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Environmental Science 1/8/14
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Environmental Science F  5/9/14
Study Session Monday after school (3:30)
bring questions
Complete project presentations
Solid Waste Test Review
Start Review Sheet
Text book returns Tuesday
Environmental Science Th 5/8/14
PUT ALL ELECTRONICS AWAY
Optional Final Project due
Turn in rubric with project
Project presentations
Final review sheet to be handed out tomorrow
Text book returns Tuesday
Environmental Science T 5/6/14
• “Phytoremediation” article – cleaning up hazardous
wastes with plants.
• Complete study guide – work check 10 minutes
before end of class - – study guide due tomorrow
before test
• Update your WarmUps
Solid Waste Test TOMORROW – Ch 19
Journal Check TOMORROW
Optional Final Project due Thursday, May 8th
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Environmental Science M 5/5/14
Warm Up
1. What is e-waste?
2. Why shouldn’t you throw
your e-waste into the landfill?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jyPURkJVM
Solid Waste test Review sheet
Solid Waste Test Wednesday – Ch 19
Journal Check Wednesday
Optional Final Project due next Thursday, May 8th
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Environmental Science F 5/2/14
WarmUp
1. Generate a list of reusable items that are often
replaced by disposable.
2. List hazardous wastes.
Review Trashed write-up
Read Emory article
Articles and info on hazardous wastes and superfund
Solid Waste Test next Wednesday – Ch 19
Optional Final Project due next Thursday, May 8th
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Environmental Science Th 5/1/14
PUT ALL ELECTRONICS AWAY
No warm up
Take out notes from yesterday’s Trashed video
Continue note-taking for use in follow up activity
Complete video follow-up work
Solid Waste Test next Wednesday – Ch 19
Optional Final Project due next Thursday, May 8th
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Environmental Science W 4/30/14
Warm Up
1. How many different types of plastics are there?
2. Which kind of plastic are most drink bottles made of?
3. Which are commonly recycled? Which are hard to
recycle? Which can be recycled but aren’t usually?
Video: Trashed ©2006
Take notes, which you will use tomorrow to answer Q’s
based on video.
Solid Waste Test next Wednesday – Ch 19
Optional Final Project due next Thursday, May 8th
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Environmental Science
Warm Up
1. Try to list every single item you threw away yesterday. (Make 4 columns, 1 for item,
1 for recyclable, 1 for compostable, and 1 for reusable substitute. All items go into
left column, and may be included in any of the right columns, as appropriate)
With a partner, brainstorm as many items as possible that we use often that
could/should(?)/used to be reusable. Turn in your list. Most items wins prize.
Generate SPECIFIC ways to reduce your waste stream.
Waste item
recyclable
Sandwich
baggie
Plastic spoon
tissue
compostable
Reusable
substitute
Tupperware

Real spoon
Handkerchief
Environmental Science T 4/29/14
WarmUp
1. What is MSW?
2. What does MSW NOT
consist of?
3. What % of total solid
waste is MSW?
US MSW % by weight
paper
yard waste
5.3
3.2
food waste
5.5
plastics
6.6
38.1
metals
7.8
rubber, leather
and textiles
glass
10.5
10.9
12.1
Solid Waste lecture 19.1
and activity (next slide)
Solid Waste Test next Wednesday – Ch 19
Optional Final Project due next Thursday, May 8th
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
wood
other
In Journal
Use the pie charts to answer the following questions in your journal. Copy
them first as an extension of the warm up questions today.
Look at chart of MSW from 2012
4. What categories of MSW are recyclable? Add up their percentages.
5. What categories of MSW are compostable? Add up their percentages.
6. What % would be left over to go into landfills?
7. Make a five column table with following headings: material; 2008 %;
2012 %; amt. of change; suggested reasons for change. See example
below.
material
2008 %
2012 %
change
Possible reasons for change
wood
5.3
6.3
+1%
Construction industry boost. More housing
construction leads to more scrap wood. (??)
Environmental Science M 4/28/14
• Econ EOCT
• Chasing Ice Video
• Option 5 project topic
Solid Waste Test next Wednesday – Ch 19
Optional Final Project due next Thursday, May 8th
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Environmental Science F  4/25/14
• TURN IN ENERGY DIARY
• Test return and review
• New Unit – Solid Waste
Warm Up
1) How many pounds of solid waste (trash/garbage) do
you think the average American produces in one day?
