Environmental Science
Agendas
Fall 2013
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Environmental Science: M 12/2
Welcome Back! It’s December already!
Warm Up
1) What is a population?
2) Compare and Contrast immigration and emigration.
3) Write an equation for population growth rate using birth
rates and death rates.
(ex: Pop. Growth rate =
New Unit: Population Dynamics and Human Population
CW: Population Quick Lab
HW: Population Vocabulary – due Wednesday; current event
due Friday.
Vocab Quiz next Tuesday; Test next Thursday
Environmental Science: W 11/20
Warm Up
1. Why is it easier to clean up point source oil
pollution than nonpoint source oil pollution?
2. What law has been passed requiring oil
tankers to have double hulls? When was it
passed? When is the deadline for double
hulls? (p. 312)
Review book work
Complete review sheet
TEST TOMORROW
Environmental Science: T 11/19
Marine Vocabulary Quiz
Warm Up
1. Where does most ocean pollution come from?
(Justify with text, p. 197 & 311.)
2. How much marine oil pollution is spilled by non-point
sources on land? Compare to amount by ocean
tankers. (Justify with text p. 311)
3. Describe the Federal laws that are designed to protect
marine ecology. (DATE, NAME, DESCRIPTION)
Ch 7, p. 199 #10, 11, 13, 14, 15,18, 19, 23-26, 30
Ch 11, p. 315 #16
Environmental Science: M 11/18
Warm Up
1. What is the cause of ocean acidification?
2. What is the cause of the answer to #1?
3. What causes more damage, oil spills from drill
rigs and tanker ships or oil “drips” on land?
CW: Oil spill lab
Vocab Quiz tomorrow
Test Thursday
Environmental Science: F 11/15
Turn in Coral Reef webquest
1. Coral Reefs Benefits, Threats, and Solutions notes
2. Ocean Acidification video
3. Start End of the Line if time
GO TROJANS!
Environmental Science: Th 11/14
Warm Up
1. Where do most of the threats to coral reefs come
from?
2. What are some big threats to open ocean
environments?
3. If you were algae (!) would you rather live in cold
or warm water? Explain.
Notes + video clips
HW: Coral Reef Web Quest due tomorrow
Vocab quiz Tues
Marine ecosystems test Thursday (7.2, 11.3 + class)
Environmental Science: T 11/12
Warm Up
1. Which is more dense: salt or fresh water?
How do you know?
2. Define diffusion.
Notes on coral reefs and ocean acidification.
MEET IN MEDIA CENTER TOMORROW
Environmental Science: M 11/11
Warm Up
1. What is an estuary?
2. What special abiotic conditions exist in an
estuary?
3. Why are estuaries so threatened?
Notes on estuaries
Marine ecosystems vocabulary
p 197 Q 1&2
Test corrections due at end of week (ASE, B4 & after school)
Environmental Science: F  11/8
• Share Current Events
• Test corrections
Environmental Science: Th 11/7
• Turn in unit vocabulary
• Test
• Journal check
• CURRENT EVENT DUE FRIDAY
Environmental Science: W 11/6
Fill in BINGO sheet – both sides
Correct yesterday’s warm up question
Answer questions from review guide
• Collecting vocab tomorrow
Test Thursday: Freshwater (Ch 7.1 & Ch 11 +
extras from field trip and video)
CURRENT EVENT DUE FRIDAY
Environmental Science: T 11/5
Warm Up
1. Which is easier to remediate – contaminated
surface water or groundwater? Explain.
CW: Complete study guide with ONE partner.
Test Thursday: Freshwater (Ch 7.1 & Ch 11 + extras
from field trip and video)
CURRENT EVENT DUE FRIDAY
Environmental Science: M 11/4
• Turn in Water Footprint Webquest
• Returns
Warm Up
1. Review Unit Vocabulary list. Write down terms you feel
we have not yet discussed in class.
• Remaining info bits.
• Review Ch 11.1 ws & Ch 11.2 answers.
• Discuss webquest info.
