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EnviroSci Home

Syllabus

Extra Credit

Student Weebly's

Online Textbook

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Unit 12 Solid Waste 

SWAG bag

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Unit  11 - Air Pollution and Human Health

Required Readings:

• Chapters 17 & 18

Handouts:  

• Unit 11 Vocab & SGQ's.

Labs:

• Toxicity Lab (LD50)
• Tropospheric Ozone Lab
• Particulates Lab
• Smog City Lab

Online Resources:

• CalEnviroScreen 2.0
• Lung Attack
• Turlock Real-Time Air Quality from ValleyAir.org
• EPA Ozone Explainer

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Unit 10 - Renewable Energy Resources

Required Readings:

• Chapter 16 in the book
• Ethanol Stories:
  -Virtual Ethanol Plant Tour
  -Ethanol Infographic 1
  -Ethanol Energy Balance (Read Abstract)
• Solar Power
  - Solar Power Towers in Ivanpah Not Meeting Expectations
  - Solar Plants Roasting Birds in Flight
  - A Tough Road Ahead for Concentrated Solar Power

Handouts:

• Unit 10 Vocab & SGQ's

Labs & Activities 

• Carbon Footprint Calculator

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Unit 9 Geology, Minerals and Nonrenewable Resources

REQUIRED READINGS:

• Chapter 14 in Book
• Chapter 15 in Book

Handouts:

• Chapter 14-15 Vocab & SGQ's

Labs:

• Plate Tectonic Features Using Google Maps 
• Energy Inventory
• Virtual Earthquake
• Cookie Mining | Lab PPT

PowerPoints:

• Plate Tectonics
• Volcanoes/Hot Spots
• Earthquakes
• Non-Renewable Fossil Fuels /Minerals
• Nuclear

Online Tools & Data

• TID Generation Facilities
  (Where Your Power Comes From)

Videos of Interest

• Switch Energy Project: Environmental Impacts
• Switch Energy Project: How Oil is Made
• Switch Energy Project: Coal
• Switch Energy Project: Natural Gas
• Switch Energy Project: Oil
• Switch Energy Project: Unconventional Oil
• Switch Energy Project: Nuclear Energy
• Switch Energy Project: How Nuclear Works
• Switch Energy Project: Nuclear Risks

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Unit 8.5 Water Pollution

REQUIRED READINGS

• We dump 8 million tons of plastic into the ocean each year. Where does it all go?
• Taps Start to Run Dry in Brazil’s Largest City.​

Labs

• Hollister Cheese Co Groundwater Pollution Lab
  Procedure & Questions | Map
  Hilmar Cheese Articles:  PDF 1| PDF 2 |
• Ground Water Hydrology Lab

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Unit 8 Water Resources 

Unit 8 Vocab and SGQ's 
Online Required Readings

• "Contamination Plume Heads towards Tuolumne River"
• "Untapped Potential of California's Water"
• "Pilots Brave Winter Storms in Cloud Seeding Program"

PowerPoints
13.1 & 13.2 | 13.3 & 13.4
Assignments 

• Regional Water Quality Control Facility (PDF)
• Water Quality Annual Report 2013
  • St Francis Dam Disaster & Simulation

​Labs

• Virtual River Activity
• Surface Water and Stream Gauges Lab
  Stream Gauge Map | Snow Cover Maps
• Groundwater Simulation Lab

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​City of Turlock Water Documents

• Water Use Inventory file
  - Link to City of Turlock Utility Billing to get Water Bill

Online Tools & Data

• USGS Stream Gauges
• Current California Reservoir levels
• California Water Use Infographic
• Modesto Bee Groundwater Crisis Coverage.

Videos of Interest:

KCRA 3 Reports: Who Owns the Water?
Cadillac Desert

Tales of the San Joaquin: A River Restored.

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Unit 7 Resources

• Unit 7 (Chap 12) Vocab and SGQ's
• Your World Project PowerPoint | Document

Online Required Reading

• Product of Mexico -LA Time
• NASA Satellite Set to Get the Dirt on Soil Moisture
• San Joaquin Valley Farmers Reach Secret Deal in Water Dispute
• GMO Potatoes Have Arrived. But Will Anyone Buy Them?

Labs

• Soil Texture
• Soil Porosity/Permeability
• Soil Salinization

PowerPoints

• Soil Formation & Texture

Assignments

• Texture Triangle Practice 1
• Texture Triangle Practice 2
• Integrated Pest Management

Online Tools & Data

• Interactive Soil Maps of the US
• DIY Hydroponic Vegetable Garden
• Vertical Gardens DIY How-To

Videos of Interest

• Huell Howser goes to Largest Hydroponic Greenhouse in North America

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Unit 6 Resources

Unit 6 Biodiversity Resources

• Unit 6 Vocab, SGQ's & Tentative Calendar
• Labs
  - Habitat Loss
• PowerPoints
  - Chapter 9
  - Chapter 10
• Assignments:
  - Invasive Species Wanted Poster | California Invasives
• Readings:
  - Native Ecosystems Blitzed by Drought

Videos of Interest

• The Original Lorax
• Cane Toads: The Conquest

FINAL PROJECT HAIKU

• Haiku Final Project Examples

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Unit 5 Resources

Unit 5 Resources

• Unit 5 Vocab, SGQ's & Tentative Calendar
• LABS
  - Oh Deer! Lab
  - Parking Lot Species Diversity Lab
  - Shannon Diversity Index Calculator for Lab
• Chapter 5 PowerPoint

Videos of Interest

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Unit 4 Resources

Unit 4 Resources

• Self Guided Questions and Vocab
• Chapter 7 Biomes PPT
• Notes
  Adiabatic Cooling/Warming
• LABS
  - Climate Graphs [ Data |Graphs Plotting| Questions |Comparison Graphs | Google Earth Points] 
  - Slime Lab
  - Tagging Lab to Est Population Sizes 
• Videos
  - Planet Earth "Pole to Pole"
  - Colbert "Republican's Inspiring Message on Climate Change"
• Readings
  -California Climate
  -Death Valley Climate
• Tuolumne River Day Required Readings:
  - "Why California's Largest Estuary No Longer Works for WildLife"
  - "Fish Counting Weirs"
  - "Rotary Screw Traps"
  - "The Ich Factor"
  - "Don Pedro Hydroelectric Project Relicensing"
  - "Steelhead Trout Snorkel Counting"
  -"Fish Predation, Not Flows, Causing Salmon Decline"
  -"Tuolumne River Gold Dredge"

• Tuolumne River Day Required Data:
  - "Tuolumne River Watershed"
  - "Stream Flows, Water Temps".