To kick off today's class, students were assigned one of the following biomes to research: tundra, taiga, temperate deciduous forest, grasslands, savanna, chapparal, or a specific type of desert.
We also discussed how textbooks have changed. We viewed several pictures old verses new textbooks and focused on specific ways textbooks are changing. This is the basis for our biome assignment.
Each student will work with a group to create a "new" textbook page for their lab notebook about their assigned biome specifically focusing on the three parts of a biome: climate, animals, and vegetation.
The pages are going to be evaluated by including required information, quality & depth of the information, the visual aspect of the pages, and the overall presentation. See the 8th grade website for the specific rubric.
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