1415+Third+Quarter

k3rd Quarter of AP Environmental Science for 2014-2015 1415 APES HOMEPAGE Links will be activated as needed!~ MORE RESOURCES FOR APES TRADING CARDS (for final review grade) SERVICE PROJECT RUBRIC 3rd Quarter SUSTAINABLE ZOO PROJECT 4th Quarter


 * Date || In class activities || Homework || Optional Enrichment || Journal Page ||
 * Jan 6-7 2014 || Agricultural Sustainability

Other Inconvenient Truth

UN Video Clip

[|Dr. Fraser on Food Supply]

Catchment Detox Game Laboratory || DUE: Bring TEXTBOOK, Ch 1 packet, and both Journals

ASSIGNED: Complete Ch 11 reading guide (will be due Jan 12-13) Finish Ch 1 & its FRQ, if not completed || Review BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES Chapter 2 powerpoint

Big Question: Feast or Famine || p 70 || Review Lab Write-ups || DUE: Bring TEXTBOOK, Ch 11 packet (does not have to be finished yet), and both Journals Ch 1 FRQ
 * Jan 8-9 || Systems & Feedback Cycles
 * Jan 8-9 || Systems & Feedback Cycles

ASSIGNED: Complete Ch 11 reading guide (due Jan 14-15) Edmodo Quiz Due by next class! || Overview of Sustainable Agriculture practices in Africa

Land Types and Use in India

Next Video || p 72 || Entomophagy CSI: Garden Pests (Just 4 min) Integrated Pest Management (6 min) Pest Control -- Using bugs! Targeted Pesticides || DUE: COMPLETED CH 11 packet Bring TEXTBOOK, Ch 11 packet, and both Journals ASSIGNED: Complete Ch 12 reading guide (due Jan 21-22)
 * Jan 12-13 || Insects as Economic Resource
 * Jan 12-13 || Insects as Economic Resource

Complete lab Edmodo Quiz || Eating bugs saves the world Which bugs are safe to eat? How to prepare grasshoppers || Make Pocket p 74, 75, and 76

and label AGRICULTURAL

SUSTAINABILITY

Keep ch 11 and IPM notes here. ||
 * Jan 14-15 || Human Land Use 8,000
 * Jan 14-15 || Human Land Use 8,000

cheeseburger footprint

chburg footprint 2

Major food crops When food is fuel What the world eats Precision agriculture || DUE: ASSIGNED: || 1.5 hr (use first 5 min) Vertical Farming || p 78 Can I quantify the energy and ecological impacts of agriculture?

Explain at least 3 impacts of agriculture on the environment: ||
 * Jan 16-20 || Energy Sources all come from the SUN
 * Jan 16-20 || Energy Sources all come from the SUN

Agriculture Jeopardy

Work, Power and Energy Lab Finish EIGHT Questions || DUE: --

ASSIGNED: Finish Lab

Complete lab Edmodo Quiz || Water Wheel Lab p 73-74 Work Power video Useful written discussion to help with lab questions

Salinity Remediation Article

Sodic Soils (High Na) || p 80 SOLAR source ||
 * Jan 21-22
 * Jan 21-22

FRQ || Practice Power and BTU calculations QOD

SOLAR ANALYSIS

Finish EIGHT Questions

Part II of Lab--Calories

Sustainability FRQ Begin Economic Notes

Earth is Worth Salinization in India || DUE: Ch 12 reading guide ASSIGNED: Finish Lab || Different woods BTU

Next Video

Crop response to salinity ND salinity treatment (30 min)

salinazation animation (silent) || p 81 Can I apply agricultural conservation to issues such as global warming, water use, and land degradation.

What are the steps of the scientific method? How are power and fuel usage related? ||
 * Jan 23-26 || Energy calculation practice
 * Jan 23-26 || Energy calculation practice

Agriculture Bingo Review

Jeopardy review practice

Energy type card sort || DUE:Lab calculations ASSIGNED: || Electricity conversions website! || p 82 Agriculture and the environment

Energy calculations--what are some convenient conversions? || ASSIGNED: || Bending the curves || p 83 TOP Do I understand vocabulary and concepts relating to agriculture and the environment? || ASSIGNED: Finish Lab Calculations ||  || p 83 BOTTOM How easy is it to efficiently utilize energy sources? || Stations for Alternative Energy || DUE: ASSIGNED: Ch 13 Reading guide and FRQ ||  || In your opinion, what is the best alternative energy source? What criteria are you using to select the "best" || Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Video Clips || DUE: ASSIGNED: || Texas green energy geothermal
 * Jan 27-28 || TEST || DUE:
 * Jan 27-28 || TEST || DUE:
 * Jan 29-30 || __ POWER PRODUCTION--WATER WHEEL LAB __ || DUE:
 * Jan 29-30 || __ POWER PRODUCTION--WATER WHEEL LAB __ || DUE:
 * Feb 2-3 || Energy Packet
 * Feb 2-3 || Energy Packet
 * Feb 4-5 || QOD
 * Feb 4-5 || QOD