2) Where does garbage go once it is picked up from the
curb?
3) Why is solid waste reduction a worthy goal?
4) Brainstorm ways to reduce solid waste.
CW: Read Ch 19, section 1. Answer Q’s 1-6 p. 523.
Final Project SignUps
Environmental Science Th 4/24/14
• Spring Fling
Environmental Science W 4/23/14
• Global Warming Test
Environmental Science T 4/22/14
• Complete cause/effect poster
Choose a friend or two. Make a poster showing
lifestyle changes anyone can make to reduce CO2
emissions and explaining How they do this.
Environmental Science M 4/21/14
Warm Up
1. How much has the average global temperature risen
in the last 100 years?
2. What is snowpack? How do we depend on it?
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/snow-ice/snowpack.html
3. What is the effect of climate change on snowpack?
https://www2.ucar.edu/climate/faq/how-much-has-global-temperature-risen-last-100-years
4. What is “carbon capture” (sequestration)?
CW: Complete Global Warming Cause/Effect
• Tomorrow: EARTH DAY
• Wednesday: Climate Change Test/Intro Final Project
• Thursday: Spring Fling
• Friday: Start Solid Waste unit
Environmental Science F 4/18/14
Review Energy Test
Review Climate Change vocab quiz
Discuss Energy Diary Rubric
TED talk: James Balog - Chasing Ice (20 min)
Environmental Science Th 4/17/14
Global Warming Vocabulary Quiz
Start cause/effect group activity
Environmental Science W 4/16/14
Warm Up
1. What is the expected sea level rise by 2100?
2. What are the two ways global warming can cause
sea levels to rise?
3. What are aerosols?
• Global Warming lecture
• Vocab review BINGO
• GLOBAL WARMING QUIZ TOMORROW
New chance to do Energy Diary for half credit:
1. Download form from blog
2. Change dates on form
3. Start today.
4. Due next Thursday.
Environmental Science T 4/15/14
Warm Up
1. Define anthropogenic.
2. What is the main debate about global warming?
3. What are isotopes of an atom?
4. Give an example of an isotope and its use.
CW: Earth the Operators Manual video with notes.
• Climate Change vocab quiz Thursday
Environmental Science M 4/14/14
Thanks for your help, Saturday! We kept 391
cars-worth of paint, paper, electronics, and
metals out of the landfills 
Warm Up
1. Take notes on IPCC article
2. Add your own reflection in a paragraph
• Earth the Operators Manual video with notes.
• Climate Change vocab quiz Thursday
Environmental Science F 4/11/14
TURN IN CH 13 NOTES
Warm Up
1. What portion of the atmosphere do greenhouse
gases take? Explain.
2. What unit is CO2 measured in?
3. Describe the ocean warming / CO2 feedback loop.
4. Describe the ice sheets feedback loop.
5. Describe the methane feedback loop.
Earth the Operators Manual video with notes.
Environmental Science Th 4/10/14
Journal Check
HW due Friday: Ch 13 vocab & notes
• Earth Day Tuesday, 4/22 brainstorm ideas
• Volunteer sign-ups for Saturday Community
Recycling with Keep Cobb Beautiful and the
GREEN CLUB
• TED Talks: James Hansen (notes)
Environmental Science W 4/9/14
Warm Up
1. Give an example of a cause and effect
relationship with regard to global warming.
2. What is a positive feedback loop?
3. Give an example of a feedback loop.
CW: Group work: cause & effect chart
Journal Check moved to tomorrow
HW now due Friday: Ch 13 notes
Environmental Science T 4/8/14
• TURN IN CO2 GRAPH
• Journal Check tomorrow
• Returns and grade updates
CW: due at end of class
1. Read Ch 3.2, pp. 71-76: The Atmosphere
2. Define all italic and highlighted words (14)
3. Put title of each section in outside margin and take
bulleted notes for each paragraph
4. Go back and copy the 2 pie charts
5. Reflect on “Eco Fact” box on p. 75
HW Due Thursday: same as #2-3 above for all of Ch 13
Environmental Science M 4/7/14
Welcome Back!
• Last day to turn in Energy Diary (if you finished
Friday night before Spring Break)
Warm Up
1. Why does your car interior heat up on a
sunny day? Be specific.
