Wednesday, January 18 Materials:

Individual: Bottle to bottle video

Answer the following Questions:

1. What does this facility do?
2. In the US, where do most bottles end up going?
3. What do these bottles usually become? Why is this not ideal?
4. What is closed loop or bottle to bottle recycling? Why is this better than making bottles into polyester?
5. Why is CA so successful in this endeavor?
6. Make a connection to the case study that we just completed? How does this video relate to what we just read about?

Reading Buddies: Read and complete the GO for Summary of the Water Cycle

How has urbanization and channelization

of the LA River affected the natural water cycle?

PART 1: Independent Research

Each of the resources below will give you evidence to answer the writing prompt above. You may choose whichever resources interest you. Fill in the graphic organizer as you progress with the:

• Quote (or summary of the quote)
• Reference so you can access the evidence again to cite it for the final writing assignment (i.e. website, article name and paragraph number, minute information for the video, etc.)
• What does this quote mean? How does it answer the research question?

Articles:

Drought 101: The Urban Water System

http://www.saturatecalifornia.com/editorial/watersystems

Just Subtract Water: The Los Angeles River and a Robert Moses with the Soul of a Jane Jacobs

http://folar.org/news/just-subtract-water-the-los-angeles-river-and-a-robert-moses-with-the-soul-of-a-jane-jacobs/

“Shade Balls” Protect LA Water Supply during drought

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/13/shade-balls-protect-la-water-supply-during-drought.html

How does Los Angeles County use storm water runoff?

http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20141203/how-does-los-angeles-county-use-storm-water-runoff

Videos:

The LA River: Nature Tamed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTf8zQbr_6E

Los Angeles River History & Revitalization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b4YZP6ikus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4FB_aklgU

Urban Water Cycle Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNu3C9Ll5gs

Graphics:

Comparison of natural and urban areas for water infiltration

http://www.earthcareland.com/what-we-do/pervious-concrete-pavement/infiltration-recharges-our-groundwater.html

Visual Histories of the Los Angeles River: The Past and Envisioned Futures

https://freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/visual-histories-of-the-los-angeles-river-past-and-envisioned-futures/

US Drought Monitor

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA

Part 2: AB Partner Share-out

Justify to your AB partner how your evidence:

• Illustrates a key observation made during the water cycle model demonstration
• Argues about the affect of urbanization on the natural water cycle
• Argues about the affect of channelization of the LA River on the natural water cycle

Oxbow Lake Project

Step 1: Research

Oxbow Lake Formation:

Videos:

How do oxbow lakes form?

Oxbow Lake on a Stream Table

Articles:

What is an oxbow lake?

National Geographic: Oxbow Lakes

Step 2: Vocabulary

Can you describe what each of these words mean and use them in a sentence to describe how oxbow lakes form? Look at your vocabulary magic boxes completed so far this unit, or refer back to your research.

Vocabulary:

• Oxbow Lake
• Meander
• River
• River bank
• Deposition
• Erosion
• Currents
• Flood
• Sediments
• Transport

Step 3: Create a graphic description of an Oxbow Lake

After you have completed the gallery walk above, demonstrate your knowledge of the formation of oxbow lakes in graphic form on the paper provided for you.

Keep this rubric in mind as you create your graphic description.

Use the following websites and your class notes to help you fill in the Cellular Respiration Double Bubble chart.

• http://evolution.about.com/od/Microevolution/a/Aerobic-Vs-Anaerobic-Respiration.htm
• http://www.diffen.com/difference/Aerobic_Respiration_vs_Anaerobic_Respiration

“Where does Petroleum come from?” Podcast Directions: Wednesday February 22

Go to Mrs. Ko’s website and launch the website for the youtube video link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSvzuwwGZtE

Watch all of podcast #1 and answer the questions on the guided viewing notes.

Watch part of podcast #2 until you find the answer to #7.

