Tuesday 9/1 Agenda

MATH
Warm-Up-Question of the Day: Roberto is shopping in a large department store with many floors. He enters the store on the middle floor from a skyway, and immediately he goes up three floors to the housewares department. Then he goes down five floors to the children’s department. Then he goes up six floors to the TV department. Finally he goes down ten floors to the main entrance, which is on the first floor. How many floors does the department store have? (draw a diagram to help you solve the problem, and explain how you got your answer) (Homework Check)

Learning Goals: Learn strategies for finding quotients of whole numbers. Use division vocabulary.

Workbook pp. 13 Review 

Homework: Workbook p. 26, Skill Builder 4

SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Describe the effects of human activities on the transfer of matter in an ecosystem.

Warm-Up: Study the Quizlet  (Vocabulary Quiz on Thursday)

Questions of the Day (you can use your Student Edition and Student Workbook - Answer in complete sentences on the next page in your science notebook)

• About what percentage of the sunlight energy taken in by a producer is available to the primary consumer that eats it?
• What happened to the rest of the energy that was not passed to the next trophic level?

Food Web Group Activity

• What would happen if you removed deer from the food web?
• What would happen if you removed wolverines from the food web?
• What would happen if one species of small mammal, such as a squirrel, were removed from the food web?
• What would happen if shrubs were removed from the food web?

• What other factors might effect the survival of species in this food web?