2. What is the “greenhouse effect”?
3. List the greenhouse gases.
CW: Graphing CO2 levels.
BRING TEXTBOOK TOMORROW
Environmental Science F  3/28/14
• Turn in Energy Diary
1. Completed chart
2. Include pictures
3. Include any explanations needed as to why
things are missing (if anything is)
4. Staple all together
• Project presentations
• Put cell phones AWAY
Environmental Science Th 3/27/14
• Energy Diary due
1. Email pictures to yourself
2. Print them out with dates
3. Include any explanations needed as to why
things are missing (if anything is)
4. Staple all together
• Project presentations
• Put cell phones AWAY
Environmental Science W 3/26/14
• Project presentations
• Put cell phones AWAY
• Energy Diary due tomorrow
1. Email pictures to yourself
2. Print them out with dates
3. Include any explanations needed as to why
things are missing (if anything is)
4. Staple all together
Environmental Science M 3/24/14
Put Cell Phone in Box
Turn in Non-renewable energy organizer &
Efficiency ws
Energy Test NOTE #25 change “nonrenewable”
to renewable in both places
Project due tomorrow
rubric, model & powerpoint printout
Environmental Science F  3/21/14
METER PICTURES AND DATA?
WarmUp
1) How is the sun the source of energy for fossil fuels and
biomass?
Review efficiency calculations
Go over meter-reading ws
Review other work
Notes on renewables
Test Monday (also collecting Nonrenewable organizer –
should be stamped)
Project Due Tuesday
Environmental Science Th 3/20/14
DID YOU TAKE YOUR METER PICTURES LAST NIGHT?
WarmUp
1. What is efficiency?
2. Can anything be 100% efficient?
3. What happens to the remainder?
Questions on project?
CW: Practice efficiency calculations
Notes
Test Monday
Project Due Tuesday
Environmental Science W 3/19/14
TURN IN RENEWABLE ENERGY CHART
Warm Up
1. What have you used electricity for so far today?
2. Which type of appliance takes the most energy to
operate?
3. How can you save the most power?
4. What is the difference between active and passive
solar heating?
5. What are photovoltaic cells? (break the word down)
Quiz review
Energy Test Monday
Energy Project Due Tuesday
Environmental Science T 3/18/14
No Warm Up
Nonrenewable energy Quiz
Renewable Energy Organizer – due tomorrow
Energy Test Monday
Energy Project Due Tuiesday
Environmental Science M 3/17/14
WarmUp
1. 5 things you remember from Nathan’s
presentation Friday (if you were not here, 5
things you know about nuclear energy)
2. Where do the sulfur and nitrogen in
pollution from fossil fuel come from?
Returns.
CW: Quiz study guide.
Nonrenewable energy quiz tomorrow.
Also, bring book tomorrow.
Environmental Science F 3/14/14
• Nathan Zohner, guest speaker
• Nuclear Energy
Environmental Science Th 3/13/14
TURN IN HW 17.2 ws & p. 488 (1st due tomorrow)
Warm Up
1. What process produces CO2?
2. What nonrenewable energy source does NOT produce
CO2?
3. Make a 2-column chart to show sources that do and
do not produce CO2.
4. Compare and contrast petroleum/natural gas.
5. Are all energy sources available at all times? Explain
with examples.
6. Describe two solutions to the above problem.
Notes & video clips
Environmental Science W 3/12/14
• Laptops for Energy Project research
• Rubric change – model now in lab category
HW: 17.2 ws & p. 488 due tomorrow
Nonrenewable energy quiz Tuesday
Environmental Science T 3/11/14
Warm Up (read p. 489)
1. What is crude oil?
2. How are the products from crude oil separated?
3. How are plastics made from petroleum?
4. How many different kinds of plastics are there?
CW (due at end of class): p 481 #1-3, 6-7, 9, 12, 14,
16, 19-27
HW (due Thursday): Read section 17.2 & complete
notes ws + p. 488
Environmental Science M 3/10/14
Intro Energy Project – DUE Tuesday, March 25th
BRING TEXTBOOK TOMORROW
Environmental Science F  3/7/14
Gasland movie with notes
Environmental Science Th 3/6/14
TURN IN WEBQUEST
Stamp Organizer
Land Use Test returns & review
Warm Up
1. Write a couple of sentences describing how
electricity is generated.
