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A day- Wednesday, March 6th/B day-Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Day After Tomorrow
2 - Unit Test Intervention

Starter #63 will be next class
Intervention packet
intervention website

A day- Monday, March 4th/B day-Tuesday, March 5th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Unit Test
2 - Pollution Booklet Due
​**Due by End of Class**

Starter #62
Pg 130 - The Day After Tomorrow
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A day- Thursday, February 28th/B day-Friday, March 1st, 2019

 Assignment
1 - Pollution Booklet
2 - Unit Test Study Guide

Pollution Booklet Due Next Class & Unit Test
Starters #61 - New Starter
Atmosphere Study Guide
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practice unit test - use code 198159

A day- Tuesday, February 26th/B day-Wednesday, February 27th, 2019


Assignment

1 - Finish Pollution Activities 2 and 3
2 - Pollution Booklet
​3 - Notebook Check

Starter #60 - Turn in Starters
Pg 129 - Reflection Directions
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Particulates
Acid Rain
High and Low Ozone
Global Warming

​A day- Friday, February 22nd/B day-Monday, February 25th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Carbon Cycle Activities
2 - Pollution
*​Notebook Check Next Class*
Starter #59
Pg 126 - Carbon Cycle Activities
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Pg 127 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 128 - Pollution
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Pollution in the Air Textbook Pages
The Great CO2 Escape Lab Data
                                                  Container 1                        Container 2                                                                                   Container 1                        Container 2
30 sec                                            24.1                                     24.6                                    3 min 30 sec                                       27.3                                        29.0    
1 min                                             25.0                                     25.3                                    4 min                                                   27.0                                         28.6           
1 min 30 sec                                 25.4                                     25.8                                    4 min 30 sec                                       26.5                                        28.2
2 min                                             26.3                                     27.4                                     5 min                                                  25.9                                        27.7
3 min 30 sec                                 27.0                                     28.3                                     5 min 30 sec                                      25.2                                        27.4
3 min                                             27.6                                     29.2                                     6 min                                                   24.8                                       25.9
Turn off Lamp

A day- Wednesday, February 20th/B day-Thursday, February 21st, 2019

Assignment
1 - Finish Severe Weather Activities 2 and 3.
2 - The Carbon Cycle Dice Game


Starter #58
Pg 123 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 124 - Carbon Cycle Dice Game
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carbon cycle dice game cards
Pg 125 - Reflection Directions
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​A day- Friday, February 15th/B day-Tuesday, February 19th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Weather Station Models
2 - Severe Weather
Starter #57
Pg 120 - Weather Station Models
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Pg 121 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 122 - Severe Weather
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Severe Weather Textbook Pages Part 1
severe weather textbook pages part 2

A day- Wednesday, February 13th/B day-Thursday, February 14th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Relative Humidity
2 - Predicting Weather
Starter #56
Pg 116 - Relative Humidity
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Water in the Air Textbook Pages
Pg 117 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 118 - Predicting Weather
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Pg 119 - Reflection Directions
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A day- Monday, February 11th/B day-Tuesday, February 12th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Finish Fronts
(pgs 112 & 113)
​2 - Meteorology Quiz #3
3 - Humidity
Starters #55
Pg 113 -Reflection Directions
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Pg 114 - Humidity
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Pg 115 - Reflection Directions
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Humidity Activity 1
Classroom Temperature - 21 degrees C
Water Temperature - 19 degrees C 
Time for drops to form - 4 min 38 sec
Water Temperature with Ice - 5 degrees C

Humidity Activity 2
21 teaspoons of water

A day- Thursday, February 7th/B day-Friday, February 8th, 2019

Assignment
1 - ACT Aspire Practice
2 - Weather Fronts
Starter #54
Pg 111 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 112 - Weather Fronts
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weather fronts link

A day- Tuesday, February 5th/B day-Wednesday, February 6th, 2019

Assignment
​1 - Global Winds
​2 - Air Masses

Starter #53
Pg 108 - Global Winds
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Pg 109 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 110 - Air Masses
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A day- Friday, February 1st/B day-Monday, February 4th, 2019

​Assignment
1 - Finish The Tilted Earth Activity 2 
​2 - Causes of Wind
Starter #52
Pg 105 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 106 - Causes of Wind
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Pg 107 - Reflection Directions
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More About wind link

A day- Wednesday, January 30th/B day-Thursday, January 31st, 2019

Assignment
1 - Seasons Activities
2 - The Tilted Earth 
Starter #51 - New Starters
Pg 102 - Seasons Activities
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Pg 103 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 104 - The Tilted Earth
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Seasons Article

​A day- Monday, January 28th/B day-Tuesday, January 29th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Meteorology Quiz 2
​2 - Air Pressure and Density


Starter #50 - Turn in Starters
Pg 100 - Air Pressure and Density
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Pg 101 - Reflection Directions
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A day- Thursday, January 24th/B day-Friday, January 25th, 2019
Assignment
1 - Collecting Solar Energy -Test Solar Oven
2 - Boss Battle

**An alternate assignment will be given to groups who do not have a solar oven to test**

Starter #49
Pg 98 - Collecting Solar Energy
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Pg 100 - Reflection Directions
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Alternate assignment - epa.gov
alternate assignment - skincancer.org

​A day- Tuesday, January 22nd/B day-Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

Assignment
1 - Greenhouse Effect Review
2 - Solar Oven Project - Build Solar Oven
Starter #48
Pg 96 - Greenhouse Effect Review
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Pg 97 - Reflection Directions
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​​A day- Thursday, January 17th/B day-Friday, January 18th, 2018

 Assignment
1 - Greenhouse Effect
2 - Solar Oven Project - Research and Plan
Starter #47
Pg 94 - The Greenhouse Effect
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Pg 95 - Reflection Directions
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​A day- Tuesday, January 15th/B day-Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Heating the Atmosphere
​
Starter #46
Pg 92 - Heating Earth's Atmosphere
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Pg 93- Reflection Directions
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Activity 1 - Lab Results       Initial     1min     2min     3min     4min    5min    6min    7min    8min    9min    10min
White (Ice) land Disk                22C      22.3C    22.9C    23.1C    23.8C    23.0C   24.2C   25.0C   25.8C   24.9C   26.1C   
Green (Forest) Land Disk        21.8C   22.4C    23.2C   23.5C     24.1C    23.8C    24.6C  26.1C   26.6C   27.1C   27.0C
Textbook pages 398 - 399
Activity 3 Website

A day- Friday, January 11th/B day-Monday, January 14th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Meteorology Quiz #1
​2 - All About the Ozone


Starter #45
Pg 90 - All About the Ozone
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Pg 91 - Reflection Directions
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Activity 2 - Analyzing Local uv radiation

A day- Wednesday, January 9th/B day-Thursday, January 10th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Engineer a Hot Air Balloon
​2 - Boss Battle

**Quiz Next Class**
Hot Air Balloon Example
Starter #44
Pg 89 - Reflection Directions
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A day- Monday, January 7th/B day-Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

Assignment
1 - Air, Is it Really Out There
Activity 3
2 - Engineer a Hot Air Balloon
​Day 1



Starter #43
Pg 87 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 88 - Engineer a Hot Air Balloon
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Textbook of knowledge pages for activity 3

A day- Thursday, January 3rd/B day-Friday, January 4th, 2019

Assignment
​1 - Layers of the Atmosphere Diagram
2 - Air, Is It Really Out There 
Activities 1 & 2
Starter #42
Pg 84 - Layers Diagram
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Pg 85 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 86 - Air, is it Really Out there
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