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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY - Mrs. Noonan



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APES RESOURCES

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3rd MARKING PERIOD


Complete for HW for this weekend.  I will quiz you MOnday!
Chinatown Lake Merritt Bay Area Online Workshop

WEEKEND HW - DUE 12/5-Names of 5 legislators
Determine the members of the committee dealing with your bill.  
Committee
memberships can be found on the legislative websites (above and 
below).  Look
at the websites of individual
committee members to select in order a priority of what offices to 
visit.  You
should have time to visit from 3 - 5 offices. 
 
Assembly Committees and 

Senate Committtees and links

Look at the scorecard 2011 - it discusses bills.  Also look at 
background for different issues.
League of Conservation Voters

Find history of your bill.  Where is it?
Who is on the committee dealing with your bill?  Where are their 
offices in the capitol?
Search CA Legislation Under Consideration

1. How did the government treat science under the Bush 
administration?
2. What change did Obama institute in March 2009?
3. What is the issue about "grazing" and why is it a "touchy" 
issue?
4. What are some other problems with applying the scientific 
integrity 
policy today?
APES HW: Listen. Answer Q's above

Miller Lite Site
Review Questions, Flashcards and Quizzes for AP Env. Sci.

Look here to see how different development plans would affect our 
community and the environment.
Sustainable City Choices

Look at Animated Biology for Chapter 30 (respiratory system). 
Check your 
knowledge 
with
Interactive Reviews and Online Quizzes.
ClassZone Animated Biology 

This tide station is near the channel leading to Lake Merritt at 
Station 12. 
If the tide gates are open, the tides in the Lake should be near 
the same time
but not as high or low.  If the tide gates are shut, the tide 
level in the
lake will not go up and down with the tides in the harbor.
TIDES AT OAKLAND GROVE STREET

Zoom in to find where you will place your air particle 
collector.  Click on the spot. Click on the balloon.  Write down 
the Latitude and Longitude of your spot.
iTouch Latitude and Longitude of a Point

Check out Step 3 and maybe Step 2.
Try different ways to describe your career if nothing comes up.
EDD CA -California State Employment Development Department Website

Use for our Tracking Marine Mammmals Lessons. You need a Username 
and PW. I
will give them to you.
ACES - Signals of Spring

Check out this readable website to learn more about interactions 
in 
the redwood
forest.
Redwood Forest Community

See some incredible fish pictures. Learn about a conservation 
hatchery and how
it uses science to help an endangered species. Learn why redwood 
forests need
salmon.
CA's Lost Salmon KQED Quest

Read introduction, then the launch I.C.E. Explore the 
relationship 
between sea surface temperature and chlorophyll, and sea surface 
temperature and fluorescence.  Answer Questions on worksheet.
Earth Observatory Channel Islands Lesson:

Go here to get the data you need to make a climatograph.
CALIFORNIA CITIES: Monthly Temperature and Precipitation

Why are wetlands important? Why should we care if the swamp 
becomes open water?
Louisiana Wetlands - Maddow 6-2-10

Diver photographs the oil spill in the Gulf

This is about energy sources for the post petroleum age.
NSF Green Revolution Site

Check here for opportunities to participate in environmental 
science 
projects
inolving community service and GPS/GIS. Executive Director of 
NESN 
Marc
Epstein is our Academy partner, and offers summer internships to 
our 
students.
NORCAL ENVIRONMENTAL STUDENT NETWORK

Describes the accident and the amounts of radiation that might 
reach U.S.
"No need to panic about nuclear meltdown in Japan" Aol News

What can you learn about the food web?
Virtual Mouse pellet dissection

Other Resources

Here are some other resources that you can't find on the internet:     School
Library     Local Public Library


Google

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