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JULY 16-20, 2007

Workshop

Place:

The Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Kentucky Room 215 and food room 205....................... (2nd floor of the biology building)
675 Rose Street. Tel: (859) 257-4711

INTERDEPENDENCE
Context: Global Climate Change

Culminating Event
Documentary-5 minutes
Geo, bio, Chem, Phy, Econ, Political
Hypothesis-Confirmatory/Disconfirming Evidence---Production
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Global_Climate_Change_Unit (MS word file)

Standards_for_Global_Warming_2007 (MS word file)

Monday

Overview
9:00-10:00
Goals
Week's schedule, tentative agenda, and resources
Pre-test
Brainstorm of probe on current understanding
....... Based on readings and experimentation. Use notepad to keep track of questions and evidence

Introduce Unit
10:00-10:30
Essential Questions
Culminating Event and Scoring Guide-Plus information on documentaries and story boarding (DIANE AND BECKY)
Targeted Standards (DIANE AND BECKY)

10:40-12:00
Dr. Beattie's presentation on Inconvenient Truth
....... Validity of claims in documentary
....... Other data needed
....... Questions to test
....... Understand data in documentary
....... Being a consumer of data
....... Content needed to evaluate claims-What do you need to know?

LUNCH-12:00-12:45

Ice Melt-Land vs Water (Zexia )
12:45-1:45
....... to Concept Probe
....... Collect Data using logger pro
....... Use in classroom

....... Files: MS word file;

2:00-3:30
Intro and set-up to Eutrophication Lab (Robin)
....... Abiotic-pH, CO2, temp, light/turbidity, NO3, PO4
....... Biotic-Bacteria, daphnia, crayfish, algae, duckweed
....... Inquiry Board
....... Data collection regimen

....... Files: MS word file algal bloom;

Wrap-Up
....... Preview Tuesday
....... Review Day
....... Data collection reminder on agenda for am, lunch, pm

* ......Read "The Ecosystem"

Tuesday

Collect Eutroph. Lab data prior to 9:15
Meaning Making-Ice Melt
9:15-10:15
....... 2 groups
....... Data analysis
....... Generalizations
....... Explanations
....... Trouble shooting-do-overs needed? Extension stations?

10:15-11:30
Shared Inquiry
....... Ecosystem Reading. "Keeping Things Whole" pg. 91

LUNCH-11:30-12:15

12:15-2:15
Intro to Carbon Cycle Lab (Zexia)
....... Demo
....... Carbon cycles, chemical reaction, equilibrium, CO2 sequestering

....... Files: MS word file;

..... Carbon movies (Links to 4 movies) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11662978

Effect of CO2 on fresh and salt water (Robin)
....... 2 groups, same CO2 amount
....... Pull data, whole group combine
....... SciAm article on ocean pH----DIANE

....... Files: MS word file on CO2 experiment ;

Meaning Making-CO2 data
....... Whole group data analysis-management strategies
....... Generalizations
....... Explanation

2:30-3:30
Documentary Work Time (Gerry)
....... Qualities/Purpose documentary
....... Web Examples, resources
....... Group Hypothesis
....... Initial Evidence Collection

3:30-
Wrap-Up
....... Data Collection for E-lab
....... Review and Preview

Wednesday

Collect E-data prior to 9:15

9:15-10:45
Urban Development and its impact on Temperature (GERRY)
....... Gerry will gather data set for analysis-Is there enough variation to be significant?
....... Groups of 2 will explore campus for temperature extremes for 30 minutes
....... Confirmatory Discussion using data set and own data

10:45-12:00
Effect of pH and CO2 on animal behavior (ROBIN)
....... Drosophila larvae and adults set-up-demo
---.---------- Under microscopes
....... Crayfish behavior
---.---------- Build on yesterday's experiments/pH levels/freshwater and treated
---.---------- Sensory, heart rate, social interaction

....... Files: MS word CO2 with animals; Movie of crayfish and CO2 (45 mB); Movie with fly larvae before CO2 & after CO2;

.............Fruit flies heart rate with CO2 movie; MS word of larval flies with CO2

LUNCH-12:00-12:45

12:45-2:15
Effect of CO2 on Drosophila larvae and adults (Robin)
....... Meaning making on animal test results

2:25-3:10
Stabilization Wedges: A Concept and Game

"Teachers Guide to the Stablization Wedge Game." for a more in-depth look.

http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/resources/stabwedge.htm

3:10-3:50
Documentary Work Time
....... Finish confirm/disconfirm evidence
....... Story Board
....... Developing

3:50-
Wrap-up

Thursday

9:15-11:00
Eutroph. Lab
....... Final data collection
....... Data analysis
....... Generalizations, explanations

11:00-12:00
Temperature Sensitive Experiment with flies to explore selective pressure on populations---in groups of 4

....... Files: MS word. Adult flies selective pressure

LUNCH-12:00-12:45

12:45-1:15
Meaning Making of Content from the week
....... CTS Reflection
....... Use Global Climate handout from Project 2061

.......Gerry's classmate link.....http://itc.uky.edu/~gmswan3/casebuilder/password.php

1:15-3:15
Movie Maker Tutorial -2 hours-(Gerry)

Work-Time on documentary

Friday

Work on Documentary

LUNCH

....... SCAFF "Science Alliance Film Festival"
....... Lecture Hall (maybe room 107, 1st floor of biology)
....... Popcorn
....... Awards

Paperwork, logistics…….

Preview and goals for next year

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Books in Mini-library:

1. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 3rd Edition (2004) Sir John T. Houghton
2. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization (2004) Brian Fagan
3. Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and The Future (2002) Mark Maslin
4. The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and our Future (2000) Richard Alley
5. The Rough Guide To Climate Change-The Symptoms, The Science, The Solutions (2006) Robert Henson