I made a star in my garage || p 86 Which alternative energy source should we use? What is a better choice than using alternative energy? || ASSIGNED: ||  ||   || preparations || DUE: ASSIGNED: || British hydropower Bio ||  || Feb || Mekong River to Dam or not to Dam presentations || DUE: Ch 13 Assigned: ||  ||   ||
 * Feb 6-9 || Clean Energy from Texas Landfills packet || DUE:-
 * Feb 6-9 || Clean Energy from Texas Landfills packet || DUE:-
 * 10-11 Feb || Mekong River to Dam or not to Dam
 * 10-11 Feb || Mekong River to Dam or not to Dam
 * 12-13
 * 12-13
 * Feb 17-18
 * Feb 17-18

FRQ QUIZ grade || Fracking Notes

Energy Calculation FRQ || DUE:--- Assigned:Ch 14 Reading Guide & FRQ || Fracking --Glenn Beck Fracking Explanation 60 min pro/con frack Human health impact example Faces of the Oil Patch ||  ||
 * Feb 19-20 || QOD
 * Feb 19-20 || QOD

Pro Video Short Con video TransCanada alternative energy Investment China Main Video (11 min)

CSS Vocabulary processing!

Complete Dam presentations || Assigned: study for the test on Feb 25-26! || Longer video by Alberta gov Short video by Alb gov ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Feb 23-24 || Grading FRQ's
 * Feb 23-24 || Grading FRQ's
 * Feb 23-24 || Grading FRQ's

Grade checks

if time begin Ch 16 jigsaw

Would wood chips save the world? Start at 19:21 || DUE: Chapter 14 Reading Notes

ASSIGNED: Study for test Edmodo Quiz Ch 15 is due by March 2-3 || Bill Nye ENERGY Energy song at 20:00 Alt Energy Sources

Geothermal How? Texas Geo Map Iceland Geothermal Residential Geothermal Student made Geo ||  ||
 * Feb 25-26
 * Feb 25-26

TEST MC/FRQ || Environmental "heresies" Making oil sand recovery greener ||  ||   ||   || March || Water Ad from China Begin POLLUTION --- water Water purification plants
 * 2-3
 * 2-3

WasteWater plant

Question of the day

Pollution in karst vs sand aquifers

Preventing Waterborne Illnesses 3:10 - 3:28

Finish Ch 16 Jigsaw

Athabasca monitoring || DUE: Ch 15 Reading and FRQ Assigned: Review for Quarterly Exam || Student water pollution video project (not the best grammar . . . but still useful)

Examples of groundwater depletion and cone of depression Entry Pollution Cartoon Clip ppm vs ppb article summary Groundwater lab prep Aquifer review video 25 1:43-5:10 Groundwater lab part 1 Student water pollution video project (not the best grammar . . . but still useful)

Examples of groundwater depletion and cone of depression Entry Pollution Cartoon Clip ppm vs ppb article summary Groundwater lab prep Aquifer review video 25 1:43-5:10 Groundwater lab part 1 ||  ||
 * ||  ||   || Very extensive discussion of underwater pollution (hour-long)

More Water Quality (29 minutes) ||  || March || Complete Ch 17 packet in class!
 * 5-6

Review games

LD50 at 2:00 Video Clip and discussion || DUE: ASSIGNED: || Water Pollution

Natural resource ownership . ..

Air Pollution/Ozone Depletion

Catalytic Converter COAL & ACID RAIN ||  ||
 * ||  ||   || Recycling: Wheelchair Robotics
 * ||  ||   || Recycling: Wheelchair Robotics

Separating Food Waste Using Leaves for Compost

Water harvesting ||  ||   ||   ||   || 9-10 || March 3rd Q Exam || Reclamation of mining sites CUMULATIVE OVER ALL MATERIAL || 3rd Quarter Review Due 3Q REVIEW KEY || Waste Generation and Disposal
 * 9-10
 * Quarterly exam** (replaces lowest test grade)

20:00 Biodiv song Biodiversity clips ||  ||   ||   ||   || CO2 Lab Deb Ref Alk Dem ||  || Ch 17 Jigsaw Activity || DUE: ASSIGNED: ||  ||   || Color notes dark pink
 * March 11-12 ||  || END OF THIRD NINE WEEKS || En Deb
 * March 11-12 ||  || END OF THIRD NINE WEEKS || En Deb
 * March 13-March 23rd || Pollution in my Backyard
 * 1) af0f52

