week one 8.16.23
Welcome to APES!
Resources:
- elab.hpa.edu also known as elab.local (on campus) or elab.kamuela.org (off campus)
- Bozeman science videos
- https://elab.local/apes/videos/bozeman_science/
- http://www.bozemanscience.com/ap-environmental-science
- Science review
- https://elab.local/apes/texts/sci_review-ocr/
- AP central join codes
- APES D XM624X
- APES E PVYZGG
- Text: Friedland and Relyea 4th edition, with sapling (trying this out)
- Other texts located here: https://elab.local/wiki/projects/apes/apes.html
- weblog is our main materials platform (older ones are on physics.local)
Discussion points:
- control vs. variable? dependent vs. independent variable?
- x vs. y : making a graph
- precision vs. accuracy: accuracy: actual truth, precision: how detailed
- mks system: kg, km, m3
- prefixes kilo, mega, giga, centi, milli, micro, nano
- unit conversion: km to millimeters
- temp: K, C, F
quiz on these next week...
Homework:
- Get the text (online or print)
- Watch Bozeman science video 001
- Check MyHPA for updates
Day 2:
- Pick three topics (yours or others)
- It is now 2056, you are about 50 years old
- What has changed in each of the three?
- Visualize solutions: what is needed, by whom?
Global footprint:
https://www.footprintnetwork.org/resources/footprint-calculator
Cause and effect:
Why does the girl think her dad is an alien?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVRAtQ7XjkM
What don’t we see between the kiss and him driving home?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_slK24lXU
Monty Python Witch scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii68tPIiZOo
- Can you follow cause and effect?
- What is their logical path?
- Why do folks associate fracking with earthquakes? (chapter one in the text)
- Why do folks associate fossil fuels with global heating?
- Who might be against this line of reasoning and why?
Scientific method:
- control vs. variable? dependent vs. independent variable?
- x vs. y : making a graph
- precision vs. accuracy: accuracy: actual truth, precision: how detailed
- mks system: kg, km, m3
- prefixes kilo, mega, giga, centi, milli, micro, nano
- unit conversion: km to millimeters
- temp: K, C, F
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