Creek Visit

We walked down to the creek behind the school and looked at the water and learned what a ripple, run and pool were. We found where those would be in our creek. It was very insightful. We also discovered that our creek has a lot of trash and misc. things in it, such as large pieces of cement blocks. I feel like if we can move it and clean up alot, maybe on a day when the creek is down, then it would be alot cleaner and smell better. Also, there is this peculiar looking liquid that has built up in an area in the creek. I think we should try to find a way to clean that out also. Getting some out would be better than none i suppose. There is a family of ducks that live there, I would like them to be safe and they could get hurt with all the trash in there. We need to work on this and make it a community thing. Hopefully it will stop raining and the temp will rise so we can go out there and do damage control. :)

our organik gardin is looking good and we should have fresh plants of our salid bar.

to days journal was make a menu from foods found in WV. ( balansed meal). we had meny difrent ideas for food so I wont tell u them, but I have a qestion for u. What wold you serve?

our journal for the day was why do we put strow on the beds? In our discussion we sead that it has nutrionts in it, provids shelter, ackts as insulation, and protets form over irrigation

4/1/11 Journal Question

How did the geography of the earth affect the people of that region? Volcano (Vanautu), Tornado (Kansas), Wild Fires (British Columbia)

Tulips have emerged

Winter cover for our organic garden. A snowy winter hasn't deterred the weeds too much.

3/25/11

We have been investigating and discussing different sources of power. We watched "Gasland" about the Marcellus Shale area that is in West Virginia. We learned about hydrocracking the earth in order to release natural gas deposits. We then went to the computers to find out the gas drillers side of the story. We didn't find much, but we will continue to look. What power source do you want in your backyard? Hydro and solar won the vote from our class.

3/23/11

what are the postitives and negatives of the energy sources?

First Crop

Today we just planted our first crop and we are really excited.

Tulips 3-22-11

Our tulips are coming out and we noticed that the tulips that have popped up are the ones in the corners of our bed and so is oil.

Name sources of energy that you know and state either renewable or nonrenewable.

• Fossil fuels - Nonrenewable
• Nuclear - Renewable
• Solar - Renewable
• Timber - Nonrenewable
• Hydro - Renewable
• Wind - Renewable
• Waste matter - ?
• Magnetic - Renewable

Create one question for the midterm from what we learned and answer it.

How does the Hydro logic cycle works?
What makes up a biome?
Name three forms of the Earth?
What was first? (A) Animal with hard parts (B) Amphibians (C) Mammals (D) Bird

3/15/11

For the envirothon,what area would you like to focus on? why?

Aquatics.
Forestry.
Soils.
Wildlife.

Name as many WV animals as possible.

Cardinals
Black Bears
Bobcats
White Tail Deer
Trout
Bass
Cat fish
Copperhead
Coyotes
Hawks
Elk
Fisher
Grayfish
Skunks
Coons
Mountian lions
Goats
Wild Boar
Beaver
Shrew
Moles
Rabbits
Opposum
Bats
Owls
Eagles
eels?
Fish
Garr
Duck

San Francisco

Dear Envirothon Members:
I hope you are having good days during 1st block. San Francisco is amazing. Robert, every 30 minutes you can hear firetruck sirens--they answer to all emergencies. I've taken some video of them racing down the streets.

It is totally gorgeous weather; mostly sunshine and slight breezes. My room has a view of San Francisco Bay and parts of the industrial sections of the City. It's still all beautiful to me.

I brag on you guys all of the time. I'm bringing home lots of great stuff and things for every one of you--not keychains, they are expensive (8 would break me!). Please work hard during this week because planting season and the tournament are coming up fast.

Take care and let me know how things are going.

Ms. Finley

Hat Day!

Today is a fantastic day and we just got a donation over $108.00 dollars for our school's organic garden.

journal

To day the question is. What can you do if your soil is too sandy? Sandy soil has caritoristics of not holding water well, holds lots of air, and dusnot hold nutrents well. thus what you need to have is somthing with lots smoler molicuals so that it can hold more water and nutriants. so we need to change the ratio of sand, clay, and organic material. Or you can fined plants that will adapt or have some that are natral to that invironment.

journal

what are the compoents of soil? in the tipocal soil is 40% rock, 25% water, 25% air and last but not leest is 10-12% organic matter.

Where does our water shed go

Underground

Water Shed If water is polluted the pollution travels.

1.We use it>sewage

Rain/Precipitation 2.Ocean(bodies of water)

3.Underground

Underound water 4.Evaporates(into the atmosphere

Rivers

Atlantic ocean

Spring wells

Creeks

composter

we went outside to look at our composter to see if they are ready to put on the garden but so far ownly one is ready to be put on the garden.

2/22/11



Todays journal is why are the currents in the ocean so inportant?

2/17/11

''discribe the water cycle'' hydrologic cycle we checked on the tulip garden our teacher flipped out when she saw no greenery because she looked at the 2010 map and thought everyone else had bloomed.

February 16, 2011

Journal: Are there deserts in the ocean? Why do you think so? What constitutes a desert?

We looked at water systems, plastics (made of petroleum), frozen water expands (got the container out of the freezer).

2/16/11


There is still no sign of plant life in the tulip garden. There is no frost on the garden. Our garden is facing east.

the jornal for to day is: what do you think is the percentage of fresh water available? it terns out that 97% of the erths water is salt, 2% is frech water is in Ice and glaciers, 0.5% is ground water, and the last 0.5% is available. We all gest rong, the closest was 27%

why do you think flowering plants are important?
Flowering plants make up most of what we eat, wear, and use for shelter.

Grains/grasses: corn rye wheat
Gourds: squashes watermelon
Give us oxygen--they take away carbon dioxide
Herbs: parsley basil sage

2-3-11

How hard are you willing to work this class a 110%

Little changes can make a big impact.


you prove it every time you recycle a newpaper, unplug your computer or fix a leaky faucet. just as you've made changes to reduce your human footprint, P&G has made changes reduce its corporte footprint

2/1/11

what do you thank was the most inpacted era in the earth's development? and why?

Green Matters

This is our Environmental Earth class blog. One student will make an entry every day, hopefully.

Journal for the day: What are West Virginia's natural resources?

The purpose of this journal entry was to connect the history of the earth with what is in our state. Jacob was excellent in naming most of the natural resources: coal, timber, limestone, salt, natural gas are the resources named by students.

Today we watched a part of "How The Earth Was Made," a DVD that documents the theories of the creation of the earth based on scientific observations. Students took notes in their personal journals.

We then went outside to monitor the tulip bed for Journey North. There was no sign of growth or green in the bed. We recovered the organic vegetable garden to prevent more freezing of the greenery that is still evident. It was about 30 degrees when we outside.