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Climate Change - 2025-2026 Spring

Schedule

  
5 January - 9 January

Wednesday 7
9:00 am -- Our first day @Science 006

Thursday 8
First day of labs. Meet @SC 008
  • Lab 1: Graphs
12 January - 16 January

Tuesday 13
Drop-Add period ends 5:00 pm
19 January - 23 January

Monday 19
Martin Luther King study day - no daytime classes (evening classes meet)

  • Round earth?[1.3]
  • Sun-centered or Earth-centered? [1.4, 1.5]
  • FAQ + COPs + IPCC...
  • Presentations - In the News
26 January - 30 January
  • Galileo and the telescope
  • Light and temperature
  • Diamond's framework
  • How-to hotwire "Being the Change"
  • Kalmus: GW Science, Climate Departure
2 February - 6 February
  • Exponents
  • Scale of the universe *
  • Exam 1 study guide
  • Studying: research on what works
  • Montana discussion
  • The Seasons - more pictures
9 February - 13 February

Monday 9
Test 1

  • Atoms / Matter [2.1]
  • Moving atoms? and temperature
  • Atoms / molecules / compounds[2.1] *
  • Temperature, atoms and *planetary atmospheres*
16 February - 20 February
  • Energy / Chemical Energy [2]
  • The size of molecules
23 February - 27 February

Monday 23
Midterm break (all week)

2 March - 6 March

Friday 6
Goshen Conference on Religion & Science through March 8.

  • Comparisons (unit conversions)
  • Practicing unit conversions
  • Know your atmosphere
  • Measuring CO2...wayyy back
  • Lab 5 - review and XC
9 March - 13 March

Monday 9
Academic advising begins

Friday 13
Last day to "W"ithdraw

  • Solid / liquid / gas + lab 4
  • Chemical reactions conserve atoms
  • Earth's atmosphere...at the beginning
  • Mini-poster project
16 March - 20 March
  • How *we* sense temperature
  • Carbon Cycle
  • Water cycle
  • Atomic weight
  • [Combustion worksheet]
  • Evaporation: sweating, climate
  • Monday - Quiz 2
23 March - 27 March

Monday 23
Quiz 2

  • Radioactivity and the nucleus [15.1-15.3]
  • Thermal energy / Mixing (Labs 5,6)
  • Gravitational energy
  • Power [6.7] *
30 March - 3 April

Wednesday 1
Test 2

Friday 3
Good Friday (no class)

Saturday 4
Easter

  • Feedback cycles and climate *sensitivity*
  • Wednesday - Exam 2
6 April - 10 April

Wednesday 8
Academic Symposium - no daytime classes

  • Some *positive* positive feedbacks
  • Easter Island
  • Agriculture and energy
13 April - 17 April

Friday 17
Last day of classes
Please fill out a GC Course Evaluation.

  • Soil fertility and the Green Revolution
  • Feedback-Bottom up / New Guinea / Tikopia, Ch 9
  • Final exam - study guide
  • Feedback-Kalmus readings
  • Climate of Man - the Arctic
20 April - 24 April

Monday 20
Reading day

Tuesday 21
Exam week starts
Final exam at 8:30 AM. Study guide

Thursday 23
Final draft of mini-poster due