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Climate Change - 2024-2025 Spring

Schedule

  
6 January - 10 January

Wednesday 8
9:00 am -- Our first day @Science 006

Thursday 9
First day of labs. Meet @SC 008
  • Lab 1: Graphs
13 January - 17 January

Tuesday 14
Drop-Add period ends 5:00 pm
20 January - 24 January

Monday 20
Martin Luther King study day - no daytime classes (evening classes meet)
27 January - 31 January
3 February - 7 February
  • Atoms / Matter [2.1]
  • Exponents
  • Scale of the universe
  • Exam 1 study guide
  • How-to hotwire "Being the Change"
  • Kalmus: GW Science, Climate Departure
  • Montana discussion
  • The Seasons - more pictures
10 February - 14 February
  • Comparisons (unit conversions)
  • Practicing unit conversions
17 February - 21 February
  • Moving atoms? and temperature
  • Energy / Chemical Energy [2]
  • The size of atoms
24 February - 28 February

Monday 24
Midterm break (all week)

  • FAQ - climate change
  • Studying: research on what works
3 March - 7 March

Friday 7
Goshen Conference on Religion & Science through March 9.

  • Know your atmosphere
  • Measuring CO2...wayyy back
  • Easter Island
  • Lab 5 - review and XC
10 March - 14 March

Monday 10
Academic advising begins

Friday 14
Last day to "W"ithdraw

  • Chemical reactions conserve atoms
  • How *we* sense temperature
  • Earth's atmosphere...at the beginning
  • Thermal energy / Mixing (Labs 5,6)
  • Mini-poster project
17 March - 21 March
  • Solid / liquid / gas
  • Carbon Cycle
  • Water cycle
  • Atomic weight
  • [Combustion worksheet]
24 March - 28 March
  • Gravitational energy
  • Wednesday - Quiz 2
31 March - 4 April
  • Feedback-Bottom up / New Guinea / Tikopia, Ch 9
  • Evaporation lab and Ancient temperatures
  • Wednesday - Exam 2
7 April - 11 April

Wednesday 9
Academic Symposium - no daytime classes

  • Power [6.7]
  • Feedback cycles and climate *sensitivity*
  • Some *positive* positive feedbacks
  • Food and energy
  • Feedback-Kalmus readings
14 April - 18 April

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

Friday 18
Good Friday (no class)

  • Soil fertility and the Green Revolution
  • Final exam - study guide
  • Climate of Man - the Arctic
21 April - 25 April

Sunday 20
Easter

Monday 21
Reading day

Tuesday 22
Exam week starts (through Apr 24)
Final exam at 8:30 AM. Study guide TBA

Thursday 24
Final draft of mini-poster due