human population growth project

Human population growth project click link for description of assignment

Biome Exam

Click the link to go to the Biome Exam Answer Sheet. Make sure you fill in what question number you are answering as well as what your answer is. This is open note and open book. All exams are due by monday 12/15/08

Biome Multiple Choice

Go to this form to enter your multiple choice questions.

Peer Grading

Go to this link to grade the presentations

Presentation dates

Deserts and Grasslands Monday
Tundra chaparal Wednesday
Forests and Mountain Thursday

Sourlands

directions to the parking lot for entrance to the sourland

Biome Project

Follow this link for the Biome Project

Current Chapters

The schedule for upcoming chapters is as follows.
Chapter 5- evolution. You will read this on you own. We will not cover this is class as a seperate chapter. You still need to do the quiz and online research questions.
Chapter 8- Community Ecology

All quizzes due next wed
All Internet exercises due next thurs

End of Quarter

All back work is due asap. (internet exercises and online quizzes0
As a reminder we have finished
Chapters 1,2,3,4,28
Poster, math problem and review sheet for geochemical cycling
3 essay outlines with grading. (electric car, el nino, renewable,non renewable resources)
Current events article(if it was your turn)

Extra Credit Hike

Nov 16th Hike The Sourlands with Mr. Smirk and Mr. Anderson for extra Credit. THis will count for the first quarter.

Work to DO!!!!!!!

Read chap 3 we start it on friday
Identify what sections each question came from on the assessment.

Current event sign-up

Hey sign up for a week to do current events. First come first serve. If you are third one week you will get bumped to the next available week. All sign ups need to be completed prior to this Tuesday's class.

Case Study

Follow this link to do a case study on bottled water

Reminder

Fieldtrip this tuesday. Dress appropriately and bring your lab book

Standing Assignment

When a new chapter is started the standing assignment is as follows.
1. Read, take notes. (this is for you. I won't see this)
2. Tutorial quiz. Due 2 class days after the chapter is assigned. This is e-mailed to me upon completion. Please use James.Smirk@gmail.com
3. Internet exercises. Due 3 class days after the chapter is assigned. This is e-mailed to me upon completion. Please use James.Smirk@gmail.com

Welcome

Welcome to the Blog for Mr. Smirks 2008 APES Class. There are a couple of things we need to accomplish before the week is over. Here they are.

1. get a gmail account if you don't have one. when choosing your e-mail address please make it obvious it saves everyone a lot of time.
2. Sign up of the class group.
3. Create a webpage for yourself using google. We will be using this as a way to turn in work and colloberate. Remember this is a class about environmental science lets try to use less paper.
4. Sign up for google docs
5. Read chapter 1
6. Fill in the Smirk's APES Sign-up Form.