When you have answered #7, go back to the “Where does Oil Come From” assessment and update your before answer. Do you still think your answer was correct? Why or why not?

#1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSvzuwwGZtE

#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7da8M8vcfM

How do we study climate change? Gallery Walk

• Ice Cores
  • https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/icecorelab.jsp
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHzADl-XID8

• Tree Rings
  • http://www.priweb.org/globalchange/climatechange/studyingcc/scc_01.html
  • http://www.livescience.com/13589-lord-tree-rings.html

• CO2 measurements: Mauna Loa
  • http://www.livescience.com/29271-what-is-the-keeling-curve-carbon-dioxide.html
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZIlM2oncnY

Climate and the Cryosphere:

Lab 1: Getting to know the Cryosphere

Part A Introduction to the Cryosphere:

Part B Why we study the Cryosphere:

Part C The Changing Cryosphere

Eyewitness Documentary of Climate Change in the Arctic

Lab 2: Earth’s Frozen Oceans

Part A: Sea Ice & Ocean Currents

Video: Icy Finger of Death

Part C: Arctic Sea Ice Extent

Lab 3: Land Ice

Part A: Mass Balance

Part B: Glaciers on the Move

Part C: Make a Glacier

Lab 5: Evidence of Recent Change

Part A: Melting Glaciers

Part B: Shrinking Sea Ice

Part C: Ice- Albedo Feedback

Climate Change and Your Diet

You have completed a biozone reading about “Global Warming and Agriculture” and “Tropical Deforestation” that outlines how climate change and our diet are intricately linked together. You will create a 3-paragraph CER research essay that answers one of the two following questions:

Question 1: How will climate change impact your diet?

OR

Question 2: How does your diet impact climate change?

Step 1: Reread your annotated copies of the biozone handouts with these two questions in mind. What evidence jumps out at you that will help you answer these questions? Highlight the evidence and write down how that evidence relates to one of the questions above.

Step 2: Gather additional evidence. The following websites will help:

            Articles:

               http://climate.org/reducing-food-related-greenhouse-gas-emissions-through-modification-of-human-diet/

                https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts/agriculture.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/is-the-livestock-industry-destroying-the-planet-11308007/?no-ist

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170308154423.htm

            Graphics:

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/images/IPCCAg_2050.png

http://blogs.nelson.wisc.edu/es112-301-southafrica/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2014/04/cycle.gif

Videos:

https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/students/expeditions/agriculture/index.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/601275.htm

Step 3: Now that you have gathered more evidence, which question will you answer? Double check: does your evidence line up with the question?

Step 4: Outline your essay in the graphic organizer provided below.

Step 5: Turn your outline into a 3-paragraph essay. Essay is due on Monday, April 17.

Polar Bears and Sea Ice 5 Paragraph CER (Due Monday, May 1)

Step 1: Gather Evidence About Polar Bears

Adaptations: https://seaworld.org/Animal-Info/Animal-InfoBooks/Polar-Bears/Adaptations

Habitat: https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/polar-bears/habitat-and-distribution

Physical Characteristics: https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/polar-bears/physical-characteristics

Senses: https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/polar-bears/senses

Diet and Eating: https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/polar-bears/diet-and-eating-habits

Causes of Death: https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/polar-bears/longevity-and-causes-of-death

Conservation: https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/polar-bears/conservation-and-research

Step 2: Gather Evidence about Sea Ice

Use the data and graph that you created on page 10 of your Climate & The Cryosphere Lab

AND/ OR  Sea Ice Data: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2016/04/Figure2.png

Step 3: Gather Evidence about Polar Bears and Sea Ice

Read and annotate the article on the back of the rubric Mrs. Ko gave you.

Step 4: Outline a CER 5 Paragraph Essay

How does melting sea ice affect polar bears?

Anaerobic Biodigester: Watch this video. (The man speaking has a slight accent so I recommend using close captions.) Answer the following questions: