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"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson World Population is currently about 6.7 billion. It grew more in the last 50 years than during the preceding 4 million years. We now add 4 people each second, 250/minute, 15,000/hour, 220,000/day or 80 million people per year.
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SnapGrades This year I'm using the SnapGrades website to post grades and homework for my students. Parents and students can login anytime to check current grades, homework, missing assignments, test scores, and report cards. It's completely secure, so no one else can see your personal information. Parents and students have separate accounts. Here's how to get started: 1. Go to snapgrades.net 2. Click the "Login" button at the bottom. 3. Type Name: (first last) Password: (make up a temporary password or select "I don't have a password yet") School: Ballston Spa High School City: Ballston Spa State: New York Note: you'll be able to use the same password to check other classes if the teacher is using Snapgrades. New Courses - Natural Disasters, History of the Universe Natural Disasters will address exciting, current and relevant topics of interest to students and of great importance to society. Topics will include heat waves and drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, tsunami, volcanism, earthquakes, mass wasting, asteroid / comet impacts, gamma ray bursts, solar flares, geomagnetic reversal, climate change, the scientific study and assessment of impact and risk, and government planning and response. This course is of interest to all students, but especially those entering fields of science, government, planning, social services, etc. Natural Disasters will be group project-based. Course work will emphasize team projects, research and the use of technology, as well as reading and writing. Groups will be trained to use "Web 2.0" online collaboration software such as Zoho and Google Docs to produce web sites with reports and presentations. The course will be offered as a complementary semester of elective science, opposite History of the Universe. Enrollment in History of the Universe is not required. Prerequisite: students must have taken and passed Earth science and Living Environment. Go to the Natural Disasters page.
History of the Universe is a “big picture” course, for people who want to explore the wider Universe around them and better understand their place in it. We will explore the origin and structure of the Universe, vast expanses of space and time, and the origins and histories of the Earth and life, because you can’t truly know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been. History of the Universe emphasizes relevant and current issues centering around the Nature of Science and its role in modern society; Origin and Structure of the Universe, Time and Space, Galaxies, The Nebular Hypothesis; The Origin of the Earth, The Origin of Life, Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Mammals and Pleistocene Megafauna; Human Evolution (Paleoanthropology); Technology, Human History, Culture, the Future, and Climate Change. We will also be going on a field trip to see local geology. If you’re a naturalist, are interested in the “big picture” and "long-term" views of deep space and deep time, or if you enjoyed Earth science, this course is for you. We will explore questions like "Where did we come from? What is out there in the Universe? How might life have started? What were the dinosaurs and large mammals of the ice ages like? What were early hominids like and what tools did they use? What does the future hold and what is my place in it?" The course will be offered as a complementary semester of elective science, opposite Natural Disasters. Enrollment in Natural Disasters is not required. Prerequisite: students must have taken and passed Earth science and Living Environment. Go to the History of the Universe page.
Read the Albany Times Union article about the History of the Universe field trip | ||||||
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