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Unit 7, Topic 3: Artificial Selection Vocabulary

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Unit 7, Topic 3: Artificial Selection Vocabulary

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Unit 7, Topic 2: Common Ancestry Vocabulary

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Unit 7, Topic 2: Common Ancestry Vocabulary

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Unit 7, Topic 1: Natural Selection Vocabulary

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Unit 7, Topic 1: Natural Selection Vocabulary

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Thursday 4/16: Quiz: Genes

Friday 4/24: Lab: Supertasters

Friday 5/1: Assignment: Punnett Squares

Tuesday 5/5: Quiz: Inheritance

Lab: Supertasters walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/67ffe9ca391b4817d0d5b633/presentation-supertasters-lab

Assignment: Punnett Squares walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/680bcbd7ca43477a7b7c7926/presentation-monster-genetics

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Friday 3/13: Lab: Birds on an Island

Thursday 3/19: Quiz: Natural Selection and Adaptation

Wednesday 3/25: Quiz: Common Ancestry

Wednesday 4/1: Assignment: Rapid Rescue: Designing a Trait for an Endangered Species

Lab: Birds on an Island walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/67d083c26875d76eab5d9e6d/presentation-714-lab-birds-on-an-island

Assignment: Artificial Selection walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/67ec3f696025babf5e60419f/presentation-artificial-selection

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7.1.4: Lab Birds on an Island | Genially

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Unit 6, Topic 2: Biogeography Vocabulary

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Unit 6, Topic 1: Change Over Time Vocabulary

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Unit 6, Topic 1: Change Over Time Vocabulary

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Monday 3/2: Lab: Understanding Fossils

Monday 3/9: Quiz: Biogeography

Lab: Understanding Fossils walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/67c0bbe24b018463aea39c17/presentation-618lab-understanding-fossils

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6.1.8:Lab: Understanding Fossils | Genially

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Unit 5, Topic 3: Age of the Earth Vocabulary

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Unit 5, Topic 2: Relative Age Vocabulary

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Unit 5, Topic 1: The History of Planet Earth Vocabulary

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Unit 5, Topic 1: The History of Planet Earth Vocabulary

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Monday 2/2: Assignment: Fossil Find

Monday 2/9: Quiz: Relative Age

Wednesday 2/18: Quiz: Age of the Earth

Assignment: Fossil Find walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/68af026710e19269b2374acb/interactive-content-assignment-fossil-find

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Thursday 12/18: Quiz: Types of Natural Hazards

Friday 1/9: Assignment: Regional Risk

Tuesday 1/20: Quiz: Natural Hazard Preparation

Assignment: Regional Risk walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/65aaace5c3857600140a5a3d/interactive-content-regional-risk-assignment

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Unit 4, Topic 3: Natural Hazard Preparation Quiz

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Unit 4, Topic 3: Natural Hazard Preparation Quiz

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Unit 4, Topic 3: Natural Hazard Preparation Vocabulary

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Unit 4, Topic 1: Types of Natural Hazards Quiz

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Unit 4, Topic 1: Types of Natural Resources Vocabulary

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Unit 3, Topic 4: Resource Availability Vocabulary

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Unit 3, Topic 1: Natural Resources Vocabulary

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Thursday 11/13: Quiz: Natural Resources

Wednesday 11/26: Quiz: Environmental Impacts

Tuesday 12/9: Quiz: Resource Availability

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Unit 2, Topic 3: Human Impact Vocabulary

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Thursday 10/9: Assignment: Ecosystem Exploration

Wednesday 10/22: Quiz: Populations

Tuesday 10/28: Quiz: Human Impact

Thursday 10/30: Project: Design Solution, Day 1

Friday 10/31: Project: Design Solution, Day 2

Assignment: Ecosystem Exploration walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/66f2fc7207f51dc3680c945b

Project: Design Solution Days 1 & 2 walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/671a334325c2e754a717ef7a/presentation-design-solutions-project-walkthrough

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Project Design Solution: Day 1 & 2

DAY TWO

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Table of contents

DAY ONE

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PAGE 1

Today, you will:

identify factors that impact the Indonesian ecosystem

identify the relationship between oil palm plantations and orangutans

Day 1 Overview

Use your glossary to match the definition with the term.

PAGE 1

the act of remaining alive

population limit

protecting resources for future generations

survival

the maximum population size that can be supported in a particular area without destroying the habitat

conservation

VOCABULARY - Question 1

PAGE 2

How could your favorite candy bar be responsible for the decline of the orangutan populations in Indonesia?

