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__ MONDAY __ -
=== Today we begin our week long unit on the Earth and it's preservation. Read the following PowerPoint carefully. After reading the slides on [|this website], I will place you into groups of 5. Make sure to pay attention to the details, you will be having a short quiz on this information on Wednesday. ===

4) This PowerPoint should represent a fictional town of your own. Make it fun, give your town a name, and tell where it is.
=== 5) Tell me how you plan on making your town more eco-friendly, one idea per slide. (Ex: Using windmills to generate at least half of the town's energy, or having a semi-annual tree-planting ceremony) ===

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//IMPORTANT!! //
=== //*// //For tomorrow, please bring in a leaf that you have found around the outside of your house, or in your neighborhood somewhere. Make sure you have adult supervision if you're going to search for leaves around your neighborhood. Pick an interesting one!// ===

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__//READ THIS!//__
=== * Trees are a vital part of our world's ecosystem. Trees provide essential ingredients to life such as food and oxygen. Mike Cross of ArborWorks, LLC says, "They [trees] absorb pollutants through pores in their leaf surfaces...These pollutants include nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone and other things like ash, pollen, and dust. All of this is trapped, absorbed, used, and converted into foods for trees with the byproduct being cleaner, oxygen-rich air for us to breathe." ===

//__Assignment:__//
=== [|This website] will allow you to examine your leaves. Each of you will go to this website and identify your leaves. After you have identified your leaves, prepare a short (2 minute) oral presentation on: ===

__//QUIZ DIRECTIONS//:__ Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper, turn in to my desk afterwards. (10 min)
1) Where was Morton originally from? 2) In 1885, Arbor Day was named a legal Holiday in Nebraska and (what Month and Day?) was selected as the date for it's obsevance. (Hint: This day is Morton's birthday) 3) How many trees were estimated to be planted in Nebraska on that 1st Arbor Day?

__READ THIS!__
=== "Climate is the average weather usually taken over a 30-year time period for a particular region and time period. Climate is not the same as weather, but rather, it is the average pattern of weather for a particular region. Weather describes the short-term state of the atmosphere." (weatherwizkids.com/climate.htm) ===

6) Styrofoam cup
=== NOW! I'll reveal the answers to you in the order of the least amount of time to wear away to the greatest. (The data below gathered from sources like [|Oregon Department of Environmental Quality]and [|Bureau of Land Management]) ===

6) Styrofoam cup (unknown? FOREVER?)
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WATCH THIS!
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//__READ THIS!__//
=== //What is waste?// According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "...waste is anything that is discarded, rejected, surplused, abandonded, or otherwise released into the environment in a manner (or quantity) that could have an impact on the environment" ===

//But what do those mean?//
=== According the the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, __you can Reduce__ by, "...buying and using less...making wise 'package' selections...(so) you can reduce waste by selecting products that aren't wasteful in their 'packaging' " === === __You can Reuse__ by reusing the items that you already have or by, " pass(ing) those materials on to others who could use them too...hold a yard sale or give-away. And ask your neighbors to join in too." You can also Reuse by ,"...tak(ing) along washable cups or travel mugs instead of disposables." === === And __you can RECYCLE__ when you, "...save and take reusable materials to places where they can be remade into either the same product or new products, rather than to just toss them in the trash. Making new items from recycled ones also takes fewer energy and other resources than making products from brand new materials." ===

**WATCH THIS!**
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===1) On a piece of paper, choose 3 THINGS from this video and write about how YOU can do those things in your community. Make sure to include where, how, and with who you can do these things with or for.=== ===2) Choose any topic that we have covered this week and tell me what you know about it. Make sure to be specific. (EX: If you choose recycling, include the 3 R's, tell me what they mean, and how you can do them)===

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