Environmental Science

Environmental Science

Agendas

Spring 2013

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Environmental Science, T 4/2

Warm Up

1. Read p 489. List the many uses of petroleum.

2. How are all of the products separated out of petroleum during refining?

3. Which derivative of petroleum has the highest boiling point?

4. Why aren’t plastics shown on the diagram at right?

• Review fossil fuels

• Journal check moved to tomorrow

• Nonrenewable energy quiz tomorrow

Environmental Science,

• Turn in Fracking webquest

W.U.

1. Three things you learned from Nathan Zohner’s talk on

Friday that weren’t on the worksheet. (If you weren’t here. Write down three things you hear.)

2. Main advantages of nuclear power.

3. Main disadvantages of nuclear power.

• Stamp and review nuclear power ws

• Stamp and review Nonrenewable Energy Organizer

Journal check tomorrow

Nonrenewable energy quiz Wednesday

Environmental Science, Th 3/28

WU

1. What do you think of in relation to nuclear power?

2. What powers nuclear reactions?

3. Where do we get this from?

CW/HW: Nuclear Power notes from 17.2

Complete energy webquest and Methane

Hydrates ws (due Monday)

Guest speaker tomorrow

Environmental Science, F 3/27

• Get a computer

• Sign in

• Go to my blog to access websites

• Complete Nonrenewable Energy internet research http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/b akken-shale-oil/fracking-animation-video


Warm Up

1. List 4 non-renewable fuels

2. Is electricity a primary energy source? Explain.

3. How is electricity generated?

4. Which countries use the most energy per person?

5. Why do some countries with higher per capita income use less energy?

Stamp 17.1 vocab & Q’s

CW/HW: Complete Energy organizer & back

Environmental Science, M 3/25

• Test corrections

• Begin non-renewable energy unit

CW/HW: Ch 17.1

• Read carefully

• Define all terms (highlighted and italicized)

• Answer #1-6 on p 475


Turn in Packet

1. Study Guide

2. Ch 19 vocabulary

3. Ch 19.1 notes

4. Solid Waste Presentation Notes

Solid Waste Test


Warm Up

1. What categories of MSW are compostable? What is their combined %?

2. What categories of MSW are recyclable? What is their combined %?

3. What % of MSW would remain if everything that could be composted and recycled was?

CW/HW:

• work on study guide - due tomorrow

• Packet due tomorrow

1. Study Guide

2. Ch 19 vocabulary

3. Ch 19.1 notes

4. Solid Waste Presentation Notes

TEST tomorrow

Environmental Science, W 3/20

• Group work assessment – turn in to basket

• Complete solid waste presentations

• Video – e-waste

CW/HW: Solid Waste Study Guide – due Friday

Solid Waste Test Friday – Ch 19 + W.U.’s + presentations + videos


• Solid Waste Project presentations w/ notes

• Friday: Solid Waste Test – Ch 19


• Welcome back!

• I need to see:

– 4 th : Derrick, Yiselle

– 5 th : Tara, Alex K, Holly, Heather

– 6 th : Alysen, Manoj

– 7 th : Taylor M., Sydney W.

• Project presentations w/ notes

Environmental Science, F  3/15

Warm Up

In Journal: Make 4 column notes:

1. Topic

2. General info

3. Benefits

4. harms

Video – solid waste and landfills

Power point lecture

Solid Waste projects due and Presentations begin Monday


• Work on solid waste project – presentations start Monday

• Science class sign-ups for non-seniors


Warm Up

1. Which statistic on solid waste surprised you the most?

2. What are plastics made from? What is the problem with plastics?

3. Describe three safeguards with landfills

4. Describe three problems with landfills return test

Stamp notes on 19.1

Solid waste project sign-ups


New Unit – Solid Waste – Ch 19

Warm Up

1. Try to list every single item you threw away yesterday. (Make 2 columns, 1 for recycling and 1 for garbage, if appropriate)

2. List all the items you reused, instead of using a throw-away item or grabbing a new item.

Stamp vocab

CW/HW: Read and take notes on Ch 19, section 1 only

Include all statistics in sections

Write one question from each (blue and red) section

• garbage

Paper napkins recycle

Coffee grounds tissues Newspaper

Plastic bag for meat Papers

Junk mail

Glass bottles

Plastic yogurt container

Pie tin compost

Coffee grounds

Banana peel

Egg shells

½ tomato

Veggie peelings

Reuse

Dishes

Dish towel

Drinking bottle

Coffee mug

Food containers

Ice pack


Turn In Land Use and Agriculture Packet

1. Ch 14 vocab

2. Ch 14.1 and 14.2 end of section Q’s

3. Ch 14 end of chapter questions 1-25

4. Ch 15 Food and Agriculture Worksheets (2 stamps)

5. Food Inc. video notes

6. China Deforestation Video Notes

7. Top Food Crops video notes

Test

HW: Vocab for Ch 19, including italics (I count 14 words)


Warm Up

1. Write 3 low level test questions. (w/o answer)

2. Write 2 mid-level test questions. (w/o answer)

3. Write 1 high level test question. (w/o answer)

Pass to neighbor to answer in your journal.

