Footprint Blog

Google Carbon Footprint
Choose a quiz to take.
Blog the following:
1. The url of your site as a link.
2. Is it a good site for you? Younger kids?
3. What is your footprint?
4. What are 3 ways reduce your footprint in each of the following
a) Yourself
b) The School
c) The Community
5. A paragraph about a connection to your project.

Climate Inquiry

We are starting the Climate unit. The main research topic rubric is in the post below. I have a list of topics to choose from and no one can have the same topic.

Today I want you to practice writing complete bibliographies. A complete bibliography from a website needs to include the title, organization, web address, date last updated.

Try using http://www.easybib.com/cite/form/website
if you need help writing your bibs.

I would like you to find 2 websites today about climate change. On your blog, write a paragraph description and include a full bibliography.
Monday we will pick research topics.

Bad Astronomy Post

Go To:
http://www.badastronomy.com/index.html

Click on Movies
Review the Deep Impact movie
-Find and discuss 2 facts you thought were true from your movie notes. Explain how you were right or wrong.

-Find and discuss 2 facts you thought were false from your movie notes. Explain how you were right or wrong.


Click on misconceptions
Review one misconception under each of the 3 following headings and write about:
-What did you think before.
-What did you learn.

1. Bad Moon Rising:
2. The Sky at Night:
3. A Step Farther Out:

Welcome

Welcome to Global Science!!

Space Object Powerpoint due 12/15

This 15 slide PowerPoint needs to be done on Google Docs with a live link on your blog to your PowerPoint that has been made public view.

1. Title page with name date and hour and Bibliography page with complete bibliographies are included in the 15 pages.

___ 15pts 15 slides
___ 10pts citations to facts throughout power point
___ 10pts complete bibliography
___ 25pts detailed information on our knowledge of your space object
___ 5pts detailed coordinates of where your object is in the universe
___ 10pts a detailed description of how the technology works that is used to find out
about your object
___ 10pts what is planned for future exploration/ knowledge
___ 10pts 10 cited pictures and or diagrams of your space object

___95pts TOTAL

Posting on City Talk.

Please respond with numbered complete sentences as a new post on your blog.
1. What was the woman's name? Her Job?
2. What did the city do to the storm water?
3. How will this action improve the overall water quality of the river?
4. What will happen to the quality of the test your group was responsible for?
5. What was one other thing you learned yesterday from the talk that was interesting?
6. How is your biobottle doing?
7. What are your doing personally for your action project?
8. How far are you on your Lexus PowerPoint?

Water Testing Connection

You need to make a new blog called Water Testing Connection.

Write about the following:
1. State the topic your group choose.
2. Write a paragraph to Explain what you plan on doing for an action project.
3. Write a paragraph to Explain what you will be testing in your bio bottle.
4. Write a paragraph to Make a connection between the river test I assigned to your group and the action topic. Explain how they are connected. Give a live link to where you got this information from.

BioBottle Lab

Tomorrow we will make bio bottles.
Today do a pre lab write up.
Go to http://www.learner.org/courses/essential/life/bottlebio/ecocol/build.html to get the general directions and ideas on how to create an ecosystem in a biobottle. You will use your bio bottles to test a variable from your action project or river lab so you and your partners should build the same kind of bio bottle giving you at least one control and 1 or more variable bottles. Yes each person needs to make their own bio bottle and do their own lab write up. Get a How to do a lab report form from the sub. You can write the lab out by hand or type it as a google doc. I need to see that you have done the title, purpose, prelab research (about how ecosystems work and what you need to make a biobottle sustain itself.), materials and a brief procedure and the creation of a data table to monitor ecosystem health daily for 3 weeks.

We will finish this up in class tomorrow if you have any questions.

Have a Great Day!!

Eaton Rapids Water Treatment

Explain how water is filtered and cleaned for the city of Eaton Rapids for drinking.
Use 2 good paragraphs 8-10 total sentences to describe our trip yesterday. If you were not there talk to another student who was and explain the water treatment in your own words.

Water Treatment Blog

1. Explain how water is filtered and cleaned in a city for drinking.

2. Explain how sewer water is treated and returned to the river or lake.

3. 2 good questions to ask tomorrow.

Posting Your PowerPoint on google docs

1. Go to: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=364
Download the Action Plan Powerpoint for the Land/ Water challenge from Lexus Challenge to desktop.
2. Sign into your igoogle. Go to my account.
3. Find Docs.
4. Open Docs.
5. Upload file.
6. Browse for the powerpoint file on the computer.
7. Click Upload.
8. When the powerpoint uploads copy the url.
9. Make a new post on your Blogger.
10. Paste the powerpoint url into the post.
11. Check to make sure the powerpoint is open to the public.
12. Make 1 shared powerpoint with your partners to co edit.