1/24/14

This weekend's homework is to study for the midterm and make sure that your data for salinity and germination experiment is posted. See the link below, find the appropriate section and group, and write in your data/observations.

Salinity and Germination Data

In class...

Will humankind be able to sustainably feed 9 billion people by the year 2050?

Factors to think about…

• population growth
• the types of food being grown/raised
• livestock v. plants
• the inputs needed to produce food
• water
• land
• soil/fertilizer
• pest control
• what are the impacts of these inputs?
• can these inputs be achieved in a sustainable manner?
• different scales/levels of thinking
• consumer
• farmer
• nation
• world

Feeding the World Assessment

	Mastery – 4	Proficient – 3	Satisfactory – 2	Needs Revision – 1
Claim (Skill)	States clear, nuanced, well-reasoned claim	States clear, well-reasoned claim	States a logical, but vague claim	States an illogical or indefensible position
Support of claim (Skill)	Thoroughly supports claim(s) with several detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as refuted counterclaims	Thoroughly supports claim(s) with multiple detailed, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as attempts at forming counterclaims/ refutations of them	Supports claim(s) with multiple detailed, convincing specific reason/piece of evidence	Supports claim(s) with reasons/ evidence that are not convincing due to lack of detail, specificity, or clarity OR not having enough pieces of evidence to support each claim
Demonstrates knowledge of class material (Populations Content)	Very consistently demonstrates deep knowledge of related material by correctly using vocabulary and explaining examples clearly.	Consistently demonstrates knowledge of related material by correctly using vocabulary and explaining examples.	Demonstrates knowledge of related material by using vocabulary and explaining examples, but with some errors.	Does not demonstrate sufficient knowledge of class material through errors or lack of usage/ explanation.
Writing conventions (Work Habits)	Writes elegantly and in a sophisticated manner while very consistently adhering to spelling and grammar conventions.	Very consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.	Consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.	Mostly adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.