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12/11 & 12/12

12/11/2013

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GQ Page 56......
1. Make a list of all the energy conversions involved in making and eating a peice of toast.
 
Agenda
GQ
Energy Sketches Review
Energy Sources Design Projects
Learning  Targets
1.Identify the energy transformations that occur in the production, transmission and use of energy by people in everyday life.  
2.  Use the design process to create a model and presentation regarding a source of energy. 
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Chernobyl: Nuclear Nightmare
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12/10

12/9/2013

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GQ Page 55.......
1.  What is Energy?
2.  List and describe the 2 main types of Energy.
 
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GQ
Energy Sketches
Targets
1.  Investigate Energy.  2.  Describe how energy gets transferred and how we use it to get electricity. 
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12/5 & 12/6

12/5/2013

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GQ Page 51...........
1.  Why are there more severe storms associated with climate change?  Hurricanes and Ice storms.
2.  What is a carbon footprint?
3.  List 2 things that you can do to decrease your carbon footprint.
 
Agenda
GQ
Scoop on Oil
Energy Sources Projects
1.  Investigate petroleum, its uses and its problems.
2.  Construct a model and presentation to inform others about a source of energy and its connections to climate change. 
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Calculate your Carbon Footprint
300 years of fossil fuels
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12/4 Wacky Wednesday

12/3/2013

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GQ Page 50.......
1.  Create a list of at least 10 things that you use everyday that you can't live without.
 
Calculate your Carbon Footprint
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GQ
Carbon Footprint
Scoop on Oil
Submerged City
Learning Targets
1.  Calculate my carbon footprint.
2.  Investigate fossil feul's impacts on our lives and how we use it. 
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12/2 & 12/3

12/1/2013

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No Gq......
You will finish your Sea Ice v/s Land Ice lab.  Be sure that you have already written your conclusions and methods for the first experiment.  You will turn in this lab sheet once completed.  The second part needs to be completed before break! 
GQ
Land Ice Lab

Glacial Retreat
Extreme Weather
Human Health
1.  Conduct an experiment to determine if sea ice or land ice melt causes the most sea level rise.
2.  Investigate glacial retreat, extreme weather patterns in the US and the threat to human health that climate change can bring.  
Human Health & Extreme Weather
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Portage Glacier, Alaska Image on Right: 1914 Image on Left: 2004
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