• Review warm-up answers from last Friday, 10/25
HW: print out and bring to class tomorrow:
– Aquatic Ecosystems powerpoint slides 1-27;
– Freshwater powerpoint
Test Thursday: Freshwater (Ch 7.1 & Ch 11 + extras from field
trip and video)
CURRENT EVENT DUE FRIDAY
Environmental Science: Th 10/31
Warm Up
1. What are the steps of water treatment?
2. What are the steps of wastewater treatment?
Ch 11.3: 2 notes from each paragraph (26 ¶)
Ch 11.2: Read and answer Reading Checks and
section 2 review Q’s #1-5
MEET ME IN MEDIA CENTER TOMORROW
Test Wednesday
Wastewater Treatment
• Grit screen
• Primary: Settlement basin – sludge settles out
and transported to landfill, incinerator or
fertilizer
• Secondary: Biological process - Add bacteria +
oxygen (aerobic)
• Secondary clarifier (recycle bacteria – eats
more waste)
• Tertiary treatment – chlorination or UV
radiation – kills germs
Water Treatment
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Withdrawal from river
aeration
Coagulation (alum)
Floculation
Sedimentation
Filtration
Disinfection & fluoridation (chlorine & fluoride)
Distribution
Environmental Science: W 10/30/13
• Turn in Ch 11.1 guided reading ws
• Turn in Water Distribution mini-lab if you still have
it
• Guest Speaker Kathleen Lemley
from Cobb County Water System
Ch 11.3 2 notes from each paragraph (26 ¶) – Now due Friday
BRING TEXTBOOK TOMORROW
Test Wednesday
Environmental Science: T 10/29
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Warm Up
1. How much of the world’s total water is available to us as fresh
surface water, in total %?
2. What are other methods of obtaining drinking water for areas
without fresh surface water?
CW/HW:
– Complete Water Distribution mini-lab & turn in
– Complete 11.1 guided reading – due tomorrow
– Ch 11, section 3: due Thursday
1. Read,
2. Write each section title (including red subsections)
3. take 2 important notes from each paragraph (26 ¶’s)
Test next Wednesday: Freshwater (Ch 7.1 & Ch 11 +
extras from field trip and video)
Environmental Science: T 10/29
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Warm Up
1. How much of the world’s total water is available to us as fresh
surface water, in total %?
2. What are other methods of obtaining drinking water for areas
without fresh surface water?
Turn in 11.1 guided reading
CW/HW:
– Complete Water Distribution mini-lab & turn in
– Ch 11, section 3: now due Thursday
1. Write each section title (including red subsections)
2. take 2 important notes from each paragraph (26 ¶’s)
Test next Wednesday: Freshwater (Ch 7.1 & Ch 11 +
extras from field trip and video)
Environmental Science: M 10/28
Warm Up
1) What is it called when water gets taken up through plants
and sent back to the atmosphere through their leaves?
2) How does water get back into an aquifer?
CW/HW:
Ch 11, section 1: Complete Guided Reading – due tomorrow
Ch 11, section 3: due Wednesday
1. Read,
2. Write each section title (including red subsections)
3. take 2 important notes from each paragraph
Test next Wednesday: Freshwater (Ch 7.1 & Ch 11 +
Environmental Science: F  10/25
1. Summarize three main points from yesterday’s
Poisoned Waters video.
2. What is the endocrine system?
Answer #3-6 during the video:
3. How do the endocrine disruptors, PCB’s and other
toxic chemicals get into the waterways?
4. How do they end up in our drinking water?
5. How do they end up in our food?
6. Video notes: list all sources of pollutants to the
bay as they are discussed in the video.
Chesapeake Bay video: Poisoned Waters
Environmental Science: W 10/23
Feedback on field trip (Write on a separate sheet):
1. Your Group names (~5)
2. General impression
3. What you liked
4. What you didn’t like
5. Suggest improvements
Class Data collection and analysis
Complete macroinvertebrate M&M lab
Environmental Science: M 10/21
• Stamp vocab #33 – 59
Warm Up
1. What is a macroinvertebrate?
2. What is a bioindicator?
3. How do we use macroinvertebrates as
bioindicators?
