Work in groups on both projects.
Energy in school: DUE 01/18/17
electricity_in_school.docx
Coal power cost project: Due 01/20/17
coal_power_.docx
Energy in school: DUE 01/18/17
electricity_in_school.docx
Coal power cost project: Due 01/20/17
coal_power_.docx
One city due 01/10/17
Second city due 01/11/17
Third city due 01/12/17
Energy Challenge Project
DUE 01/12/17
THREE DIFFERENT CITIES
WORK IN GROUPS
Instruction
One city due 01/10/17
Second city due 01/11/17
Third city due 01/12/17
Energy Challenge Project
DUE 01/12/17
THREE DIFFERENT CITIES
WORK IN GROUPS
Instruction
- Go to the http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/energy/
- Click Log-IN
- Click on “Create Account”
- Create your own account or sign in as "guess"
- Go to the “Research Challenge”
- Complete Research Challenge.
- You must complete at least three challenges.
- Raise your hand when you finish completing your first challenge
- www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/energy/ - LInk
Videos:www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7QDlbtbn8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tux1U3muIqs&list=PLwmm8eeufxD75tnVXb-fcg803vK-O1gy-
Webquest
The following events helped raise awareness of environmental problems. Both local and global environmental groups were motivated by these landmark events. The concept of stewardship evolved and increased media coverage helped to raise public awareness.
- Minamata, Japan: methyl mercury chloride poisoning from eating seafood, 1956
Click on the contents
Click on Introduction – Read
Click on Outbreak-Read
Click on Symptoms – Read
Answer the following questions in 3 sentences minimum
- Describe Minamata disease, how it was discovered, the role the Chisso factory had in causing the disease.
- Explain how methyl mercury chloride biomagnified in the food chain, eventually affecting humans.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1QVFWinMEQWaXMewpcNEDHCt_RWrcdoI
Cuyahoga River Fires, 1952-1969
Click on the following links
Read the information provided
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire?rec=1642
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/us/21river.html?_r=1&
http://www.cleveland.com/river/
Answer the following questions:
- Describe the way the Cuyahoga River was used earlier in US history and the consequences of this use.
- Explain the reaction to the Cuyahoga River fire in 1969 and how the situation began to change.
- Describe one project on the Cuyahoga River today.