| Environmental Science
Teacher: Mrs. Murray
Sections: 6th period with Mrs. Hunt
assignments weeks 12 and 13 11/17/08
Population +
Class: Monday 11/17
Review questions + Population activity
Homework: due Tuesday 11/18
Notes on 9.2 (to use in quiz)
Class: Tuesday 11/18
Global population
Homework: due Wednesday 11/19
Notes on 9.3 (to use in quiz)
Class: Wednesday 11/19,
Review strategies + population
Homework: due Thursday 11/20,
Answer questions 5 and 6 page 224
Class: Thursday 11/20,
Population exercise
Homework: due Monday 11/24,
Complete population exercise + questions
Class: Friday 11/21
Grade 10 Explore test/grade 11 Review
Homework due Monday 11/24
Population exercise ii
Class: Monday 11/24
Review questions + answers
Homework: due Tuesday 11/25
Review plan + questions
Class: Tuesday 11/25
Biodiversity
Homework: due Monday 12/1
Questions 1-5 p244 (give at least five points for each question in #4 and #5)
assignments week 11 11/10/08
Water + population
Class: Monday 11/10
Water activity
Homework: due Tuesday 11/11
Review: Know the key terms on p186
Class: Tuesday 11/11 Veterans’ day
Key term quiz Water activity
Homework: due Wednesday 11/12,
Answer #33 p188 from our “field trip”
Class: Wednesday 11/12,
Field trip activities
Homework: due Thursday 11/13,
Answer questions 21-26 page 188 in whole sentences
Class: Thursday 11/13,
Population study Part i
Homework: due Friday 11/14,
Wetlands study: answer questions 1-6 p192
Class: Friday 11/14
Population study Part ii
Homework due Monday 11/17
Work on your population study
Week 10
Assignments: 11/3
Aquatic biomes +
Class: Monday 11/3,
More about Water
Answer questions Wetland activity—answer the questions on page 192 (Name the
states!)
Homework: due Tuesday 11/4
Essay OUTLINE on marine pollution
Title
Topic paragraph
Three informational paragraphs
Concluding paragraph (linking together your topic paragraph and your
information)
Class: Tuesday 11/4,
Marine pollution essay—peer review
Homework: due Wednesday 11/5,
Marine pollution essay
Class: Wednesday 11/6,
Reading essays and collating information from them
Homework: due Thursday 11/6
Class: Thursday 11/6
Introducing populations
Homework due Friday 11/7
Populations: read chapter 8 section 1 pp 197 to 202. What do you need to
know to answer questions 1, 2, and 5 that you have not covered in the
reading?
Class: Friday 11/7,
More about populations
Homework: due Monday 11/10
Answer question 6 p202
Chapter 8 Define the key terms in section 2 p203
Environmental Science Assignments: 10/27
Week 9
Aquatic biomes +
Class: Monday 10/27,
Water
Homework: due Tuesday 10/28
Spend 20 minutes on the Aquatic Ecosystems sheet
Spend 15 minutes completing your Local Biome notes/research—see last week’s
assignment sheet and page 168
Class: Tuesday 10/28,
Note-taking activity for PRO/CON Which are you?
Homework: due Wednesday 10/29,
Complete Aquatic Ecosystems sheet
Class: Wednesday 10/29,
Discussion/debate preparation
PRO/CON note taking
Homework: due Thursday 10/30
Complete the note-taking activity
Class: Thursday 10/30
Discussion/debate
Homework due Friday 10/31
Answer questions Wetland activity—answer the questions on page 192 (Name the
states!)
Class: Friday 10/31,
More about water
Homework: due Monday 11/3
Essay OUTLINE on marine pollution
Title
Topic paragraph
Three informational paragraphs
Concluding paragraph (linking together your topic paragraph and your
information)
assignments: 10/20
Week 8
Class: Monday 10/20 Biome presentations and local biome research
Homework: due Thursday 10/23
Start research on your local biome p168
Hints: #1 use a US map/world map or globe to find our longitude and latitude
#2 find a location map (like the Chesapeake Bay watershed) Give a distance
scale , identify major towns, rivers, bodies of water, highways
#3 Find the rainfall in your area for the past year—include rainfall AND
temperature as on the example provided
#4a Choose five common plants (a variety of sizes) and sketch them—identify
them (including Latin names)
#4b How has each of the plants adapted to our biome?
# 4c Which are native—which were introduced by humans?—look at the history
of each plant—if plants have been introduce, which are hardy (survive
easily) which are delicate and need support to survive
4d What wild animals live in your locality? Where do they live—types of
nest/den/etc? Identify and sketch 5—including Latin names
Class: Tuesday 10/21, Biome presentations and local biome research
Homework: due Wednesday 10/22,
As above: page 168 activity
Class: Wednesday 10/22,
Biome presentations and local biome research
Homework: due Thursday 10/23
As Above
Class: Thursday 10/23
Your biome—water ecosystems
Homework due Friday 10/24
Answer questions 1-18 All page 165 and #19-26 for your biome only OR one
question if none apply
Class: Friday 10/24,
Water ecosystems
Homework: due Monday 10/27,
Answer questions 1-4 p178 and 1-5 p185
Week 7
Class: Monday 10/13
Start biome research
Homework due Tuesday 10/14
Initial biome review for your biome
Class: Tuesday 10/14,
More biome research
Homework: due Wednesday 10/15,
Work on your PowerPoint-list what you want to put on each slide . . .
