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Monday, March 7, 2016

Daily Summary 03-07

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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Determine FEV1 for each individual in class and discuss relevance of this value to epidemiological studies of pulmonary diseases and their relationship to air pollution

- Warm-up: Should humans attempt to control/limit natural sources of air pollution as well as anthropogenic ones? Why / why not? [8]

- Unit 10: Lecture 2: Outdoor Air Pollution, continued [15]

- Unit 10: Lecture 3: Climate Change, part 1 [15]

- Unit 10: Lab 1: Lung Volume and Pollution Q & A [5]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Reading Assignment: Miller LITE pp. 510-524



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: (1) Understand the scope and expectations of the Science Research and Symposium project; (2) Create and use an online journal to take structured, accurate, and detailed notes (3) Be able to designate resource materials as primary or secondary

- Warm-up: What is the main difference between a primary and secondary source (artifact)? Examples of artifacts that can provide information when researching: books, articles, photos, letters, recorded speech, data table, etc. [10]

- Identifying primary and secondary sources [25]

- Interviews with Mr. Bursch and research time [~25]

- BioSITE first training meeting TOMORROW during tutorial


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Begin using some of the resources we have discussed in class to learn at least the basics of some of the topics on your “research radar” list and begin making entries into your newly created research journal (which should be in your “Research” folder)



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