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Land Processes and Products (Apr, May, Jun) The last course section examines weathering of the land and the resources such as soil that are formed, the work of erosion agents such as wind gravity and glaciers, and the water systems of the land that create both resources and hazards. |
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| Section Essential Questions: | How are the Earth's land surfaces changing? How do we affect those changes? How do they affect us? | ||
| Big Ideas (Concepts): | Weathering/Products | Minor Erosion Agents | Water Systems |
| Content (topics): | Weathering Processes, Products of Weathering, Soil Horizons and Processes, Local Soil Structure. | Mass Movements, Wind Erosion, Glaciation, Glacier Movement, Glacial Outwash. | Infiltration Factors, Groundwater flow, Groundwater Pollution, Hous Haz Waste, Floods, deposition, erosion, Wetlands Stream Speeds/Erosion/Dep, River case studies, Watershed mapping and management, Sedimentary Rocks. |
Water Systems Assignments
Period 6
Dates are approximate
Dress for the outdoors on Fieldwork Days!
CYCLE: 32 DATE: Tue May 15 (classwork) and Fri May 17 (fieldwork), 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Infiltration Factors and Water Intro FORMAT: lab/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe how surface permeability, slope,
saturation, and rate of rainfall affect the amount of
water that runs off the land surface. 2. Design an
experiment that determines conditions that affect
infiltration and runoff. 3. Give examples how people
affect the infiltration and runoff of water.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish Water Cycle h/o. 2. Design Infiltration Lab 3.
Write up lab report in notebook.
CYCLE: 32 DATE: Thu May 16, 2002
TOPIC: Groundwater Flow FORMAT: lec/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. Interpret a diagram of groundwater flow. 2. Describe
how groundwater flows. 3. Describe the factors that
affect how groundwater flows. 4. Identify the zones of
saturation, aeration, water table, bedrock fractures.
5. Describe the two most common types of wells. 6.
Describe how water gets to wells from the surface.
HOMEWORK 1. Find out how deep your well is, what kind of pump you
have, type of well.
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CYCLE: 33 DATE: Mon May 20, 2002
TOPIC: Groundwater Pollution FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify ways that groundwater is polluted. 2. Give
examples of type of pollutants found in contaminated
groundwater. 2. Recognize the importance of protecting
clean groundwater supplies. 4. Identify individual use
of land as a source of great risk of groundwater
pollution. 5. Cite examples of groundwater contamnation.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish groundwater objectives worksheet. 2. Finish
pollution matrix from class. 3. Read p316-319, do blue,
#11 p320, Rd 344-345, do Develop Viewpoint p345.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Tue May 21, 2002
TOPIC: Field: Wetlands Ground/Surface water interact FORMAT: field la
OBJECTIVES 1. Diagram and describe the relationship between
groundwater and wetlands. 2. Identify water table level
as the factor that causes a swamps or a marsh. 3.
Describe the benefits of wetlands. 4. Quantify the loss
of wetland nationally and in CT. 5. Describe how
wetlands are lost. 6. Suggest ways to protect wetlands.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish wetland questions.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Thu May 23, 2002
TOPIC: Protection from Hous Haz FORMAT: lec/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. List household materials that are hazardous and
should not be allowed into the ground. 2. Identify
alternatives to household hazardous materials. 3.
Identify why stratified glacial till under wetlands are
especially important areas to protect from harm 4.
Explain what a hous haz collection day is.
HOMEWORK Finish Hous Haz handout, including: Make a list of
hazardous materials at home, describe a day in the life
of a household hazardous material consumer ignorant of
the consequences of their actions, a day with an educated
person.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Fri May 24, 2002
TOPIC: Running Water: Floods, deposition, erosion FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe and give examples of how rivers remove,
transport, and deposit material in terms of stream
speeds, particle sizes, rates of flow, curves and
straight sections, flooding,
sedimentation, dams and river management.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish video questions, 2. Read p304-307, 311-315, do
blue, p308 Problem Solving, p315 #4-6.
