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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Daily Summary 03-10

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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Discuss the major known causes of global climate change and, using multiple publicly available vetted data sets, make a determination as to what our present understanding is of the likely impacts to the biosphere and humanity during this century

- Warm-up: Take out and head a sheet of lined paper, titling it “Air Pollution Quiz 2” [1]

- Air Pollution Quiz 2 [15]

- Stamp Labs write-ups [~15]

- Unit 10: Lectures 3 and 4: Climate Change [25]

- Climate Change / Global Warming open discussion [25]

- Work/Study Time


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Reading Assignment: Determining Who Is Releasing Greenhouse Gases



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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 (4) Use Google Search as effectively as possible to find sources (5) Evaluate the quality of a potential information source using the C.A.R.E.S. criteria

- Warm-up: Besides credibility of the author/source what other factors are important in determining the quality of a particular information resource? [5]

- Using the C.A.R.E.S. criteria [15]

- Queen of the Sun [30]

- Bee research activity using the C.A.R.E.S. criteria [40]

- Interviews with Mr. Bursch and research time


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Continue researching your own topic(s)



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