Agenda Wednesday, Thrusday, and Friday March 31, April 1,2

Hello - Use your google calendar and look at the goals you have set and the assignments you will choose. I will be comming around and grading what you have done.

FILL THIS SURVEY OUT PLEASE NOW!! - http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AF9GE564Z

Here is some useful links for your Florida Endangered Project

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  Here's the link to a Google spreadsheet with all the species and to whom they've been assigned: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApSBaekVbLRAdExwWnJ4eEdVRjlFQmhHZTBEVkFNUkE&hl=en

Focus on the following research directions:

• What it is, in normal English?
• In what part of Florida does it live?
• To which natural community does it belong? (this one is really important!)
• Who out there seems to know a lot about this species?
• What seems to be its problem?
• What is threatening its survival?

20% day

Work on your 20% projects. Double check your google calendar.

1. FILL OUT THIS FORM NOW!! (please) : http://spreadsheets.google.com/a/pkyonge.ufl.edu/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFlBUTVFRDNPUjk3MlR2QTVSNlVDQXc6MA


If you have not done so already, go to this link and put in your computer #: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDZHQ2FyeGUwbXduR2lmNXRNa0RwYkE6MA

Thursday March 17

Organize yourself Day!!!!

0. Fill out this form NOW - https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDZHQ2FyeGUwbXduR2lmNXRNa0RwYkE6MA

1. Show that you can logon to "mygradebook.com"

2. Check and read the 3 units on the sidebar of this blog

3. Use your google calendar to set what days you will finish which assignment.

4. Send a copy of your calendar to one student and your parent.

5. If you have email records that your finished the above, you my begin science work or engage in a certified brain game.

Agenda Monday March 15

1. Fill out this form if you didn't check your email https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEVaUXlXYTI5bEl3YWJtVnc2dlJwQ3c6MA
1.5 Computer # form - fill this out also if you haven't already https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDZHQ2FyeGUwbXduR2lmNXRNa0RwYkE6MA
1.6 - Parent email form is here - https://spreadsheets0.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGx6d2hjbjJMX091NnRDRlgyMk1xOXc6MA

2. PLEASE update you symbaloo pages!! Put ALL assingments on your page

• New scientific paper on Darwin's Birds
• Florida Endangered Page
• Anything else?

3. Work on 20% projects - Decide how it will be shared.

Agenda Thursday March 11

Microscopic Adventure

1. Prepare a notebook and something to write with

2. Make a venn chart for your observations

3. Share a microscope with a partner

4. Put diagram on your blog

Then. . .

• Florida Endangered Page



• Scientific Paper on Darwin's Birds



• Online course for Evolution https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaoG5TaoiHZMZGMyajl0cHFfMjMzZGttc3JkeHc&hl=en

Agenda Monday March 8

20% Day

1. Start a google calendar.
2. Write down what you think your due date should be.
3. See what else you can do with your calendar.
4. Continue your 20% work.

Friday March 4 - Sub Plans

Sub Plans for Friday March 4





You will be using the desktop computer to do these plans. The computer will show up on the front screen not the actual computer monitor. If you need assistance, students may help.





1. Watch the video Titled - Discovery Evolution (it will be saved on the desktop of the computer and also in the class flash drive)





2. Have students use their own paper and pencil to answer the following questions

• Name more than one idea that scientists believe caused a mass extinction of the dinosaurs.


• What conditions are necessary to sustain life on Earth?


• How was natural selection discussed in the video?


• What do hominid fossils tell us about our own anscestors?

4. Use green books and answer questions 1-7 on page 161 about evolution and natural selection if time permits.

Thursday and Friday March 4-5

1. Work Day - The one and only day they can use the word "Done" (that's right, the four letter 'D' word)
2. Library visit to look at senior projects
3. You can choose any game we have used in science this year when you are checked off, graded and done.
4. You can also continue work on your 20% project

Agenda Tuesday and Wednesday March 2

Work Day

Jobs to be done:
1. Scientific paper on bird beak lab - (peer reviewed by student and adult before grading)
2. Florida Endangered page (google doc) (photo, elementary answers to Mr. Cunningham's research questions)

• What it is, in normal English?
• In what part of Florida does it live?
• To which natural community does it belong? (this one is really important!)
• Who out there seems to know a lot about this species?
• What seems to be its problem?
• What is threatening its survival?

3. Build a fish : Build a Fish : http://sea.sheddaquarium.org/sea/interactive_module.asp?id=7#