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CYCLE: 34 DATE: Tue May 28, 2002
TOPIC: Runoff and Surface Water FORMAT: field
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify runoff and soil erosion features. 2.
Describe how to slow or stop soil erosion from runoff.
3. Relate runoff erosion to the factors that control
infltration/runoff.
HOMEWORK 1. Describe a stream and a wetland near your home: where
does the water come from, go to, who owns it? what is the
land used for? 2. Compare/contrast to stream studied in
class. 3. Finish Stream Speeds and Erosion Deposition h/o
4. Read p 516-521, do blue, and p521 #6,8,9
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Wed May 29, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Watersheds and CT Geology FORMAT: lec/group
OBJECTIVES 1. Define watershed, divide, drainage basin. 2. Map the
watershed of a body of water using a topographic map.
3. Describe how land use in the watershed of a body of
water will affect the body of water. 4. Explain why the
watershed is the basic unit of water body management.
HOMEWORK 1. Identify the smallest body of water that receives
water from your yard, and describe where the water goes
from there to the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Describe two ways
that what you do on your yard affects these. 3. Mark lake
article with references to lake objectives.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Fri May 31, 2002
TOPIC: CT Geology at the Lake FORMAT: lec ;group
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify the features found at tectonic plate
boundaries. 2. Relate tectonic activity to local
geologic history. 3. Apply knowledge of plate boundary
activities.
HOMEWORK Finish Lake Compounce Assignment and hand in at the end
of the day
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Mon Jun 3, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Watershed mapping, mgt FORMAT: lec/group
OBJECTIVES 1. Map the watershed of a body of water using a
topographic map. 2. Describe how land use in the
watershed of a body of water will affect the body of
water.
HOMEWORK 1. Identify the smallest body of water that receives
water from your yard, and describe where the water goes
from there to the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Describe two ways
that what you do on your yard affects these.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Tue Jun 4, 2002
TOPIC: Review for Test FORMAT:
HOMEWORK Study for Test
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Wed Jun 5, 2002 Test: Water Resources
HOMEWORK Review 3rd Marking period notes and assignments for Final
Exam review tomorrow.
CYCLE: 35 DATE: Thu Jun 6, 2002
TOPIC: Exam review
HOMEWORK STUDY FOR EXAMS !!!!!
CYCLE: 35 DATE: Mon Jun 10, 2002
TOPIC: Exam Per 3, Review Per 1,4,6,7 FORMAT:
HOMEWORK STUDY FOR EXAMS !!!!!
CYCLE: 36 DATE: Wed Jun 12, 2002
TOPIC: Final Exams: Blocks 5,6 FORMAT:
OBJECTIVES
HOMEWORK Have a good Summer: Be careful out there!
Other Periods' Assignment Sheets: Period 1 , Period 3 , Period 4 , Period 6 , Period 7
Land Processes and Products (Apr, May, Jun) The last course section examines weathering of the land and the resources such as soil that are formed, the work of erosion agents such as wind gravity and glaciers, and the water systems of the land that create both resources and hazards. |
|||
| Section Essential Questions: | How are the Earth's land surfaces changing? How do we affect those changes? How do they affect us? | ||
| Big Ideas (Concepts): | Weathering/Products | Minor Erosion Agents | Water Systems |
| Content (topics): | Weathering Processes, Products of Weathering, Soil Horizons and Processes, Local Soil Structure. | Mass Movements, Wind Erosion, Glaciation, Glacier Movement, Glacial Outwash. | Infiltration Factors, Groundwater flow, Groundwater Pollution, Hous Haz Waste, Floods, deposition, erosion, Wetlands Stream Speeds/Erosion/Dep, River case studies, Watershed mapping and management, Sedimentary Rocks. |
Water Systems Assignments
Period 4
Dates are approximate
Dress for the outdoors on Fieldwork Days!
