Today is the best dam lesson of the year in APES!   Are you ready for all the dam jokes?

A look at Topics 6.11 and 6.12.   Hydrogen fuel cells don't seem as significant as a few years back but there are still significant hydrogen fuel economies in places like Iceland.  We will also investigate the growing investment by many countries in renewable wind energy.

Energy Conservation.   Today you will be taking an independent look at tips and suggestions on how you can save energy at home.  You can help your parents save money if you are able to implement some of the ideas.

Can you believe there is no school today?  Ice, baby, ice!   Be sure you study for tomorrow's Unit 6 Test!  Wow - the whole day to prepare!

Unit 6 Test.   Hopefully you've prepared well and are ready to demonstrate exemplary mastery of Unit 6 - Energy Resources and Consumption.  The test consists of 80 multiple-choice questions.

Teacher Professional Development Today.   Make sure you've finished evaluating your two (2) dam FRQs and are ready to hand them in tomorrow.

Introduction to Air Pollution.   Today we begin Topic 7.1.  Unit 7 is a VERY important unit as you are tested more heavily on this unit than on other previous units.  Don't leave anything to chance, make sure you have plans to study and learn daily so that all you need to do is review at the end of the unit.

Practicing Criteria Air Pollutants.   We will finish our discussion of Topic 7.1 and then work for most of the rest of our class time on practicing your mastery of the key criteria air pollutants.

Another Snow Day!   I hope everyone studied for your first Unit 7 Quiz tomorrow.   This unit is VERY important - please increase the amount of self study you do in order to master all the essential knowledge pieces.

Three (3) Topics?!   These two topics will help you really understand the catastrophic results of excessive exposure to air quality issues.

Midwinter Break.   Enjoy your two (2) days off.

We are back!   Get ready to be serioius about Unit 7! 

Topic 7.6 and 7.8 .   We will investigate how to reduce levels of air pollutants and noise pollution today in class.  You will also be taking Air Pollution Quizzes 3 and 4 today in class.

Acid Rain.  This is an extremely important topic!  As you work through it independently, please ask questions as they arise.  Please be sure you understand each "Essential Knowledge" piece for this topic.

Another quiz, Yes!?  Hopefully you see your grade improving as we take these quizzes on air quality - today is the last quiz along with review for tomorrow's Unit 7 Test

Finally, Unit 7 Test.   Do your VERY best, there was plenty of time to rest and prepare for this assessment.

Introduction to Unit 8.   Lets work hard to get on track and master all the topics in Unit 8 - the longest unit of the course!  We will squeeze in an FRQ today also.

Water Hardness.   We have a lab today!  Let's follow instructions and learn even more about how water hardness develops and its consequences for us humans.

Happy Friday of the first full week in awhile!   We have a lab quiz on yesterday's water hardness lab and we will also begin our discussion of Topic 8.2.