Discuss answers.

Put packet together

• Review textbook work

• Ch 14 & 15 test tomorrow; packet due tomorrow


WELCOME TO THE WORLD HUNGER BANQUET!

Thank you for contributing, if you did. 

Each person represents a country.

Please be respectful.

Please don’t be wasteful.


Warm Up

1. What does the Food, Inc movie say drives the process of CAFO’s?

2. Why does the cheaper meat produced by

CAFO’s not reflect the true cost of the meat?

3. In your opinion, does Food Inc. fairly show both sides? Explain.

Continue with movie notes

Bring food tomorrow

Test Friday – ch 14 & 15


• Turn in How the World Eats Hunger Banquet prelab

• World Hunger Banquet Sign-ups

• Food Inc. video w/ notes

• Complete video Tuesday

• Hunger Banquet Wednesday

• Review all worksheets Thursday

• Test Friday


Warm Up – feedback for Ms. Mucke – on separate paper (I will send to her)

1. Describe 3 things you learned

2. State 2 questions you still have

3. 1 behavior you might consider changing as a result of her presentation.

Stamp 15.2 worksheet

Hunger banquet intro, sign-ups and pre-lab

Test next Friday.

Protein deficiencies

• Kwashiorkor

• Marasmus


• No Warm Up

• Turn in GMO webquest if you didn’t yesterday

• Fill in GMO poster, if you didn’t yesterday

Guest speaker: Lorena Muche

The Ethical Choices

HW: 15.2 worksheet – due Friday


Warm Up

1. What is DNA?

2. Where is DNA found?

3. How does DNA work?

Stamp 15.1 HW

GMO web quest – due at end of class

HW: section 15.2 on worksheet – due Friday


No Warm-up

Stamp Ch 14 #1-25

Complete video on top crops

CW/HW: Ch 15 Food and Agriculture ws section 15.1 due tomorrow.


Warm Up

1. List what you think are the top 5 crops grown worldwide.

Video w/ notes: Top Food Crops

Work on Ch 14 #1-25 – due Monday


Warm Up

1. What causes the oceans to be salty?

2. How long does it take to create 1 inch of topsoil?

3. How can you quickly create topsoil?

notes

CW/HW: Ch 14 # 1-25 – DUE MONDAY


Warm Up

1. List some ecosystem services

2. What percent of earth’s surface is arable?

3. How does agriculture in the Midwest mimic the deforestation in China?

4. What major historical period/event was caused by the answer to #2?

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/watch-videos/#2284398428

Notes


Happy Tuesday!

• Complete Land Use project and turn in (15 min.)

– Include rubric

• Complete Group Work Assessment

• Notes Ch 14 – Land Use


Happy Valentine’s Day!

• Complete Land Use Project

– Don’t forget:

– Answers to questions in book

– Paragraph describing and selling your development

• Test corrections due at end of day.

• Have a great break!


Warm Up

1. What does a land use planner do?

2. Do you think this job is without controversy?

Explain.

Stamp 14.1 & 14.2

Start Land Use project p. 402-403

*** test corrections due at end of week (Thursday)


Warm Up

1. Predict your test score

2. Discuss whether you feel you were prepared enough. Explain.

• Turn in Cobb GIS on-line activity from Friday

• Population Dynamics Test Corrections

• Read Ch 14, sections 1 & 2

• Answer End of Section Q’s for 14.1 & 14.2

– Including critical thinking


• No warm up

• Journal Check

• Stamp Ch 14 vocab

• Land Use web quest

Cobb County Land Use Web Quest

1. What is the population of Cobb County?

Go to Cobb County Land Use home page

Click on planning

Scroll down and click on future land use map. Spend some time getting familiar with map and orienting yourself.

2. Who is the Cobb County Land Use Planner?

3. List a few land use categories and their colors.

4. Estimate the percent of Cobb Land Area that is used for parks and rec.

5. What type of area do YOU live in?

6. Estimate the percentage of land use area for low density housing.

Go back and click on FLUM

7. Choose 4 categories and summarize the purpose of the categories


• New Unit: Land Use and Food and Agriculture

• Chapter References: 14 & 15

Warm Up

1. What percentage of people in the US live in cities?

2. What are some pros and cons to the environment of city living?

3. List all the different uses of land you see on p. 380

CW/HW: Vocab Ch 14, including italics (22 ea.)