CYCLE: 32 DATE: Wed May 15 (classwork) and Thu May 16 (fieldwork), 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Infiltration Factors and Water Intro FORMAT: lab/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe how surface permeability, slope,
saturation, and rate of rainfall affect the amount of
water that runs off the land surface. 2. Design an
experiment that determines conditions that affect
infiltration and runoff. 3. Give examples how people
affect the infiltration and runoff of water.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish Water Cycle h/o. 2. Design Infiltration Lab 3.
Write up lab report in notebook.
CYCLE: 32 DATE: Fri May 17, 2002
TOPIC: Groundwater Flow FORMAT: lec/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. Interpret a diagram of groundwater flow. 2. Describe
how groundwater flows. 3. Describe the factors that
affect how groundwater flows. 4. Identify the zones of
saturation, aeration, water table, bedrock fractures.
5. Describe the two most common types of wells. 6.
Describe how water gets to wells from the surface.
HOMEWORK 1. Find out how deep your well is, what kind of pump you
have, type of well.
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CYCLE: 32 DATE: Tue May 21, 2002
TOPIC: Field: Wetlands Ground/Surface water interact FORMAT: field la
OBJECTIVES 1. Diagram and describe the relationship between
groundwater and wetlands. 2. Identify water table level
as the factor that causes a swamps or a marsh. 3.
Describe the benefits of wetlands. 4. Quantify the loss
of wetland nationally and in CT. 5. Describe how
wetlands are lost. 6. Suggest ways to protect wetlands.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish wetland questions.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Wed May 22, 2002
TOPIC: Groundwater Pollution FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify ways that groundwater is polluted. 2. Give
examples of type of pollutants found in contaminated
groundwater. 2. Recognize the importance of protecting
clean groundwater supplies. 4. Identify individual use
of land as a source of great risk of groundwater
pollution. 5. Cite examples of groundwater contamnation.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish groundwater objectives worksheet. 2. Finish
pollution matrix from class. 3. Read p316-319, do blue,
#11 p320, Rd 344-345, do Develop Viewpoint p345.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Thu May 23, 2002
TOPIC: Protection from Hous Haz FORMAT: lec/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. List household materials that are hazardous and
should not be allowed into the ground. 2. Identify
alternatives to household hazardous materials. 3.
Identify why stratified glacial till under wetlands are
especially important areas to protect from harm 4.
Explain what a hous haz collection day is.
HOMEWORK Finish Hous Haz handout, including: Make a list of
hazardous materials at home, describe a day in the life
of a household hazardous material consumer ignorant of
the consequences of their actions, a day with an educated
person.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Fri May 24, 2002
TOPIC: Running Water: Floods, deposition, erosion FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe and give examples of how rivers remove,
transport, and deposit material in terms of stream
speeds, particle sizes, rates of flow, curves and
straight sections, flooding,
sedimentation, dams and river management.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish video questions, 2. Read p304-307, 311-315, do
blue, p308 Problem Solving, p315 #4-6.
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CYCLE: 34 DATE: Wed May 29, 2002
TOPIC: Runoff and Surface Water FORMAT: field
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify runoff and soil erosion features. 2.
Describe how to slow or stop soil erosion from runoff.
3. Relate runoff erosion to the factors that control
infltration/runoff.
HOMEWORK 1. Describe a stream and a wetland near your home: where
does the water come from, go to, who owns it? what is the
land used for? 2. Compare/contrast to stream studied in
class. 3. Finish Stream Speeds and Erosion Deposition h/o
4. Read p 516-521, do blue, and p521 #6,8,9
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Thu May 30, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Watersheds and CT Geology FORMAT: lec/group
OBJECTIVES 1. Define watershed, divide, drainage basin. 2. Map the
watershed of a body of water using a topographic map.
3. Describe how land use in the watershed of a body of
water will affect the body of water. 4. Explain why the
watershed is the basic unit of water body management.
HOMEWORK 1. Identify the smallest body of water that receives
water from your yard, and describe where the water goes
from there to the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Describe two ways
that what you do on your yard affects these. 3. Mark lake
article with references to lake objectives.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Fri May 31, 2002
TOPIC: CT Geology at the Lake FORMAT: lec ;group
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify the features found at tectonic plate
boundaries. 2. Relate tectonic activity to local
geologic history. 3. Apply knowledge of plate boundary
activities.
