Answer the following in your journal.   As a follow up to your soil tests: What role does Potassium serve in your body? What role does Nitrogen serve in your body? What role does Phosphorous serve in your body? How would you expect the composition of your soil to change over the course of the year?  Explain. Read this article.  Land: 10 main Characteristics of Land in Economics Define Land What does the article mean by "Land is a Gift of Nature" What does the article mean by land use? Are there any factors identified that you disagree with?  Explain ..read more

 Video for today .  We will talk sinkholes and applications on Monday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY3d3Onr3bo ..read more

Objective: Determine the composition and sources for common items Purpose: To understand the complexity in creating modern technology Select one of the following topics Smart Phone Touch Screen Smart Phone Battery Chromebook Motherboard Your Shoes Your backback Your Thermos/Waterbottle McDonalds Big Mac You have 40 minutes to research the answer to the following questions What are the components of the system? What are those components made of? Where does that material come from? Follow-up discussion questions How much material was locally sourced (i.e. made of materials from w/in 300 ..read more

According to climate scientists, many greenhouse gas emissions around the world have decreased. Why do you think this is happening? Questions to consider What do you think are the top three main changes to human behaviors that are reducing global emissions during our current state of affairs? Can you think of any new behaviors that could offset the decrease in emissions? (Think about what may be different with people staying home more.) Many people think that this experience will cause humans to act differently in the future. What do you think humans could take away from this experience i ..read more

Questions to consider Would it be better for commuters to catch the bus to work, or to go by car? Is it better to buy locally produced goods or goods imported from overseas? Is it better to go on vacation by boat, train and car or by plane? Suggested approach You can make sensible comparisons by working out the mass of carbon needed to complete each activity. Available Data: Feel free to find more if you need it.  1 gallon of gasoline produces 8.87kg of CO2 A round trip, economy class, from London to New York produces 760.22kg of CO2 per person Efficiency of a car ranges from about ..read more

Some short videos to help you with key concepts coming up: Conservation of Energy Momentum  Work and Energy Energy Types ..read more

What is meant by "The Big Mac Index" What makes the Big Mac so useful as an economic indicator? What factors define the cost of the sandwich? Playlist ..read more

Our primary means of interaction will be through Google Classroom this year.  In addition, we will be using diagnoser.com for several of your pre-tests and Explorelearning.com (Gizmo) for your labs.   This page has a quick guide for the external links you will want use. 1.  if you registered for the class prior to August 20th, you have already received an invitation to join the class on Google Classroom.  If you didn't get the invite use one of the following codes 1st Period: pz57fqt 4th Period: lvlln7x You need to do this through your psd267.org account or you will ..read more

Welcome to Natural Resources for the 2020-21 school year.  This year will be significantly different from previous years as the requirements for distance learning preclude us from doing the two most important things in the course: Go outside as much as possible to conduct labs and field studies. Maintain the focus on using those labs and field studies to focus our analysis and conversations in the classroom.  That said we will do our best to maintain the spirit of the course whether we are online, Natural Resources will focus on the study of the environment and our interaction wit ..read more

Complete the layout for your Colony.  You need to provide an overview either on paper or digitally of what the colony will look like.  Ensure your integrate the infrastructure concepts you researched on Thursday.  You will present you colony plan in class on Monday ..read more