Living World
(Ch 4 - 6)
Chapter 4 Biomes and Climate
Intro to Climate Presentation (you have a notesheet to accompany this)
Chapter 4 Google presentation slides (no narration) whole presentation
Flipped lecture for Ch 4 (Mrs. Leider is narrating)--split into three parts
Climate, Weather and Trees Links
Presentation --this has all the links you need for the activity!
Cloud Identification -- there are tons of these online, this is just one I use and know.
U of Florida--Horticulture Dept/Tree info
Carolina Lab Links
MIT link
Wind Webquest Link
Climate Patterns and Life Links
Earth lab Activity for Climate Patterns and Life
1st: Join edpuzzle by using this code: mejolse
How the Amazon became the Crucible of Life
How does Evolution Really work?
HHMI video on Stickleback evolution with embedded questions
Virtual Population Lab (found in lecture notes)
Measuring Biodiversity in Gorongosa activity: Gorongosa Interactive Map
Plant Hardiness map (for Range of Tolerance in notes)
Evolution of TB (video clip for lecture notes)
Virtual Selective Breeding and GMO technology (found in lecture notes)
Selective Breeding alternative
What Darwin Never Saw--shown in class
Chapter 5: Biodiversity
Inbred wolves struggle (reading for in your notepacket)
After you read this news article, you could go to thiswebsite to read a bit about all the scientific information we've gained from this long term study.
Lastly, you have a case study to do for this unit (Hardcopy)
Links for Chapter Reading Questions
Chapter 4: World Biomes Video from Untamed Science
Chapter 5: Bruce Lipton--The 6th Mass Extinction
Chapter 6: Bright spots of resilience
Extras
Habitable Planet Video
Seasons Interactive (with quiz)
Ted Talk: Cloudy Climate Change: How Clouds affect Earth's Temperature
Extras
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