Unit 6: Food and Soil
Date	In Class	Homework	Concepts	Resources
Friday 11/6	Test on Biodiversity	UN questions chapter 4 and 7 10, 11, 1nd 12		Nutrition Food Security
Monday 11/9	FRQ grading Eating Disorders Grocery Store Wars	Start diet inventory Read pp. 270-274 Ted Talk on Minding Your Mitochondria Bring a food label	agriculture, industrial, plantation, nomadic, intensive traditional, livestock soil erosion, desertification, salinization, conservation tillage, terracing, strip cropping, windbreaks	Agriculture Land and Degradation Right to Food Day Video BBC World Food Day Quiz 2007 Hunger Banquet Slideshow Soil Erosion Soil conservation Soil Profile Soil Texture Erosion PSA WORLD FOOD DAY 2010 World hunger - A Billion for a Billion
Tues. 11/10	Food Label lab	Read pp. 275-283 Do hectare Activity	Green revolution, pesticides, organic v inorganic fertilizer, manure, compost, nitrates, monoculture,	GMOS Green Revolution Sustainable Agriculture APES in a BOX Soil Profile APES in a BOX Soil Triangle Increasing Yields: The Green Revolution Agriculture Bozman
Veteran’s Day
Thursday 11/12	Diet Choice Sheet and Land Use Assessment Sheet Ppt food	282-293	GMO, crossbreeding, patenting genes, feedlots, treadmill, aquaculture, bycatch, mangrove, subsidies, Pesticides, integrated pest management, DDT	Erosion Control Interplanting Soils Pesticides 1 and 2 Alternative to Pesticides
Friday 11/13	Current Events Read and jigsaw articles Present Articles	Read pp. 293-303 Bring a dish Wednesday/Thursday to represent your country (Counts as UN Questions)	Rachel Carson, Food Quality Protection Act, USDA, FDA, EPA, Golden Rice	Combatting Pests Sustainable Agriculture Integrated Pest Management
Monday 11/16	Increasing Yields: The Green Revolution Pesticides 1 and 2 Alternative to Pesticides Alternative to Pesticides	Study Do study guide Agriculture Bozman		History of Agriculture Meat Making Global Warming Worse Increasing Yields Livestock
Tuesday 11/17	Review	Bring a dish Wed/Thursday to represent your country (Counts as UN Questions
Wed/Thur	Food Inc. Sample Country Food	Study
Friday 11/20	Test on unit 6	Start chapters 18

Unit 06 Outline

Glossary

Chapter 13

Biotech resources

Introduction

Genetic Modification of Bacteria

Getting the Plasmid In

Are Recombinant Bacteria Safe?

Genetic Modification of Plants

Techniques Used for Generating Transgenic Plants

Problems and Concerns

Genetic Modification of Animals

Cloning Animals

Challenges

Addressing the Controversies

Genetic Manipulation

Benefits of Genetically Modified Crops for the Poor (Required Reading) 

News Debate: Can Biotech Food Solve World Hunger?

Other resources

Film: Forks not Knives

Bill Moyer on Rachel Carson/Silent Spring

Phosphorus and Agriculture

Key inputs for PSN

Energy and Agriculture

Biofuels vs Agriculture

Power points

Soil

Farm Facts

Food Resources