Driving Question

In previous lessons, you explored ecosystem services. While ecosystems are important for resources and human survival, human activity typically negatively impacts ecosystems. ﻿Scientists look for solutions to address problems related to human impact on ecosystems.

Identify the problem

PAGE 3

Look through the products below and study their ingredients. Click to enlarge.

Products

PAGE 4

Use the information on these pages to answer questions 3 & 4 in edio.

Palm oil comes from the fruit of palm trees. Palm oil comes from the fruit of oil palm trees. Oil palm trees are grown in warm areas near the equator. The palm oil we get from these trees can be used for cooking. It is also used in food products, detergents, and cosmetics. Palm oil is found in more than half of all packaged products that Americans consume, like lipstick, soaps, candy, and even ice cream. Many food and beauty products need oil as an ingredient to achieve the right consistency. Some of the original oils used in food and beauty products were bad for our health, so scientists were excited when they discovered palm oil as a replacement.

What is palm oil and wHEre does it come from?

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Oil palm trees produce a lot of palm oil and use less land compared to other types of plants that make oil. The demand for palm oil is increasing rapidly, so more land needs to be used to grow this plant. Producing 1 ton of palm oil requires .25 hectares of land (just under half of a football field). Indonesia is the largest producer of palm oil. Most of the Indonesian oil palms are grown on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. To make space for large oil palm plantations, large areas of tropical rainforest trees and plants (for example, fig trees, tall trees, small bushes) have been cut down. There is concern about orangutans and tigers, whose populations appear to be decreasing. Orangutans live high in the forest trees and eat fruits. Palm kernels are not a food source for orangutans. Tigers hide in the brush to hunt their prey. Palm oil plantations do not have much brush. Indonesia has already lost two types of tigers to extinction: the Bali tiger and the Javan tiger. The only remaining tiger population is that of the Sumatran tiger. Scientists estimate that there are fewer than 500 Sumatran tigers remaining.

PAGE 5

Watch the video and answer the questions that follow.

PAGE 6

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Special Role in the Ecosystem

What they eat

What eats them

Where they spend most of their time

The Role of an Orangutan in the forest

You did it!

In this lesson you:

identified factors that impact the Indonesian ecosystem

identified the relationship between oil palm plantations and orangutans

In the next Project Design lesson (Day 2), you will develop solutions to address concerns affecting the orangutan habitat
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PAGE 1

Today, you will:

develop solutions to address concerns affecting the orangutan habitat

learn about sustainable farming

Day 2 Overview

PAGE 2

1. Open the simulation.

2. When it opens, you will have the option to "Set Independent Variables". Leave "allow birth & death" button selected.

3. You will change the % of fruit trees to 0, 20, and 40 to answer the following questions.

Use the Simulation to answer the questions.

PAGE 3

Orangutan Populations & Distribution over time

Look at the graphs below. Look closely at patterns and relationships then answer the question that follows.

Land used to grow Oil Palm Plants from 1970-2016

PAGE 4

How This helps the population

Not Clearing New Forests

Growing Areas of Wildlife habitat on the farm

Sustainable Palm Oil

Sustainable Palm Oil in Indonesia

Watch the video and answer the questions that follow.

PAGE 5

Reflect:

Question 6: Think about your daily life, what can you do to help your local, or global, ecosystem? SENTENCE STARTER: To help my local or global ecosystem, I can...

PAGE 6

YOU DID IT!

In this lesson, you:

developed solutions to address concerns affecting the orangutan habitat

learned about sustainable farming

In the next lesson, you will explore the resources humans use.
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Where they spend most of their time

Orangutans live on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, which are part of Indonesia and Malaysia. There are more orangutans in areas of the forest where more fruit trees grow. Orangutans like to live where fruit is plentiful all year long. The spend most of their lives living in the trees.

What They eat

Orangutans mostly eat fruit (90%), like figs and durian fruit. They also eat insects, like termites and ants. They sometimes eat bark, leaves, and flowers.

What Eats them

Orangutans primary predator on Sumatra is the Sumatran tiger. On Borneo, there are no tigers, so the clouded leopard is their primary predator.

Special Role in the Ecosystem

When orangutans eat durian fruit, they spit out the seeds, which helps spread the seeds to grow plants in new places. Other seeds are spread when orangutans poop. This makes orangutans especially important to fruit trees, because they help spread seeds to grow new fruit trees.

Growing Areas of Wildlife Habitat on The Farm

A second criterion for getting certified is protecting areas of wildlife habitat on the farm. Some farmers plant habitat plants on the edges of the farm. Others maintain habitat areas alongside rivers. Some farmers also plant wildlife habitat between fields. Farmers must keep 15-20% of the land as wildlife habitat to be a sustainable palm farm. Around the world, farmers grow areas of wildlife habitat on the farm. For example, some farmers in lowa plant native prairie plants between their fields.