Class: Wednesday 10/15,
More biome research--structure of your PowerPoint
Citing sources
Research
Homework: due Thursday 10/16
At least five different sources
Class: Thursday 10/16,
finishing up the research and writing
Homework: due Friday 10/17
Complete the biome research
Class: Friday 10/17,
Share your biome PowerPoints
Homework: due Monday 10/20,
Notewriting
Week 6
Class: Tuesday 10/7,
Energy flow in ecosystems
Homework: due Wednesday 10/8,
Page 124: What are the long term and short term processes in the carbon
cycle? List several in each category.
Identify 2 ways in which humans affect the carbon cycle.
Class: Wednesday 10/8,
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Homework: due Friday 10/10
List the three stages of the nitrogen cycle
Class: Friday 10/10,
The phosphorus cycle
Homework: due Monday 10/13,
Describe the role that nitrogen-fixing bacteria play in the nitrogen cycle
Explain the role of fertilizers in the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles
Make notes on How Ecosystems Change pp129-133
Class: Monday 10/13
Chapter 5 review
Homework due Tuesday 10/14
Initial biome review for your biome
assignments: 9/29
Class: Monday 9/29
Field trip investigations
+Chapter 4: Ecosystems/evolution/diversity
Homework: due Wednesday 10/1
Research the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s website:
http://www.cbf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=lrn_sub_students
Use the EXPLORE drop-down menu
And make notes on the geography, watershed issues and expeditions
(expedition Susquehanna) sections
Class: Wednesday 10/1
Ecosystems, evolution, diversity
Homework: due Thursday 10/2
Vocab AND examples
Class: Thursday 10/2
Ecosystems, evolution, diversity
Homework: due Monday 10/6
Test on the vocab and examples
Homework due Tuesday—One page summary of CBF field trip
Environmental Science assignments: 9/22
Class: Monday 9/22
Graph drawing/Lab conclusions
Homework: due Tuesday 9/23
Complete graph
Class: Tuesday 9/23
Intro to CBF field trip + Experimental errors
Homework: due Wednesday 9/24
Complete lab write up + CBF field trip health form
Class: Wednesday 9/24
More about the CBF trip
Scavenger hunt competition
Homework: due Thursday 9/25
Write simple definitions of Geosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere, and
Atmosphere that enable you to distinguish each from the other
Class: Thursday 9/25
Scavenger hunt activities
Earth’s spheres—Venn diagram intro
Homework: due Friday 9/26
Draw a Venn diagram for Geosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere
listing three items in each circle segment
Class: Friday 9/26
Hydrosphere and the Water Cycle
Homework due Monday, 9/29
Draw an annotated water cycle diagram
Week 3 Mrs. Hunt
Unit 2: Impact on our World
Class Monday 15 September
Quiz questions The scientific method
Homework due Wednesday, 16 September—
Read pp31-37 and answer questions 1 and 3 p37 + review pretest answers
Class Tuesday 16 September
The Scientific Method and Models
Homework due Wednesday, 17 September—
Read pp31-37 and answer questions 1 and 3 p37 + review pretest answers
Class Wednesday, 17 September
Test—like your pretest
Homework due Thursday, 18 September—
Make brief notes on the highlights page 50
Class Thursday 18 September
Skills lab p54
Homework due Friday, 19 September—
Spend 30 minutes writing up the lab: Title, Hypothesis, Safety, Diagram,
Method, Results Table from class, Conclusions—use the 7 points from page 55
to help you with this.
Class Friday 19 September
Lab analysis—errors that occurred
Homework due Monday, 22 September—complete questions for homework
Complete the lab write-up
Week 2
Ecological Footprint +
Class Monday 8 September
Ecological activity
Homework due Tuesday, 9 September—tidy/adding information to your
environmental field trip audit—draw the 10 m square
Class Tuesday 9 September
Ecological activity continued
Homework due Wednesday, 10 September—tidy/adding information to your
environment audit—with a key for everything identified
Key terms pp5 and 16 + question 2 p16
Class Wednesday, 10 September
In the computer room, work out your ecological footprint and write your
responses to each question in the table provided
Homework due Thursday, 11 September—write ½ page comments about your
ecological footprint
Class Thursday 11 September
Take a closer look at the 10 m square
Prepare for tomorrow’s take-home test
Homework due Friday, 12 September—compete your 10 m square PLUS review
Class Friday 12 September
Discussion/activity/review
Homework due Monday, 15 September—take-home test
Assignment sheet 1
Name 5 isses Issue 1: Issue 2: Issue 3: Issue 4: Issue 5:
associated with
Environmental Science
How does the issue?
fillout for the 5
issues . . .
Affect you
Affect your town
Affect your country
Affect the World
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