Monday June 19th

Luncheon Monday June 19th Sign up

Please bring a cup,plate,and utensils. We want to minimize out impact.


Period 2- Posters, Papers, Infographics

Period 3- Posters, Papers, Infographics

Period 7- Peer edit (posters Tuesday morning)

Ecolab Workdays

Ecolab Workday Signup

All students are to work 90 min minimum

Signup here (please don't erase other info when updating the spreadsheet)

Bag it Post film assignment

1. Identify 3 companies that are looking at how they use plastics.

1. A company who is at the forefront of reducing their own plastic use and possibly reducing global plastic use.
2. A company who is following the industry standard for dealing with plastics and plastic waste
3. A company who is engaged in making mixed competent non-recyclable products.

2. For each of these companies identify a way that the company is engaging with you the end user.

3. Create a list of behaviors you can engage in to reduce your plastic usage.  Create an estimate for the reduction of plastic use over a months span.

4. Identify 1 major environmental disaster associated with the production of plastics. Give a brief description of the event, the impact to the community and the subsequent legislation/ regulation that was created in response.

Greenwashing

Greenwashing article


Interesting opinion piece. Made more interesting because  it is published on a blog that specifically promotes the purchasing of stuff.

Quick read

Dam Letter

MEMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MEMES!!!!!!!! Folder

Drop your memes here

Stabilizing Carbon Emissions

Task- You and your lab group are tasked with researching and deciding what strategies should be taken to stabilize carbon emissions.

Assessment-
1.Create a Wedge game board that identifies the strategies you chose ( name the strategy on the board) and what category they came from (color of wedge)
2. Create a table that identifies the strategy, category, decision making (why did you choose this strategy and sector), and validation for not choosing other strategies from the same sector.


Resources
1. Game board (1 per lab table)
2 Game rules
3.Articles
4. Slides and Presentations
5. Calculations and Data

At the end of the period turn in documents to your class periods basket (1 per group with all members names)

******Period 4*****

Jigsaw and tour through the strategies from the other groups. By the end of the period there needs to be a class consensus for the strategies to reduce our carbon emissions.

The class consensus can be written in the comments section of the blog.  If there is a dissenting opinion it may also be written in the comments section.

Fracking

Guided exploration of the process of Fracking

What the Frack

Turn in at end of the Period Friday (hardcopy)

Recycling Aluminum Lab

Recycling lab

Chap 8 Review

Chap 8 review

Target date for Chap 8 Exam in Wed the 29th

Soil

USDA Soil Primer Read Primer

Task 1- Decide on a use for soil (you want to be a vintner, build a golf course...) and using the tools described in the primer locate 2 viable locations for your use)

Task 2- Create a 1 min "pitch" for why your business will work in the areas you have identified( 1 pitch for each location). Take into account other possible requirements for success (location to urban centers, rainfall ....)

Task 3- We will present one of the 2 pitches to the class. Upon completion of the first pitch we will create a class rubric.

Task 4- Refine second pitch

Task 5- Final pitch to peers with peer grading based on the rubric.



Period 2 rubric

Period 3 Rubric

Period 7 Rubric

Peer Scoring

Chap 12 Assigned

Chap 12 online Quiz due Wed 3/15

Chap 12 R+R due Thursday 3/16

Chap 12 DTM-DtM 12.1 - Your Turn pg 321 & DtM 12.2 Your Turn pg 336 Due Friday 3/17







Chap 13 Schedule (Tentative)

Chap 13 Online Quiz Monday 3/20

Chap 13 R+R Tuesday 3/21

Chap 13 DTM Wed 3/22-DtM 13 - Your Turn pg 348

Chap 8 Is Assigned

Online Quiz- Due Tuesday

DTM-Due Wednesday

R+R- Due Thursday

Water Drip Drip Drip

Water loss

Water diversion

Each member of your lab group will choose one of the water diversions projects listed in the lab to create a 1 page infographic.  That info graphic will be shared with both Mr. Smirk and your labmates.

You will use your lab groups infographics to answer the lab questions.