Field trip instructions
Macroinvertebrate graphing activity (w/ M&M’s !)
Field Trip Instructions
• Allergies? Come prepared (epipen, if needed)
• Dress for the weather
– Sneakers or other closed shoes
– Sweatshirt/light jacket/rain gear
• Pack a lunch that doesn’t have to be
refrigerated
• $ if you wish to shop at gift shop (if time)
• Buses leave FROM SCIENCE BUILDING AT 8:20
– 1st per, first bus
– 4th per, second bus
– 5th per, 3rd bus
Environmental Science: F  10/18
TURN IN FIELD TRIP FORMS/$
Current event – share and turn in
No Warm Up
CW/HW: Complete vocabulary #33 – 59 Due Monday
note – some will need to be looked up on line
Environmental Science: Th 10/17
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Turn in Chattahoochee River article Organized Notes
Stamp “Dam Debate” argument points
Current Event DUE TOMORROW
Tomorrow is LAST DAY to turn in field trip permission
forms.
Warm Up
1) Describe solutions to river pollution
2) How does desalination work?
3) What are 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of
desalination?
Environmental Science: W 10/16
TURN IN FIELD TRIP FORMS/$
• Take organized notes on Chattahoochee River
History Article
• Write 5 bulleted arguments for tomorrow’s
debate
• Current event due Friday
Environmental Science: T 10/15
TURN IN FIELD TRIP FORMS/$
Warm Up
1. Brainstorm some benefits of dams.
2. Brainstorm some negative effects of dams.
• Notes on water management.
CW/HW:
1. Take organized notes on The Community Pond PreVisit Information – due Thursday (class time will be
given tomorrow to work on this)
2. Current Event due Friday
3. Prepare for “dam debate” Thursday (create bulleted
Environmental Science: M 10/14
TURN IN FIELD TRIP FORMS/$
Complete Watershed Woes pollution activity –
turn in
Notes on Freshwater Aquatic ecosystems
Environmental Science: F 10/11
• TURN IN FIELD TRIP FORMS/$
Warm Up
1. What is a watershed?
2. Brainstorm some possible sources of
pollution in rivers.
Stamp vocab #1-32
Watershed Woes pollution activity
Environmental Science: Th 10/10
TURN IN FIELD TRIP FORMS/$
Warm Up
1. How does temperature affect dissolved
oxygen (DO) levels in aquatic ecosystems?
2. How does current/turbulence affect DO
levels in aquatic ecosystems?
CW/HW:
• complete test corrections
• Vocab #1-32 – due tomorrow
Environmental Science: W 10/9
Turn in field trip permission/$$ - due Friday
Warm Up
1. List at least 5 different types of aquatic ecosystems (i.e.,
lakes, etc)
2. List at least 5 abiotic factors that affect organisms in
aquatic ecosystems.
GREEN CLUB GUEST SPEAKER FROM ENVIRONMENT GEORGIA
TODAY AFTER SCHOOL – HERE – SNACKS!
CW/HW
• Test returns/make-ups/corrections – due Friday end of day
• Aquatic ecosystems vocab – due Friday (class time
tomorrow)
Environmental Science: W 10/2
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Section 5.1 (Energy Transfer) vocab
Section 5.2 (Cycles of Matter) vocab + Q’s
Section 5.3 (Succession) vacab + Q’s
Vocab review sheet
Transfer of Energy in Ecosystems/Food web ws
Carbon Cycle (complete Matter Cycles on back)
Predators as Prey (Shark Article notes)
• Turn in field trip permission – exact change, or
donation, please
• TEST
Environmental Science: T 10/1
Warm Up
1. Compare and contrast the matter cycles C, N & P
Put Packet together – due tomorrow
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Section 5.1 (Energy Transfer) vocab
Section 5.2 (Cycles of Matter) vocab + Q’s
Section 5.3 (Succession) vacab + Q’s
Vocab review sheet
Transfer of Energy in Ecosystems/Food web ws
Carbon Cycle (complete Matter Cycles on back)
Predators as Prey (Shark Article notes)
• Stamp and review Vocab Review
• BINGO review
TEST WEDNESDAY: How Ecosystems work (Ch 5)
Environmental Science: M 9/30
Warm Up
1. What kind of succession is shown in the Mount
St. Helen’s video? Explain.
