Do Now: Open up your Chromebook to look for the assignment in Google Classroom: Dissolved Oxygen Data Tables. See if there is a data table that fits your experiment.
We are getting our labs set up today and collecting our first set of data. When your group is done, please go to and work on this assignment about the history of the Pigeon River. Set Up Labs and Collect our initial Data
History of the Pigeon River in Google Classroom PIGEON RIVER PROJECT - How can we help improve the health and usefulness of the Pigeon River area behind Etude Elementary School?
Ticket out: The question I am most interested in pursuing next is_____
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Do Now: Find your investigation group from Tuesday. Get your research proposal from Chris. Review what you have so far and keep working on your experiment set-up and the list of the variables you will keep constant.
Write up your experimental design on a whiteboard and get ready to present it to the class for a ladder of feedback. We all want to get the most useful data possible, so asking peer scientists for feedback is something scientists do all the time. Ladder of Feedback: Questions, comments, concerns, suggestions On a half sheet stapled to your original plan, write up revisions to your experiment plan and why you changed your plan. SAFETY Set up our experiments
Do Now: 30 seconds of fame - Think of something you enjoyed about nature this weekend. Be ready to share in a gathering. Everyone else will be practicing the skill of listening! Please respect each other. Group Think: What moves can we make to make this classroom a safe space to collaborate, think and learn? Introduction/Review of Experimental Design for a Fair Test
Do Now: Please grab your article and notes sheet and be ready to get in our scientist circle to share.
Write notes on the back of your sheet from other scientists share. What did we learn from the article? Learn a little more about eutrophication and oxygen. Videos? https://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/ecosystem/dissolved-oxygenwww.chesapeakebay.net/discover/ecosystem/dissolved-oxygen Brainstorm questions about eutrophication and oxygen on a Jamboard. What could we investigate in our lab? PUT YOUR INITIALS ON EACH STICKY NOTE to get credit. QFT: Oxygen is a key factor in a healthy, aquatic environment How could we investigate some of these questions? We can measure:
Some materials we have to use in an experiment: Pond water (algae in it - just a tiny bit that could grow) Fish tank water Tap water River water Beakers Flasks Mud from river fish Nutrients (liquid plant food with phosphorus and nitrogen in it) Haeating pad to make the water warmer Refrigerator (no light) Lights Fish bubbler Dead leaves Other dead plants DO NOW: Make sure your Google Site is shared with me Record your water monitoring field work from Oct 13 on your Google Site. If you did not go on the field trip, please make an entry showing that our class did some water monitoring on Oct 13, 2022 on the Pigeon River. Add this to your sub page called: Field Sampling I have done ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pigeon River Water Monitoring Date: Time: Location: Partners: What I did (be specific): Questions I have about our sampling and the Pigeon River ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why are we testing all of these things on the Pigeon River? 1. Watch Video: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2018/07/30/green-bays-dead-zones-raise-long-term-questions-over-health-bay/844073002/ 2. Record questions you have on the questioning half sheet. Put your name on it. Be ready to share out to the class. I will add to our Jamboard. 4. Each expert group gets one part of the article: Signs of Life in the Dead Zone to read and a handout to organize notes on. 5. Expert groups split up and join a larger groups of 7 or more. There each person will teach the rest of the group about their part of the article. Together the group will discuss and come to a consensus about the important points from the article about water quality and human actions related to it. What is a Watershed? Video Brainstorm questions: Nutrients affect ecosystems Exit Ticket: Paper slip - "What question sticks in your mind the most from today?" Do Now:
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Compare and contrast our list of skills with skills we used while sampling water in the field. Again, jot ideas as a group on your whiteboard and be ready to share out. Get a Field Work Rubric and take a few quiet minutes to think about how well you showed proficiency or not for each standard. Write down your evidence for each score you give yourself. Use details. Need more room? Write on the back. Turn in. Water quality monitoring on the Pigeon River.
Leaving at 8:00 and returning afternoon when we are finished. See - Think - Wonder
Pollinators are crucial to our flowering plants and food supply. Let's learn something about them today and see if we get inspired. Please have all technology away The teacher will play the video: My Garden of a Thousand Bees Watch and take some time to jot down what you see, thinking and wonder about on the handout. I suggest you stop the video every 20 minutes to stretch and share out one thing you wrote. Especially questions. Do Now:
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Habitat Assessment: If we have the time on Thursday, we will also try to get a habitat assessment done on our two sites. Today we will go to the Sheboygan River launch to practice and get familiar with doing this type of assessment. This will require some collaboration. 6 Teams -
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