2. Write out what the following air pollutants
stand for and give one source of each: SO2, NOx
VOC, PM, CO
3. What causes acid rain?
Review air pollution & nonrenewable energy ws
Environmental Science W 3/5/14
Fracking, XL Pipeline & ANWR – due tomorrow
Also due tomorrow: nonrenewable energy
organizer
Environmental Science T 3/4/14
Journal Check
Air Pollution Chart
Non-renewable Energy Chart – due Thursday
Generating Electricity Demo
Non-renewable Energy Lecture
Environmental Science M 3/3/14
• Land Use test
Warm up
1. List 4 fossil fuels
2. Are fossil fuels
renewable?
Explain.
3. List one other
non-renewable
energy source.
• Journal check
tomorrow
• BRING BOOK
TOMORROW
Environmental Science F 2/28/14
WarmUp
1. List components of topsoil.
2. Describe the benefits of topsoil.
3. What is topsoil degradation?
4. Compare/contrast selective breeding/genetic
engineering.
5. What does “GMO” stand for (foods)?
6. List some GMO foods.
Returns
Review
Genetic Engineering videos, if time
TEST MONDAY
Environmental Science Th 2/27/14
TURN IN CH 14 HW
Response/reaction to guest speaker (on a separate sheet of
notebook paper that you will hand in)
One or two paragraphs with general impressions, advice,
reactions, etc.
*let me know if you want it sent to Ms. Mucke or not
History of Food video w/ notes (1/2 sheet)
Eat and Review tomorrow – Sustainable Table Food
TEST MONDAY
Environmental Science W 2/26/14
No warm up
Guest speaker Lorena Mucke
Ethical Choices
Take notes: 20 facts (not from handouts)
Reminder:
HW: Ch 14 – ALL end of section Q’s (including
critical thinking Q’s), + p. 397-8 #1-22 – due
Tomorrow
LAND USE TEST MONDAY ch 14 & 15
Environmental Science T 2/25/14
Warm Up
1. Which uses infrastructure more efficiently,
urban or rural development? Explain.
Agenda
• Ch 14 Land Use Lecture
HW: Ch 14 – ALL end of section Q’s (including
critical thinking Q’s), + p. 397-8 #1-22 – due
Thursday
Environmental Science M 2/24/14
TURN IN Ch 15 Food and Agriculture Notes
WarmUp:
1. Read Barbara Kingsolver excerpt; take 10
notes in journal
Test Returns
TED talk on sustainable fishery (aquaculture)
HW: Ch 14 – ALL end of section Q’s (including
critical thinking Q’s), + p. 397-8 #1-22 – due
Thursday
Environmental Science F  2/21/14
Warm Up
1. About how long does it take to naturally produce 1”
of topsoil, on average?
2. Where does the soil go when it erodes?
3. Brainstorm methods of soil conservation at home
AGENDA
Complete China deforestation video notes
Ch 15 – Agriculture and Feeding the World
1. Lecture
2. CW/HW: Complete Ch 15 Notes from book
Environmental Science Th 2/20/14
TURN IN LAND USE PROJECT
All Warm Ups in your notebook from now on; take
composition book home.
Warm Up
1. What is arable land?
2. How much of the earth’s land surface is arable?
3. What is the biggest threat to arable land?
4. Compare/contrast rangeland/arable land.
Earth apple: http://www.farmland.org/Flash/appleEarth.html
Dust Bowl video clips
China topsoil loss
BRING TEXTBOOK TOMORROW
Environmental Science W 2/19/14
• Complete Land Use Project
Environmental Science F  2/7/14
Work on Land Use plan – to complete next
Wednesday (after break)
Turn in at end of class, done or not –
NO EXCEPTIONS
BRING TEXTBOOK MONDAY – NO PHONES WILL
BE ALLOWED FOR TEXTBOOK.