2. How does an algal bloom lead to oxygen
depletion?
• Notes on phosphorus cycle
• Review and complete C & O worksheet
CW/HW: Ch 5 vocab review
TEST WEDNESDAY: How Ecosystems work (Ch 5)
Environmental Science: F 9/27
No Warm Up
Stamp 5.3 Succession HW
NOVA Mount St. Helen’s: Back from the Dead
video, with notes
Environmental Science: Th 9/26
• Turn in Dead Zones webquest
Warm Up
1. How does eutrophication relate to the nitrogen
and phosphorus cycles?
• Short Video notes on eutrophication and succession.
• Powerpoint on succession
CW/HW: Succession Book Work: Ch 5, section 3
– Define vocab, including italics
– Answer Section Review Q’s p. 141 #1-6
TEST WEDNESDAY: How Ecosystems work (Ch 5)
Environmental Science: W 9/25
After school Wed, Oct. 9th 3:30 – 4:30 Green Club
Meeting: presentation by Environmental Georgia (a non-profit
organization that works to protect the Georgia environment)
Warm Up
1. What do all fish need to thrive?
2. What do phytoplankton and algae need to thrive?
• Turn in Food Web Project WITH RUBRIC
• CW/HW: Dead Zone internet ws
TEST WEDNESDAY: How Ecosystems work (Ch 5)
Environmental Science: T 9/24
No Warm Up – start working on C & O cycles sheet
Stamp and review matter cycles book questions
Notes on Nitrogen and phosphorus cycles
CW: C & O cycles ws
Food Web Project due Tomorrow
Environmental Science: M 9/23
Warm Up
1. What are the 3 elements whose cycles are explained in
Ch 5.2?
2. What are the three main ingredients of fertilizer?
3. What is the main ingredient of “air”?
CW/HW: Ch 5.2
1) vocab, including italics
2) read
3) answer end of section questions (p. 136) #1-6 thoroughly
Food Web Project NOW DUE WEDNESDAY
Environmental Science: F  9/20
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Stamp graph and article notes
No warm up, but get your journal for later
Questions on project?
Discuss Land to Mouth graph and articles
Review “quiz” (on back of graph)
Turn in Land to Mouth, with graph
Outdoor activity: 2 column observations
Nature
Man’s effect on nature
Food web project due Tuesday
Environmental Science: Th 9/19
SIGN UP FOR REMIND 101
No Warm Up
Stamp and review Land to Mouth activity
Shark Articles
CW: complete Land to Mouth graph – due tomorrow
BRING TEXT BOOK TOMORROW
Apex Predator Food Web due Tuesday
Environmental Science: W 9/18
Warm Up
1. Describe the effects on the food web from
yesterday’s ws if the frog population
declined.
• Stamp energy pyramid
• Food chain quiz ws & From Land to Mouth
activity – due tomorrow
• Assign APEX predator project – due next
Tuesday
Environmental Science: T 9/17
Warm Up
1. How does energy transfer in an ecosystem?
2. Does energy cycle in an ecosystem? Explain.
3. Is energy transfer 100% efficient? Explain.
CW/HW: Energy pyramid ws – both sides
Below FOOD WEB diagram, write in longest food
chain you can find. Add in energy % and trophic
levels for each organism in chain.
Environmental Science: M 9/16
• Journal Check
• Review Friday’s warm-up
• Guided notes on transfer of energy in ecosystems
• Test corrections due by end of day Friday
Environmental Science: F  9/13
Stamp Energy Transfer Vocab
Share current events
Warm Up
1. What is a food chain?
2. Why do the arrows in a food chain point to
the “eater”?
