Today Classes C and D did their lab, as well as a review of what we used in lab (chemicals) and how to calculate different concentrations. All of these can be found on the lab sheet. Use the images below to help you if you missed the lab. The first image is after steps 1-8 have been complete. The second image is after step 9 was completed (the ammonia was added). Tomorrow check the blog for notes we went over in class, so you can stay caught up! We also went over One Fish, Two Fish activity to learn about sampling. Check here for class data from your class.
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Welcome to Wednesday!
Class A/B: You will be looking at the data from your lab yesterday, and then doing the One Fish, Two Fish activity. Class C/D: You will be investigating environmental health risks to prepare for your labs tomorrow! Don't forget you have lab tomorrow! Today we started reading about Reducing Environmental Health Risk. This contains the work to be done by the end of next class. We have two focuses: First, review our vocabulary from yesterday (voluntary, involuntary, and trade-off), and apply those to environmental risks. We will look at lifetime risks of the activities we discussed yesterday. Second, today we will introduce labs and lab safety with a serial dilution to show how different substances are measured. This will introduce the idea of parts per million (ppm). This is a measure of concentration.
Here is today's powerpoint. Today's math concepts: percent, fractions, and parts per million. Today we will focus on Risk. Here is the powerpoint for today.
Due today: Activities With Risk sheet should be completed and handed in. Due Wednesday: Reducing Environmental Health Risk - in science notebook. Important Reminders: Class A/B - LAB TOMORROW (Tuesday) Class C/D - Lab Thursday Due Monday May 4th:
Molar Mass Calculation worksheet on Google Classroom Points for the Week: Attend Talk via Zoom: 10 points per talk (2 talks this week) Molar Mass Calculation assignment submitted via Google Docs: 5 points Office Hours: 5 points for 20 minutes of talking over assignments or going over challenge options. A = 30 points B = 25 points C= 22 points Make sure you're checking google classroom regularly (once per day) for all of your assignments and deadlines. All of the deadlines are given on the assignment! Today's Guest: Today we will hear from Dr. Lynn Waterhouse, who is a research biologist at Shedd's Daniel P. Haerther Center for Conservation and Research. Before coming to Shedd, she completed a Ph.D. in biological oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. As part of her Ph.D., she worked on Nassau groupers (a type of fish) in the Cayman Islands with REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation) and the Cayman Island Department of the Environment. She also completed the first stock assessment of white seabass for the State of California with Dr. Juan Valero of CAPAM (Center for Advancement of Population Assessment and Methodology). Lynn's research focuses on mesopredators in the Bahamas and Caribbean, specifically population assessments of groupers and snappers (both types of fish). She is working with stakeholders (people who have a vested interest in a place) in the Bahamas, hopefully completing assessments of how many animals there are of species of concern, starting with the Nassau groupers, with the goal of making a sustainable fisheries management plan. She co-teaches a college course in the Bahamas aboard the Shedd's research vessel the R/V Coral Reef II. Due Monday May 4th:
Molar Mass Calculation worksheet on Google Classroom Points for the Week: Attend Talk via Zoom: 10 points per talk (2 talks this week) Molar Mass Calculation assignment submitted via Google Docs: 5 points Office Hours: 5 points for 20 minutes of talking over assignments or going over challenge options. A = 30 points B = 25 points C= 22 points Make sure you're checking google classroom regularly (once per day) for all of your assignments and deadlines. All of the deadlines are given on the assignment! Today's Guest: Today we had Dr. Emily Montgomery-Brown, who is a geodesist for the California Volcano Observatory (soon to be at the Cascades Volcano Observatory). She uses mathematical models to study how the earth changes shape before eruptions! Due Sunday:
At Home Chemistry Chemical Equation on Google Classroom Points for the Week: Attend Talk via Zoom: 10 points per talk (2 talks this week) At Home Chemistry assignment submitted via Google Docs: 5 points Office Hours: 5 points for 20 minutes of talking over assignments or going over challenge options. A = 30 points B = 25 points C= 22 points Make sure you're checking google classroom regularly (once per day) for all of your assignments and deadlines. All of the deadlines are given on the assignment! Today's Guest: Today we have Dr. Greg Gemmen joining us! Greg grew up in Michigan surfing on Lake Michigan, and always had a relentless curiosity for nature and how man-made machines work. He was extremely fortunate to have a truly excellent physics teacher in high school, the late Mr. James Jipping, who instilled in him a real passion for learning physics and the rigorous mathematical and geometric thinking that it demands. After majoring in physics and math at Hope College, he chose UCSD for graduate school so he could surf every day…it also helped that UCSD boasts a truly excellent physics department. Greg did his Ph.D. work in the single molecule physics of DNA utilizing optical tweezers. Since finishing his PhD, Greg has worked as an R&D engineer/scientist in biotech instrumentation at several different companies around San Diego with specialties in microscopy, optics, microfluidics, precision motion control, and the like. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, camping, and rock climbing with his wife Bianka and dog Nigel. Due Sunday:
At Home Chemistry Chemical Equation on Google Classroom Points for the Week: Attend Talk via Zoom: 10 points per talk (2 talks this week) At Home Chemistry assignment submitted via Google Docs: 5 points Office Hours: 5 points for 20 minutes of talking over assignments or going over challenge options. A = 30 points B = 25 points C= 22 points Make sure you're checking google classroom regularly (once per day) for all of your assignments and deadlines. All of the deadlines are given on the assignment! Today's Guest: Today we have Grayson Hough. He will be discussing Drug Discovery for Infectious Disease, and why we have a hard time meeting the needs for treating the flu. He is a senior scientist for Cidara Therapeutics, and works with chemistry, biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, and physiology! Due Sunday:
At Home Chemistry Chemical Equation on Google Classroom Points for the Week: Attend Talk via Zoom: 10 points per talk (2 talks this week) At Home Chemistry assignment submitted via Google Docs: 5 points Office Hours: 5 points for 20 minutes of talking over assignments or going over challenge options. A = 30 points B = 25 points C= 22 points Make sure you're checking google classroom regularly (once per day) for all of your assignments and deadlines. All of the deadlines are given on the assignment! Today's Guest: Today we have Dr. Talon Newton, who describes himself as a confused rock climber/caver/ backpacker, who did not know what he wanted to be when he grew up! Now he studies caves, rocks, and water for a living! He'll be talking about the hydrogeology of the Snowy River Passage, Fort Stanton Cave, New Mexico. His Zoom talk can be listened to here: https://zoom.us/rec/share/psh7Eu2s8U9LGa-T4l7SYIEqRNn4X6a81ihLqKdfyRmis_K3INd_9J-UWUi0qRTN Password: 5J@6O367 Due Sunday:
At Home Chemistry Chemical Equation on Google Classroom Points for the Week: Attend Talk via Zoom: 10 points per talk (2 talks this week) At Home Chemistry assignment submitted via Google Docs: 5 points Office Hours: 5 points for 20 minutes of talking over assignments or going over challenge options. A = 30 points B = 25 points C= 22 points Make sure you're checking google classroom regularly (once per day) for all of your assignments and deadlines. All of the deadlines are given on the assignment! Today's Guest: Today we had Rachel Zarndt as our guest speaker. She spoke about Careers in Applied Chemistry - from high altitude climbing to COVID-19 testing. She went to school in Oregon, where she worked with monkeys during an undergraduate degree in neuroscience. She then walked dogs for a year in San Francisco before studying high altitude acclimatization drugs for climbers. After that, she decided to get a PhD in biomedical sciences at UCSD in genetic adaptations in high altitude populations. Today she is volunteering her time to run COVID-19 tests on healthcare workers, using skills from her PhD studies. She was really excited to meet all of you! Her talk can be watched here: https://zoom.us/rec/share/7ONQEJ3oql5IQbPRwhDvSqkYL5i0T6a813RNqaUPnkygatTMGZBhq1l_HXhnpOkp Password: 8f$a86?3 |
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