Greetings APes students
Here are some important resources/links related to our discussion/work/life:
1. Thursday evening San Francisco Event:
China & The Environment
Can you attend this?
2. My Green Electronics:
This page guides you on how to recycle your own electronic wastes. All you need to do is enter
your zip code and resource centers pop up in your area.
There is an Energy Calculator on this page.
And much more about reducing, reusing, recycling and rethinking electronics.
3. World Water Day
Did you know March 22 was World Water Day? Check out this web page. Lots of information about world water use, consumption and conservation can be found here!
4. KQED 3/26
Plastic Bag Ban -- One Year Later
San Francisco may have been the first city in the country to ban plastic bags, but one year after supervisors approved the landmark law it's clear that the City by the Bay won't be the last to yank plastic bags from major grocery stores. The ban has helped spawn a few cottage industries in California, and blazed a path that cities around the world are following.
Reporters:
• David Gorn
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
HW Due March 24 & March 28
Homework Due Monday, March 24th
Please read & respond to the following things:
1. Read about Mercury in your text pg. 541-543
2. Look at pictures in this article entitled Metal Desert: Mining's Toll on Human & Natural Resources
3. Read & write a written reflection in your journal or via email about ONE of these articles below. Please pick the article that is the most interesting to you. Please tell me why you picked the article. Be able to make connections, observations and questions that pertain to our studies and to the reading at hand within your reflection. Thank you!
Friday, March 28
Content Assessment (To be decided in class on 3/18)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Homework Due Next Class: 3/18/07
Hope Homework:
Please Read the first two short articles. Please also watch the 3 minute "video" below featuring David Rothenberg playing with beluga whales in Russia.
Respond briefly to each. How does each relate to our curriculum and class? What connections /inferences can you make? Which reading/video did you "enjoy" or get the most out of and why? (Your response should be at least 1 page long. No longer than 2 pages. This is just informal. However, I am looking for a content rich response that indicates you have witnessed/reviewed these 3 things! Thanks and Enjoy!) You may EMAIL hw or bring it into class on recycled/double sided paper. thanks!
Shy Affectionate SF: Kathleen Dean Moore
The Unsung Solution: By Bill McKibben (Middlebury Professor)
What rhymes with waste-heat recovery?
Making Low Carbon Energy a Precious Resource
can this reduce global warming?
David Rothenberg plays with beluga whales in Russia
video
"It sounded like the perfect place to continue my musical investigation. Over the years, I’ve come to think that animal sounds share more characteristics with music than with human language. Each phrase sung by birds, wolves, cicadas, or dolphins must be performed correctly to convey its message, but we humans can never translate exactly what is said. This has led me to believe that music might be a useful way to communicate with animals, and thus extend human art into the natural world, hoping for a connection, a response. I started testing this theory by playing with birds, and now I’m ready to try it with the most intricate musicians of the wild world: whales. Because they live underwater, there are additional challenges—such as how to do it without getting my clarinet all wet."
"The beluga whale, whose name means “the white one” in Russian, might be one of the best species to try to make music with. Called sea canaries by sailors who frequented the Arctic regions, their wide range of whistles, clicks, and buzzes is far more diverse than the vocalizations of dolphins, whose sounds and behavior have been studied the most.?
Serenading Belugas in the White Sea: Orion Magazine, by David Rothenberg
Please Read the first two short articles. Please also watch the 3 minute "video" below featuring David Rothenberg playing with beluga whales in Russia.
Respond briefly to each. How does each relate to our curriculum and class? What connections /inferences can you make? Which reading/video did you "enjoy" or get the most out of and why? (Your response should be at least 1 page long. No longer than 2 pages. This is just informal. However, I am looking for a content rich response that indicates you have witnessed/reviewed these 3 things! Thanks and Enjoy!) You may EMAIL hw or bring it into class on recycled/double sided paper. thanks!
Shy Affectionate SF: Kathleen Dean Moore
The Unsung Solution: By Bill McKibben (Middlebury Professor)
What rhymes with waste-heat recovery?
Making Low Carbon Energy a Precious Resource
can this reduce global warming?
David Rothenberg plays with beluga whales in Russia
video
"It sounded like the perfect place to continue my musical investigation. Over the years, I’ve come to think that animal sounds share more characteristics with music than with human language. Each phrase sung by birds, wolves, cicadas, or dolphins must be performed correctly to convey its message, but we humans can never translate exactly what is said. This has led me to believe that music might be a useful way to communicate with animals, and thus extend human art into the natural world, hoping for a connection, a response. I started testing this theory by playing with birds, and now I’m ready to try it with the most intricate musicians of the wild world: whales. Because they live underwater, there are additional challenges—such as how to do it without getting my clarinet all wet."
"The beluga whale, whose name means “the white one” in Russian, might be one of the best species to try to make music with. Called sea canaries by sailors who frequented the Arctic regions, their wide range of whistles, clicks, and buzzes is far more diverse than the vocalizations of dolphins, whose sounds and behavior have been studied the most.?
Serenading Belugas in the White Sea: Orion Magazine, by David Rothenberg
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Water Disease HW
HW Due on 3/13:
1. Review the "Common Diseases Transmitted to Humans Through Contaminated Drinking Water" found in your book (Chapter 21).
2. Make a small chart organizing the source of the disease and the disease.
3. Pick one disease that you want to know more about it and write up a 1/2 page summary about what you learned about this disease. (Go one step deeper than the book goes--in terms of content!)
Entire HW should be 1 page total. This can be emailed to me on Thursday or printed on recycled paper/written on recycled paper and turned in during class time.
1. Review the "Common Diseases Transmitted to Humans Through Contaminated Drinking Water" found in your book (Chapter 21).
2. Make a small chart organizing the source of the disease and the disease.
3. Pick one disease that you want to know more about it and write up a 1/2 page summary about what you learned about this disease. (Go one step deeper than the book goes--in terms of content!)
Entire HW should be 1 page total. This can be emailed to me on Thursday or printed on recycled paper/written on recycled paper and turned in during class time.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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