Food Webs

Today we learned about food webs and how energy, nutrients and elements flow through living things. Homework: Read about Bacteria, Fungi and actinomycetes here. For each topic: Bacteria, Fungi and Actinomycetes write down three things you learned and two questions you have. This means you should have a total of 15 complete sentences. You must write in your own words. If you choose type this assignment, you must bring a printed copy to class.

Soil Jigsaw

Today in class we used the websites students looked at for homework last night to do a jigsaw activity. Students shared the information they learned about soil in small groups.


Homework: Complete the soil question sheet. No computers needed for this assignment.

What sound does a raisin make?

Today you were asked a very strange question: What sound does a raisin make? Many discoveries in science have been because people asked very strange questions. They looked at ordinary things were curious, HOW does the thing work, WHY does it work that way, WHAT makes it behave like that?


In our first unit, The Soil, we will be looking at something that many of us consider very ordinary.

Your first homework assignment is to find your name below and click on the link. On a sheet of paper

1. Write your name
2. The url for the website (a url is the address, for example: www.tasis.ch is a url)
3. Read the information on the webpage.
4. Write down three things you learned about soil. Be specific and please use complete sentences.
5. Two things you have questions about from the reading. These might be things you don't understand or things you want to learn more about.

This is assignment should take you no more than 20 minutes.

Carlo
Malcolm
Conner
Svetlana
Mauro
Paulina
Molly
Joo Hwan
Francesca
Paul-Wilhelm
Adam
Jose
Antonella
Gabriella
Gianromano
Isabella
Ivan
Oliver
Hayden
Jillian
Edoardo

It is VERY important that you do your homework, because we will be using this information in class tomorrow.