Environmental Science Do Now 9 21 17 Take

Environmental Science Do Now 9 -21 -17 • Take out your Do Now sheet and put today’s date Thursday, September 21, 2017. • For your Do Now sheet write down “played Kahoot”. • Put your Do Now sheet away and prepare yourself to complete a 6 question Kahoot. • You will get credit for completing the Do Now if you participate in the Kahoot. • Either click on your Kahoot app or go to your internet browser and type in Kahoot. It • Wait for me to post the PIN

Homework - COPY • Close read article “Human Impact on Biogeochemical Cycles”. • Annotate the article with, at least, 1 ? , !, heart, C, star, E. The margins of the article must include your thoughts as you read the article. • After you have thoroughly read the article, write a 6 -8 sentence summary based on your annotations.

Engage – Answer this question on a sheet of notebook paper. • How do humans impact the biogeochemical cycle? • Students will watch a video about human impacts on the biogeochemical cycle. Source: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=440 oql. Rv. WGg

Explore – Biogeochemical Cycle Posters • Students will break into groups of 2 -3 students (ideally, no more than 3 students per group) to develop posters on the 4 biogeochemical cycles discussed in class. • How will you be evaluated?

EXPLAIN – BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES (WATER, CARBON, NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS)

EXTEND: BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES POSTERS

Evaluation - SKILL MASTERY LEVELS: Biogeochemical Posters are worth a total of 1000 points (250 points per poster). The target number of points is at least 700/1000 or 70%. • 90 – 100% (900 -1000 points): SKILLS EXCEPTIONALLY MASTERED • 80 – 89% (800 -899 points): SKILLS WELL MASTERED • 70 – 79% (700 -799 points): SKILLS ADEQUATELY MASTERED • 60 – 69% (600 -699 points): SKILLS BASICALLY MASTERED • <60% (<600 points): SKILLS NOT MASTERED