Welcome to Environmental Science! This webpage will be your text book. The homepage contains your syllabus, a copy of the parent syllabus that must be signed for your first grade and the curriculum map for the year. On this page you will find the rest! Have fun, learn something and go out and make change!
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Engineering Design Challenge
Your first assignment is an Engineering Design Challenge. You will work with your table team to complete this challenge over the next couple of days. Follow the rubric. Your peers and I will be judging and grading your results. You will chose between building a watercraft, zipline, a paper table, paddle boat. , or a grabber. Use the "table papers" in the middle of your tables to determine which challenge you want to work on. You will have to decide as a group, and then follow the directions.
Weather & Climate Unit
Chemistry Mini-Unit
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Targets: I will identify the components that make up an atom and evaluate why and how they combine to form molecular bonds.
Step 1: To begin our unit on Weather & Climate, you will need to make sure to create a unit tab for your notebook. Label it Weather & Climate. On the front page (1), make an illustration for your weather & climate unit. At the bottom of your illustration, explain what you think the difference is between weather & climate! Step 2: Chemistry PreAssessment tape onto page 2.
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Wacky Wednesday 8/20
Finish grading the preAssessments.
**Guiding Questions Page 3**
1. What element is the atomic structure representing to the below?
2. How many protons does it have?
3. What is the atomic mass of this element?
4. How many electron shells does it have?
Finish grading the preAssessments.
**Guiding Questions Page 3**
1. What element is the atomic structure representing to the below?
2. How many protons does it have?
3. What is the atomic mass of this element?
4. How many electron shells does it have?
Thursday 8/21
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Targets: I will identify the components that make up an atom and evaluate why and how they combine to form molecular bonds.
Agenda
Finish & Record PreAssessments Element Drawings (Page 3) Atom Playdoh |
GQ Page 3
Step 1: Pick up an Element Drawings worksheet and tape it onto page 3 in your notebooks. (over top of your GQ from yesterday). I will assign you a number and that number will be the atomic number of an element on the periodic table. Draw your element. You will create a model of your element using playdoh for protons and neutrons, beads for electrons and pipecleaners for the electron shells. Once finished place in ziplock baggie, attach your element sheet to it and hang from the ceiling. You will receive a 10 point grade for making the model accurately. |
Monday 8/18
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Targets: I will identify the components that make up an atom and evaluate why and how they combine to form molecular bonds.
Agenda
Element Playdoh Review, Score & Hang Atoms Family Math Challenge Atomic Structure Practice Sheet Families of the Periodic Table Guiding Question Page 4
1. What is the atomic mass of an atom that has 8 protons, 8 neutrons and 8 electrons? 2. What is this element? Write its chemical symbol. 3. Draw its atomic structure! Step 1: Make sure that you have completed your Element Models with Playdoh. I will be giving you a score out of 10 points for the correct number of protons, neutrons, electrons, electron shells and the chemical symbol in the ziplock baggie. You should also be hanging it from the ceiling with a paper clip so that we can easily take them off and on.
Step 2: Complete the Atoms Family Math Challenge for practice, tape into page 5.
Step 3: On the back of your element drawing sheet complete the periodic table magic square activity. From this activity, create a Unit Vocabulary sheet on Page 6 in your notebook. Define each word that you add.
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Wednesday 8/27
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Learning Targets:
1. I will diagram the electron configuration of an atom using the bohr and lewis dot methods in order to evaluate an element's reactivity. 2. I will model how covalent and ionic bonds form in nature. Agenda
Lewis Dot & Bohr Diagrams Periodic Table Basics Project Families of the Periodic Table GQ Page 7
1. Why do atoms bond? 2. Which ones bond more freely than others? 3. Would Hydrogen bond easily with other atoms? Which ones? Why? Step 1: Watch video on Lewis Dot structures to the right. Complete Periodic Table Basics cards. When finished with the cards, place in order on a peice of construction paper. Complete the questions.
