Water Unit!

Monday, March 1:
Introduce Water Unit with more water facts, terms
20 minute water story storming group work
20 + minute water story presentations

Homework: (Due Tuesday, March 11)
Water Bottle Case Study Project
Journals Due Next Class!

Wednesday, March 5:
Water terms
"Water Bowl"
Water options

Homework:
Invasive Species field trip next class- Dress appropriately!
Permission Slips
Water Bottle Case Studies

Friday, March 7:
Invasive Species project field trip
A block 8 am to 9:45
C block 12:30 to 2:00

Homework:
Finish Water Bottle Case Studies!!!

QUIZ in class Thursday CANCELLED & Take Home Essays Due by Friday!

Thursday QUIZ in class is now cancelled.

Take Home Essays due by Friday! (This should allow students extra time- if needed- to ask me clarifying questions and/or work on them.)

Marin "San Rafael" Recycling Field Trip

Field Trips

Marin Resource Recovery Recenter:

Tuesday, Feb. 19th @ 9:20 am to 11 am

Check out this article: Importance of Marin's Landfill

Also: Frequently asked questions about Redwood Landfill & Recycling Center

Also: Marin County receives Recycling State Honor

If you are missing this field trip and have not talked to me please email me to let me know you will not be there. Also please do the journal assignment below if you can not make this field trip!

Journal Assignment: Please visit the Marin Sanitary Service web page. Answer the following questions:
1. What strides has Marin Sanitary Service made in the last 10 years in terms of preventing waste from going to the landfill?
2. What service does the Marin Sanitary Service provide?
3. What does the Marin Recycling Center accept and process?
4. Give a brief history of MSS?
5. What types of hazardous wastes does the Marin Recycling Center accept?
6. What are the general materials that are accepted in the Marin Sanitary Service Curbside program? Name 5 items that are not accepted in the curbside program?
7. How much of Marin county's waste is diverted from the landfill (see Marin County honored article above)? What makes Marin's recycling program so unique from other state recycling programs? (again see Marin County honored article above)
8. Does your town recycle? Name the company/service that serves your community. Describe what your program accepts (look this up on line).

Field Trip Next Class!

Sewage Agency of Southern Marin

If you missed this field trip, please do the following journal assignment:

Journal Assignment:
Please visit the following web page: Sewer Agency of Southern Marin
1. Based on the link above, what service does the Sewer Agency of Southern Marin provide?
2. What happens to solid and organic material that is removed from the waste water at this agency?
3. Describe the two types of sewers Bay Area homes have?
4. When are sewer backups and backflows a big problem? How can individuals prevent this? (See Sewer Smart page)

See Recent News Stories here. We will NOT focus on these issues on our field trip. We will mainly focus on the process of how our sewage is treated.

A block:
8 am to 9:45 am (Please meet in the circle with your permission slips)

C block
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm (Please eat lunch BEFORE this. Meet in the circle!)

Please don't be Late!
If you don't have a permission slip please go to the Outings Page and print out that permission slip, fill it out appropriately and bring it with you.

Thank YOU.

Take Home Essays

Here are the Take Home Essays (Due Thursday, Feb. 21)

Journals will not be due until Wednesday, March 5!

If you missed the MALT lunch time presentation: Please go to the MALT web page and read the Amazing but True fact sheet about Marin Agriculture. For your journal assignment: Reflect on this article OR compost!!!!! :)

APes in the Garden

Thank you Arthur for helping us work on the land-- MA's garden!

Wed, Feb. 13th Field Trip: Sewage Agency of Southern Marin

FYI: Next Wednesday during the class period we will be heading to the Sewage Agency of Southern Marin. A block you will miss Advising. C block we will leave in the middle of lunch at 12:30 and return at 2:00.

Please check out these recent news stories:
2.7 million gallons of sewage spill into Richardson Bay
2 minute Video Story
Second massive sewage spill in bay revealed

Next Class We are in the Garden!!!!!!

Greetings APes Students,

Please dress for the garden next class. Warm clothes, good shoes that you don't mind getting muddy!!!!!

We will be working with soil.

Go directly to the garden on Thursday.

Thanks! See you then!

Quiz next class

FYI: The quiz next class will cover the following content:

Read Chapter 13 pg. 271-286 (Focus on the following terms: High input agriculture, Plantation agriculture, Traditional subsistence agriculture, Traditional intensive agriculture, interplanting, alley cropping, soil erosion, sheet erosion, rill erosion, gully erosion, desertification, salinization, soil conservation, conservation tillage, terracing, contour farming, strip cropping, windbreaks, organic fertilizer, compost, green revolution, Natural capital degradation (food production- pg. 285))

Follow up

Nets and New Drug Make Inroads Against Malaria (New York Times, 2/1/08)

The Perfect Predator (Orion November/December 2006)