Soil - Soil as a Climate Change Solution - Vandana Shiva (print)
Contact Mr. Moyer about baking soil in order to do "soil carbon test"
Include Reading 4.2 and 4.3 (aquatic food systems)
Unit Question: (ADD somewhere) How are changes in Earth systems affecting the distribution of biomes? (2.4) - Plant Zones Lesson - Links farming and food back to Objective 2. Climate change and productivity - any key foods? Coffee, bananas? What about locally? Wheat, corn? What are alternatives - millet, hemp?
Guiding Question:
How are human activities affecting the stability of soil systems? (5.1)
To what extent can the production of food be considered sustainable? (5.2)
HOMEWORK - Notes for 4.3, 5.1 through 5.3
What are Natural Resources? Need to incoporate some 2 lessons - Lesson 4 - Changes of Land Use - Deforestation - Asynchronous lesson during testing week.
Lesson 7 - International Example - Water supply
Need to ADD - Water Security And desalination. Topic 4?
Watch - Bolivia Water Supply
Case Study - Bolivia Water Supply (answer questions at the end of the article)
Lesson 1 - Your Food Choices (5.2) - Mar 12, 13
Lesson 2 - Food Chains and Productivity (5.2) - Mar 14, 24
Lesson 3 - Aquatic Food Production Systems (4.3) Mar 25, 26
Lesson 4 - Comparison of Farming Techniques (5.2)- Mar 31, April 1
ADD - Figure out a Soil Compaction and Infiltration Experiment - Could replace the soil triangles (see 4.1.4 to update vocab)
Lesson 5 - Soil Analysis (edaphic - soil factors) (5.1) - March 27, Mar 28
Lesson 6 - Soil amendment and remediation (5.3) - April 2, 3
Lesson 7 - Farms and Soils can solve problems - Save for an "End of Year" collaboration if we have time.
Build this better. Jigsaw? Group presentations? Station Rotation - Topic - Analysis - Solution -
See examples below -
Eutrophication - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n206gIdFW98&ab_channel=NBCNews
Climate Change
Water infiltration
Soil health
IB Question Example - Soils
Need to add - What are the inputs and outputs of soil systems? Use nutrient cycles to show this.
Kristy Bibbey Booked to sub on April 11 and 14
If extra time:
New Lessons - Outline
Note - Students should create a "team" file that gives a soil related solution to climate change. Save and share with Ms. Dellany. Lesson 6 - Soils and Climate Change Dellany Lessons (5.3) - April 3, 4 and 5,6
Soil Respiration Lab - Use Oxygen Probes OR should I use CO2 with Soil Respiration based on "local plants"
https://www.vernier.com/vernier-ideas/study-the-carbon-cycle-with-a-co2-gas-sensor-and-soil/
AND
https://www.glbrc.org/outreach/educational-materials/measuring-soil-microbial-activity
Context - Watch all or part of Kiss the Ground??? (did the library get the DVD?) This could give some links to how commercial farms impact systems and some of the ways that they can change to become more sustainable. Lot of "regenerative farming" ideas and concepts of soils holding carbon.
Possible Resource - https://cires.colorado.edu/outreach/sites/default/files/2020-11/Drought%20HS%20Teacher%20Guide.pdf