Test corrections
Journal check Monday
Environmental Science: Th 9/12
Warm Up
1. Predict your test score
2. Reflect on whether you feel you were well
enough prepared. If not, what could you
have done more? If so, what did you do?
Test returns
New Unit: How Ecosystems work (Ch 5)
CW/HW: Ch 5 Vocabulary, section 1 only,
including italics – much + Energy Pyramid
Current Event due TOMORROW
Environmental Science: W 9/11
Turn in Packet
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Test
Ch 4 Vocab (#13-40)
Scientific Method Vocabulary sheet
The Organization of Life (triangle)
Pesticide resistance
Kingdom VENN diagrams
Ch 4 and Sci Method Review Practice
p. 115-116 #10-18, 21, 23-24; p117 #1-2
Environmental Science: T 9/10/13
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Ch 4 Vocab (#13-40)
Scientific Method Vocabulary sheet
The Organization of Life (triangle)
Pesticide resistance
Kingdom VENN diagrams
Ch 4 and Sci Method Review Practice
Text book work – see below
CW/HW: Complete p. 115-116 #10-18, 21, 23-24; p117 #1-2
Quiz returns
Stamp VENN and Review
Review Review 
Test tomorrow and Packet due
Environmental Science: M 9/9/13
No Warm Up
Work on Kingdom VENN sheet (15 minutes)
Ch 4 (Organization of Life) Vocab Quiz
CW/HW: Ch 4 and Scientific Method review sheet
BRING TEXT BOOK TOMORROW
TEST WEDNESDAY
Current Event Due Friday
Environmental Science: F  9/6/13
Warm Up
1. Compare and contrast natural selection and
artificial selection.
CW: Complete captions under pictures on
Pesticide Resistance
• Coevolution power point examples
Vocab QUIZ Monday; Test Wednesday
Environmental Science: Th 9/5/13
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched
to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Warm-up
1. Brainstorm the kingdoms from oldest to most
recent.
2. Add characteristics to the kingdoms in #1.
• Notes on Kingdoms of Life
Lab make-up today after school
Vocab QUIZ Monday; Test Wednesday
Environmental Science: W 9/4/13
• Returns
Warm Up (text ref. pp. 99-102)
1. Organize the following from least to most complex:
ecosystem, organism, population, community, biome,
biosphere
2. Write in what is added between each level from #1.
CW: The Organization of Life chart
• BRING TEXTBOOK TOMORROW
• Yeast Lab Make-up session Thursday after school
• Vocab quiz Monday
• Test Wednesday: Scientific Method; Organization of Life
(Ch. 4)
Environmental Science: T 9/3/13
• In media center graphing data on Excel.
• All lab sheets turned in.
Environmental Science: F  8/30
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Stamp remaining vocab sheets
Share current events and turn in
Graph yeast lab data
Happy Labor Day!
Lab make-up time next Thursday after school
• MEET ME IN THE MEDIA CENTER ON TUESDAY
– HAVE YOUR LAB DATA READY
Environmental Science: Th 8/29
BACK OF ROOM
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Group 8
Group 5
Group 6
Group 3
Group 4
Group 1
Group 2
Get goggles and apron
Sit at your group table
Get yeast lab sheet out
Complete lab safety quiz, if necessary
READ LAB PROCEDURE
Wait for further instructions
Yeast lab
READ LAB PROCEDURE
Ice cold
room temp
luke warm
boiling
• Add 5 mL to procedure #3
• Use stirring rod only once at beginning
• Use cell phone for timer – start time when you
add water
• Don’t disturb test tube once time starts
• Measure with agenda ruler or ruler provided
Environmental Science: W 8/28
Warm Up
1. Compare and contrast abiotic and biotic
2. List 5 abiotic factors that would affect a
population of mountain goats.
3. List 5 biotic factors that would affect a
population of mountain goats.
