Good morning everyone and welcome to week 2 of online learning! Week 1 Assignments Please make sure you have turned in all 3 assignments to me from week 1: the case study from the fertilizer power point, the notes on global agriculture, and the snapshot of agriculture of the country of your choice. All the assignments are on the blog and I revised a couple of them to fix formatting issues. Please let me know if there are still any problems. Overall I've seen excellent work, keep it up! Week 2 Assignment 1 Last week we looked at global agricultural systems, mostly to put the United States in context. This week we will be taking a closer look at the agricultural system here in the US. Our agriculture is highly advanced and diverse, making it difficult to look at it all at once. Instead, we will be focusing on the most important agricultural product in the US: corn. This week's assignment is to watch the documentary King Corn (link below) on YouTube and follow along in your notes (below). This documentary goes through many of the complexities in growing corn and the role that corn plays not only in our agricultural system but in our entire society. The documentary is about 90 minutes, so this will be your assignment through Wednesday (30 mins per day). Thursday and Friday we will be working on a summarizing activity. As always, please let me know if you have any questions. I will be posting another greenhouse update fairly soon. Have an awesome day, I miss you guys! Movie Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWv29KRsQXU Notes:
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Hey guys here's the link to the first greenhouse update! Let me know if you have any questions or anything I didn't cover. Next week we'll start identifying different plants we have in the greenhouse and talk about how to care for them more specifically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkbkOBJN_UE&t=212s Good job getting your work turned in, everything I have seen so far has been good. Keep up the great work! -Mr. Dezern Hey everyone, I forgot to add the text boxes for the power point handout. File should be updated and working now. Let me know if you have any other issues!
-Mr. Dezern Hey guys, Good job so far on your online work! The assignments I've seen submitted have been great. If you have sent me your work, I will get back to you today with feedback. This is our second assignment (week 1 assignment 2). Similar to the first assignment, we will be looking at a power point and filling out notes as we go. The power point focuses on global agricultural production and the factors that impact crop growth in different countries. You need to fill out 4 of the 6 factors on the "Farming around the world handout" and describe how they impact agriculture. The first one, "climate", is already there to get you started.
Afterwards, you will be examining the agricultural system of a specific country of your choice. On the "Snapshot of Agriculture" handout, choose a country (not the USA) and describe the agricultural system of that country using the criteria on the page. You will need to do some independent research online. Do your best; if you cannot find the information we can review it together.
Next week we will closely examine the corn production system in the US. The snapshot of agriculture is meant to give you a reference point to compare our main agricultural system here in the United States with agricultural systems around the world.
Let me know if you have trouble with the Word documents, I had to use a pdf converter so the formatting might be a bit weird. As always, let me know if you have any questions! I will be posting a greenhouse update later in the week for all of you curious about the plants. -Mr. Dezern Sorry if I was unclear earlier, this is as new for me as it is for you all. Just a few points to clear up:
1. You will not get a grade for these assignments during the break. This is an opportunity for you all to learn, plain and simple. I encourage you to do the assignments and let me know if you have questions. 2. There are no "due dates" on these assignments. I will be uploading them periodically but you are under no obligation to complete them the day I upload them. As a general rule I would say try to turn them in within a week, mostly to help me respond with feedback more efficiently. 3. Please submit the assignments directly to me at my school email address. ([email protected]) 4. Stay safe and please email me if you have any questions or concerns! -Mr. Dezern Since we finished plant nutrients in class last week, we will now be learning about fertilizers. Read through the power point today and think about the case study scenarios. Tomorrow, answer the case study questions on the attached word document and submit. Powerpoint:
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Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog, which will be your main resource for online learning. During this break we will have a number of assignments that you will need to access. Throughout this process, if you have any questions or concerns, please email me at [email protected]
Most of the assignments will include a reading resource and a worksheet to accompany. Both will be uploaded together in a blog post. I will send out a remind to let you know new work has been posted. If you have not joined the remind, please send a text message to the number 81010 with the message "@wdeze" to be added. My goal is to have two assignments per week, meaning Day 1 and 3 are spent on the reading resources, Day 2 and 4 are spent on the activities, and Day 5 is reserved for any questions you may have. Work can be emailed directly to me when completed. I will try to get feedback to you as soon as possible. Thank you all for your flexibility and let me know if you have any further questions. The first assignment will be posted shortly. Hello students, welcome back! This week we will be focusing on photosynthesis, the most important chemical process in plants. Throughout the week we will create a board game about photosynthesis and finish the week by playing all of the games. Remember to bring in a shoe box or cereal box to put your game in! I was impressed by the plant anatomy and physiology "check-ups" we did before break, very good job overall! Those grades will be entered next week when progressbook opens back up. Below are the photosynthesis slides for those who missed the lecture!
One more week until break!
Last week ended our first unit, Soil Science and the Scientific Method. Test scores will be uploaded this weekend. I was very happy with the scores on the exams as well as the participation in test corrections which should help boost scores even higher. We will be interacting with soil and the scientific method throughout the remainder of the course so it is good we have a solid foundation. We are now starting the plant science unit. Please be sure to dress appropriately as we will be outside often working with plants in the garden and greenhouse! We are halfway through the first grading period and starting to get into our first major topics!
This week we will be wrapping up scientific method and starting Soil Science. Be sure to dress appropriately... things tend to get messy! I was very pleased with the scores on the first quiz, with an average score of 81%! If you have any questions or are absent let me know. I will be uploading all the powerpoint slides later this week for your reference. |
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