Environmental Science
Daily Agenda
Fall 2011
Environmental Science: W 11/16
Warm up
1. Is there any way for ocean water to be added
back into the freshwater cycle?
2. How might global warming affect the amount
of fresh water available to us?
3. Why is fresh water as a resource becoming
more limited?
Stamp homework
Environmental Science: T 11/15
Warm Up (use text, ch 11.2)
1. What % of the earth’s water is fresh water?
2. What % of the fresh water is frozen at the poles?
3. What % remains at our disposal?
CW/HW
Vocab ch 11
Read ch 11
All section review Q’s
Environmental Science: F. 11/11/11
Turn in packet
1. p. 200, #19-23, 28-31 (stamped)
2. Ch 7.1 section review and vocab (stamped)
3. Ch 7.2 section review and vocab (stamped)
4. Aquatic Ecosystems vocabulary
5. Aquatic Ecosystems - notes
6. "Quiz" and "Concept Review“
• Test
Environmental Science: Th. 11/10
Stamp HW p. 200, #19-23, 28-31
Put together packet
1. p. 200, #19-23, 28-31 (stamped)
2. Ch 7.1 section review and vocab (stamped)
3. Ch 7.2 section review and vocab (stamped)
4. Aquatic Ecosystems vocabulary
5. Aquatic Ecosystems - notes
6. "Quiz" and "Concept Review“
• Review HW
• BINGO vocab review
Environmental Science: Wed. 11/9
Warm Up
1. List three different anthropogenic threats to coral reefs
and describe their specific effects on coral reefs.
2. Compare and contrast plankton, benthos and nekton.
(Three way venn)
3. Which creatures are affected by ocean acidification:
Pteropods or zooxanthellae? Explain.
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Review notes
Complete vocab (use own words. Make a sketch)
Text work p. 200, #19-23, 28-31
• Test Friday: aquatic biomes
– Ch 7 + Coral reefs, wetlands, ocean acidification, runoff
Environmental Science: Mon. 11/7/11
Warm up
1. If you could be any kind of scientist for a living, what
would you like to be?
• Science career day sign-ups – Nov. 18th
• Coral Reef video notes
• Ocean acidification & runoff ws - complete
• Aquatic biomes vocab
• Test Friday: aquatic biomes
– Ch 7 + Coral reefs, wetlands, ocean acidification, runoff
Environmental Science: Thur. 11/3/11
Warm up
1. What do you think is the largest source of
pollution to our waterways?
• Presentations, as available
• iRespond vocab anticipation quiz
• Aquatic ecosystems test Tuesday
(includes ch 7)
Environmental Science: Tue. 11/1/11
Presentations
Coral Reefs
Ocean Acidification
Wetlands
Run-off Pollution
Environmental Science:
Mon 10/31
Warm Up
– Define anthropogenic
Presentations
Coral Reefs
Ocean Acidification
Wetlands
Run-off Pollution
Environmental Science: Fri! 10/28
• Turn in handouts for me to copy (don’t forget
names!)
• Share current events
• Turn in current events
• Video: freshwater biomes
• Presentations Monday
Environmental Science: Thurs. 10/20
• Turn in biodiversity article with notes
Project: Georgia endangered animals
Environmental Science: Wed. 10/19
• Finish reviewing Concept Review ws from
yesterday
• CW/HW: Aquatic Biodiversity Active Reading
with questions
• Last 10 minutes: Great Pacific Garbage Patch
video
Environmental Science: Tues. 10/18
Debrief on End of the Line movie
Sign up for “Where does your fish come from?”
Stamp book work 7.2
Review ch 7 book work
CW/HW: Ch 7 Concept Review sheet
Environmental Science: Thurs. 10/13
Warm Up
1. What is the defining difference between
freshwater and marine habitats?
2. In what part of the ocean would you expect to
find the greatest biodiversity? Explain.
Review text work Ch 7.1
CW/HW: Text Ch 7.2 marine ecosystems
• vocab
• Read
• answer section review Q’s p. 197
• Read Case Study P. 192-3. Answer Q’s.
Environmental Science: Tues. 10/11
Warm Up
1. What abiotic factors determine an aquatic
biome?
