Announcements 2011

Need to do a course Evaluation at the website below:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JQK7VKP

June 9th: Below is a link for the technology STUDENT survey that you must complete.

Please prepare for your Exam!!! Books are Due on Friday or Monday, please take notes for chapters 20, 21, 22, I will provide a small lecture on Friday for those chapters. EXAM is on Monday and Tuesday!

Student Survey

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCSD_4-12_Student

Teacher

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCSD_Teacher

May 15, 2011: Ok We just finished our Exam #2. We have a few things left to finish for the year. #1 and Most Important you Must do your experiments, collect some data, and then do some kind of statistical analysis on it. You will need to write a final report and create either a Poster Board or PPT presentation( all due by June 1st. Before the year is over, I want you to work on the Guns Germs and Steel Blog as well as the Blog about Dr. Bartlett and growth.

This week we are READING the chapter on Env. Economics Chapter 10, Professor Beal will be here to Lecture about it on Th and Friday. Quiz due Tuesday May 24th by 9:00pm.

M, T Research Project. Wed?? Th and F Guest Lecture You will take notes!

Next week we will begin our Energy Review. Please read chapters 20, 21, and 22.

Quizzes Due June 1st.

M, T, W, research Project Th, F ?

May 9 2011: My site is finally up: This week prepare for your exam check your email for the study guide. Please start reading Chapter 10.

April 25-29 Onondaga Creek Week

M, My continent: Add watersheds and discuss in your paper the evolution of agriculture.

Home Work: Work on research project, Methods need to be more defined and you need at least one more reference article (this makes 3)

-Chapter 18 Quiz Due Friday 9:00pm

-RSVP for Back Yard Ecology April 23

T Guest Lecture: Peter Song waste water management

W, Th Research Projects/OC Prep

F, Onondaga Creek Study 8:00 am -2:45pm Bring Lunch Money or see Mr. W

Spring Break Week Homework: Reading Chapter 9 and 13 and the Guns, Germs, and Steel Blog.

April 23 Back Yard Ecology RSVP by April 15

April 14, 15 Work on WebSites: See rubric on Websites page

April 12, 13: Guest Lectures Onondaga lake Watershed Reading Chapter 18.

April 11th: My continent, adding plants, animals and an intelligent species (this is only added to the paper you are writing). Finish Research Proposal. Quiz Chapter 7 Due by 9:00pm

April 7th, 8th: Working on Research Proposal, due tomorrow at 3:10pm. Make sure you have also watched Guns Gems and steel Part 2 take notes as you will be writing a reaction paper. Quiz Chapter 7 Due by Monday 9:00pm. Homework for the weekend reading chapter 18.

April 4th, 5th, 6th: My Continent: Placing biomes on your continent Chapter 7. Quiz for Ch 7 Due Monday.

April 1 Research Project (Writing a Proposal) Reading Ch 6,7, 8 Quizzes due April 12 9:00pm.

March 30, 31 My continent (type up intro to your project see sample paper in activities and labs link)

Home Work Guns Germs and Steel Part 1 Video Link, & write a Reaction Paper to it and Post to your

site.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/guns-germs-and-steel/

March 28, 29: Unit 1 Exam Ch 1-4 and any activities done in class. You better study hard!

March 24: Guest Lecture Global Climate Change

March 23: I posted three sample exams from previous years in the Exams and Reviews Link. Look at it!

March 22: Begin My continent project: Go to the Activities page, there you will find directions and the first part of a sample paper that you will be doing. Please make sure you are preparing for your first exam on Friday, it covers the first four chapters and any activities we have done.

March 21: Make-up Day, Please make a page on your website for your research project and give me a description of your project and start looking up scientific articles that are related to the topic. You need to find methods that you can use from those papers.

March 17th. Notes chapter 4 and work on Research Ideas, Intro to lab on Statistics.

March 16th worked on research topic and finished any old work. Reading chapter 5.

I have Posted the Unit 1 Exam Review Sheet under Exams and Reviews page be sure to get a head start on studying.

March 14, 15 Labs on Work and Power Hand outs in Lab Section(Watts in the Water, Work Stairs). Make sure you have a few research topics by Wednesday.

Friday Quiz: Notes Chapter 2 Lecture

Blog on the Story of Stuff

Using Research Data Bases

Chapter 4 Due by 9:00 pm Next Monday night, only one shot at this one.

Thursday March 10: The story of Stuff lesson, use you-tube if the link does not work see activities and lab page.

Wednesday March 9: We will do the Cow Farts activity in class using the excel-spreadsheet data form. Look at each of the three articles then use the spreadsheet to award points. See the lesson on Evaluating the internet for links and articles.

Tuesday March 8: Cow Farts Activity was a bust....I had to fix some things...made up any work.

Monday March 7: No School.....Puts a small wrinkle in our plans. Tuesday we will do lesson Day 6 and Wednesday Lesson day 7.....then we might end up skipping the reports about Fact or Fiction. I posted a rough sketch for the remaining of the semester, make sure you look at it in the syllabus section. I hope you all got the quizzes done. I posted grades for what I saw if there is an error please let me know.

Some of you still need to add a comments section on each of your pages so I can make comments on your work. Please have all updates to your portfolio done by Tuesday am so your grades are accurate!

Chance to earn Some Extra Credit:

The Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY) will host a presentation on meteorology as part of its Sweet Lecture Series. “The Arctic’s Warmth Becomes a Mid-Latitude Chill” is scheduled for March 8, 2011 at 6 p.m. Mr. David Eichorn of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is the featured speaker. The event will be held in the auditorium of the Whitney Applied Technology Center at Onondaga Community College. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. For a sneak preview, check out this video from Dave. RSVPs are preferred and are requested by March 4, 2011. Walk-ins are welcome. RSVP to sweet.lecture@tacny.org.

Wednesday March 3rd: We will continue to work on Evaluating the Internet lesson, Please see updated Syllabus.

Monday February 28: Work on Evaluation information from the internet day 1 activity

Finish any work you owe me. Tuesday will be a make-up day...please get all of your work done!

Over Break Read Chapter 2, do the vocab and look at the questions.

No quiz until you return, but I will post it anyway.

Blog on Tragedy of the commons Due after break (Article posted on Homework and assignments pages)

Feb 18th: Tragedy of the Commons Activity

Feb 14th: Be sure to look at the updated weekly syllabus

You have a blog to do by Wednesday the 16th on the activity we did on Monday.

You should outline, do the chapter vocabulary and answer the chapter review questions for chapter 3.

Reading quiz for chapter 3 is due Friday by 9:00 pm

Please Start thinking about and developing your research Ideas