This week we learned some more about oceans. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we continued with our powerpoint presentation about oceans and talk a lot about the Coriolis Effect, what causes it, how it works, and it's effects on earth systems. We read an article about Ben Franklin and the gulf stream, did an assignment about Nike shoes washing ashore around the world, and introduced an engagement strategy known as Think-Pair-Share. I asked students about the Coriolis Effect for the TPS.
This week, the beginning of semester two, we finished the documentary "FLOW" and also took our district mandated SchoolCity semester one post test and our semester two pretest. We also took post test 11 and pretest 12 for the class. After the oceans pretest, we learned about a famous oil spill, the Exxon Valdez oil spill. We also read an article about items washing ashore around the world and started a powerpoint presentation about the oceans.
This week, we learned a lot about complex water issues around the world. Topics included water privatization, virtual water, the United Nations declaration that water should be a human right, and we learned about a couple of nanotechnologies that are helping to make water safer to drink in the developing world. We also watched more of "FLOW", a documentary about the issues we are supposed to be looking at for Power Standard 11.
In this short week coming back from Christmas break, we took a post test on the water cycle and moved on to power standard 11 out of 20, which has students "research how communities manage water resources to address social, economic, and environmental concerns." To try to meet the requirements of this standard, we started with readings, questions, and discussions about complex topics including privatization, overpopulation, and global warming and how they affect the water cycle. We will continue these discussions next week.
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AuthorMr. Saurer is a science teacher and basketball coach currently teaching at Granger High School. Archives
February 2019
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