Week of 3/11/19 - Weds - We watched Tapped today. Click on the name to go to YouTube and watch at home if you miss it. I will assume you watched it.... Watch the videos below! You will be better prepared for tests and better understand the content if you take notes BEFORE we cover them in class.
FRQ Friday!Here are the 2 questions and here are the rubrics. You must have 1 in your notebook. Go over unit 3 test. Start Ocean Acidification Lab HERE is the data table and questions sheet. Answer ALL questions including discussion.
Week of 3/18/19 - WATER Mon -Finish lab Tues -Wrap up ocean acidification labs. Start researching to become "experts" on a topic for water or air. Weds - Finish researching your expert topic and finish all ocean acidification lab questions. Thurs -Share the information you have learned one on one with your classmates. Fri - Wrapped up our round table discussions. We then watched Chasing Coral. If you have Netflix you can watch the whole thing. It is really good.
Week of 3/25/19 - Finish Water and Start AIR Mon - Discuss ocean acidification and a few more water topics. Here is a ppt on water resources. Look at your week of water usage. Play around with Recycle City and start to understand more about waste issues. Research water issues. How can you protect water? Here are some links: https://www.epa.gov/watersense cleanwatercampaign.org Nonpoint Source Pollution wateruseitwisely.com everylastdrop.co.uk/ Tues -Acid Deposition Lab. Weds - Shortened schedule due to Who's Who. We will start looking at air and the atmosphere. Work on looking up the main air pollutants you are required to memorize. HERE is the chart and its key. Thurs - Discuss the atmosphere, weather, air characteristics, and air pressure. Work on air pollutant chart. Fri - FRQ Friday - Must do at least one in your notebook. Here are 3 practice FRQs and Here are the rubrics. Discuss the Coriolis Effect and do a quick activity to visualize it. Discuss weather patterns and El Nino/La Nina. Here's the ppt we went over. Here are the crosswords and their keys.
Week of 4/8/19 Mon - Hang up dust particle collectors. Discuss hazardous waste, landfills, Love Canal, water treatment, and sewage. Here is the ppt. Waste Water simulation Criteria Pollutants Troubled Waters online simulation Info on marine debris Discuss air and research good vs bad ozone as well as smog. Tues Finish up stuff from Monday. Weds - Look at dust particle strips under micropscopes. Wrap it all up. Discuss the plastics issue in the oceans, watch this quick video and this one, and look at albatross boluses. Do practice tests in review book for HW. Do a quizizz. Thurs - Water and Air Test AIR AND WATER TEST , HERE is the review sheet. LOTS of stuff! It is a BIG unit but everything ties together. We will start looking at energy issues (last unit!)
-Mr. Anderson's Videos - WATCH ALL 5
APES in a Box Videos - Optional really short but good