HOMEWORK Finish Lake Compounce Assignment and hand in at the end
of the day
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Mon Jun 3, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Watershed mapping, mgt FORMAT: lec/group
OBJECTIVES 1. Map the watershed of a body of water using a
topographic map. 2. Describe how land use in the
watershed of a body of water will affect the body of
water.
HOMEWORK 1. Identify the smallest body of water that receives
water from your yard, and describe where the water goes
from there to the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Describe two ways
that what you do on your yard affects these.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Tue Jun 4, 2002
TOPIC: Review for Test
HOMEWORK Study for Test
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Thu Jun 6, 2002 Test: Water Resources
HOMEWORK Review 3rd Marking period notes and assignments for Final
Exam review tomorrow.
CYCLE: 35 DATE: Fri Jun 7, 2002
TOPIC: Exam review
HOMEWORK STUDY FOR EXAMS !!!!!
CYCLE: 35 DATE: Mon Jun 10, 2002
TOPIC: Exam Per 3, Review Per 1,4,6,7 FORMAT:
HOMEWORK STUDY FOR EXAMS !!!!!
CYCLE: 35 DATE: Tue Jun 11, 2002
TOPIC: Final Exams: Blocks 2,4
HOMEWORK Have a good Summer: Be careful out there!
Other Periods' Assignment Sheets: Period 1 , Period 3 , Period 4 , Period 6 , Period 7
Land Processes and Products (Apr, May, Jun) The last course section examines weathering of the land and the resources such as soil that are formed, the work of erosion agents such as wind gravity and glaciers, and the water systems of the land that create both resources and hazards. |
|||
| Section Essential Questions: | How are the Earth's land surfaces changing? How do we affect those changes? How do they affect us? | ||
| Big Ideas (Concepts): | Weathering/Products | Minor Erosion Agents | Water Systems |
| Content (topics): | Weathering Processes, Products of Weathering, Soil Horizons and Processes, Local Soil Structure. | Mass Movements, Wind Erosion, Glaciation, Glacier Movement, Glacial Outwash. | Infiltration Factors, Groundwater flow, Groundwater Pollution, Hous Haz Waste, Floods, deposition, erosion, Wetlands Stream Speeds/Erosion/Dep, River case studies, Watershed mapping and management, Sedimentary Rocks. |
Water Systems Assignments
Period 3
Dates are approximate
Dress for the outdoors on Fieldwork Days!
CYCLE: 32 DATE: Wed May 15 (classwork) and Thu May 16 (fieldwork), 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Infiltration Factors and Water Intro FORMAT: lab/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe how surface permeability, slope,
saturation, and rate of rainfall affect the amount of
water that runs off the land surface. 2. Design an
experiment that determines conditions that affect
infiltration and runoff. 3. Give examples how people
affect the infiltration and runoff of water.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish Water Cycle h/o. 2. Design Infiltration Lab
CYCLE: 32 DATE: Wed May 15, 2002
TOPIC: Groundwater Flow FORMAT: lec/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. Interpret a diagram of groundwater flow. 2. Describe
how groundwater flows. 3. Describe the factors that
affect how groundwater flows. 4. Identify the zones of
saturation, aeration, water table, bedrock fractures.
5. Describe the two most common types of wells. 6.
Describe how water gets to wells from the surface.
HOMEWORK 1. Find out how deep your well is, what kind of pump you
have, type of well.
CYCLE: 32 DATE: Fri May 17, 2002
TOPIC: Field: Wetlands Ground/Surface water interact FORMAT: field la
OBJECTIVES 1. Diagram and describe the relationship between
groundwater and wetlands. 2. Identify water table level
as the factor that causes a swamps or a marsh. 3.
Describe the benefits of wetlands. 4. Quantify the loss
of wetland nationally and in CT. 5. Describe how
wetlands are lost. 6. Suggest ways to protect wetlands.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish wetland questions.