• Stamp text section 7.1 work
• Terrestrial biome presentations
Environmental Science: Mon. 10/10
• Complete biome presentations
CW/HW:
Aquatic Biomes, Ch 7
1. Define Section 1 vocabulary (p. 185)
2. Read Ch 7, Section 1
3. Answer Section 1 Review Q’s, p. 190
Environmental Science: Friday! 10/7
1. Get into groups
2. grade your project on rubric
3. Turn in rubric
• Project presentations
– Each person presents their role
Environmental Science: Tues. 10/4
• Turn in biomes organizer
• Begin biomes project – due Friday
1. (Ace) trop. RF
2. savanna
3. desert
4. Temp rain forest
5. Temp deciduous forest
6. Tundra
7. Temperate grassland
8. Chaparral
9. taiga
Environmental Science: Mon. 10/3
Warm-up
1. What is a deciduous tree?
2. What is a coniferous tree?
CW/HW
Biomes graph
Biomes Organizer – complete
Environmental Science: Fri. 9/30
Stamp and keep Current Event
Warm Up
1. What factors determine a biome? (ch 6)
Start biomes unit
• Active Reading: What is a Biome?
Biomes 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.
Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/29
• Complete lab write-up and turn in
Environmental Science: Wed. 9/28
• Turn in packet
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Ch 4 vocab
ch 4 textbook work
ch 5 vocab
ch 5 textbook work
Transfer of Energy in Ecosystems ws
Kingdom VENN diagrams ws
The Organization of Life ws (2 triangles)
• Clear desk for test
• Journal check after test
• Current event due Friday
Environmental Science: Tues. 9/27
• Lab write-up on computers
• Complete lab write-up Thursday
Test tomorrow
Packet due tomorrow
Journal check tomorrow
Current event due Friday
Environmental Science: Mon. 9/26
Warm Up
1. What kind of graph will you use for data?
• Review text work
• Vocab review sheet
• demo lab format
Ecology Test Wednesday
Environmental Science: Fri. 9/23
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Radish Lab – Water/Record data – last time
• Review text work
• Succession
Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/22
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Radish Lab – Water/Record data
• Stamp text work pp. 143 – 145 #1-10, 24-26, 34-35
Warm Up
1. Compare and contrast primary and secondary succession.
2. What events can lead to primary succession?
3. What events can lead to secondary succession?
• Complete Matter Cycles Notes
• Review Text work
Ecology Test Friday (Ch 4 & 5 + activities)
Journal Check tomorrow
Packet Due tomorrow
(add text pp. 115-117 + VENN ws to packet TOC)
Environmental Science: Wed. 9/21
Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Turn in Web Quest
Warm up:
1. What are biofuels? (Break the word down)
2. Given what you know about phosphorus (and oil)
shortages, argue how biofuels could be thought of as
nonrenewable.
• Carbon cycle & succession notes
• HW: Read ch 5, section 3.
• Ch 5 review pp. 143 – 145 #1-10, 24-26, 34-35
Ecology Test Friday (Ch 4 & 5 + activities)
Environmental Science: Tues 9/20
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
• Complete web quest
• Ecology Test Friday (Ch 4 & 5 + activities)
Environmental Science: Mon 9/19
Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm up:
1. What are the three main components of
fertilizer?
2. What would happen if excess fertilizer got into
natural water bodies?
2nd: Complete nitrogen cycle notes + P cycle
4th: phosphorus cycle
WEB QUEST
Ch 4 & 5 test Friday
Environmental Science: Fri. 9/16
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Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm up:
1. What is nitrogen used for?
• Stamp and share current events
• Nitrogen Cycle Notes/video clips
Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/15
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm Up
1. What is a “trophic level”? (use your vocab)
• Energy pyramid discussion
CW: Complete and review Energy in Ecosystems ws
• Notes on nitrogen cycle
• Current event due tomorrow
Environmental Science: Wed. 9/14
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm-up
1. What do the arrows represent in a food chain?
2. What do you call a bunch of interconnected food
chains?
3. What is the energy source for almost all ecosystems?
4. What kinds of organisms consume from every level of
all food chains?
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Correct yesterday’s warm-up in your journal.
Food web activity.
