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Monday - Friday     April 30 - May 4     8th Science 

Monday

doublecheck quickly, we will start grading these today:  A Variety of Systems, part B, pp 335 - 363        using ppt

start with #1, if you can't figure one out, skip it for later but try to figure them out in order and add to your ppt.
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_____1.  
(10 pts)   How does the system work? (include parts of the system)
______2. 
(10 pts)   Diagram or graphic showing how system works.
______3.  
 (10 pts)   Three “costs” of the system, or problems it causes.
______4.   
  (10 pts)  Three “benefits” of the system, or problems it solves.
______5. 
 (5 pts)   Energy input to the  system.
______6.
  (5 pts)  Where the energy input comes from.
______7.
  (5 pts) Energy output from the system.
______8.
  (5 pts)  How much is it currently used? (% of U.S. or world electricity)
______9. 
(5 pts)   Energy transformations within the system.
______10.
 (5 pts)  Waste energy that is lost.
______11.  (10 pts)  Aesthetics of ppt.

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Listen:  Biofuels; CoalDry GeothermalHydroelectricNatural GasNuclear Fission

 

 

Tuesday

       WASL morning
                                 VIDEO afternoon -

Wednesday

 
Present and score ppts

FIRST PERIOD: tomorrow morning go to Mr LaGrou's room for the WASL   buena suerte
 

Thursday

                                        WASL morning
                 VIDEO afternoon -

Friday


Quiz : Energy
RSF / present and score ppts

homework:  bring a shoebox; similar size box, or cardboard you could make a box out of
 

coming soon http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/default.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6367791.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6365755.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/6354759.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6370767.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6370905.stm

 

new

and

interesting

and

relevant

and

SCIENCE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6117880.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108414.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6114962.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6112476.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108090.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6111528.stm

http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=971

http://www.care2.com/news/member/525634130/212599

 

coming soon
to a science classroom near you

 

 

 

ecosystems sites 

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/living/03b_act.shtml

food web:  http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/foodweb/foodweb.html

http://www.oceansonline.com/oceanicfoodwebs.htm

http://www3.umassd.edu/Public/Exhibit/DES300/game/web-fr.htm

http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/human/foodweb.html

 

online build an african web: http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

food chain:
http://www.planetpals.com/foodchain.html

 

http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_foodchain.html

 

 

 

e-waste

tuna

UK birds

spy killer
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6187358.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6187228.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6185548.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6181688.stm
 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4780876.stm  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4815230.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6041570.stm  Venus

 

current
        websites
WASL expectations:    What You Should Know
  1. Changes in Systems
  2. Properties of Systems
  3. Structure of Systems

 

Translate
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
               or
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
 
current  
           science

 

Science/Nature various
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2006/09/04/science/index.html
 

current
           birds

http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide

http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds

 

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