Message Board:

November 17, 2009

  • Today is the end of the 12th week of classes. To be on track towards meeting your fourth deadline (completing all the work for Units 10-12 by 2pm on Fri., Nov. 20), you should finish Unit 12 today if possible and by not later than Friday's deadline.
  • Unit 10 has 2 written assignments. The assignments are online, on the class website. You can submit your answers through Blackboard or as a hardcopy. The directions are on the class website.
  • Remember, you do NOT have to finish these assignments before taking the tests for those units (but you do have to get all of the tests, labs, and assignments done before the 11/20 deadline at 2pm).
  • If you turned in a draft of your Desert Ecology Part 2 assignment, I will try to have it ready for you to pick up in the BLC by Friday at the latest.
  • My office hours for Wednesday are cancelled because I will be in a meeting. I will be in my office today from 2-4pm instead.
  • This class has a Blackboard Vista component that includes a gradebook and submission sites for some of your class assignments. If you want to look at your grades in this class, logon to http://blackboard.pima.edu We will update the class gradebook weekly.
  • If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me. Email is best: nan.schmidt@pima.edu

Nan

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This course is composed of 15 units. Each unit includes a combination of text readings, assignments, on-line lab assignments, in-class lab activities, and a self-quiz.

Unit 1: Understanding Our Environment
Unit 2: Principles of Ecology: Matter, Energy, and Life
Unit 3: Populations, Communities, and Species Interaction

Labs and Tests for Units 1-3 due at First Deadline

Unit 4: Human Populations

Unit 5: Biomes and Biodiversity

Unit 6: Environmental Conservation

Labs and Tests for Units 4-6 due at 2nd Deadline

Unit 7: Food and Agriculture

Unit 8: Environmental Health and Toxicology

Unit 9: Air: Climate and Pollution

Labs, Assignments, and Tests for Units 7-9 due at 3rd Deadline

Unit 10: Water: Resources and Pollution

Unit 11: Environmental Geology and Earth Resources

Unit 12: Energy

Labs, Assignments, and Tests for Units 10-12 due at 4th Deadline

Unit 13: Solid and Hazardous Waste

Unit 14: Sustainability and Human Development

Unit 15: Environmental Science and Policy

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