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Summer 2012 - Day 5 materials and resources:

Fill out MSDE credit forms - Bill and Amy will take back to county HR and have signed, documented, and returned to teachers by Sept.
 * Engagement: **

Podcasting - using the Audacity software, develop a podcast about:
 * Exploration: **
 * 1) [[file:audacity.doc|audacity.doc]];
 * 2) [[file:audacity quick guide.pdf|audacity quick guide.pdf]];
 * 3) [[file:Downloading and Installing Audacity.pdf|Downloading and Installing Audacity.pdf]]
 * Describe what makes a resource renewable or nonrenewable. Give specific examples of a renewable resource and a nonrenewable resource.
 * What is meant by sustainable resource? Give an example.
 * Economic policies and practices affect society's progress toward achieving sustainable resource use. Discuss one policy or practice that facilitates this progress, and one that impedes it.


 * Explanation: **
 * Discussion of renewable and nonrenewable resources
 * Go outside and pull fouling plates - discuss results of plates and winogretski columns


 * Extension: **
 * Pull agar plates and look at results of your well designed investigation - handwashing efficacy


 * Celebration! **
 * t-shirt design
 * slideshow
 * yearbooks


 * Final assessment in computer lab **