Welcome to your very last virtual assignment for Environmental Science!
Reminder to all classes: Thursday, June 2nd is the last day to submit any late work or revisions for semester 2!
Due on Thursday for Periods 3 &4:
1) Climate Change Readings #2 & #3 Questions
2) Climate Change Debate Organizer (handout distributed in class today)
3) Virtual assignment below
4) Late work less than 2 weeks late (such as Climate Change Reading #1 Questions) & optional revisions to other work
Period 3 reminder: Bring your binder for late binder check on Thursday if you forgot it today.
Due on Thursday for Period 1:
1) Virtual assignment below
2) Late work less than 2 weeks late (such as Climate Change Reading #1 Questions) & optional revisions to other work
3) Bring your binder for late binder check on Thursday if you forgot it today.
VIRTUAL ASSIGNMENT FOR ALL CLASSES:
I’d like you to reflect upon some of the major projects and labs that we did this semester.
Choose two (2) of the following assignments to reflect upon in one strong paragraph for each. Be sure to include a topic sentence with each paragraph and at least 3 more supporting sentences, plus a concluding sentence. That is, a five (5) sentence minimum per paragraph.
Biome Project
Diffusion Lab
pH Lab
Maui Environmental Issues Project
Site Assessment and Water Quality Testing at La’ie wetland
Climate Change Debate
For each assignment you choose, summarize the assignment, then include a description of what the goals of the assignment were and the main points of the assignment that you learned by completing it.
Periods 3 and 4 will continue preparation for the Big Debate by
1. Completing Student Reading 3: Unmuffled Warnings and answering related questions.
2. Compiling a list of arguments with evidence and sources for each side of the debate.
Use these organizer pages: Climate Change Debate Organizer
The Big Debate Question: Has human activity caused the world’s climate to change over the past 100 years
You all did a great job planting the native ‘aki’aki grass at the Lai’e wetland this Thursday and Friday!
Your homework is to finish reading and answering the questions to the two articles that you started in-class on Thursday or Friday depending on your class period.
Handwrite your answers on a separate sheet of paper and bring them finished to class on Tuesday.
The links to those articles are below:
Student Reading 1: Key Facts + Key Conclusions = 0
and
Student Reading 2: Climate Change Deniers
Reminder to Periods 1 & 3 – I will be collecting your science binders at the beginning of class for your last binder check of the year. I will not give you any time to organize them. If you were absent, make sure you have your binder organized following the table of contents.
We will be having our climate change debate in class on Tuesday, May 31st. Be prepared to argue both sides of the following question. You must refer to the source of the material that you are using for your argument. You will have about 20 minutes in class to prepare for the debate with your team before the debate will begin. The question you will be debating is:
Has human activity caused the global climate to change over the last 100 years?
The last day to turn in revised and late work is Thursday, June 2nd! (The last day of class.)
Only one week of classes left! Keep up the good work and end the semester strong!
The following week: June 5th & 6th students will be only come to school for student led conferences or by invitation of teacher to finish incomplete work.
This will be a busy week with exhibition night, last week of classes, and the start of student led conferences.
Here is the detailed version of what the rest of the school year will look like as discussed in advisory.
Please reread it in detail to make sure you know what are expected to do!
As was discussed on Friday in advisory, I want you all to rehearse your exhibition night presentation before you present on exhibition night. I will be setting a timer and each of you will get exactly 5 min and there will be no pauses in between, so we can get through all 7 presentations.
The following people must do their rehearsal in advisory on Tuesday because they are presenting on Tuesday night: Janae, Jonah, Joe, Kristen, Sam, Max, Steph (Note: Steven, James & Dylan will need to rehearse on their own due to the different nature of their combined presentation)
The following will present in advisory on Thursday: Sarah, Lily, Chantel, Lucas
Deadline to submit PE logs/reflections and independent projects Thursday, June 2nd!
Friday, June 3rd there is only a half day of school and we will be together as an advisory for the morning. We will celebrate the year together and play games against other advisories. More details to follow this week!
Student Led Conferences start in the afternoon of Friday, June 3rd and continue on Monday and Tuesday, June 6th and 7th
Most of you have signed up for the time slot that works for you and your parents, but not all of you. If you have not signed up, you need to do this by Tuesday, May 31st! Add you name to the google doc that I created. If you are logged into your kiheicharter.org email you can click on this link and the google doc will open:
Exhibition Night Schedule – Here is the list of night and the room for your exhibition night presentations. Make sure to invite your parents! They will be so proud of you. :-)
You will need to arrive on the night of your between 5:30-5:45pm to check in with the teacher in the room where you will be presenting and to set up.
Presentations begin in the auditorium at 6pm. Exhibition night ends at 8pm. You are required to stay until ALL presentations are done in the room you are presenting in!
Be supportive of your fellow students’ achievements! You will each be required to fill our 3 peer evaluation sheets that will
be distributed in the room you will be presenting.
Tuesday, May 31st
Lucas – Auditorium
Robert – World Room
Janae – Eng 1
Nainoa – Eng 1
Steven, James, Dylan – Blue Room
Wednesday, June 1st
Lucas – Auditorium
Kristen – Sun Room
Jonah – World Room
Joe – World Room
Sam – Eng 1
Max – Eng 1
Stephanie – Eng 2
Thursday, June 2nd
Sarah – Sun Room
Lily – Eng 1
Chantel – Eng 2
If you need to reach me this week, call my school cell phone: 264-9169
Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
See you Tuesday!
Ms. Schafer
1. Collect and return papers, organize & collect binders
2. Moving Opinion Pole on Climate Change
3. Read in pairs:
Student Reading 1: Key Facts + Key Conclusions = 0
and
Student Reading 2: Climate Change Deniers
4. Reflect by answering the associated questions for each reading.
5. Think about how you will use this material to answer The Big Question: In your opinion, has human activity caused the global climate to change over the last 100 years?
