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11/12 & 11/13

11/11/2012

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Last day to work on your paper.  Final drafts will be turned in as a test grade at the end of class!!! If you have not already turned in your field trip packets then you must also do that at the end of the block!!!
Any paper or packet turned in after today will be considered late!!! You will not get anymore class time to finish!  

Learning Targets
1.  Write an informational, cause and effect article that educates the community on the causes of poor water quality and explains the effects of land and water use locally and globally.
Energy IQ Quiz
When you are finished with your paper, take this online quiz!  There are 15 questions, write down the question numbers that you missed so that we can discuss later.  Then watch this movie!
A different kind of fuel: video

This is the end of our watershed unit.  You will clean out your binder to create your portfolio for this unit.  
Make a tab called Energy on page _____ in your composition notebook.  
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11/7 & 11/8

11/6/2012

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Learning Targets
1.  Write an informational, cause and effect article that educates the community on the causes of poor water quality and explains the effects of land and water use locally and globally. 
McKinney's Draft
Waterinfo.org
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Flippin Friday 11/2

11/1/2012

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Learning Targets
1.  Write an informational, cause and effect article that educates the community on the causes of poor water quality and explains the effects of land and water use locally and globally.
 
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10/29 & 10/30

10/28/2012

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Learning Targets
1.  Interpret and rank water test results analyzing water quality.  
2.  Review field trip expectations.
 
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No GQ...... Get out your Macro-Invertebrate papers and begin your constructed response on the back.  You will use your water testing bibles to rank and analyze water quality at the little kentucky river.  Turn them into the worms when you are finished.  
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10/25 & 10/26

10/25/2012

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Learning Targets
1.  Investigate a water quality test and create a presentation that teaches others about the test and how to conduct it in the field. 

2.  Interpret a dichotomous key that compares macro-invertebrates that live in an aquatic ecosystem by their tolerance level to pollution. 
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10/24 Wacky Wednesday

10/23/2012

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Learning Targets
1.  Investigate a water quality test and create a presentation that teaches others about the test and how to conduct it in the field. 
2.  Analyze the affects on aquatic organisms if these tests are outside their normal range.
 
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Would you drink this water?
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No GQ...... Get your posters out and ready to present. 
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10/22 & 10/23

10/21/2012

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Learning Targets
1.  Investigate a water quality test and create a presentation that teaches others about the test and how to conduct it in the field. 
2.  Analyze the affects on aquatic organisms if these tests are outside their normal range.
 
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Daily Agenda
Synthesis
WaterTesting Experts
Presentations

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No GQ...... Synthesize what you have learned so far on Targets 1, 2 and 3.  This is located on the back of your Topo map exercises from Friday. 
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10/19 Zombie Flippin Friday!!!

10/18/2012

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Learning Targets
1.  Interpret topographic maps in order to identify the micro-waterhed that I live in.  
2.  Synthesize what I have learned so far regarding Nitrogen, watersheds, water cycle, pollution and topography.  

Guiding Question page 27
1.  What is the difference between point and non-point pollution?  
2.  Which do you think is more harmful to a watershed? Why?

Daily Agenda
GQ
Reading a Topographic Map 
Synthesis
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10/17 & 10/18

10/15/2012

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Learning Targets 
1.  Identify sources of point and non-point source pollution in a watershed using the water cycle.
2.  Create a watershed using topography and analyze the affects of pollution while representing the layers of the water cycle.  

Daily Agenda
GQ
Make Your Own Watershed
Reading Topographic Maps

Guiding Question Page 25
1.  What is topography?  
2.  What is elevation? 
3.  How does water flow?  
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10/15 & 10/16 Welcome Back!

10/5/2012

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Learning Targets:
1.  Investigate the Nitrogen Cycle and how humans are changing the cycle with the use of fertilizers.
2.  Use the water cycle to identify potential contaminants of point and non-point source pollutants. 
3.  Create your very own watershed.   
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Daily Agenda
Nitrogen Cycle Passport Activity
Nitrogen Cycle Text
Water Cycle Cloz
Create your own Watershe
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10/15 & 16 Guiding Questions Page 24
1.  Make a list of the different places you visited as the Nitrogen Atom.  These are the reservoirs of Nitrogen.
2.  List what you remember abou the parts of the water cycle.
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