For 4th Quarter

The Lorax || Complete Ch 20 pkt Ch 20 powerpoint ||
 * y

energy NG links

ag NG links

Water holding capacity of soil

Sustainability

Ecopia--Sky's the limit Largest Vertical Garden in the world

Air Pollution for Nt

Monoculture susceptibility (Terrifying Bananas)

Invasive Plants Tx P&W

http://www.rtcc.org/2015/02/03/un-climate-change-talks-and-the-paris-deal-a-guide/

http://www.rtcc.org/2014/09/22/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-record-high-as-arctic-hits-2014-minimum/

What the Frack is going song Maybe Gasland excerpts # turn switch? Short version fracking Gasland Short Rebuttal to Gasland Reason TV rebuttal

http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/bacterial-batteries/

microbial fuel cell

kid's mud battery

how-to-make mud battery 1

mud battery in Africa

30% efficiency bacteria battery

More on efficiency mud battery

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s1520483.htm

yeast plastic

LFTR in five minutes

Sci Show LFTR

Why we need to use Thorium so we can mine rare earth metals such as Nd

Thorium what they don't want you to know

More BN Energy Inventions (55 min)

The Economics of Climate Change Continue Economic Notes (Ch 20) FRQ grading ||  || Ecosystem services -- swimming with crocs || Continue Econ Notes p || World's Biggest Problem Cookie Mining Lab Jewett Mine TX Coal Wars Muhlenburg County w pics ||  || Mining in Texas brief Panna Maria Uranium Mine Reclamation Youth speaking on coal mine Eagle Pass Down in a coal mine fiddle ||  || Public Lands IPM FRQ Biome shuffle Begin Review ch 2, 10, 20 || RUBRIC FOR SUS. CITY || Fed Lnd Managment 2002 The Thoreau Institute on Fed Lnd Managemt Federal Land Management in USDA ||  || The OTHER inconvenient Truth Tradeoffs--Embodied vs. Operational Energy focus on reducing oil dependance 15:20 externality FINISH ch 20 SUSTAINABILITY NOTES Continue Rev ch 2, 10, 20 || Complete LAB caclulations for Water wheel lab || Rooftop Gardening (Recreation of Ancient Prx) Biochar future of sus ag ||
 * QOD
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Groundwater pollution lab Part 2 ||= Assigned: Complete groundwater lab write-up due next class! Due: Chapter 14 ||= QUIZLET ch 14 vocabulary! ||= put into pocket 91, 92, 93 || Bhopal description Temperature Inversion Explanation Pollution Temp Inv 1:30 Temp Inv Example Montana Historical Atmosphere Graphing Lab ||= Assigned: Complete Historical Atmosphere Lab Questions Ch15-16 packet due 4/2-3 DUE: Groundwater lab write-up ||= Good about.com reference on inversions Explanation of "Lapse Rate" or cooling of atmosphere with altitude
 * = Date ||= Agenda ||= Homework ||= Optional Enrichment ||= Journal Page ||
 * = 3/21-24/14 ||= KARST vs SAND Aquifers
 * = 3/25-26 ||= Air Pollution Lecture Video end 17:30

Quizlet ch 15 vocabulary

Oxygen is killing us sci show ||= same pocket ||
 * = 3/27-28 ||= Air pollution continued

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION17:30 and following ||= Assigned: Threshold Effect Indoor Air Pollution Calculations Due: Ancient Atmosphere Analysis ||= air pollution info BUZZLE.com ||= same pocket || Wk 2 ||= Carbon dioxide video clipand questions Warm-up
 * = 3/31-4/1

Ozone depletion video

Ozone paper creation ||= Assigned: Take ozone strips home and place somewhere inside Due: Air Pollution Calculations ||= Quizlet ch 16 vocabulary powerpoint Global Warm vs Ozone Dep Results/Evidence of GW Ozzy Ozone . .. Powtoon student ozone video

CL Ozone WB explanation ||= same pocket || Focus on Review of Wastewater disposal Garden planning (p5) ||= Assigned: Take home ozone test paper and test over weekend Pollution Processing Activity P1-2
 * = 4/2-3 ||= Article Processing (Healthy Monarchs)

Due: 15-16 packet ||= Short septic system Septic System overview sept sys

Why phosphates from dish detergents may not be so bad . ..