CW/HW: Food web diagram
Current Event Due Friday
Environmental Science: Tues. 9/13
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
• Check textbook work.
• Ch 4 quiz
Warm- up (after quiz)
1. What kingdoms are the decomposers?
2. Describe the planet without decomposers.
3. Draw the longest realistic food chain you can think of.
CW/HW: Define terms from Ch 5
Environmental Science: Mon. 9/12
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm-up
1. Compare and contrast habitat & niche
2. Describe your niche?
• Review VENN ws
• Text p. 115-117 # 10-17, 18-19, 21-24, 28-29
The Organization of Life (Ch 4) quiz tomorrow
Current event due Friday
Environmental Science: Fri. 9/9
• Radish Lab – Water/Record data
Warm-up
1. Can organisms choose to evolve? Explain.
2. Compare and contrast natural selection and
pesticide resistance.
• Diversity of Living Things (4.3) notes
CW/HW
• VENN ws
• Text p. 115-117 # 10-17, 18-19, 21-24, 28-29
Answer to W.U. #2 9/9
• Same: In both cases, the organisms best
adapted to the environment survive to pass
their genes on to the next generation.
• Diff.: With N.S., nature “selects” the best
adaptations. With P.R., the pesticide becomes
the main selector.
Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/8
• Record Data (2 minutes)
Warm-up
1. Compare and contrast pesticide and herbicide
using a VENN diagram
2. Can you remember the 6 kingdoms?
Complete Resistance ws
Diversity of Living Things Note taking
Ch 4 Quiz Tuesday
Environmental Science: Wed. 9/7
Warm-up
1. Brainstorm some good lab safety practices.
2. Brainstorm other common sense lab
practices.
Review evolution
Pesticide resistance
Lab Safety
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broken glass?
report immediately to teacher
Spills of every day materials?
Clean up immediately
Working with caustic or corrosive chemicals?
Close-toed shoes, safety goggles & apron
Chemical in eyes?
Eye-wash station
Good Lab Practices
1. Return equipment to cart, cleaned and dried
2. Immediately clean up any spills to floor
3. Use sponges, not paper towels, for all water
spills on counter
4. ONLY WATER in the sinks.
5. Wash hands when finished
6. ID your set-up (on drawing and cup)
7. Measure and Record accurate volumes, using
small beakers or graduated cylinders
8. On data sheet, include space for
notes/qualitative observations
• Pesticide resistance
• http://www.npr.org/2011/01/19/133057071/
bed-bug-genome-reveals-pesticide-resistance
• Herbicide resistance
Environmental Science: Tues. 9/6
Warm-up
1. What are adaptations?
2. Give an example of co-evolution.
3. Give one plant and one animal example of
artificial selection. (Selective breeding)
Test returns
Set up radish experiment with group
Environmental Science: Fri. 9/2
• Turn in current event
• Current event group sharing
• Design an experiment
• HW: bring supplies for experiment
Environmental Science: Thurs. 9/1
Warm-up
1. List some abiotic factors that affect plant life.
2. Define “germinate”.
• Review scientific method - notes
CW: sci. meth. X-word & back of sheet
HW: Current Event due tomorrow
Environmental Science: Wed., 8/31
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Turn in lab safety sheet
Stamp vocab
New Unit, new routine
Get a small (70 sht) spiral notebook to be used
exclusively for Environmental Science notes and
warm-ups
Date each page as you go
Copy every warm-up question
Answer each question when you enter the room
Correct any wrong answers when we go over them
8/31
Reminders
• Current Event due Friday
• Open House Tomorrow
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.
Ecology Unit Standards
SEV1. Students will investigate the flow of energy
and cycling of matter within an ecosystem and
relate these phenomena to human society.
a. Interpret biogeochemical cycles including
hydrologic, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, and
carbon cycles. Recognize that energy is not recycled
in ecosystems.
b. Relate energy changes to food chains, food webs,
and to trophic levels in a generalized ecosystem,
recognizing that entropy is a primary factor in the
loss of usable food energy during movement up the
trophic levels.
