A Block Legal Studies - We are back in the Learning Commons / Library to work on our criminal law memo activity. It is due this Friday. You should be on your second case now. Please look at the blog posts for weblinks and assistance on the memo format along with resources for your discussion section. To help with case decisions (to assist you with your charges and punishments sought) check out:
C Block Human Geography - Today is your last day in the Learning Commons / Library to work on your endangered Language project. You may email me a link to your project on line (Canva/Infogram/etc...) or you may save your project as a pdf or jpg file and email that to me as well. Remember
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We'll also look the the key question "Why Do People Preserve Local Languages?" This is the basis of your current project in Human Geography. We'll look at multilingual states and linguistic diversity in Switzerland, Belgium, Nigeria and here in Canada. We'll try to examine of Celtic languages like Welsh, Irish, Breton, Scottish, and Cornish are being preserved along with Aboriginal languages (in Both Australia and Canada) and Maori (in New Zealand). Finally we'll look at English as a lingua franca and examine Pidgin, Frenglish/Franglais, Spanglish and Denglish.
Now, since you asked about AAVE or Ebonics, its use and appropriation:
You'll have the remainder of the block to finish your Language package
C/D Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - In C Block, we'll complete our land use/forestry conflict projects. We will give you a number and a letter...P or Q and even or odd. We'll then ask one group to stand by their posters and have the other group come around and ask questions. You'll have five minutes to look at the poster and ask questions of the creator. You'll need a clipboard, paper, and pencils. When you ask a question, you'll need to record the person's response to your query. This response sheet will form part of your mark for this assignment. When the five minutes is up...on to the next poster. Same thing. Repeat until done and then we'll flip groups. This will take the block.
In D Block, with Benton, we will work on a Plankton Lab. As you know, plankton are very small and often difficult to see. Scientists usually use a plankton net made of very fine mesh to collect plankton. Scientists generally drag a plankton net behind a boat for collection. The mesh used in a plankton net has holes that are large enough to allow water to pass through but small enough so that plankton cannot pass through. This is why we created the nets the way we did. So, in the lab today we'll look at samples from your plankton nets and complete a lab on what we find.
The word “plankton” comes from the Greek word planktos meaning “drifting.” This ecological term refers to the community of plants and animals that drift in both fresh and marine bodies of water. Some plankton are fairly large, such as jellyfish, but most are microscopic in size (not visible by the naked eye).
Planktonic plants are called phytoplankton. The primary importance of these plants, like plants on land, is their ability to photosynthesize. Using chlorophyll, they capture the energy of the sun to make food, releasing oxygen in the process. Virtually all aquatic life depends upon these microscopic single-celled organisms for food. Phytoplankton is the main source of food for zooplankton. Phytoplankton also contribute a significant portion of the oxygen found in the air we breathe. what phytoplankton lack in size, they make up in numbers. Two types of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus, may be the two most abundant organisms on Earth and are found in concentrations of up to 500,000 cells per milliliter of sea water...Nanoplankton are defined by their extremely small size. Nanoplankton’s importance has only recently been discovered (nanoplankton account for 60-99% of the food and oxygen produced). Diatoms are much larger than nanoplankton, yet it still takes a microscope to see them. They are single-celled algae encased in two-part silicon (glass-like) shells. Like all plants, diatoms need sunlight. They have various adaptations to keep them near the surface and near sunlight. Diatoms may have long spines, may be round and flat, or may form long chains. Diatoms can also regulate their density. Some contain oils while others may have a gas bubble inside their bodies. Dinoflagellates, while considered members of phytoplankton, have characteristics of both plants and animals. Like plants they contain chlorophyll which allows them to convert sunlight into food and they have a plantlike cell structure. However, like animals, many varieties eat microscopic pieces of matter found in the water. Dinoflagellates also have two whiplike appendages which provide some mobility.
Planktonic animals are referred to as zooplankton (zoo is pronounced like toe). Many zooplankton are able to move up and down in a water column, pursuing food and escaping predators. Copepods are the most numerous of all animals; they are small crustaceans that grow to 2 mm long and use their long, sensory antennae as rudders to direct movement. Ostracods are also small crustaceans, with a hinged, two-sided carapace (shell) that resembles a clam. Their antenna are used as sensors and to assist in swimming. Ostracods crawl along surfaces using two pairs of legs with clawed tips. Another common type of zooplankton are rotifers. Rotifers are almost constantly in motion, beating the cilia at their heads to move and to bring food to their mouths. When feeding, rotifers attach themselves to a bit of debris and the rapid beating of the cilia draws a current of water towards the mouth. Other species of zooplankton are planktonic (drifters) only as eggs or larvae, then become free swimming or sedentary (stay in one place) during their adult stages. Among the myriad of organisms included in this latter group are sea urchins, sea stars, crabs, barnacles, clams, mussels, sea snails, and many species of fish
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