Week 11 Human Health
FRIDAY

• Human Health Lecture
  • Ted Talk:  Your Health Depends on Where You Live​
    • Learn Genetics - Risk
  • Cats in Borneo
• HW:
  • 17-1 to 17-2 Reading Guide due Mon 

MONDAY

• Human Health Lecture
  • ​The Toxic Baby Ted Talk
• HW:
  • ​17-3 Reading Guide due Tues.
  • Read article "Do Low Doses of BPA Harm People" BPA Article​ ​and annotate due Tues.  You may have a quiz on this!

TUESDAY

• ​Toxicology Problem Set
  • Toxicology Problem Set
• HW:
  • 17-4 Reading Guide due Wed.

WEDNESDAY

• TedTalk Hidden Toxins in Fish​
• LD-50
• HW:
  • 17-5 Reading Guide​ due Thurs.
  • LD50 Graphing Worksheet due Thurs.

THURSDAY 

• ​Solid Waste Powerpoint
  • ​What does a week's trash look like?
  • VOX Takeout and Trash
  • Going Green Shouldn't Be This Hard
  • Why I live a Zero Waste lifestyle
  • HW:
  • • 21-1 to 21-2 Reading Guide​ due Fri.

​FRIDAY

• Textiles:  Environmental Impact​
• ​Landfill Video Field trip Pearson​
• HW:
• • Finish the Chapter 21 Reading Guide
  • Read this for more info:  Solid Waste Disposal and Reduction (Annenberg)
  • Watch  Story of Bottled Water and The Story of Stuff

​Spring Break Week !!!

• ​Extra Credit Assignment
  • You may do as many of the extra credit assignments as possible.  However, please note that extra credit assignments are not allotted points.  Rather, I will use them in consideration of your final grade at the end of the semester.  The purpose of the extra credit is to enrich your studies, not to bring your grade up from an F to a A.  See final grade contract for more information.
    • ​​Option 1:  Visit a zoo, nature reserve, hiking trail, aquarium, national park, forest etc. and HANDWRITE a minimum 1 page paper about your experience.  Use vocabulary words and concepts we have learned so far.  You must provide EVIDENCE (ticket stubs, pictures with you in it, brochures) that you actually went 
    • Option 2:  Watch a documentary related to a topic in this class.   HANDWRITE a minimum 1 page paper explaining the following:​  What are the issues surrounding the documentary?  What is your opinion on the issue?  Use specific examples from the movie to support your opinion.  Did your opinion change after you finished watching the documentary?  

Week 12 Hazardous Waste
​MONDAY​ - NO SCHOOL

TUESDAY

• Hazardous Waste Powerpoint
  • E-Waste Quiz NatGeo  
• HW:
  • Trash Log and Analysis Questions due next Tuesday
  • Home Hazardous Waste Audit due Monday

WEDNESDAY - PERIOD 4 DOES NOT MEET

THURSDAY - BLOCK SCHEDULE

• ​Love Canal NY Times Video
• VideoBAN - Exporting Harm
• Hazardous Waste Disposal (Annenberg)
• EPA Recycle City:  Hazardous Waste Center
• Superfund Research
  • Superfund National Priorities List (for research)
  • What is a brownfield EPA
  • EPA CERCLA Superfund
  • RCRA
• HW:  
  • ​Study for Unit Exam!

FRIDAY

• Air Pollution/Human Health/Solid and Hazardous Waste Unit Exam
• HW:  
  • Trash Log and Analysis Questions due next Tuesday
  • Home Hazardous Waste Audit due Monday

Extra Resources

ReTrash Inc.

• Landfill Philharmonic
• Annenberg Shrinking a Landfill Interactive
• Build a Landfill Activity
• Life Cycle of a Cell Phone
• Trash Activity (EcoShopping)
• Decomposer's Dilemma
• Love Canal Case Study
• TedTalk Recycling Plastics
• The Story of Electronics
• Recycling:  Know your logos GOOD
• EPA Risk ​
• Risk assessment and management