• Stamp vocab (except p. 1 – due tomorrow)
• Lab safety
• Prelab
WEAR CLOSE-TOED SHOES TOMORROW
HW: Current Event due Friday
Ecology Unit Standards
SEV2. Students will demonstrate an
understanding that the Earth is one
interconnected system.
a. Describe how the abiotic components (water,
air, and energy) affect the biosphere.
b. Recognize and give examples of the hierarchy
of the biological entities of the biosphere
(organisms, populations, communities,
ecosystems, and biosphere).
Ecology Unit Standards
SEV2. Students will demonstrate an understanding
that the Earth is one interconnected system.
c. Characterize the components that define a Biome.
Abiotic Factors – to include precipitation, temperature and soils.
Biotic Factors – plant and animal adaptations that create success in that
biome.
d. Characterize the components that define fresh-water and marine
systems.
Abiotic Factors – to include light, dissolved oxygen, phosphorus,
nitrogen, pH and substrate.
Biotic Factors – plant and animal adaptations characteristic to that
system.
Environmental Science: T 8/27
Warm Up
1. Contrast quantitative vs. qualitative data.
2. Compare and contrast observation vs. inference.
Vocab due tomorrow: Ch 4 terms only (#13-40)
Current event due Friday
Scientific Method notes
Environmental Science: M 8/26
• Turn in packet (see bottom of study guide for T.O.C.)
• Take test
• Define vocab words from next unit study guide –
due Wednesday
– Numbered, on notebook paper
• Current Event due Friday
Environmental Science: F  8/23
Warm Up
1. Give an example of a situation when a costbenefit analysis has different results for different
stakeholders. (ref. p. 17)
• Quiz returns
• Packet due Monday (T.O.C. on Study Guide)
Test Monday
Environmental Science: Th 8/22
No Warm Up
Global Issues Vocab Quiz
After Quiz:
Read Mass Extinctions article
Take 5 column notes IN JOURNAL:
name
date
cause
# species died
other notes
Environmental Science: W 8/21
Warm Up
1. How is ecology related to environmental
science?
2. What is the meaning of this powerpoint
background?
3. What is meant by “space-ship earth”?
Complete comparisons ws
Vocab Quiz tomorrow
Global Issues Test Monday
Environmental Science: T 8/20
No Warm Up
• Complete Human’s Effect on Environment
organizer
• Stamp guided reading
• Review of guided reading – quick
• Historical Effect on Environment group
presentations
Vocab Quiz Thursday
Test Monday
Environmental Science: M 8/19
Warm Up
1. List three ‘commons’ from the Lorax video
2. List 3 commons from the Commons video
CW: History organizer
HW: Guided reading due tomorrow
Vocab quiz Thursday
Test Monday: Ch 1 Global Environmental Issues
Environmental Science: F  8/16
Warm-up
1. What does the lack of sustainability lead to?
(hint: see yesterday’s video notes)
• Share current events
• Lorax video with notes
• Guided reading due Tuesday
Environmental Science: Th. 8/15
Warm Up
1. What are the 3 periods in history the text
uses to describe man’s influence on the
environment, and their time frames?
• Complete Guided reading
• “Commons” Sense video notes
HW: Current event due tomorrow
Environmental Science: Wed. 8/14
Warm Up
1. What is the “Tragedy of the Commons”?
2. How can the over-exploitation of common
resources be avoided?
• Stamp Ch 1 Vocab.
• Complete Fishing for the Future questions, and
turn in.
• Ch 1 Guided Reading notes
HW: Current Event Due Friday
Environmental Science: Tues, 8/13
Warm Up
1. What is sustainability?
2. What are fisheries?
Intro Current Events
Fishing for the Future activity.
HW:
• Unit 1 Vocab due tomorrow
• Current event due Friday
BRING BOOKS TOMORROW
Environmental Science: Monday, 8/12
Warm Up
1. Define ecological footprint using your own words.
2. What was your ecological footprint?
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Turn in Ecological Footprint
Turn in signed syllabus
Do warm-up
Textbooks – Station 1
Ch 1 vocab – due Wednesday at beginning of class