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APES Unit 7

 Food, Soil, and Pest Management

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Date

In-Class

 

Reading Concepts

Online Video

Online Text

M 11/9

Diet and Health Risk due 11/17

10 things kids want to know about Farming

Meatrix

Meatrix 2

Meatrix

Grocery Store Wars

Meet Your Meat PETA Video

Animal Cruelty Tyson Foods Supplier

Back to the Start by Chipotle

 Chapter 13

 

Outline & Vocabulary

 

Reading Guide

 

 

Food, hunger, malnutrition, obesity,

agriculture,

 industrial,

 plantation,

nomadic,

 intensive traditional,

livestock

soil erosion, desertification,

salinization,

conservation tillage,

terracing, strip cropping,

 windbreaks

Green revolution,

pesticides,

organic v inorganic fertilizer,

manure,

compost,

nitrates,

monoculture

GMO,

crossbreeding,

patenting genes, 

feedlots,

treadmill,

aquaculture, 

bycatch,

 mangrove,

subsidies, 

Pesticides,

 integrated pest management,

DDT, Rachel Carson,

Food Quality Protection Act,

USDA, FDA, EPA,

Golden Rice

World Hunger

Hunger in Africa

Child Malnutrition

Web MD: How Fat Kills

History of Agriculture

Agriculture Revolution

Industrial vs Sustainable Ag

Meat Making Global Warming Worse

Feedlots

Over fishing

What is soil?

Soil Triangle

Soil Profile

Soil erosion

Desertification

Soil Salinizaton

Conservation Tillage

Terracing

Strip Cropping

Green Revolution

Pesticides

Fertilizers

Biofuels vs Agriculture

 CC - GMO

IPM

Integrated Pest Management

DDT, Rachel Carson

Food for the Future

BBC World Food Day Quiz 2007

Land Resources

Increasing Yields

Livestock

Soils

Nitrogen Cycling in Ecosystems

Agricultural Land and Water

Increasing Yields: The Green Revolution

Bill Moyer on Rachel Carson/Silent Spring

Phosphorus and Agriculture

Key inputs for PSN

Energy and Agriculture

Genetic Manipulation

Benefits of Genetically Modified Crops for the Poor (Required Reading

News Debate: Can Biotech Food Solve World Hunger?

Increasing Yields: The Green Revolution

Combatting Pests

Sustainable Agriculture

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

T 11/10

Quiz1

Change from Nomadic to Agriculture due 11/17

 

Plant Nutrients

Th 11/12

Quiz 2

Conservation Choices

 

Eating Disorder

PPT

F  11/13

Quiz 3

Ted Talk on Minding Your Mitochondria

Overpopulation: The More the Merrier?

Population Growth

 

How Diet Effects Resources & Land Use

M 11/16

Quiz 4

Weathering Lab

 

Disease Reports  Due 12/4

Group of Two

All 7 tabs

Period 1     Period 4    Period 5

T 11/17

Unit 11 Review

W/Th

Serial Dilution – LD50

 

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F 11/20

Food Exam