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Here’s the assignment list for this week. Make sure you do them in the order listed!

#	Name	Estimated Completion Time in Minutes	Notes
1	Science Probe: Natural Resources	3
2	Encounter the Phenomenon: People and the Environment	5
3	Investigation: Falling Forests	15
4	Read About: Why cut down trees?	2
5	Investigation: Arc of Deforestation	20
6	Read About: How does deforestation impact Earth’s systems?	2
7	Engineering Investigation: Engineering Solutions	20
8	Read About: What can be done? Call to Action	1
9	Investigation: What’s your footprint?	20	Use quiz here to calculate your ecological footprint http://footprintcalculator.org
10	Read About: What can be done? Sustainable Resource Use	1
11	California Environmental Connection: Fishy Management	3	Read article. Ignore “It’s your turn” at the end.
12	Lesson Review: People and the Environment	15
13	LearnSmart:	20
Total		127 Minutes or 2:07 Hours

Welcome back to school – online! We’re starting a new unit in McGraw Hill today. Go ahead and log into McGraw-Hill and complete the assignments in the order listed below. Items from “Lesson: Human Population Growth” are due by the end of Friday.

1. Lesson: Human Population Growth

   1. Science Probe: Population Fluctuation

   2. Encounter the Phenomenon: Human Population Growth

   3. Investigation: Here We Grow Again

   4. Read About: How fast is the population growing?

   5. Investigation: Comparing Ages

   6. Investigation: Increasing and Decreasing Populations

   7. Read About: Is human population growth equal around the world?

   8. Investigation: Population Simulation

   9. Investigation: Resource Consumption

   10. Read About: How does human population growth affect natural resources?

   11. STEM Career Connection: A Day in the Life of a Demographer

   12. Interactive: On the Road

As we enter a new era due to COVID-19, we will be conducting classes online. Classes will be conducted asynchronously – that means I’ll post assignments daily, and you will be responsible for completing those assignments. 

If you do not have a laptop and internet access, please contact me or the school front office. We have laptops available for loan. Every student in CVUSD needs a laptop – so if you currently share with a sibling, contact us so we can ensure everyone has laptop availability.

Your first online assignment will be posted Wednesday morning. 

National Geographic: Artificial Selection

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_30 

Types of Artificial Selection

• Dog breeding
  • Most dog breeds emerged from a shockingly recent moment in history.
  • How and when did wolves become dogs?
  • Responsible Breeding – The Evolution of Dogs
• Fox breeding
  • blogs.scientificamerican.com › guest-blog › mans-new-best-friend-a-f…Man’s new best friend? A forgotten Russian experiment in fox …
• Plant breeding
  • Fast growing plants to absorb CO2 
    • https://thebulletin.org/2018/06/a-plant-that-could-save-civilization-if-we-let-it/#
    •  
  • Ornamental roses
    • https://www.davidaustinroses.com/us/breeding-programme 
    • Breeding Disease Resistant Roses
  • Disease resistance in crops
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_disease_resistance
    • Breeding Disease Resistant Plants
  • GMO crops
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize  
    • BT Corn – what it is and how it works.
  • Corn’s  Ancestry
    • Tracking the ancestry of corn back 9,000 years
  • Lettuce’s Ancestry
    • The universal boon to the salad bowl
    • National Geographic: From Ancient Egypt to Outer Space, The delicious history of lettuce
    • The New Salad Crop Revolution
  • Mutation Breeding
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
• Drug Resistance
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I hope you are as excited to learn about science as I am to teach it to you. 

8th-grade science covers the following topics:

• Forces & Interactions
• Energy
• Waves & Electromagnetic Radiation
• Human Impacts
• Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms
• Space Systems
• History of the Earth
• Family Health

Supplies Needed:

• Composition Notebook
  • At least 80 pages
  • NO SPIRAL BOUND NOTEBOOKS
• Pen or pencil

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