Copy/Paste

We are in the process of grading the Endangered Species projects that we finished last week and they are research papers which are taking a bit of time to grade. We did have a group of papers that were plagiarized. We wanted to give you a heads up that if you notice a tage next to your child's grade that says "cheated"-that means that they plagiarized their paper. We are giving those students the ability to redo their paper for partial credit. We also attached the sources to the students' papers so there is no question about the copy and paste method used!

Wise Use of Resources Continued

We completed day two of our pollution lab (water) yesterday and had time to complete our lab write ups which will be due today. We will be watching a pollution video (with Matt Damon-can it get better than that? hehe) in class today. Wednesday we will be in the computer lab computing our ecological footprints and completing a review for our quiz which will be on Thursday. After the quiz students have a worksheet that will be due on Friday that they can work on. Our next unit will be Geologic time/History of Life.

That is this week in a nutshell. have a great week and enjoy the beautiful Autumn colors!!!

Wise Use of Resources Unit!

Hello and welcome to the end of our Ecology Unit and Beginning of our Wise Use of Resources Unit.

• Today we spent the day reviewing and preparing for our quiz tomorrow.
• Tomorrow-We will have a quiz and binder check tomorrow and students will receive a a Wise use of resources worksheet that will be due for Friday.
• Friday we will check homework and watch parts of a National Geographic video on endangered species
• Monday we will be introducing an endangered speicies project and using much of the class period to work on it in the computer lab.
• Tuesday work day on project (and they will have a worksheet due for Wednesday)
• Wednesday-Present projects and check worksheet
• Thursday-Introduce "How to do a Lab Write up" and begin with prelab (This is the beginning of their first really big lab write up)
• Friday-Soil Lab

This should be good for now. We have a lot of activity and excitment coming up!!!