February 26 and March 1, 2021

•  CAST Practice Day 2
• Tools in the test
• Assignment: join practice test, practice questions, try camera/chat with teacher
• Rejoin zoom in last 5 minutes of class

Homework: Take Sunset photo, put in your portfolio

February 24 and 25, 2021

•  CAST Practice Day
• How to take the test video
• How to look up your SSID
• Signing in and out of the Secure Browser
• Chat and video with teacher during test
• Chromebook required
• Have charging cable handy
• Extra time: Work on missing work for Science or any other class

Homework: Take next Sunset photo between now and the end of this weekend.

Complete missing work.  End of Grading Period is This Friday

February 22 and 23, 2021

• Review Lesson 24 Notes
• Understanding Variation in Natural Selection
• Cal Academy of Sciences Video
• Dogs and Cats video
• Natural Selection Simulation
• Use binder paper to record results and answer summary questions (On Google Classroom)
• Crash Course: Peppered Moths
• CAST Practice - Turn in photo for credit after.

Homework: http://projectbeak.org/adaptations/build.htm

    Build a bird for any habitat.  Once your survival rate is 50% or more, screenshot and submit that picture.

February 18 and 19, 2021

• Perseverance rover landed on Mars 2/18! 
• New Lesson 24: Darwin and Evolution
• Introduction to Charles Darwin Edpuzzle (Classroom)
• Modeling Natural Selection with Tools
• Text with Notes Lesson 24 Sections 4 and 5: highlight and turn in
• Lesson 24 Vocabulary Notes 6 terms and 2 questions (Google Slides)

Homework: Complete Lesson 24 Vocab notes and turn in.

February 16 and 17, 2021

• Fossils and the History of Life Assessment 1 pager 
• Divide paper into 6 boxes 
• First box Name, Per, Fossils and the History of Life
• Top left of all other boxes number 1-5, corresponding to the Text Sections
• Each box has at least 1 labeled illustration and at least 1 sentences in your own words summarizing the section 
• Must use color or shading
• Rubric on Google Classroom

Homework: Complete 1 pager

February 11 and 12, 2021

• Reading: TCI Lesson 23 Section 5
• Did Dinosaurs Really go Extinct? (Edpuzzle through GC)
• Science Notebook Slide 13 - complete using TCI Section 5
• Whale videos
• PBS
• How Whales evolved animation
• Science Notebook Slide 14 - whale pictures
• CAST Practice

Homework: Turn in Lesson 23 (Fossils and the History of Life) Notebook

February 9 and 10, 2021

• Read Lesson 23 Section 4 - highlight and submit Sections 3 and 4
• Slides: Patterns in Fossil Data
• Notebook slides 10-12
• Mass Extinctions
• Comparing Fossils to Living Organisms
• Natural History Museum Virtual Tour
• 2 interesting things
• Scavenger hunt
• CAST Practice #2 - use same paper

Homework: Edpuzzle through Google Classroom

February 3 and 4, 2021

• Complete Notebook slide 7
• Prokaryote vs Eukaryote
• Cambrian Explosion - Read Lesson 23 Section 3
• Check for Understanding
• Lesson 23 part 2 of Notebook (Español)
• Binder paper - answer questions about videos
• A New View of the Evolution of Animals
• Cambrian Explosion
• Turn in photo of answers in Google Classroom
• Layers Game
• What do you know about T-Rex?

Homework: Dress up a T-rex - submit screenshot

    Work on missing work

February 1 and 2, 2021

•  Smithsonian Natural History Museum: Ocean Hall Virtual Tour
• Lesson 23 Notebook
• Slide 1: add name, period, background
• Slide 3: Vocab from TCI
• Slide 4: Body vs. Trace fossils
• Slide 5: Steps of fossilization
• Slider 6: Steps of fossilization images
• CAST Practice: Practice questions on binder paper.  Paper will eventually be turned in, so keep it safe.

Homework: Read TCI Lesson 23, Section 2 and highlight