1. Salton Sea
2. Aral Sea
3. Colorado river (Hoover damn, mono lake, ...)
4. Yangtze river (three gorges dam)

Review packets chap 9,10,11

Chap 9

Chap 10

Chap 11

Schedule for the next week

Quiz Chap 9 is cancelled

Unit exam will be pushed until we complete water use. Target will be Friday.

Envirothon Sign up

Sign up form 

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Land cover lab

Local Land cover lab

Chap 10 Is now assigned

Chap 10

Quiz- Monday 2/13

DTM Due Tuesday 2/14

R+R- Due Wed 2/15

Next Chapter in Chap 9

Quiz Tuesday 2/21

DTM Wed 2/22

R+R Thursday 2/23

Unit exam
Chap 11 Feeding the world specifics
Chap 10
Chap 9

Tuesday 2/28

Feeding the world powerpoint

Required information doc Period 7

Possible food List

Feeding the world Deck

Feeding the world Rules for slides

Feeding the world Note Sheet

Feeding the world summative assessment

Moon and tides lab extension

moon and tides lab extension

Possible FRQ's

Last part of Unit exam

Tuesday


1. The Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Alaska's North Slope is frequently in the news because petroleum geologists estimate that there are billions of barrels of economically recoverable oil beneath the surface of its frozen tundra. According to a 1998 United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimate, ANWR could contain up to 10 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. Oil company officials advocate opening the refuge to oil exploration and the subsequent development of its petroleum resources. Environmentalists argue that oil exploration and development will damage this fragile ecosystem and urge Congress to protect ANWR by designating it as a wilderness area.

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(a)    The United States consumes approximately 20 million barrels of oil per day. According to the USGS estimate, for how many days would the technically recoverable oil resource in ANWR supply the total United States demand for oil?

(b)   Describe TWO characteristics of arctic tundra that make it fragile and explain how these two characteristics make the tundra particularly susceptible to damage from human impacts.

(c)    Identify TWO activities that would be associated with the development of ANWR petroleum resources and describe a substantial environmental impact of each in ANWR.

Identify and describe TWO major end uses of the 20 million barrels of oil that the United States consumes each day and for each use describe a conservation measure that would substantially reduce United States consumption.




2 )  On a field trip to two local ponds, a group of students observed a difference between the two ponds in the diversity of worms and insect larvae living in the mud and debris near the edges of the ponds. Numerous factors, both biotic and abiotic, influence the distribution of aquatic organisms.

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(a)    The students decided that they would investigate some of the abiotic factors. List three water-quality tests that could be conducted and explain what information each test provides. Include in your answers a description of the impact of each factor on the distribution of aquatic organisms.

(b)   Larvae of a certain insect are found in pond A but not in pond B. Design a controlled experiment that would
help explain the observed distribution of these insect larvae. Be sure to include the following in your design.

1.     Formulate a hypothesis.

2.     Identify the variable that will be manipulated.

3.     Outline the field and/or laboratory procedures that will be followed. Describe what data you will collect.

4.     Discuss the possible results and relate them to the distribution of the insect.

(c)    What are indicator species and how are they used to assess environmental quality? Give a specific example of such a species and its use.

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The zebra mussel, a mollusk native to Eurasia, was first discovered in the Great Lakes of North America in 1988. Zebra mussels attach to solid substrates and are filter feeders. Adult zebra mussels can survive for several days or even weeks out of water if the temperature and humidity are favorable. An adult female zebra mussel can produce as many as one million eggs per year. The recent range of occurrence of zebra mussels in the United States is indicated by shading in the map above.

(a)    Why are zebra mussels located primarily in areas in the eastern United States rather than in the western United States?

(b)   How are zebra mussels introduced into isolated lakes? Describe one viable method for preventing the spread of zebra mussels into isolated lakes.

(c)    Identify and explain one impact that zebra mussels can have on aquatic ecosystems.

(d)   Identify another invasive species, either terrestrial or aquatic, and describe one negative impact it has had.

(e)    One strategy for controlling an invasive species has been to introduce another nonnative species to control it; this strategy can often have unintended results. Give a specific example of the use of this strategy and discuss a negative impact of introducing a nonnative species to control an invasive species.

(f)     Discuss TWO specific characteristics of invasive species that enable them to thrive in new environments.