will be similar to your typical first year of college biology course. Rather than me writing and trying to provide an overview of the course, I've posted this video made by a teacher in Bozeman, MT.




Just for fun, here's a video posted by one of the Green boy's explaining why its important for you to stay in school (FYI - his explanation is quite different from your parent's :)