Not clearing new forests

The first criteria to get certified is to not clear any new forest for oil palm farms. People could only use land that was already cut down, or deforested, in the past. In Indonesia, farmers can decide to not cut down forests for farming. In Costa Rica, the government made a law in 1996 to stop the cutting down of forests without permission. No farmer can clear a forested area to plant crops. Evidence from Costa Rica suggests that stopping deforestation will help populations in ecosystems. Since the new law, Costa Rica replanted about half of the deforested land. That land is now forest again. Plant and animal populations thrive because they have resources to meet their needs.

Sustainable Palm Oil in Indonesia

Sustainable palm oil is being used to help mitigate the impacts of deforestation and habitat loss.Some large-scale farms and family farms get certified as sustainable palm oil. Their products have a label that says they used sustainable palm oil. Farms need to meet several criteria to get certified. This article highlights two of these criteria.

How this helps the population

Growing areas of wildlife habitat on farms helps populations for four reasons.

1. Plants that grow there prevent wind and erosion. This helps the soil stay healthy for plants to grow and critters to live.

2. They provide a habitat for pollinators and birds.

3. They act like sponges to keep water, soil, and nutrients on the farm. This helps plants get the water and nutrients they need.

4. They connect existing areas of forest. In Indonesia, this helps orangutans travel to areas of forests next to the farms. They don't come into conflict with farmers.

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Tuesday 9/9 - Assignment: Sensory Inputs Correction

Wednesday 9/18 - Quiz: Nerve Cells

Monday 9/29 - Quiz: The Brain

Tuesday 10/1 and Wednesday 10/2 - Assignment: Behavioral Responses Days 1 and 2

Test your Blindspot? https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/blind-spot

Sensory Inputs Correction walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/66d0801b4113b3423186c446

Behavioral Responses walkthrough: https://view.genially.com/66f40447ada2fb2d68aa103a

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Sensory inputsassignment

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Today, we will explore ways that humans and animals use their sensory receptors.

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A cell that responds to an external stimulus is called a __________.

prerequisite vocabulary

page 3.

Open your Science 8 Workbook to the Sensory Inputs Notes. Review the types of receptors and inputs. You may find it helpful to reference these notes throughout today's assignment.

things we know:

Page 3.

These are tools to help correct sensory receptors and inputs

Some people wear glasses or hearing aids

Receptors do not always work perfectly

A stimulus is something that causes an organism to react

A receptor is a cell that responds to an external stimulus

Many parts of the body contain receptors

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Unfortunately, not all of their sensory receptors are as strong. Their vision is not as clear as humans and they are near-sighted.

For example, a pig has 15,000 taste buds on its tongue! For reference, a human has 9,000. It is able to smell food six inches under the soil with its powerful, sensitive nose. It will eat just about anything it finds! This is a beneficial sensory receptor and allows pigs to survive in their environments.

Sensory receptors are essential for an organism to understand its environment. Many animals have specific, unique senses that allow them to thrive in their habitat.

page 5.

An elephant can make very low sounds that humans can't hear and it can hear other elephants up to 10 miles away!Match the stimulus, receptor, and type of input with the examples in your edio assignment!

Options:-Electromagnetic-Mechanical-Chemical

Options:-Prey Moving-Vision-Flying

A Peregrine Falcon is the fastest animal on Earth and its eyes are so powerful that it can spot prey from one mile away, even while flying!

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TYPE OF INPUT

STIMULUS

SENSORY RECEPTOR

Options:-Prey Moving-Vision-Flying

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Reflect on your own sensory receptors. Perhaps you feel that some of your senses are stronger or weaker than others.

V.S.

WEAK

Which sensory receptor is weakest in your own body? Why do you think that?

STRONG

Which sensory receptor is strongest in your own body? Why do you think that?

page 7.

BONUS!

What is the type of input to describe that sensory receptor?Word Bank: Electromagnetic, Mechanical, Chemical

What is the sensory receptor used for your animal to receive that stimulus?Word Bank: vision, hearing, taste, smell, sensation (touch), balance

Choose any animal! In your answer below, state the animal you chose and ONE common stimulus that your animal encounters. Hint: what does your animal hear, see, touch, feel, smell, or taste?

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TYPE OF INPUT

RECEPTOR

STIMULUS

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In this lesson, you: explored how animals use sensory receptors to survive in their environment reflected on your own sensory receptors In the next lesson, you will experiment with your reflexes.

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