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CYCLE: 33 DATE: Mon May 20, 2002
TOPIC: Protection from Hous Haz FORMAT: lec/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. List household materials that are hazardous and
should not be allowed into the ground. 2. Identify
alternatives to household hazardous materials. 3.
Identify why stratified glacial till under wetlands are
especially important areas to protect from harm 4.
Explain what a hous haz collection day is.
HOMEWORK Finish Hous Haz handout, including: Make a list of
hazardous materials at home, describe a day in the life
of a household hazardous material consumer ignorant of
the consequences of their actions, a day with an educated
person.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Wed May 22, 2002
TOPIC: Groundwater Pollution FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify ways that groundwater is polluted. 2. Give
examples of type of pollutants found in contaminated
groundwater. 2. Recognize the importance of protecting
clean groundwater supplies. 4. Identify individual use
of land as a source of great risk of groundwater
pollution. 5. Cite examples of groundwater contamnation.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish groundwater objectives worksheet. 2. Finish
pollution matrix from class. 3. Read p316-319, do blue,
#11 p320, Rd 344-345, do Develop Viewpoint p345.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Thu May 23, 2002
TOPIC: Running Water: Floods, deposition, erosion FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe and give examples of how rivers remove,
transport, and deposit material in terms of stream
speeds, particle sizes, rates of flow, curves and
straight sections, flooding,
sedimentation, dams and river management.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish video questions, 2. Read p304-307, 311-315, do
blue, p308 Problem Solving, p315 #4-6.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Fri May 24, 2002
TOPIC: Runoff and Surface Water FORMAT: field
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify runoff and soil erosion features. 2.
Describe how to slow or stop soil erosion from runoff.
3. Relate runoff erosion to the factors that control
infltration/runoff.
HOMEWORK 1. Describe a stream and a wetland near your home: where
does the water come from, go to, who owns it? what is the
land used for? 2. Compare/contrast to stream studied in
class. 3. Finish Stream Speeds and Erosion Deposition h/o
4. Read p 516-521, do blue, and p521 #6,8,9
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CYCLE: 34 DATE: Tue May 28, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Watershed mapping, mgt FORMAT: lec/group
OBJECTIVES 1. Map the watershed of a body of water using a
topographic map. 2. Describe how land use in the
watershed of a body of water will affect the body of
water.
HOMEWORK 1. Identify the smallest body of water that receives
water from your yard, and describe where the water goes
from there to the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Describe two ways
that what you do on your yard affects these.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Thu May 30, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Watersheds and CT Geology FORMAT: lec/group
OBJECTIVES 1. Define watershed, divide, drainage basin. 2. Map the
watershed of a body of water using a topographic map.
3. Describe how land use in the watershed of a body of
water will affect the body of water. 4. Explain why the
watershed is the basic unit of water body management.
HOMEWORK 1. Identify the smallest body of water that receives
water from your yard, and describe where the water goes
from there to the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Describe two ways
that what you do on your yard affects these. 3. Mark lake
article with references to lake objectives.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Fri May 31, 2002
TOPIC: CT Geology at the Lake FORMAT: lec ;group
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify the features found at tectonic plate
boundaries. 2. Relate tectonic activity to local
geologic history. 3. Apply knowledge of plate boundary
activities.
HOMEWORK Finish Lake Compounce Assignment and hand in at the end
of the day
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Mon Jun 3, 2002
TOPIC: Review for Test
HOMEWORK Study for Test
Tue Jun 4, 2002 Test: Water Resources
HOMEWORK Review 3rd Marking period notes and assignments for Final
Exam review tomorrow.
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CYCLE: 35 DATE: Wed Jun 5, 2002
TOPIC: Exam review
HOMEWORK STUDY FOR EXAMS !!!!!
CYCLE: 35 DATE: Fri Jun 7, 2002
TOPIC: Exam review
HOMEWORK STUDY FOR EXAMS !!!!!
