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Student Weebly's

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Solar Oven Cook-off  (DUE MONDAY MAY 15!)

Useful Links

1. Contest Grading Parameters
2. Solar Oven Resources (Right side of the page)

Timeline

1. Design Sketch and plans/list of materials (DUE THIS FRIDAY the 5th)
2. Build Days (Week of 8th-12th)
   Can use in class time to build or to study for other classes.  You are responsible for all materials expect scissors & knives.  I'll have those things
3. Due on Monday May 15th 100% completed and ready for testing!

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Review Worksheets.

1. Review #1
2. Review #2
3. Review #3
4. Review #4
5. Review #5
6. FRQ Practice (Do #2)
7. FRQ Practice (Do # 1)
8. FRQ Practice (Do # 4)
9. FRQ PRactice (Do # 3)

Practice Tests

Practice Test #1 (Good explanations, but questions will be better written and more relvant than this one)

Quizlet Vocab Reviews

• Quizlet #1 (General Review)
• Quizlet #2 (Populations - no pics)
• Quizlet #3 (Geologic Stuff)
• Quizlet #4 (Ecology Stuff)
• Quizlet #5 (Nutrient Cycles)
• Quizlet #6  (more ecology w/pics)
• Quizlet #7 (Biomes)
• Quizlet #8 (Human Health & Risks)
• Quizlet #9 (Laws and Treaties)

Review PP Images\Diagrams

• Good Overall Review PowerPoint (I didn't make this one)

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8_

• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16

• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19​

Review games

• Environment Millionaire Game
• Ecology Millionaire Game
• Aquatic Ecosystems Millionaire Game
• Ecology, Populations and Biodiversity Millionaire Game
• Ecosystems and Biomes Millionaire Game
• Biomes and Ecosystems Millionaire Game
• Biodiversity Hangman
• Municipal Sewage Treatment Matching and more
• Nuclear Power Plant
• Coal Fired Electrical Power Plant

Unit 12: Landfills , Recycling and Soil Remediation

UNIT 11:  Air Quality (Less than a week left!)

Required Readings:

• Chapters 17 & 18

Handouts:  

• Unit 11 Vocab & SGQ's.

Labs:

• 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
• American Lung Association State of the Air

Videos of Interest​:

UNIT 10:  Earth's Renewable Resources! (Less than a week left!)

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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

Online Resources:

• CalEnviroScreen 2.0
• Lung Attack​
• American Lung Association State of the Air

Videos of Interest

• Switch Energy Project: Solar
• Switch Energy Project: Wind
• ​Switch Energy Project: Hydro
• Switch Energy Geothermal
• Switch Energy Biofuel

THS Air Pollution Capture Lab Map

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UNIT 9:  Earth's Resources and Geology

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Unit NTHRN (Needs to Happen Right Now)
Environmental Law/History Timeline Sign-up Sheet.

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UNIT 8: Water and Water Pollution (Not a big deal around here, right?)

Unit 7 - Ag, Food, Soils, GMO's & Pesticides/Fertilizers

Required Readings

1. Product of Mexico -LA Time
2. NASA Satellite Set to Get the Dirt on Soil Moisture
3. San Joaquin Valley Farmers Reach Secret Deal in Water Dispute
4. Bees threatened by a common pesticide, EPA finds
5. GMO Potatoes Have Arrived. But Will Anyone Buy Them?

Handouts

• Vocab and SGQ's (DUE Friday Jan 22)
• Soil Texture Triangle Practice 

Labs

• Soil Texture Classification
• Soil Salinity and Seed Germination DIY Lab (Due TBD)
• Soil Permeability Lab
• IPM Computer Lab Investigations (Due TBD) 

PowerPoints

• Chapter 12 PPT

Quizzes

1. Product of Mexico Reading Quiz  (Due Friday 1/10)_
2. Food Production Chap 12.2  (Due Tuesday 1/24/17)
3. Farming Conservation Practices Quiz (Due Thursday 1/26/17)

Online Tools and Data

1. What is IPM? UC Davis Integrated Pest Management
2. UC Davis Natural Enemies IPM page
3. UCD Parasites
4. UCD Fruit Pests
5. UCD Veggies Pests

• Conservation Farming Practices - A list of every way it is done!
• PBS: Engineer Your Food
• PBS: Should We Grow GMO:  Opinion Quiz 

Videos of Interest

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UNIT 6 - Biodiversity

Final Project Haiku Information!

Required Readings

• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• "Native Ecosystems Blitzed by Drought"

Handouts

• SGQ's & Vocabulary
• Lorax Questions

Labs

• Habitat Loss Lab ?
• Invasive Species Wanted Poster
• National Parks Project
• Hetch Hetchy Role Playing?

PowerPoints

• Chapter 9
• ​Chapter 10

Quizes (NEW)

• Reading Quiz #1 (Chap 9-1) . Due 12/2 by 8am.
• Reading Quiz # 2 (Chap 9.2 - 9.3)  Due 12/9 by 8am
• Reading Quiz # 3 (Chap 10.2-10.5) Due 12/13 by 8am

Online Tools and Data

• California Invasives (short list)
• California Invasives Long List

Videos of Interest

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​Unit 5: Population Dynamics

Required Readings

• Chapter 5 in your book.

