HANDOUTS

Biogeochemical diagrams

Biogeochemical text

Carbon and Mercury activity

Jigsaw activity

Food Pyramid

Competition

Biomes reading

Biome diorama instructions

Habitat islands

Niche worksheet

Carrying capacity reading

20 important things reading

Human history

Cultural economics

Whatsits

Global Population Trends worksheet

Population Debate instructions

Hazardous Waste Inventory

Serial Dilution instructions & worksheet

LD50 lab

Silent Spring

Gassworks article

Weathering activity

Soil lab

Parks and Preserves table

 

Good Rain instructions

Budd Inlet Treatment Plant Brochure

Reclaimed water FAQs

Acid Rain Lab

Air Pollution Lab

Packaging Lab

Kill a Tree or Choke a Fish

Law/Treaty assignment

Solar competition instructions

Wind competition instructions

Mission Possible

 

PPT NOTES

Introduction

Cycles

Food Webs

Biodiversity

Benthic Macroinvertebrates

Biomes

Population

Toxicology

Agriculture

 

Water

Air Pollution

Solid Waste

Economics

Earth Science/Climate Change

Energy

Urbanization

 

EXTRA CREDIT: walk Walden Pond and summarize both ThoreauÕs qualitative and his quantitative descriptions.

 

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September 1

 

 

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NO SCHOOL - summer

 

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Define ÒScienceÓ, ÒEnvironmentÓ, and ÒSustainabilityÓ

 

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2004 #1

 

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Write a 1 page story about your water moleculeÕs journey:

Red-animal

Pink-soil

Green-plant

Light blue-river

Clear-clouds

Dark blue-ocean

Medium blue-lake

Yellow-groundwater

White-glacier

 

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Contract and Safety quiz TODAY

 

2006 #2

 

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Winogradsky video & instructions

 

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OPEN HOUSE 6-8pm

 

Pyramid worksheet

 

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Bioaccumulation and biomagnification extra credit (research the answers to these questions for either polar bears, osprey, eagles, sharks, whales, manatees, or alligators.)

 

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October:

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Fri

 

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Night Field trip 7-8:30, bring flashlight

 

2003 #1

 

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TEST

 

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Article 1 DUE

 

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natural selection comic

 

2003 #3

 

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McLane creek field trip 8-11 am

 

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Test corrections due

 

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Water quality testing 3-4:30 at Tumwater Falls Park

 

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12

Competition ws

 

2005 #2

 

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Article 2 DUE

 

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2004 #4

 

 

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TEST

 

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No School – teacher inservice

 

 

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Biome Diorama DUE

 

Biome data

Eutrophication video (1) (2)

 

2006 #4

 

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Test corrections due

 

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Easter Island video

 

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Kaibab worksheet

 

November:

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6

2008 #4

 

Article # 3 due

 

Finish duckweed and E.coli labs

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Extra credit:

Email SEPA and Miss K. an your position on the Rockfish Recovery Plan and reasons for your opinion (as discussed in class)

 

2003 #2

Global Population Trends worksheet & website (pick a country and then go to Òpopulation pyramidsÓ)

 

Extra credit:

Graph 3 pieces of data for 3 countries (at the same website, choose a country and look at Òdemographic indicatorsÓ)

VETERANÕS DAY – no school

World pop clock

 

World population video

World in Balance

 

Population debate Monday

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Term Project DUE

 

 

2006 #3

TEST

 

Article # 4 due

 

Footprint calculator

 

If you were absent today, we watched Affluenza:

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

 

Early Release

 

Take these two surveys:

Human health

Environmental effects

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2005 #1

 

In Class: Superfund site

 

Hw: Inventory your home for hazardous materials

 

EXTRA CREDIT: Search for spills in your neighborhood or town

 

Extra credit:

Complete this worksheet

Test corrections DUE

 

Extra credit: Research local news on any of these chemicals

 

EXTRA CREDIT: watch and summarize ÒA Plea for BeesÓ

Serial dilution lab (instructions & worksheet)

 

Extra credit:

Summarize & comment on this article

 

THANKSGIVING – no school

THANKSGIVING – no school

 

 

December

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2002 #3

* Find an LD50 for an ingredient in a personal care product (Hint: type in the ingredient, then scroll down to #11).Click here.

