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This document has all directions, assignments, and deadlines. You should check it regularly for any updates.
Complete by the end of the day on Monday, 4/6.
No review video for these units because the topics are Energy and Air Pollution which are the topics we just covered. Use notes from Lesson 1-4.
Just an example. You can customize yours to fit you!
Text: Chapters 1+20, Tragedy of the Commons, Forestry and Fisheries, plants + beginning of the Earth stuff
Project: Current Events
Labs and Activities: Ranking Environmental Challenges, Bubble Gum Clean-up Challenge, A Geologic Time Scale, Salinization of Seeds
Field Trip: Citizen Science - Watershed Guardians...The Nature of Observation - Habitat BioBlitz (Inaturalist)
Energy Topic: Fossil Fuels
Unit Project: Present current event
Media: For the Price of a Cup of Coffee, Home, Welcome to Earth. Making of Planet Earth, Fishing Movie
Topics: Conservation of Mass and Energy (Laws and Energy Pyramids), Feedback Cycles (Ecosystem Processes), Biogeochemical Cycles and Productivity, Ecosystems Services (instrumental and Intrinsic) 
Text: Chapter 2-3
Labs and Activities: Carolina's Primary Energy Flow Lab, Sustainability Columns, Respiration vs. Photosynthesis, Nitrogen Cycle Lab, GPP vs. NPP (http://vimeo.com/channels/entropyrider/70628944), Owl pellet Trophic Levels,
Unit Project: Messages in Music
Media: Life: Insects, On Point Fertilizer Podcast, Atmospheric Rivers (MC Weekly), Lawns...
Case Studies: Nitrate Use in the Salinas Valley and Fertilizer use in US vs China
Field Trip: CMS Habitat to study ideal growing conditions (w/ Cassie)
Topics: Evolution, Biodiversity, Declines in Biodiversity, and Protecting Biodiversity
Text: 5 and 18
Labs and Activities: Current Events, Biodiversity of the Intertidal Zone, Biodiversity of an Organism at Habitat vs. CHS
Unit Project: Eco-Columns
Field Trip: Tide Pools
Case Studies: The Intertidal Zone
Media: Racing Extinction
Topics: Geology,Geologic Hazards, and Mineral Resources
Readings: Chapters 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5, and 10
Labs and Activities: Rock ID, Modeling Fault Zones, Seismic Challenge, Sedimentation and Fossil Formation, Cookie Mining Challenge, Weathering Lab, Land Use Planning
Unit Project: Mineral Scavenger Hunt
Media: Inside Planet Earth, Human Planet Sulfur Mining,NPR Element Series, Land Use Planning Challenge
Guest Lecture: Doug Smith
Field Trip: A Local Outcropping, Point Lobos
Case Studies: River Restoration in Western Tennessee, Sand Mining in Marina, Local Rock Formations, National Flood Insurance Program
Topics: Soil, Land Use, Food, and Pest Control
Readings: 8.4 and 11
Labs and Activities: Soil Testing (NPK), Soil Permeability and Porosity, LD50 Lab, and Planting Our End of the Year Buffet
Unit Project: Food Inventory, Food Picture
Media: Food Inc., Dirt, National Parks, Jamie Oliver, Death on a Factory Farm, End of the Line
Field Trip: Habitat Kitchen or EarthBound Organic
Topics: Community and Population Biology, the Human Population, and Human Health
Chapters: 6, 7, and 17
Labs and Activities: Estimating Population Using Googlemaps, Modeling Populations with Excel, Dispersion Patterns, Ecological Succession
Field Trip: Cemetery
Media: Life, Population Video
Case Studies: Bioaccumulation
Topics: Atmosphere, Weather, Climate, Biomes, and Climate Change
Readings: 4 and 19
Labs and Activities: Weather Activities
Unit Project: Biome
Field Trip: Fleet Numeric Naval Meteorological Center
Media: Earth - The Human Element, Before the Floos Years of Living Dangerously
Case Studies:
Topics: Aquatic Systems, Water Supply and Delivery Systems, and Water Pollution, + Waste and Waste Laws
Readings: 9 and 15
Labs and Activities: Hetch Hetchy Debate, Waste Water Treatment, Personal Water Inventory, Carmel Treatment Facility
Unit Project: Food Inventory, SWAG Bag
Media: Liquid Assets, Blue Gold, Discover Hetch Hetchy, Tapped, End of the Line
Case Studies: Treatment Wetlands (Fred Watson), Water Supply in Monterey County
Field Trip: Carmel River and Lagoon
The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there.
Unit 9: Energy and Air Pollution: Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energies, Air Quality and the Ozone Layer
Readings: 12 and 13
Labs and Activities: School Energy Audit and Presentation to Board, Solar Challenge,Making Biodiesel,Testing for Ozone, Atmospheric Particulates, Air Quality Testing w/ Tubes and Lichen Survey, Automobile Pollution Index, Peanut Competition, Solar Oven
Unit Project: Energy Companies
Media: Gas Land,
Case Studies: Fracking (locally and nationally), Ethanol
Readings: 15
Labs and Activities: Air quality testing (ozones, particulates, lichens, acid rain)
Media: Beijing Haze
Topics: Solid Waste, Recycling, Cradle to Cradle
Readings: 16 and parts of 20
Labs and Activities: SWAG Bag (Personal Waste Inventory), Field Trip to Landfill
Unit Project: Trash Art
Media: Bag-It
Case Studies:The Fate of E-Waste, Waste Diversion, Italian Waste Disposal
Field Trip: Marina Waste Facility