Mr. Gibson's Science Courses Web-Site

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Course Description:

Environmental Science is a laboratory science course that enables students to develop an understanding of natural and man-made environments and environmental problems the world faces. Students explore environmental science concepts through an inquiry-based approach. Embedded standards for Inquiry and Technology & Engineering are taught in the context of the content standards for Earth Systems, The Living World, Human Population, Water and Land Resources, Energy Resources and Consumption, Pollution and Waste Production, Global Change, and Civic Responsibility.

 Recommended prerequisites – none (Courses without pre-requisites are generally ninth grade options.)

 Earth Science is a laboratory science course that explores origins and the connections between the physical, chemical, and biological processes of the earth system. Students experience the content of Earth Science through inquiry-based laboratory investigations and focus on topics associated with matter, energy, crystal dynamics, cosmic evolution, and structure, cycles, geochemical processes, and the expanded time scales needed to understand events in the earth system. Earth Science provides the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind needed for problem solving and ethical decision making about scientific and technological issues. Embedded standards for Inquiry and Technology & Engineering are taught in the context of the content standards for the Universe, Energy in the Earth System, Cycles in the Earth System, and Geologic History.

 Recommended prerequisites – none (Courses without pre-requisites are generally ninth grade options.)

Earth & Environmental Sciences If you click on this link you will be able to open a Microsoft Word document that provides you with the Course Descriptions for the Earth and Environmental Sciences followed by the tentative syllabi for both.

Over the next several weeks you will also be seeing modified updates to the syllabi that will contain greater detail and hyperlinks to other pertinent materials.

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Oddities & tidbits in chemistry

This link will take you to a relatively short power point with those odd facts in chemistry, earth/space science that will get you through the first nine minutes in a conversation at a science fair...

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U3: Earth Science - Earth Planet of Life - Objectives 1, 2 & 6  This linked power point covers the class discussions on Monday October 17th with regards to Earth as a terrestrial planet compared & contrasted to its two nearest neighbors -- Venus and Mars.

We also learned about axial tilt (obliquity) with respect to orbital planes as well as Pro-grade and Retro-grade axial rotations.

The terms and definitions were included as well as two "drag-n-drop" practice slide/exercises.

We will next move onto the 4 Spheres of Earth which makes it so unique.

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U4: Core Constructs - Energy & Core Constructs  This link will take you to the power-point as it relates to the incoming stream of the sun's photons (light). You will study the parts of that energy that is both "particle-like" and "wave-like". It is the latter part; the "wave-like" component of sunlight that will be of interest to us.

As we study the "parts" of sunlight's "sinusoidal" wave for visible light we will then move onto the Visible Light spectrum's multiple colors and ultimately set the stage for UV-A and UV-B's impact on erosion -or- the destructive force of Entropy stated in the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics which you studied last quarter.

We will then move into the "Integrated" Environmental Sciences to see how this force is both beneficial to some "spheres" of the "four spheres of Earth" while totally destructive to other spheres.

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EnE_U4: EnE Fields of Sciences This link takes us to the classroom power-point where we have a cursory look at the various fields of scientific studies and how they approach Earth's overall environment.

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U4(c): The Changing Environment - The Integrated Sciences  This link will take you to the classroom discussion regarding the different fields of science that study the arena of earth & environmental science [as] it pertains to the lithosphere interacting with the atmosphere via "sea-floor" spreading and tectonic plate movements.

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This link will take you to the lab exercise you are preparing for and will complete in class. Use this with your template from my web-site to complete you pre-lab write up as well as prepare yourself and your team for the lab exercise itself.

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http://www.schoolrack.com/dashboard/assignments/14194/  You can either click on this hyperlink -or- access your individual School-rack account in order to upload your "Pre-lab" write up for the L-0120 lab exercise.

This is worth 10 points and MUST be completed and then checked off by me PRIOR to running your lab exercise.

Any questions on the report or what your need to do... SEE ME!

Thanks!

Mr. Gibson

U4:Changing Environment (c)  Using this link, you can download the power point lecture for this part of unit four.

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