Create your Eureka Connections Page for Unit 1
The Eureka! Connections pages are located at the beginning of each new unit in your Interactive Science Notebook
- The next two side-by-side pages in your notebook.
- In the center (or close to it) write your big idea or problem statement for the unit. (Hint: look at the heading of this page)
- After each activity in the unit, write a statement on this page spread which conveys the concept learned.
- Share with lab partners and other classmates. Make connections between the content (Conceptually in your mind and Visually on the page with arrows.)
- Use these "lines of evidence" and their connections to write your Eureka! Thesis at the end of the unit.
Chapter 1: An Introducton to Environmental Science
- How does science help us understand the natural world?
- What does it mean to "do" science?
- What happens to a scientific study after data have been gathered and the results are analyzed?
Tuesday (8/30): Get a 70-100 page spiral bound notebook or composition book to use exclusively for Environmental Science.
Thursday (9/1): Set up Interactive science notebook based on materials and instruction provided in class. Read pages 3-11 in "Environmental Science - Your World, Your Turn" by Withgott. Read, understand, sign and return class safety contract.
Tuesday (9/6): Answer questions 1-3 on page 11 of Withgott for left side work. Download, print, and read "Finite Resources Modeling Lab from Schoology. Bring the printout to class on Thursday.
Thursday (9/8): Complete the analysis portion of the "Finite Resources Modeling" lab. Attach the procedures, data, and analysis for the lab in the manner required for notebook organization. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Monday (9/12): Answer questions 1-3 on page 20 of "Environmental Science - Your World, Your Turn" by Withgott. Update the Eureka! Connections page for this unit.
Tuesday (9/13): Answer questions 1-2 on page 27 of Withgott for left side work. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Thursday (9/15): Read and complete "Fixing a Hole in the SKY" worksheet. Attach it in your notebook (information page on the right, answers on the left) Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Thursday (9/15)- Tuesday (9:20 @ 8:00am): The test for Chapter 1 is available to be taken on the class Schoology page. Be sure to have a 30 minute period of time to complete the test.
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Chapter 2: Economics and Environmental Policy
- How is sustainability affected by economics?
- How do environmental policies protect the environment?
- How can governments work with each other and citizens to form sound environmental policy?
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Tuesday (9/20): Read pages 36-41 in Withgott. Attach the procedures and data from the in class activity (Working Trees) to the right side of today's page spread in your notebook. Also, attach the supply and demand graph you created in class. Complete the analysis of the class activity and attach it to the left side of today's page spread in your notebook. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Thursday (9/22): Watch the video: "Environmental Econ." Left Side Work: Answer questions 1-3 on page 41 of the textbook. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Monday (9/26): Left Side Work: Using, the 1m long piece of paper provided in class, copy the timeline found on pp. 44-45 of the textbook. Be sure to make your timeline to scale and include very brief summaries of the events noted. Add 5 non-environmental U.S. events that will put the environmental timeline in a U.S. history perspective. Attach the time line in your notebook. Read pages 42-47 in the textbook. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Wednesday (9/28): Left Side Work: Answer questions 1-3 on page 47 in the textbook. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Thursday (9/28): Left Side Work: Go to the website: www.un.org/sustainable-development-goals/. Look through the list of 17 sustainable development goals identified by the United Nations. Select one that either interests you or catches your attention. Read through the information for that particular goal and identify and write about 5 of those reasons. Watch the videos: "The World's Largest Lesson" and "Can we make plastics from banana skins?" to learn about the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in action. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Monday (10/3): Left Side Work: Complete the "Choose an Approach" worksheet. Attach the worksheet in your notebook. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
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Chapter 3: Earth's Environmental Systems
- What properties of matter are most important to environmental systems?
- What types of systems play roles in environmental science?
- What are the characteristics of Earth's geosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere?
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Wednesday (10/5): No Left Side Work. Watch the videos: "Biological Molecules - You Are What You Eat" and "Feedback Loops: How Nature Gets Its Rhythms."
Thursday (10/6): Left Side Work: Complete the "Systems in Environmental Science" worksheet. Attach the worksheet in your notebook. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today.
Monday (10/10): No School (Federal Holiday)
Wednesday (10/12): Left Side Work: Complete the "Age of the Islands" worksheet. Attach the worksheet in your notebook. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today. Watch the video: "Plate Tectonics Explained."
Thursday (10/13): Left Side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - pg. 94: 25, 28, and 29. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today. Watch the video: "The Water Cycle."
Monday (10/17): Left-side Work: Answer the following questions from the textbook - pg. 89: 2-5. Update the Eureka! Connections page in your lab notebook for the work conducted today. Watch the video: "The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle! - Crash Course Ecology #8."
Wednesday (10/19): No Left Side Work. Watch the video: "The Global Carbon Cycle - Crash Course Chemistry #46."
Thursday (10/20): No Left Side Work. Watch the video: "Nitrogen & Phosphorus Cycles: Always Recycle! Part 2 - Crash Course Ecology #9."
Complete by Monday (10/24): Chapter 3 Test - Available on the class Schoology page.
Complete by Wednesday (10/26): Eureka Thesis - Use the lines of evidence collected throughout the unit to describe your understanding of the big idea for unit 1 ("We can use science to study and understand the complex interactions between humans and the environment.").
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