Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.08
Goal 4: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize technology and information systems to build an understanding of chemistry. NCSCOS: 4.06, 4.07
Point source pollution and non-point source pollution are two types of water pollution.
1) Six Mini-Labs on the Properties of Water
2) Create a Fish Habitat Activity
1) Reading Assignment: Holt text pg. 58 - 65, Section 4, “Using Water Wisely.”
2) Worksheet: Directed Reading “A”, from folder pg. 11, 12, 13.
Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.
Goal 2: Learners will demonstrate an understanding of technological design. NCSCOS: 2.02, 2.03, 2.04.
Goal 3: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of the hydrosphere. NCSCOS: 3.01, 3.05, 3.07
Water quality can be monitored via remote sensing by instruments aboard aircraft and satellites.
1) Vocabulary Handout, pg. 84 & 85
2) Chapter 2 Review, Holt text: pg. 42 - 44, 46.
1) Study for vocabulary quiz coming tomorrow.
Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.
Goal 2: Learners will demonstrate an understanding of technological design. NCSCOS: 2.02, 2.03, 2.04.
Goal 3: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of the hydrosphere. NCSCOS: 3.01, 3.05, 3.07
A river basin is the region of land drained by a river and its tributaries.
1) NASA Satellite Activity: Students explore how remote sensing is used to monitor the hydroshpere.
2) River Basins Scavenger Hunt: Students will research the terms and concepts associated with river basins and the structure of the hydrosphere.
1) Study for Chapter 2 Test, coming Friday December 18.
Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.
Goal 2: Learners will demonstrate an understanding of technological design. NCSCOS: 2.02, 2.03, 2.04.
Goal 3: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of the hydrosphere. NCSCOS: 3.01, 3.05, 3.07
Your ecological address is an identification of the relationship between the environment and you. It contains nine parts about where and how you live: river basin, topography, wetlands, groundwater, biodiversity, soil, air, climate, and energy.
1) River Basins Scavenger Hunt: Students will research the terms and concepts associated with river basins and the structure of the hydrosphere.
1) Study for Chapter 2 Test, coming Friday December 18.
Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.
Goal 2: Learners will demonstrate an understanding of technological design. NCSCOS: 2.02, 2.03, 2.04.
Goal 3: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of the hydrosphere. NCSCOS: 3.01, 3.05, 3.07
The river basin in which you live is called the Tar-Pamlico River Basin.
1) Chapter 2 Test
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