WELCOME TO YOUR FINAL YEAR OF JUNIOR HIGH SCIENCE!

RIVER WATCH TRIP FOR 9E IS FRIDAY!

WHAT HAVE WE DONE SO FAR?

1. Lab safety
2. Introduction to Environmental Chemistry (Riverwatch)
3. Began Biological Diversity

WHAT WORK HAS BE DONE ALREADY? Yes you should be done all of this...

• Benchmark task - a benchmark of your current understanding of topics in grade 9 Science
• read page 92-96, Check and reflect pg 96 (1-9)
• Read page 183-195
• Various lab safety videos and worksheets
• Riverwatch pre trip work online including survey
• Learned about Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation initiative (see poster in class)
• vocabulary from different sections (see list of words below; remember keep vocab in your duotang as a record of your learning

TODAYS WORK:

1. Vocabulary: interspecies competition, niche, resource partitioning, variablity, natural selection
2. Reading: pages 1-25
3. Questions: Check and Reflect, page 15 (1-7 only)

UPCOMING PROJECTS: Species at Risk Action Project, Our Ecosystem task, Wildlife What am I task