* Then calculate how much of your product you would need to use to reach the LD50 level (Hint: 1 kg=2.2 lbs; avg. human=70 kg).

 

Article #5 due

 

Finish LD50 lab

TEST

 

If you can, find a copy of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.  We will be reading this book next week.

Rachel Carson overview

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2005 #4

 

 

DUE: Silent Spring presentations

 

Online book (ch. 1-7)

Gassworks article

Test corrections DUE

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2005 #3

 

REVIEW: IPM website

EXTRA CREDIT: Pesticide alternativesÉ

summarize a few of these.

REVIEW: soil

FROM CLASS:

á        Evolution

á        Continental Drift

Weathering activity

 

Bring ¼ gallon of soil TOMORROW

 

Article #6 DUE

Soil lab

 

EXTRA CREDIT: Make this soil chart and use it to make a map of the soil types around a nearby wetland.

 

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NO SCHOOL

WINTER BREAK

 

Possible Field Trip

 

 

 

 

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January

Make-up field trip (you may do one):

* Give times of arrival and departure; list the things you learned/observed, write a paragraph on how this relates to the environment; all of this will result in up to ½ credit

* Possible locations: Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Seattle Aquarium, NW Trek, Wolfhaven, Nisqually Nature Reach Center, Pacific Science Center

 

Parks and Preserves Table links:

á        National Park Service

á        Wilderness areas

á        US Fish and Wildlife Service

á        US Forest Service

á        Bureau of Land Management

á        Wilderness areas map

á        USNPS land map (choose ÒAlternate direct link to Acrobat PDFÓ)

á        USFS land map

á        USFWS refuges map

 

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2009 #4

 

In class: Failing Farm activity

 

Agriculture TEST

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Journal/notebook check

 

2002 #2

National Parks videos:

á        Timeline

á        Attendance

á        Mission 66

Article 7 DUE

 

Begin Parks & Preserves Table

 

Parks & Preserves Table DUE at the beginning of the period

 

Test corrections due

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MLK Jr. Day

 

FOR FUN: Call the Nestle Crunch Hotline at 1-800-295-0051. When you are asked if you want to continue in English or Spanish, wait quietly for about 10 seconds and you will smile. Promise! Keep going and press 4. Listen to the options...then press 7. Enjoy!

2008 #3

 

 

Ecosystem services

 

Thank you oceans

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Community Service DUE

 

2003 #4

 

Article # 8 DUE

 

 

 

February 2010

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Infomercial due

 

Finals:

Per 2: 9-10:40

Per 3: 11-12:40

Finals:

Per 4: 8-9:50

Per 5: 10:10-12

Finals:

Per 6: 8-9:50

Per 1: 10:10-12

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2009 #1

 

FYI: The Canoe & Saddle

 

Article 1 DUE

 

Good Rain presentation DUE

 

Midwinter break – No School

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PresidentÕs Day – No School

2009 #3

 

 

HW: Clean Water Act (summary, year it began, definition of TMDL) You may use the EPA or Wikipedia or your own search.

 

 

EXTRA CREDIT:

Read about waterÉdo the 3 Gorges Dam activity at the end

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2007 #2

 

Youtube acid rain reviews: 1, 2, 3

 

EXTRA CREDIT:

Answer questions 1-10 about Damming the Colorado River.

 

EXTRA CREDIT:

Watch these three parts of the cartoon Captain Planet (pt. 1, 2, 3) and write the letter from the end.

