1. Which words best represent the following:
DO NOW
Date:
4/24
Erosion, Deposition, and Ecoregions
Which words best represent the following:
The carrying away of sediment
The settling of sediment
The breaking down of rock

2. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
What are the ecoregions of Texas?
OBJECTIVES:
-Play vocabulary enrichment game.

3. Video: Earth’s Surface
As we watch, we will discuss some of the processes involved in creating the landforms we observe, and we will discuss the level of biodiversity in each. Video

4. Pictionary
Each table will contain two teams. Your shoulder partner is your teammate.
1 partner randomly chooses a vocabulary word out of the bag to draw on the whiteboard. The other partner will try to guess the word.
Each team has 30 seconds to draw/guess what the word is.
No words or numbers may be included in the drawing. Person who draws cannot speak.

5. DO NOW
Date:
4/25
Reminders: Quiz Friday on Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Ecoregions
Complete a Venn Diagram comparing Internal Stimuli and External Stimuli.

6. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How do geological processes shape the different ecoregions of Texas?
OBJECTIVES:
-Explore the ecoregions of Texas
-Begin an in-class research project on an assigned ecoregion.

7. Ecoregions of Texas!

8. Pineywoods

9. Gulf Prairies and Marshes

10. Post Oak Savannahs

11. Blackland Prairies

12. Cross Timbers and Prairies

13. South Texas Plains

14. Edwards Plateau

15. Rolling Plains

16. High Plains

17. Trans-Pecos Mountains & Basins

18. Geological Processes in Texas
The ecoregion below does not get much rain. How do you think this landform was created?

19. Draw this in your notebook
REGION
ECOLOGY
ECOREGION

20. Add these definitions to your diagram
ECOlogy – the study of the relationships that living organisms have with each other and with their natural environment. REGION- An area or part of a state having specific characteristics.

21. Add this definition to your diagram
ECOREGION- an area defined by environmental conditions and natural features

22. Ecoregion Project Today you will be assigned an ecoregion by group.
You will trace your ecoregion onto butcher paper.
Using the folder of information and a laptop, you and your group will research the ecoregion and follow the rubric to complete your project.

23. DO NOW What is homeostasis?
Date:
4/22 & 4/27
Reminders: Quiz on Weathering, Erosion, Deposition and Ecoregions on Friday
What is homeostasis? 
Give one example of how the human body might respond in order to achieve homeostasis.

24. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How do geolocial processes chape the ecoregions of Texas.
OBJECTIVES:
-Finish your ecoregions project

25. Ecoregions Projects You will finish your Ecoregions projects.
You will complete a gallery walk when projects are finished and fill out information on your sheet.

26. SUCCESSION PLOT
Lets check on the succession plot! (weather-permitting)
Bring notebooks and marker to add new growth to your illustration

27. DO NOW Jim and Karen needed to get a heavy chair into their apartment.
Date:
4/28
Q: What are the ecoregions of Texas?
Jim and Karen needed to get a heavy chair into their apartment. 
Karen took it 10 meters from her car to the stairs using 6 Newtons of force.  Jim lifted it up the stairs 3 meters and used 20 Newtons of force. 
Who did more work?

28. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
What land features make up a watershed?
OBJECTIVES:
-Take a quiz on Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Watersheds

29. Quiz
Voice level 0 When you are finished, raise your hand, and I will pick up your quiz. You may read a book when you finish.