APES Project- suggested topics

here are some areas to focus your research on- you are not limited to these, this is just to help get you started: no more than 3 per source!


conservation
land management
erosion
fertilizers
herbicides
pesticides
GMO's 
mining practices
climate change
fracking
solar power
wind power
Hydroelectric power
composting
watersheds
over fishing
by-catch
water treatment
CAFO's
deforestation
e- waste
radiation exposure
sewage treatment
el- nino
hurricanes/ climate change
invasive species
Toxins of any kind
bioremediation

APES for tomorrow

1st Block APES:
Since we missed a considerable amount of class time this morning I need you to watch this at home.
It's a TED talk, it's 20  minutes. Jot down the major points about Humus and sustainability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1VnwcpW7E

ALL APES CLASSES:

Tomorrow we will use the chrome books to get you started on your scrapbook assignment since your first two articles are due on Friday. You may want to bring your ear buds and a flash drive.

We need to have your bottles for your eco-columns tomorrow (Friday morning at the latest!) so we can begin assembling them.

You also need to bring in some compost for Friday- a ziploc baggie of dirt from your yard and some food scraps will do the trick. If you already have a compost bin or area at home you can bring a baggie of that instead.

APES homework

APES  Homework for tonight:

• please have parent contact form completed
• please read and sign the lab safety contract
• Watch this Kahn review of the Earth's structure

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/earth-history-topic/plate-techtonics/v/compositional-and-mechanical-layers-of-the-earth

Have summer assignment turned in by this Friday (unless you have been newly added to my class)

Parent contact form

Parents: please complete the following form if I have your student this fall (First semester)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MseXvRmrQtUH7tp8TdAEy3RQ-EoGESKiDyWprawGwRk/viewform?usp=send_form

AP Environmental Science Summer assignment 2015

Here is the link to your summer assignment:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZlI-CC6JAg4gNHx6esyzC3JJnFaCP_zlhfnvLPwu4k/edit?usp=sharing

Biology EOC scores

All of the EOC scores  have been entered!

Out of 70 students 47 earned A's on the EOC, that's 2/3!! That's awesome!

We even had one person get 100!

I hope you all learned something useful from the class, at the very least- "stop using those plastic water bottles"!

Have a great summer! 
See some of you next year in AP Environmental Science.

3rd Block white sheets have been graded

Hey, I hope you all are having a great weekend,
I've been grading white sheets and I must say, I am super impressed with you guys!!!

                 Out of 34 students,  one person was absent, 
   

                     { LeBron knows how I feel about that!}

23 of you got an "A" and half of those were 100's!!!!
Only one person scored below an 84 in your class.

Remember, if you want to replace any of your other grades with a 100 you can do 6 of the 8 boxes tomorrow!! Go over released questions tonight!  Good luck to all of you!