Look at the Biome Brochure project. This will be due on Jan 22 at 4:00 pm and will be your test for the unit. There are a few other activities that you will need to complete over the next 3 weeks in addition to the brochure. Submit your tour location by Friday
MON Jan 10
Look at the LessonPath Biomes to fill out the chart in your study guide. Find a good map of the area and start marking stops on the map. Decide how you are going to travel on each leg of your tour. Will your tourists need to have anything in
particular for the trip, sleeping bags, mosquito nets, …
Look at LessonPath Climate.
Tue 11
What kinds of animals will you see? How close will you get? Your tourists may need a camera with a telephoto lens to get the pictures they will want to remember the tour. Are there any plants you will want to make sure each tourist sees?
Include pictures and descriptions of them. Are they poisonous, endangered? Look for pictures and information about each stop of your tour. As you save pictures on your page make sure to also save the urls in a reference content block.
W 12
Develop a description of why someone should go on your tour. Make it exciting and use a thesaurus if needed to find more word choices.
Th 13
Climate change is an important topic right now. Share information that you found about climate change. I’m looking for well supported information so check your source.
Fr 14
Biome Project Workday. Make sure you are caught up on all of the parts of your project up to this point.
Tue 18
Complete the Seasons lesson path and add to your study guide and Biome project.
Wed 19
Make sure to talk about places to get souvenirs. What’s a good tour if you can’t bring home something to show everyone. Will you be going through different countries and need different types of currency? How about credit cards? Phone service? You might want to include a picture of people you will encounter and items that might be hand crafted in the area. Project Work Day.
Th 20
Project Work Day
F 21
Make sure your Biome Brochure page is complete. Is your name on there somewhere? Please submit your project to the Biome Tour Final Project Discussion Board before Friday, Jan 22 at 4:00. Please remember this is a summative assignment.
Look at the directions for your project for these three weeks. Pick out a location now for your brochure and create your page in the folder Your Biome Tour Pages. Be sure to put a location in as the title. Submit your selected Biome location and a brief project description to the Tour Description Dropbox. That way you will be able to add to it as you do the rest of your work in this unit. You are developing a tour of an area in a biome. It should be more than just one city. Make sure to look at the directions closely to make sure that everything is included. Choose your location for your tour and put it in your discussion. Also let me know if you are having problems creating your page. Please do not choose anything that another student has done in the examples or that another classmate has done. Develop a draft of a description of your Biome Tour. Include any unique landforms that could be seen, and what kind activities your tour might offer (Rainforest hikes, Snowshoeing, etc.). Consider a biome daily tour schedule or options for travelers to choose from. Submit it here. You may decide this description is better broken up with different groups of pictures or divided into different content blocks. You can revise it in the future. Make sure to talk about places to get souvenirs. What’s a good tour if you can’t bring home something to show everyone. Will you be going through different countries and need different types of currency? How about credit cards? Phone service? You mightwant to include a picture of people you will encounter and items that might be hand crafted in the area. Add this information to your page. What souvenir would you get if you went on your tour?
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-evidence/
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-effect/
Is Climate Change impacting the Biome that you selected? After some research add to your Biome project and post a short thought below about the impacts of Climate
Change in your Biome.
Look for pictures and information about each stop of your tour. As you save pictures to include in your brochure make sure to also save the urls. These would go in the refrences content block where you put your map url. You can put your pictures into the same or different content blocks depending on how you are setting up your page. Remember that you can only have 20 active content blocks Share an interesting picture or piece of information from your tour. What kinds of plants and animals will you see? What kinds of adaptations do these organisms have that make them successful in your biome? Your tourists may need a camera with a telephoto lens to get the pictures they will want to remember the tour.
Start adding this information to your page. Share information about one plant and one animal from your tour. Give some
information about it, more than you will have on your tour information page, about one paragraph on each. Pick one or two of the factors that influence OUR climate in the simulation and discuss how these factors influence our climate in North Georgia