Ecology Unit Standards
SEV1. Students will investigate the flow of energy and
cycling of matter within an ecosystem and relate these
phenomena to human society.
c. Relate food production and quality of nutrition to
population growth and the trophic levels
d. Relate the cycling of matter and the flow of energy to
the Laws of Conservation of matter and energy. Identify
the role and importance of decomposers in the recycling
process.
e. Distinguish between abiotic and biotic factors in an
ecosystem and describe how matter and energy move
between these.
Warm up 8/31
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.
Environmental Science: Tues., 8/30
• Stamp and review HW
• Turn in packet
1. Ch 1 Textbook questions
2. Ch 1 vocab
3. Ch 1 ws
4. “It’s Our Future” X-word
• Global Issues test
CW/HW: Define terms in Ch 4
current event due Friday
Environmental Science: Mon., 8/29
• Video on “commons”
CW/HW: Text book p. 23 – 25
– # 9-15 (reflective answers); 22-24; 32 – 34
“Packet” due tomorrow (staple together)
1. Ch 1 Textbook questions (today)
2. Ch 1 vocab
3. Ch 1 ws
4. “It’s Our Future” X-word
Global Issues test tomorrow (Ch 1 + activities)
BRING TEXTBOOK TOMORROW
Environmental Science: Fri. 8/26
• Stamp and share or Turn in current event
• complete Lorax project
• Video clips: Biodiversity, Commons
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Waste management from Thneed factory
Housing plan for workers
Maintain biodiversity
Sustainable truffuler tree resource
Pollution prevention program
Other eco-friendly and worker friendly ideas
Environmental Science: Thurs. 8/25
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Turn in Lab Safety sheet
Vocab quiz (clear desk)
Lorax movie w/ notes
Start Lorax activity
• Current Event due tomorrow
Environmental Science: Wed. 8/24
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Turn in lab safety contract
Stamp & review text book Ch 1 ws
Vocab activity
Vocab Quiz tomorrow
• Current event due Friday
• Test Tuesday, Ch 1
Environmental Science: Tues, 8/23
• Stamp vocab
• Turn in Tragedy of the Commons Activity (if
you didn’t yesterday)
• Discuss Tragedy of the Commons
• Review vocab
Classwork/Homework:
• Complete ws for ch. 1
• Get safety contract signed
• Current event due Friday
Environmental Science: Mon, 8/22
• Tragedy of the Commons activity and write-up
• Bring textbook tomorrow
HW:
Complete vocab shown on next slide
Current event due Friday
Define Vocab from ch.1
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Environmental science
Ecology
Agriculture
Industrial revolution
“spaceship earth”
Natural resources
Renewable resources
Nonrenewable resources
Pollution
Biodiversity
The Tragedy of the Commons
Ecological footprint
sustainability
Environmental Science: Fri, 8/19
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Turn in syllabus – signature page only
Turn in eco-footprint activity
Stamp current event & share
Finish not-so trivial “trivia”
Environmental Science: Thurs, 8/18
• Turn in syllabus – signature page only
• Get text books
– 2nd per 10:20
– 4th per 12:05
• Environmental Footprint on-line
• Finish “trivia” if time
HW: Current event due tomorrow
Thursday, 8/18
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Login
Go to my blog
Scroll down to Thursday, 8/18
Open the file and complete it electronically
Email file to me
ELSE
• Get a hard copy print out
• Follow all directions and fill in with pencil or pen
• Turn in
Environmental Science: Wed 8/17
• Turn in syllabus – signature page only
• Global Issues x-word
• Global Issues – trivia game
HW:
• Get syllabus signed (if not done)
• Get parents to email me (if not done)
• Get home info for eco footprint activity
tomorrow
• Current event – due Friday
INFO FROM HOME
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Type of energy used for heating
Type of energy used for cooling
Type of energy clothes dryer uses
Average monthly electric bill
Average monthly gas bill
Average gas mileage
Amount of miles driven per year
House square footage
Average miles ride bus each year
Environmental Science: Tuesday 8/16
• Turn in syllabus – signature page only
• Current events assignment
• Assumptions activity
HW: 1st current event due Friday
Environmental Science: Monday 8/15
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Welcome!
Who Am I?
Who Are You? / Check Schedules
What is this course?
Philosophical chairs
HW: go to blog and have parents email me