DATE: Mon Jun 10, 2002
TOPIC: Exam Per 3
Other Periods' Assignment Sheets: Period 1 , Period 3 , Period 4 , Period 6 , Period 7
Land Processes and Products (Apr, May, Jun) The last course section examines weathering of the land and the resources such as soil that are formed, the work of erosion agents such as wind gravity and glaciers, and the water systems of the land that create both resources and hazards. |
|||
| Section Essential Questions: | How are the Earth's land surfaces changing? How do we affect those changes? How do they affect us? | ||
| Big Ideas (Concepts): | Weathering/Products | Minor Erosion Agents | Water Systems |
| Content (topics): | Weathering Processes, Products of Weathering, Soil Horizons and Processes, Local Soil Structure. | Mass Movements, Wind Erosion, Glaciation, Glacier Movement, Glacial Outwash. | Infiltration Factors, Groundwater flow, Groundwater Pollution, Hous Haz Waste, Floods, deposition, erosion, Wetlands Stream Speeds/Erosion/Dep, River case studies, Watershed mapping and management, Sedimentary Rocks. |
CYCLE: 32 DATE: May 14 and 16, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Infiltration Factors and Water Intro
FORMAT: Fieldwork: dress for outdoors on second day of this exercise
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe how surface permeability, slope,
saturation, and rate of rainfall affect the amount of
water that runs off the land surface. 2. Design an
experiment that determines conditions that affect
infiltration and runoff. 3. Give examples how people
affect the infiltration and runoff of water.
HOMEWORK Finish lab report
CYCLE: 32 DATE: May 14, 2002
TOPIC: Groundwater flow FORMAT: lec/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. Interpret a diagram of groundwater flow. 2. Describe
how groundwater flows. 3. Describe the factors that
affect how groundwater flows. 4. Identify the zones of
saturation, aeration, water table, bedrock fractures.
5. Describe the two most common types of wells. 6.
Describe how water gets to wells from the surface.
HOMEWORK All: Find out how deep your well is, what kind of pump
you have, type of well.
CYCLE: 32 DATE: May 15, 2002
TOPIC: Groundwater Pollution FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify ways that groundwater is polluted. 2. Give
examples of type of pollutants found in contaminated
groundwater. 2. Recognize the importance of protecting
clean groundwater supplies. 4. Identify individual use
of land as a source of great risk of groundwater
pollution. 5. Cite examples of groundwater contamination.
HOMEWORK All: Continue groundwater objectives worksheet.
Do p282-285, p293 Apply #1 Check #2.
CYCLE: 32 DATE: May 17, 2002
TOPIC: Household Hazardous Waste FORMAT: lec/demo
OBJECTIVES 1. List household materials that are hazardous and
should not be allowed into the ground. 2. Identify
alternatives to household hazardous materials. 3.
Identify why stratified glacial till under wetlands are
especially important areas to protect from harm 4.
Explain what a household hazardous collection day is.
HOMEWORK Finish Household Hazardous Waste handout, including: Make a list of
hazardous materials at home. Describe how you will
prevent them from getting into groundwater.
2. Mark groundwater learning objectives
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CYCLE: 33 DATE: May 20, 2002
TOPIC: Field: Wetlands Ground/Surface water interact FORMAT: field la
OBJECTIVES 1. Diagram and describe the relationship between
groundwater and wetlands. 2. Identify water table level
as the factor that causes a swamps or a marsh. 3.
Describe the benefits of wetlands. 4. Quantify the loss
of wetland nationally and in CT. 5. Describe how
wetlands are lost. 6. Suggest ways to protect wetlands.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish wetland questions.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Per 1: May 21 / Per 7: May 23, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Weathering Processes 2 FORMAT: lab
OBJECTIVES 1. Complete the measurements, analysis and reporting
for a controlled experiment. 2. Relate surface
conditions to rates of weathering.
HOMEWORK Write up formal lab report.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: Per 7: May 21 / Per 1: May 23, 2002
TOPIC: Surface Water: What's happening? FORMAT: field
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify runoff and soil erosion features. 2.
Describe how to slow or stop soil erosion from runoff.
