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Final exam review

 

Unit 7 / Food and Agriculture (ch 9)

What are the consequences of producing the food we need to make people healthy?

~  or  ~  Relate human action to its consequences in the "natural" world

 

Date	Lesson	Topic / Assignment
Apr 19	Ch 9 Intro to Food and Agriculture	Read case study as model of quality writing.
Apr 21	The Cerrado; a case study	Analyze case study to identify and discuss issues arising from increasing food production on global scale.
Apr 23	Food in context	Discuss reasons for cultivating plants; look at "harvesting wild food"
Apr 26	World Nutrition	What causes events of "food shortage?"
Apr 28	Nutrition of food	1) make a 24 hour food diary and 2) transfer that into a spreadsheet listing the nutrients you ate in that interval.  3) Please provide realistic summary for full credit.
May 3	Where does food come from?	Answer question for reading textbook chapter 9.2
May 5	Life on the farm	Discuss and identify how US policies increase or decrease the cost of food in the United States.
May 7	Soil	Students build "soil" presentations
May 10	soil presentations	(1) Students present their wiki page topic to rest of class. (2) go outside to begin looking at soil types and processes.
17 May 2010	Soil summary	Investigate soil quality in nearby gardens & rice paddies Read 9.5-9.8
	Soil Abuse 9.5	Ted,  Jibby
	Other Agricultural Resources 9.6	Lupina, Lindsey, Leah
	New Crops and GMO 9.7	Daniel, Jason Chi, Jason Park
	Sustainable Agriculture 9.8	Esther, Tracy,

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit 6 (Sem 2): Human Populations (ch 7)

Date	Lesson	Assignment	Resources
Feb 24	Intro to Human population issues	Read two articles and write response	Population too many people; Population overconsumption;
Feb 26	Turnitin.com	Submit paragraph to Turnitin.com	Turnitin.com;
Mar 3	"People" by people	"What is the problem?" from 2 perspectives
Mar 4	Is population a problem?		"A Modest Proposal"
Mar 8	Population Interviews	Plan your interview research
Mar 10	Population Data & Issues
Mar 12	Survey (first half)	Collect half your survey & process the data in one method of your choice
Mar 15	Survey (2nd half) & DCP
Mar 17	Four human population affects;	Hand in processed data and data presentation; Write supported summary, ranking severity of human populations affects
Mar 19	Drafting your report.	Submit draft of one topic by end of period.
Mar 22- Apr 7	In class writing practice	In class we practiced writing process as applied directly to this assignment (introductory paragraph, focusing writing on one issue; cause-effect explanations, using the rubric, etc.)
Apr 9	Use rubric to assess	Students will receive final rubric and assess their own paper against the rubric (section A only)
Apr 12	Student self assess	Student self assess FINAL version of their "section A" (first issue) Peer assess final version of students' "section A" (first issue) Due next class is FINAL version of "section B" (second issue)

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit 5 (Sem 2): Populations (ch 6)  

Date	Lesson	Assignment	Resources
Feb 3	Intro to Populations	Go to www.quia.com and do "cloze" 6.1; make additional "cloze' questions from assigned reading
Feb 5	Population reading	Answer student "cloze" questions on 6.2-6.4
Feb 8	Population Goals
Feb 10	Make [cloze] question
Feb 12	Do [cloze] assignment
Feb 15	Population assessment	Students play Population "jeapoardy" to review for Feb 24 summative
Feb 22	Review ch 6 Populations	go to Quiz and practice 6.1-6.4 "cloze questions as well as "Population Overview" game
Feb 24	Ch 6 summative	Take Quia test;  Read two population articles and write reponse stating your position (choosing between the two articles.)  Support your opinion with evidence.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit 4 (Sem 2): Biomes (ch 5)  

Date	Lesson	Assignment	Resources
Jan 11	Biome intro		Begin research here
Jan 13	Biome Food Production
Jan 25	Prep for biome summative
Jan 27	Prep for biome summative II
Jan 29
Feb 1	Summative for Biome

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Unit 3: Evolution (ch 4)  

Date	Lesson	Assignment
Nov 30	Ch 4 Introduction to "evolution"	Evolution 4_1 Dan & Jason Park Evolution 4_1 Leah & Lindsey Evolution 4_1 Esther & Tracy Evolution 4_1 Lupina & Ted Evolution 4_1 JasonChi Evolution 4_1 Jibby
Dec 2, 4, 7	Principles of Evolution
Dec 9, 11	review
Dec 25 (Tues)	Final Exam:  8:30-10:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

 

 

Unit 2: Matter, Energy, Life (ch 3)

Date	Lesson	Assignment
Oct 19	Ch 3: Matter, Energy, Life
Oct 30	3.4 Ecology Analogies (pt 2)
Nov 2 & 4	Pyramids and Analogies
Nov 6	Ch 3 Data and analogies
Nov 9	Ch 3 Matter & energy paths and water
Nov 11	Ch 3 Data representation
Nov 13	Ch 3 Interpreting data
Nov 18	Ch 3 Summary
Nov 20	Ch 3 Google Earth Science!	Interactive Assignments
Nov 23-25	Ch 3 Test pt 1	Jing-How to load Google Earth location on the wiki.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Unit 1: Global Warming

Date	Lesson	Assignment
Sept 4	Global Temperatures - Real Data
Sept 7	Global Temperatures - Reading
Sept 9	Warm Conversation
Sept 11	Discussing Warm Weather
Sept 16	Climate and Weather-15.1
Sept 18	Atmosphere is complex machine (15.1) - see Screencasts
Sept 21	Teaching kids II
Sept 28 - Kylie's birthday!	Weather happens (15.2) - see Screencasts
Sept 30	[Tech presentations; NO CLASS today]
Oct 7	Global warming cost (15.3 & 15.4) - see Screencasts
Oct 9	Complete "Global Warming Cost (15.3 & 15.4) screencasts
Oct 12	Data
Oct 16	Referencing & completing presentation