Environmental Science Th 2/6/14
• Turn in Land Use webquest
• Land Use project
– Find 3 partners (groups of 3 or 4)
– Sit together, facing the front of room
– Open book to p 402-403 and begin reading
– Wait for further instruction
Land Use Project pp 402-403
1. Choose 3 other partners and sit together.
2. Read page 402-403 in text.
3. Complete top of rubric and get signed off for approval
• 1 acre = 209’ x 209’ (a little
4. Get map sheet.
less than a football field)
should be no wider than
5. Complete # 1-4 on p. 402 today. • Roads
• Neighborhoods 1/10
wide
6. Begin rough draft work on # 5 a-g.
• Connectors ¼ wide
• Highways ½ - 1 wide
Also required on separate notebook paper:
• A paragraph selling your town to prospective
homeowners (this will be attached to your map at the
bottom.)
• Answer Q’s 1-5 on p. 403
Environmental Science W 2/5/14
New Unit: Land Use and Agriculture
Warm Up
1. What are some categories of land use in the
US?
2. Who decides how to distribute the use of land?
3. Do you think this is a position without
controversy? Explain.
Land Use Webquest & health survey
Environmental Science T 2/4/14
• Staple & Turn in:
– Study Guide,
– “quiz” sheet,
– Biodiversity Notes
• Biodiversity test
Environmental Science M 2/3/14
• Biodiversity test postponed to tomorrow
• Also due tomorrow:
– Study Guide, “quiz” sheet, Biodiversity Notes
Warm Up
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
post-human extinctions?
Environmental Science T 1/28/14
Stamp “Quiz” ws
Warm Up
1. How can increasing diversity reduce the need for
pesticides and herbicides?
2. Compare and contrast native and endemic.
3. What are the specific criteria for biodiversity hotspots?
4. What types of areas are critical to biodiversity?
Review “Quiz” ws & answer Q’s on Study Guide
BIODIVERSITY TEST TOMORROW
Due tomorrow: Study Guide, “quiz” sheet, Biodiversity Notes.
Environmental Science M 1/27/14
Turn in Shade Grown Coffee summary
Warm Up
1. Have humans ID’d most of the species that exist?
Explain. (see chart p. 259)
2. What types of organisms do most antibiotics come
from? Other medicines?
3. Which government agency is in charge of ID’ing
and maintaining lists of endangered species?
CW/HW: Complete review sheet (due Wed) & Practice
Quiz (due today)
BIODIVERSITY TEST WEDNESDAY
Environmental Science F  1/24/14
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Complete biodiversity hotspot presentations
Shade Grown Coffee article
Future of Biodiversity lecture & ws
Bring textbook Monday
Biodiversity Test Wednesday Ch 10
Environmental Science T  1/21/14
• Turn in electronic project
• Biodiversity Hotspot Presentations
Environmental Science F  1/17/14
Warm Up
1. What is the most effective way to save the
most species at once? Explain.
• Biodiversity Hotspot project Q & A
• Population video contest www.Worldof7Billion.org/student_video_contest.
• Metro Water District HS Video Contest: FOG
http://www.cleanwatercampaign.com/Educator/high-school-video-contest
• Lecture: the future of biodiversity (10.3)
Biodiversity Hotspot presentations begin Tuesday
Environmental Science W 1/15/14
Warm Up
1. Explain two reasons why invasive species
are so successful in new lands/waters.
2. List examples of invasives in the US.
Biodiversity Hotspots
– intro project
– Media center
MEET IN MEDIA CENTER TOMORROW
Environmental Science T 1/14/14
• Stamp Biodiversity Notes: Ch 10 ws
• Invasive Species: Cane Toads Video with notes
Environmental Science M 1/13/14
• Turn in Monarch article Q’s
• keystone species lecture/video clip
In Journal (After Keystone species lecture)
1. Write the characteristics that can make a
species a keystone species
2. Why is the otter considered a keystone species?
CW: Wolf article – turn in
HW: Complete Biodiversity Notes: Ch 10 ws
Environmental Science F  1/10/14
• No textbook needed – sorry 
• Turn in signed syllabus
• Complete/Review Bird Migration activity ws
WarmUp
1. What is the greatest threat to biodiversity?
•
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261120968/when-big-carnivores-go-down-even-vegetarians-take-the-hit
• Monarch butterflies article
Environmental Science 1/9/14
• Turn in syllabus signature sheet only
Warm Up
1. What are the benefits of biodiversity?
2. List and describe the 3 types of biodiversity?
3. Which type is the most commonly discussed
(default)?
CW: Biodiversity game
BRING TEXTBOOK TOMORROW