Daily Summary 03-17

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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Discuss global dependence on fossil fuels and the growing human pursuit of terrestrial energy sources

- Warm-up: Use your phones or a laptop to look up per capita energy use (in KW*hours/year) for the US and then for a developing country we have discussed this year in class. By what factor do the two figures differ? Explain the discrepancy. [10]

- Unit 11: Lecture 1: Fossil Fuels [25]

- Introduction to unit 11 Energy Projects (Personal Energy Use Audit and Energy Conservation Report Card for WGHS) [20]

- Work time [45]


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Complete Energy Primer Practice Problems (all)

- Start work on Personal Energy Use Audit project

- Miller reading: pp. 370-385; pp. 386-394



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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 search engines as effectively as possible to find sources; (5) Evaluate the quality of a potential information source using the C.A.R.E.S. criteria; (6) Know when and how to give credit to sources used in all scholarly research

- Warm-up: When should you provide written acknowledgement of using information from a source you have consulted? [5]

- When and How to Give Credit to Sources Used in Scientific Research [60]

- Finish bee research activity using the C.A.R.E.S. criteria

- Interviews with Mr. Bursch and research time


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Finish evaluation of sources activity; continue your own research



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