Warm Up


1. Compare Least Developed Country with Biodiversity Hotspot.

2. What other terms can add to the list of comparisons above?

3. What kind of population trend happens during a demographic transition?

• Stamp and review text HW

• CW/HW: (add these to packet)

– P. 225 1, 2, 10-12

– P. 228 #1, 5, 8, 11, 12

– p.249-250 #1, 2, 4-7, 9-25, 27-28

– P. 252-3, #1-5, 9-12

• Packet due tomorrow

• Test and journal check tomorrow


Warm Up

1. Recall a few facts/concepts from the population movie Friday.

2. What single factor most affects fertility rates?

• Complete World in the Balance video

CW/HW:

• P. 256, Fertility Rates and Female Literacy in Africa. Answer # 1 & 3

• Read 9.2 and answer 9.2 section Q’s 1-3

Population Dynamics Test Wed: Ch. 8.1 & Ch 9


• Quiz returns

• Grade updates

• Video: NOVA World in the Balance: the

Population Paradox – w/ notes

• Bring textbook Monday

• TEST WEDNESDAY, Ch 8.1; Ch 9


Warm Up

1. Compare and contrast fertility rate and total fertility rate.

• Turn in Population Pyramid activity

• Stamp 9.1 Guided Reading

• Stamp vocab puzzles

• Vocab Quiz

• Review guided reading ws.

• Test next Wednesday


No Warm Up

Complete pyramid lab

Vocab review sheets

9.1 guided reading ws due tomorrow

Vocab quiz tomorrow


• Population pyramid group activity

Warm Up

1. What are the LETTER, fertility age and total fertility rate for your population group?

Example: group K, 15-19, 5 children per woman


Warm Up

1. What do you think was the average life expectancy in 1900? Now?

2. What factors influence average life expectancy?

• Turn in Human Population graph from Friday

CW/HW:

• Notes

• Complete 9.1 guided reading – due Thursday

• Human population pyramid activity – not due

• Vocab quiz Thursday


• No Warm Up

• Stamp 9.1 vocab & 8.1 Guided Reading

• Turn in yesterday’s “Quick Lab” if you didn’t already

• Human population graphing & pyramid


Warm Up

1. Why might the carrying capacity of humans on earth be hard to determine?

CW/HW:

• Complete “quick lab” activity and turn in

• Guided Reading notes for section 8.1 only

• Vocab sheet 9.1

• Read section 9.1


Text Books are in!

Warm Up

1. What is a population?

2. What is density?

3. What is the population density of 2000 people on our school grounds of 10 acres?

4. Are the people at Lassiter evenly dispersed?

• Stamp 8.1 vocab

• 8.1 notes

• Population activity


• Test returns and corrections

• CW/HW:

– Population Dynamics Vocabulary, first section, 8.1 ONLY


• Turn in packet

1. study guide

2. Ch 10 Biodiversity notes ws

3. Ch 10.3 section Q’s (p. 275 #1-7)

4. Biodiversity Activity follow-up questions

• Biodiversity test


Warm Up (p. 272, figure 14)

1. What is the environmental benefit of shade-grown coffee?

• Stamp and review Ch 10.3

• Test review

• Study guide

• Test tomorrow – Biodiversity, Ch 10)

• Packet due tomorrow

1. study guide

2. Ch 10 Biodiversity notes ws

3. Ch 10.3 section Q’s (p. 275 #1-7)

4. Biodiversity Activity follow-up questions


Warm Up – NOT IN JOURNAL

1. Boil down the main threats to your biodiversity hotspot into a few bullet points. Not too general.

2. Write threats on sticky note provided

3. Stick onto world map in correct location

Biodiversity activity

Classwork/homework: Read Ch 10.3, p. 275 #1-7

Test Friday


Warm Up

1. What is the opposite of biodiversity?

2. Name a few exotic species in our area.

3. Why are invasive/exotic species so damaging to the environment?

4. Why are invasives so successful in a new habitat?

• Python invasives video clip

• Review Ch 10 notes ws – side 2

• Biodiversity activity


• Stamp Ch 10 ws – back side

• Cane Toads video, with notes

Environmental Science, Th 1/10/13

• Turn in signed syllabus

• Stamp and review side 1 of Ch 10 notes

Warm Up (p. 263)

1. Has the rate of extinction been steady throughout the planet’s evolution? Explain.

2. What is the #1 cause of today’s extinctions?

3. What is the rate difference of pre-human vs posthuman extinctions?

4. What is monoculture?

• Classwork: Monarchs and milkweed aticle

• Homework: complete back of Ch 10 notes sheet

Environmental Science, W 1/9/13

• Turn in article w/ Q’s

• Turn in syllabus signature page

Warm Up

(Write date, and copy complete question. Attempt answer and write correct answer when we go over it.)

1. Why should we care about biodiversity?

2. What is a keystone?

3. What types of organisms might be keystone species?

Classwork/homework:

Biodiversity Ch 10 notes – complete front side

Environmental Science, Tues., 1/8/13

• Welcome Back!

• Intros. and paperwork

– This semester

– Syllabus: what’s new?

– Schedule verification forms

• Classwork during schedule check:

– read Biodiversity article and answer questions

• HW:

– get syllabus signed

– bring composition book (or move yours, if needed)

– Get textbook, if needed

• Bring book tomorrow

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