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1/8 & 1/9 Welcome Back

1/7/2014

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No GQ..... Get out your study guides and your Energy Projects if you still have to present.  
Agenda
Energy Projects Presentations
Study Guides
Test on Friday!!!!!
Learning Targets
1.  Present information regarding a source of energy that we use to for our transportation or electrical or heating needs.  
2.  Review Weather/Climate Unit for test.  
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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. 
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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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11/25

11/24/2013

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GQ.....
1.  Where is there a lot of ice in the world?
2.  Is the ice on land or on water?
3. Will one or both cause sea level  to rise when they melt? 
4.  Does  it matter whether the ice is on land or water?
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GQ
Grade Quizzes
Sea Level Rising
Learning Targets:
1. Reflect on what I have learning regarding the Carbon cycle & Global Warming.
2.  Investigate the history of the Global Mean Sea Level and the melting sea ice  land ice on
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11/22 Flippin Friday

11/21/2013

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GQ Page 45
1.  Compare your rate of changes for each of your experiments: regular air, co2, black paper, aluminum.
2.  Which one had the highest rate of change?  
3.  Which one had the lowest rate of change?

Quiz Today!!!!
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11/19 & 11/20

11/19/2013

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GQ......
1.  Compare your rate of change of temperature in regular air with that of CO2.  
2.  Graph your data collection from both experiments on the same graph, on graph paper.  Color code each of them.  
3.  Answer the questions on the back of your table papers.  
Learning Targets
1.  Compare the rates of change in temperature by investigating the greenhouse effect of CO2.  
2.  Research and create your own solution to global warming.  
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11/18 & 11/19 

11/17/2013

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GQ page 42......
1.  List 3 Greenhouse Gases.
2.  What is the Earth's Albedo?  
Agenda
GQ
Greenhouse Effect Lab
Learning Targets
1.  Conduct an experiment that shows the relationship between CO2 and temperature.
2.  Investigate and create solutions to global warming.  
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