Mr. Weiss’s Blog

Here is what I will be looking for when you turn in your science notebook:

2nd Q Notebook Checklist

Notebooks are due:

A Periods- Wednesday Dec. 17th

B Periods - Thursday Dec. 18th

Also- remember to bring in your Environmental Science textbook from home

EXCELLENT JOB WITH YOUR NGO’S AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES CONFERENCE! IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU ARE ALL HAVE AN IDEA FOR WHAT NEEDS TO AND CAN BE DONE TO REDUCE HUMAN IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE PICTURES I TOOK AT THE CONFERENCE

TO THE 8TH GRADE ENVIRONMENTAL NGO CONFERENCE. ALL 8TH GRADERS WILL BE PRESENTING THEIR IDEAS FOR HOW WE CAN REDUCE HUMAN IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT.

WHEN: DECEMBER 10TH FROM 1:00-2:45

WHERE: 3RD FLOOR OF THE MS BUILDING(HALL CLOSEST TO SCHOOL ENTRANCE)

SEE YOU THERE! 

Here is an explanation of what you need to include in each of the following; Wiki, Display board, brochure, fact sheet.

NGO Products

Remember these all need to be finished for your in class presentation on the 8th or 9th.

Excellent job in all my classes on both the data collection fieldtrip and the in class water analysis lab!

Here is the the instructions for how to do the lab report. These are the same as the instructions you were given in class.

Water Pollution Lab

lab report requirements

Data Table

This report ins due: 

B periods: Monday December 1st

A periods: Tuesday December 2nd

We have decided to change to date of out final NGO conference to Wednesday, December 10th. Mr. Saich and I feel that this will give groups the needed time to really do quality work here and create amazing NGO’s! We will talk in class about how this will effect the time line for the project.

Here is the link for the NGO wiki site- I have also added the link to my Blog roll.

As you all know out middle school is sponsoring the students at a local school in Shanghai. Each advisory is responsible for bringing in gifts for three students at the local school. So I am disappointed with the lack of involvement and participation of most of my advisory students in the charity event. We have until this Friday the 28th to fill our bags!

What you can bring:

• New clothes, hats, gloves, etc.
• Toys and Games
• Anything else a 9-10 year old would appreciate(sorry no candy)

Who we are sponsoring:

1. Zhu Shuang Hui

• 10 year old boy
• Height: 136cm
• Weight:26 kg
• Shoe size: 22cm
• Currently bag is empty!

2. Chen Lili

• 9 year old Girl
• Height: 132
• Weight: 28kg.
• Shoe size: 21cm
• Currently bag has 2-fleeces, 1 pair of gloves

3. Chen Yang Long

• 9 year old boy
• Height: 136cm
• Weight:27 kg
• Shoe size: 22.5cm
• Currently bag has: 4 comic books

Ok, lets get our act together as an advisory and donate to a good cause. Also, if you will not have time to buy anything this week, you can bring in money by wednesday at the latest and I will go out to a clothing store by by house on wednesday if needed.

The next step in the development of your NGO is documenting your research and planning in the form of a formal proposal. Please follow the attached instructions below:

Proposal requirements

Also here is a link to an example NGO fact sheet

NGO Example

The proposal is due:

A periods: Friday Nov 21st

B periods: Monday Nov. 24th

Here are the groups and topics for the NGO project. Please come in to talk with me ASAP if you want to change your topic.

B1-

• Air- Sam, Ting-wai, Gregory
• Water-Ellen and Stephane
• Species-Dylan, Arvind, Josh
• Waste- Amanda, Mimi
• Energy-Charlie, Jack, Max
• Transportation- Christy, Sally, So-jin-
• Deforestation- James, Joey, Tim- See me ASAP!

B2-

• Air Pollution- Jenny, Mengxin
• Waste- Tim, Jake, Erik
• Species Endangerment- Mohan, Jesse, Willy
• Transportation- Anny, Jennifer, Erika
• Deforestation(still need to confirm) Lucy, Cindy, YuJin
• Water Pollution- Cecile, Dianna, Tina

A1

• Water- Sarah and Sally
• Transportation- Dominic, David, Eric
• Deforestation- Edwin, Luke
• Waste- Derek, Justin
• Air Pollution- Amy, Angela, Dylan
• Snow leopard habitat preservation- Regan, Chelsea, Nick
• Agricultural Impacts--Rachelle, Charles W and Charles C

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A2-(All A2 groups please stop by on Friday the 14th to talk with me if you have questions about your assigned topic.

•  Deforestation-Maryam, Jocelin, Jonathan K
• Transportation-Angela, Elizabeth, Kelvin
• Air Pollution- Tyler, Jeff, Ramis
• Energy-  Miles, Graham, Ben
• Desertification- Jonathan, Jacob, Keith
• Water Pollution -Nicole, Vanessa, Bengi