Handouts

• Unit 5 SGQ's and Vocab

Labs

• Oh Deer
• Ungulate Craps

PowerPoints

• Chapter 5 PPT

Online Tools and Data

Videos of Interest

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Unit 4:  Biomes Physical Climatology & Aquatic Biodiversity

Online QUIZES

READ ENDANGERED RIVER (With a Cool Cameo!)

• Endangered River Quiz (DUE 11/2/16)

Required Readings

• California Climate
• Death Valley Climate
• Salmon & Steelhead Habitat Loss in California

Handouts

• Self Guided Questions and Vocab
• Adiabatic Cooling/Warming

Labs

• Climate Graphs [ Data |Graphs Plotting| Questions |Comparison Graphs | Google Earth Points] ​​
• Urban Heat Islands. 

PowerPoints

• Chapter 7 Biomes PPT

Online Tools and Data

Tuolumne River Field Study Day 

•  "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".

Videos of Interest

The Irrigationist from Turlock Irrigation District on Vimeo.

Salmon: Running the Gauntlet full episode.

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Unit 3 - Life on Earth: Organization, Evolution and Interactions.

Labs

• Wooly Worms
  • Group Calculations Period 6
  • Group Calculations Period 7
  • Wooly Worm Analysis and Questions PPT (Goes in Lab Book)
• Food Webbing The Sierra's
• Parking Lot Species Diversity
• Nerds Tagging and Recapture

Required Readings:

• Textbook Chapter 3
• Textbook Chapter 4
• OpenTreeOfLife.org
• Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frog and Yosemite.
  • UPDATE: The Frogs are All Right. 
• CNN: Endangered River (There's a surprise half-way through)

PowerPoints

• Chapter 3-1 & 3-2
• Chapter 3-3 & 3-4
• Chapter 3-5 & 3-6
• Chapter 4

Handouts:

• Vocab and SGQ's
• Endangered Species Brochure  (DUE 10/12/16)

Online Tools and Data

• California Endangered Species website
• SPECIES DIVERSITY INDEX CALCULATOR
  Open this link, then "Save a Copy" to your google Drive.  You need to be signed-in to google to make this work.  
  ONLY FILL-IN THE AREAS IN YELLOW! ​ The rest will be calculated for you!

Videos of Interest

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Unit 2 - Climate Change, Systems Thinking and How We Solved The Ozone Hole Problem (AKA: How to fix what we broke).

Global Warming Lab Data Form

REQUIRED READINGS:

• Chapters 2 & 19
• XKCD Climate Infographic Comic
• Climate Feedbacks
• Ice Core 101
• Global Warming and Climate Change Myths

Handouts:

PowerPoints:

• Chapter 2 - Scientific Method and Feedback Loops
• Radiation and Temperature Controls
• Chapter 19.1 & 19.2 - Global Warming Evidence and Data
• Chapter 19.3 - Solutions to Global Warming - Preventative and Adaptive.
• Chapter 19.4 - Ozone Layer Hole and How we Fixed a Man-Made Problem

Labs:

1. Interactive Carbon Cycle ("Carbon Moves")
2. Carbon Dioxide Data Gallery Walk
   1. QUESTIONS
   2. ANSWERS PPT
3. Global Warming in a Bottle
   
   • ​​DATA SUBMISSION TOOL
     - Useful links to help answer lab questions:
     -Greenhouse Effect & another Greenhouse Effect
     - CO2 warming interactive
     -Greenhouse Gasses Primer
     -Global Warming (funny video)
     -Global Warming

Online QUIZES

1. XKCD Climate Comic Quiz (DUE FRIDAY 9/16)

Online Tools & Data

• Climate.gov
• Yale Climate Project on Change Communication
• University of Maine Climate Change Institute
• Keeling Curve Website (CO2)
• NOAA Carbon Tracker
• Global Greenhouse Reference Network (NOAA)

Videos of Interest:

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Unit 1 - Human Populations

REQUIRED READINGS:

​Slate Article: 

• How Natural Disasters Harm the Poor More than the Rich (reading quiz on due by Tuesday)
• Louisiana Floods Before & After

Handouts:

• Unit 1 Vocabulary and SGQ's 
• Cover it Up - Text Book Cover Art Contest
• Exponential Population Growth Worksheets 
• Population Pyramids Alasksa
• Population Statistics

Labs:

• Fishing in the Commons 
• Fishing Data Spreadsheet and Calculator (need google docs!)
• Environmental Footprint Calculator
• National Ecological Footprint Shoe 
• Risk Assessment 
• US City Population Pyramids (How-To-Sheet)

PowerPoints:

• 1-2 to 1-3 Natural Capital, Sustainability and Exponential Growth
• 6-1 Population Overview
• 6-2 to 6-4 Population Stats 

Quizzes

• Weebly Website Survey

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Online Tools & Data

• Environmental Footprint Calculator
• Nationmaster.com Footprint Data
• US Cities Population  Fact Finder (For use w/pop pyramids)

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Videos of Interest

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