Unit Progress
Unit A - Understanding our Environment
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27 Thursday: Both A and B students (due BOC Aug 27 Thursday)
•In class, welcome B-day students and review with them what has been covered thus far M-W with the A-day students.
26 Wednesday: Both A and B students (due BOC Aug 27 Thursday)
•Watch the Day 3 Presentation
◦Review of key points from the previous day’s class.
◦The saga of Macquarrie Island (A tale of unintended consequences)
◦The world v. Mr. K’s view of human impact on the environment
◦What is a hunter-gatherer?
◦The impact and affects of humans shifting societies:
hunter-gatherer to. agrarian
25 Tuesday: Both A and B students (due BOC Aug 26 Wednesday)
•Watch the Day 2 Presentation
◦Review of key points from the previous day’s class.
◦Review of the main points (and how you’d know that) from the previous day’s reading assignment.
◦Environmental Science as a career.
◦Complete the reading assignment from the text pages 9 – 12.
24 Monday: Both A and B students (due BOC Aug 25 Tuesday)
•Watch the Day 1 Presentation
◦Become acquainted with the materials present on the Clarksville Science web page and receive the packet for Unit A.
◦What is Environmental Science?
◦Create a 10 to 20 second video of scenes of Clarksville (Clarksville, What a Wonderful World) that show off its best qualities. Due date: Monday Aug 31, 2020 email your video to:
◦Complete the reading assignment from the text pages 4 – 8.