EXTRA CREDIT:

Answer questions 1-12 about Acid Rain

Article 2 DUE

Water Quality monitoring at Tumwater Falls Park 3-4:30

 

Test wastewater treatment project

Test wastewater treatment project

 

March

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2007 #1

LOTT Field trip 8-10:50

* Field Trip Permission Form

* Field Trip Driving Permission Form

 

TEST

Youtube acid rain reviews: 1, 2, 3

 

No School – Teacher inservice

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2008 #2

 

Acid Rain Lab

 

EXTRA CREDIT:

Answer questions 1-12 about Acid Rain

 

Article 3 DUE

 

Test corrections DUE

 

Ozone review

Finish Air Pollution Lab

 

Dress for the weather today.

 

Cool Air pollutant of WA website

 

Collect your personal trash for 3 days and bring in Monday.  (No Hazardous stuff or bodily ÒfluidsÓ like TP or bandaids!)

 

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2007 #3

 

3 days of trash DUE

 

From class: plastics video

 

EXTRA CREDIT: summarize this 20 min. Cradle to Cradle video

 

HSPE

(per 1-4)

 

EXTRA CREDIT LAB: packaging lab

HSPE

(per 5,6,1,2)

 

TEST

HSPE

(per 3-6)

Play the ÒCatch and SaveÓ game and the ÒBoat Bits gameÓ

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2002 #1

 

 

 

 

Research and present a law or treaty from the end of the economics powerpoint.

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April        1

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2002 #4

 

Test Corrections DUE

 

Article 4 DUE

 

 

 

 

April

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SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

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2007 #4

EXTRA CREDIT: Temp. and Salinity questions (answer all 11 on your own paper)

Math HSPE

Per. 1-3

Coriolis videos: 1, 2, 3

 

Air mass videos: 1, 2

Science HSPE

Per. 4-6

 

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2004 #2

*Cold/warm front

*El Nino review

EXTRA CREDIT: Answer all 13 El Nino questions on your own paper

Hw: due 4/13 – Go outside 5 times, record the date, time, and cloud types you see: Worksheet

Cloud tutorial

 

Footprint calculator

 

EXTRA CREDIT: Answer these 9 Global Warming questions on your own paper and/or these 10 questions and/or these 12 questions on ice cores.

CPP/SLC

 

Happy Earth Day!!

 

EXTRA CREDIT: Read and summarize this article on the effects of climate change on Lake Washington.

CPP/SLC

*Cool satellite images of Antartica

*Cool movie of Artic

*Climate change and the Pacific Northwest

* IPCC synthesis report

* Petition Project report

* How to talk to a global warming skeptic

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2001 #1

 

Article 5 DUE

 

Debate/paper:

* Are humans the main cause of global climate change? Why or why not?

* What should we do about it? Why?

 

 

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2001 #2

 

Do Term Project (see your syllabus)

 

 

 

Half day-Culminating project presentations

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2004 #3

 

Coal plant tour

 

Article 6 DUE

Geothermal plant tour

 

Mr. W

*Solar competition instructions

*Wind competition instructions

*The Big Energy Gamble

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2009 #2

 

 

 

 

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2008 #1

Mission Possible

Article 7 DUE

Saved by the Sun

Test

 

 

Make-up field trip (you may do one):

* Give times of arrival and departure; list the things you learned/observed, write a paragraph on how this relates to the environment; all of this will result in up to ½ credit

* Possible locations: Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Seattle Aquarium, NW Trek, Wolfhaven, Nisqually Nature Reach Center, Pacific Science Center, or Burfoot Park (6/12 10-2)

 

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MEMORIAL DAY – no school

2006 #1

 

Extra Credit: Summarize SB 375

Transportation of Bogota

 

City planning worksheet due

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2001 #3

Community Service & Term Project DUE

 

LEED project info

(due Fri)

 

Article 8 DUE

China: From Red to Green

 

Affordable Green Housing (especially: first 10 min and last 5 min)

 

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2001 #4

 

Final

Field guide template

 

FINALS – per. 1,2

FINALS – per. 3,4

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FINALS – per. 5,6

 

 

 

 

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