English Students

4) Using the internet find as much information as you can about your recipe and the ingredients. For example, if your recipe calls for mustard, look up mustard.

5) Select three interesting historical notes about your recipe or its individual ingredients.

6) Create a recipe flyer in Microsoft Publisher. Your flyer should include:

§ The recipe

§ How the recipe is important to your family. (What traditions surround this recipe? Who in your family is famous for this recipe?)

§ Why you like the recipe. Try to explain why the combination of ingredients is pleasing to you.

§ Three historical notes about your recipe or its ingredients.

Helpful website: http://www.foodtimeline.org/food2.html

http://www.epicurious.com/

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Researching the Components of Electrity Production

March 26th, 2009

1. Coal Plant: http://www.its-about-time.com/investinesart/coalplantvirtualtour.swf

2. Nuclear:

a. http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/nuctek/fissionreactor.html

b. http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power3.htm

3. Hydroelectric: http://fwee.org/walktour

4. Wind: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_how.html

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La, la, la, Lozano’s Class

March 4th, 2009

You are in the driver’s seat of your learning today. Have you ever wondered who the great jazz singers are? Do you think you know all the musical notes you have been taught? How about musical terms?

www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm

Today, you are to choose a topic to explore the take a quiz on that topic. Print the quiz with your name on it-as it is your ticket out the door.

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Earth & Space Science Project-Global Warming

February 19th, 2009

Global Warming Resources for Venn Diagram

from: NOW on pbs.org

The Heat Over Global Warming
Interview with the producer of “An Inconvenient Truth” along with related links

God and Global Warming
Explores the effects of global warming on the Alaska and our moral responsibility to the

Robert Redford: Business Warming Up to Environment
Robert Redford interview discussing the advantages of businesses going “green”

Senator Jeff Bingaman on America’s Energy Policy
Discussion of America’s energy policy related to global warming

Emission Impossible?
Looks at how California is legislating auto emissions and taking steps to save the environment on the state level

Stepping Up on Climate Control
Profiles “Step it Up” and the national campaign to combat global warming

Interview with Bill McKibben: National Day of Climate Action
Interview with Bill McKibben discussing the National Day of Climate Action and what he believes we must do to combat global warming.

Climate Change and the Media Senate Hearings
Examines the role of the media and expert claims that the dangers of global warming are exaggerated by the media

Home Grown
Profiles the use of biodiesel and Willie Nelson’s role in its development

Five Questions with Environmental Writer Tom Philpott
Philpott answers five questions about alternative energy sources

Oil, Politics & Bribes Examines the role of oil lobbyists and their influence on energy policy

E2: Energy This 6-part series examines the development of alternative energy sources

Frontline: Doubters of Global Warming: This report examines the scientific definition of global warming and presents both sides of the debate on global warming.

NewsHour Extra: Global Warming Linked to HumansReported on 2/5/07, this article examines project global changes, the impact on humans, and what can be done to reduce emissions the lead to global warming.

NewsHour Extra: Global Warming Fears Lead to Ratification of the Kyoto ProtocolThis 2/14/05 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Special for Students summarizes the problem of global warming, briefly outlines details of the Kyoto Protocol and world opinion, and describes the U.S. response.

The Greens The series offers students specific ideas for reducing, reusing, recycling and conserving energy through various web links

What’s Up With the Weather? This NOVA and FRONTLINE special report on global warming provides graphs, a helpful FAQ, an interactive activity that helps students recognize sources of daily energy consumption and determine their “diet” of carbon, perpectives for and against global warming, and more.

United States Environmental Protection Agency: “Global Warming Quiz”: This online EPA resource provides 5 questions that check basic understanding of the causes of global warming.

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