Water treatment and legislation flip ||= p 95 write article processing ||
 * = 4/4-7 ||= The Story of Stuff

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

E-Waste Hell

Rare Earth Mining Pollution Sci Show ||= Assigned: ch 17 and practice--will be due the 10-11

FORMAL LAB REPORT WINDOW 7-9SUBMIT LINK HERE! ||= QUIZLET ch 14 vocabulary

Quizlet ch 15 vocabulary Quizlet ch 16 vocabulary ||= Glue story of stuff on page 96 || 3 magic lyrics Human health notesReviewSolid Waste Stream ||= Assigned: Pollution P.A. P 3
 * = 4/8-9 ||= 3 is a magic # RRR (1:47)

Finish ch 17 if not done

MC practice ch 14-17 Pollutants QUIZLET

Due: Next Class ||= Quizlet ch 17 vocabulary

More Air Pollution Notes

Where does garbage go?

Waste-to-energy plant

Why incineration is harmful (hard to hear, but good) ||= pocket pages 97, 98, 99

human health notes page 100 || FRQ portion of PollutionTest for Env Sci ||= PLEASE FILL OUT AP Reg/Prx Form
 * = 4/10-11 ||= FRQ Round Robins

Review percentage calculations! ||= 30 years of CERCLA: Then and now (or why CERCLA is the BEST LAW ever for employing lawyers!)

Quizlet ch 17 vocabulary

Read about the COPENHAGEN ACCORD

EPA Ozone Depletion Article ||=  ||
 * = 4/14-15 ||= MC portion of pollution Test

Review POSTERS ||= Assigned: ZOO Field Trip Sign-up

ZOO PERMISSION SLIP

& ONLINE PAYMENT (link coming) DUE: by the 16th ||= Middle school biome blog comment assignment

Chesapeake Bay Rap ||= Chart glue p 101 || Conversions made easy Review Folder and Table Stations
 * = 4/16-17 ||= Depending on weather . ..

or Observation Review Hike A ||= DUE:ZOO PERMISSION SLIP

& ONLINE PAYMENT (link coming) ||=  ||= Chart glue p 101 || Effects of Technology on Environment Review Folder and Table Stations or Observation Review Hike BPopulation APES R 20:00 Biodiv song Biodiversity clips ||=  ||= Review Resources
 * = 4/21-22 ||= APES in 4 minutes R

ALL ABOUT ENERGY & CALCULATIONS Alternative Energy Facts and Calc w/ answers ||= Separate review folder || Marine Bio on Plastics & Sustainability Review Folder and Table Stationsor Observation Review Hike CBallad of the Plastic Bag Jack Johnson on plastic ||=  ||= Targeted Vocabulary Review -- Clark APES  ||= same || Make-up Day for 8th (get work from teachers and make up what you missed on the 25th!) vol y wo summer links ||= THE GREAT ZOO REVIEW Assignment during Zoo Trip Due by end of bus trip that day! ||= Multiple "years without summer" Tambora 1816 Really great info on volcanos and climate
 * = 4/13-24 ||= Boyan Slat on let the Oceans Clean themselves . ..
 * = 4/25-28 ||= Zoo Field Trip/

hippocampus.org earth science links ||= Pocket p 102, 103, 104 || Is earth past the tipping point? ||= 4/30 LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR AP TEST!!! ||= Angela on Pacific Garbage Patch ||= review folder || Review Folder and Table StationsInvasive Species (Bunny) Science of OverIs population Tragedy of the Commons COD ||= Study for AP exam! ||=  ||=   || Observation Hike 1 (if time)Garden Maintenance Hope around the world Houston Backyard Permaculture ||= Work on review ||=  ||= p 105 || Garden Planning & Maintenance ||=  ||= Nasa article on Unstable WAIS NY Times WAIS article ||=  || Shell Chemistry and O.A. Appalachian Trail Acid Rain Threat! Scrubber example Acid Rain Lab Garden Planning & MaintenanceNemo excerpt (if not done)Solar Oven PlanningAncient time and Pangea activity ||= FINAL ZOO REVIEW DUE!!! ||= Current energy debates--Efficiency bill fails
 * = 4/29-30 ||= Review Folder and Table Stations
 * = 5/1-2 ||= Practice FRQ
 * = 5/4-5 ||= AP TESTING
 * = 5/6-7 ||= AP TESTINGObservation Hike 2Garden Maintenance ||= Work on Review ||=  ||= p 106 ||
 * 5/8-11 || AP TESTING Oil Spill Article and 15 review facts Ancient time and Pangea activity A Nemo excerpt and discussion Garden Maintenance ||  ||   ||   ||
 * = 5/12-13 ||=  ||= Finish facts from article & clip if not done ||=   ||= p 107 ||
 * = 5/14-15 ||= Ancient time and Pangea activity BNemo excerptWester Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse
 * = 5/14-15 ||= Ancient time and Pangea activity BNemo excerptWester Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse
 * = 5/18-19 ||= Acidic Oceans Ted-Ed

Inflammatory article in support of EPA pollution rules

Toxic Brew in our Yards ||