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Checking to see if you have homework? You probably do!!!!! There is a large jump in work and expectation from grade 8 to nine. Please make sure you stay on top of your work and come in for extra help when you are feeling lost.

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Lesson: 1) Field trip
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Homwk: 1) || 24 Lesson: 1) Practice Test #2 2) Text book questions #1-10

Homwk: 1) Mark your test and finish questions Matter test 2 pg1 matter test 2 pg2 matter test 2 pg3 matter test 2 pg4 matter test 2 pg5 matter test 2 pg6 matter test 2 pg7 || 24 Lesson: 1) Carbon cycle, Reviewed photo- synthesis and respiration 2) Note on carbon cycle 3) Filled in Carbon cycle diagram

Homwk: 1) || 24 Lesson: 1) Pd 1 took up carbon cycle, foodweb hand out 2) Reviewed consumer terms 3) Note on populations

Homwk: 1) for Monday finish wetland foodweb 2) Finish worksheet on ecology review. || 24 Lesson: 1) Matter test 2

Homwk: 1) || Lesson: 1) cover note on adaptations 2)-worksheet on bird adaptations 3) -Labeling of population growth 4) -fruit fly population graph || 4 Lesson: 1) Took up structural and behavioural adaptations 2) Predator/Prey Owl Pelt dissection Homwk: 1) Human population graph 2) Predator/Prey graph || 5 Lesson: 1) Finished and handed in the dissection replica 2) Took up human and fruit fly population graph and related these to carrying capacity 3) Took up Predator Prey graph Stressed answer to question 4 as a future test question 4) Effects of Humans on the environment. Discussed invading species and introduced bioaccumulation and magnification. Homwk: 1) Calculate the level (ppb) of chemical in each organism in the food web after 30 days. 2) Get field trip form signed || 6 Lesson: 1) Took up biomagnification activity 2) Biomagnification note 3) Practiced using GLX and probes Homwk: 1) Complete the cricket graphing activity 2) Read Page 83-86 in text Ans Q# 1-7 || 7 Lesson: 1) Field trip to Thames River 2) Took abiotic water measurements
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Homwk:

1) Complete yesterday's homework 2) space booklet || Lesson: 1)
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Homwk: 1) || 11 24 Lesson: 1) Took up cricket population graphs 2)Took up biodiversity homework 3) Finished thames sampling

Homwk: 1) Complete 9 bar graphs (your choice) and answer the discussion questions 1-5 || 12 Lesson: 1) Took up comparison of Thames/mudcreek discussion questions 1-5 2) The origins of the Universe The Big Bang video and work sheet

Homwk: 1) Complete the Practice Ecology test || 13 Lesson: 1) Mark the Space Booklet

Homwk: 1) Ecology unit outcomes 2) Test answers. These are not completely finished but it is what I have available ecology test pg 1 ecology test pg 2 ecology test pg 3 ecology test pg 4 ecology test pg 5 ecology test pg 6 || 14 Lesson: 1) Ecology Unit Test

Homwk: 1) Read pages 393-396 Answer 1-6 Pg 97 || Lesson: 1) Pancake day 2) Took up the Origins of the Universe
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Homwk: 1) Complete the comparison chart of earth to the other planets in the solar system || 18 Lesson: 1) Pancake day 2) Note on Origins of the Universe 3) characteristics of stars Q1-6

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Homwk: 1) || 21 Period 1 exam || Period 2 exam || 25 Period 3 exam || 26 Period 4 exam || 27 || 28 ||
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Exam Review Here is a practice exam

[|Catholic Graduate Expectations] Government outcomes for skills of inquiry:

Units Pages: Chemistry Unit Electricity unit Ecology unit

online [|graphing paper] printable [|graph paper] [|virtual demos] Making bar graphs in excel

[|Science Simulation Site](the class code for period 1 is 4RZNMQTRST, for period 2 it is JAGA4PJUFF ) You will need to sign yourself in as a new student so follow the procedure given) If you are unable to play the simulation check that you have the following plugins 1) adobe shockwave full version ([|download here]) and 2) the adobe flash plugin ([|download here])