Step 2: Using the families button below, label the families of the periodic table on your periodic table that you created in step 1. List 3 qualities of each family somewhere on your construction paper. Friday 8/ 29
Learning Targets:
1. I will diagram the electron configuration of an atom using the bohr and lewis dot methods in order to evaluate an element's reactivity. 2. I will model how covalent and ionic bonds form in nature. Agenda
Finish & Turn In Periodic Table Basics Atomic Structure (Ions) & Periodic Table Overview username: henrycountymiddle, password: wildcats
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Monday 9/2
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Learning Targets:
1. I will diagram the electron configuration of an atom using the bohr and lewis dot methods in order to evaluate an element's reactivity. 2. I will model how covalent and ionic bonds form in nature. |
Agenda
1. Finish & Turn In Periodic Table Basics 2. Atomic Structure (Ions) & Periodic Table Overview 3. Quiz 4. Molecular Bonding 5. Atmospheric Composition |
CO2 molecule
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GQ
1. According to the pie chart on the right, which 3 gases make up most of the atmosphere? 2. Why would nitrogen bond with itself? 3. Why would oxygen bond with itself? 4. Draw one of these molecules. Is it a ionic bond or a covalent? |
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Thursday 9/4, Monday 9/8
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Learning Targets:
1. Investigate the layers of the atmosphere and their composition to interpret how weather and climate are created. Agenda
Layers of the Atmosphere Project Step 1: Pick up the Layers of the Atmosphere project and complete.
Step 2: Research the ozone layer. Questions to research: a. What is the Ozone Layer? Draw a diagram of the molecular bond. b. Why is it there and how does it benefit us? c. When did we first discover it? When and how did we find out there were holes in the Ozone layer? d. How big were the holes and where were they when they were first discovered? e. How big are they now and where are they now? f. Do they move? Why and how? g. What causes the holes? Explain. |
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Tuesday 9/9
Step 1: Watch the video on weather v.s climate. Review what you wrote on page 1 in your notebooks about the difference between the 2. Correct your comparison if you need to.
Step 2: Using the button below, investigate the 4 spheres of the Earth and answer the questions on your worksheet. Step 3: Google Earth Activity on the Desktops/Ipads. Obtain a copy of the directions for investigating weather & climate with Google Earth. Follow the directions and complete the Weather & Climate Student Investigation Sheets.
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Wednesday 9/17
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Learning Targets
1. Conduct an experiment that investigates the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, and the Earth's Albedo. Agenda
Greenhouse Effect Lab Step 1: Find a station in the back with your materials that you need. Read the directions for the Greenhouse Effect lab.
Step 2: Create two x and y t-charts on page 16 in your notebooks. Label the first one regular air and the second one CO2 added. Step 3: label x time and y temperature. list the time in increments of 30 seconds all the way down to 15 minutes for the first experiment and 20 minutes for the second. Step 4: Using the CO2 data logger, measure the amount of CO2 in your bottle. follow the directions for the regular air experiment. once finished calculate the rate of change in temperature. rate of change=change in temperature/change in time Step 5: read the background for the adding CO2 experiment. follow the directions to add CO2 to your container. Using the Data Logger, measure the amount of CO2 in your bottle. Conduct the experiment. Step 6: calculate the rate of change of temperature for the CO2 added. Step 7: Answer the analysis questions on page 17 in your notebooks. Step 8: Conduct an investigation on the Earth's Albedo using black paper, white paper and aluminum foil. Calculate the rates of changes in Temperature for each to compare. |
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The Reckoning Homework Discussion!!!
Lab Follow up: Create a spreadsheet in Excel that will display all of your data into a graph. Create graph title, axis titles, and a trend line. Graded Assignment: Analyze your findings in your experiments by answering the questions attached in the button above. Answer in complete sentences and turn them in to be graded.
Step 1: Watch the video to the right. On page 19 in your notebook answer these questions:
1. What is an Ice Core? 2. What are the three kinds of information scientists get from ice core samples? 3. What is the oldest Ice that they have on record? 4. How long did it take to drill that far? 5. What is the repeating pattern of ice ages in the past? 6. How many years in the past do they hope to get samples from? |
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Step 2: Investigating Core Ice Data: pick a partner to work with in groups of two. You will also need a "Getting to the Core: Link Between Temperature and CO2" packet and a set of "table paper" instructions.
- Read the background information for the table papers.
- Follow the "Vostok Data Instructions" for rounding the CO2 concentrations and the temperature anomaly
- Follow the "Plotting the Graphs" instructions.
12/8 An Inconvenient Truth
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Learning Targets:
1. Investigate the evidence for Climate Change by watching the Documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
3. You will also be conducting a notebook check. Directions are on the board.
4. On page 33 in your notebook you will now make a new unit tab to continue our Climate Change Unit. |
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5. To reintroduce you to the climate change unit you will be watching the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. There are questions that you must answer as the documentary is played.