3. Relate runoff erosion to the factors that control
infiltration/runoff.
HOMEWORK 1. Describe a stream and a wetland near your home: where
does the water come from, go to, who owns it? what is the
land used for? 2. Take a water sample according to class
instructions.
CYCLE: 33 DATE: May 22, 2002
TOPIC: Running Water: Floods, deposition, erosion FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe and give examples of how rivers remove,
transport, and deposit material in terms of stream
speeds, particle sizes, rates of flow, curves and
straight sections, flooding,
sedimentation, dams and river management.
HOMEWORK Finish video notes. 2.Stan read p304-308, do blue, p308
Problem Solving. Hon: do p270-280
CYCLE: 33 DATE: May 24, 2002
TOPIC: Stream Speeds, Erosion/Deposition FORMAT: group
OBJECTIVES 1. Compare and contrast sediment load with dissolved
load. 2. Contrast suspensions with solutions.
3. Discuss flood plain management.
HOMEWORK 1. Finish Stream Speeds and Erosion Deposition handout
begun in class, 2. Stan: read p 516-521, do blue, and
p521 #6,8,9. Hon: do p 604-611.
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CYCLE: 34 DATE: May 28, 2002
TOPIC: River case studies FORMAT: reading task/comp
OBJECTIVES 1. Describe a nearby river system using both
measurements and words. 2. Identify the watershed as a
basic unit of land management.
HOMEWORK Finish Housatonic study
CYCLE: 34 DATE: May 29, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Watershed mapping, management 1 FORMAT: lec/group
OBJECTIVES 1. Define watershed, divide, drainage basin. 2. Map the
watershed of a body of water using a topographic map.
3. Describe how land use in the watershed of a body of
water will affect the body of water. 4. Explain why the
watershed is the basic unit of water body management.
HOMEWORK 1. Map the watershed of a body of surface water. 2. Describe how water quality and quantity is affected by land use in a watershed.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: May 30, 2002
TOPIC: Lab: Watersheds and CT Geology FORMAT: lec/group
OBJECTIVES 1. Map the watershed of a body of water using a
topographic map. 2. Describe how land use in the
watershed of a body of water will affect the body of
water.
HOMEWORK 1. Identify the smallest body of water that receives
water from your yard, and describe where the water goes
from there to the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Describe two ways
that what you do on your yard affects these. 3. Mark lake
article with references to lake objectives.
CYCLE: 34 DATE: May 31, 2002
TOPIC: CT Geology at Lake Compounce FORMAT: lec ;group
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify the features found at tectonic plate
boundaries. 2. Relate tectonic activity to local
geologic history. 3. Apply knowledge of plate boundary
activities.
HOMEWORK Finish Lake Compounce Assignment and hand in at the end
of the day
CYCLE: 34 DATE: Jun 3, 2002
TOPIC: Sedimentary Rocks FORMAT: video
OBJECTIVES 1. Differentiate between clastic and nonclastic
sedimentary rocks. 2. Relate formation of sedimentary
rocks to land processes and products. 3. Relate types
of sedimentary rocks to their environment of deposition. 4.
Identify the cementing crystals in most clastic sedimentary
rocks. 5. Describe the importance of sedimentary rocks.
HOMEWORK 1. Choose topics for Test review AND 2. Standard classes:
read p392-402, answer #14,15,23,28, on p404. Honors
classes: Read and answer questions p111-116.
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CYCLE: 35 DATE: Jun 4, 2002
TOPIC: Review for Test FORMAT:
OBJECTIVES
HOMEWORK Study for Test
Jun 5, 2002 TEST: Water Resources
HOMEWORK Review 3rd Marking period notes and assignments for Final
Exam review tomorrow.
CYCLE: 35 DATE: Jun 6, 2002
TOPIC: Review for Final Exams FORMAT:
OBJECTIVES
HOMEWORK Study Priority 1 and 2 topics, prepare questions for
review tomorrow.
CYCLE: 35 DATE: Jun 7, 2002
TOPIC: Review for Final Exams FORMAT:
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