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Week |
Class Activities
(Click the date for a list of daily learning objectives!) |
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WEDNESDAY (11:00-11:50 am) |
FRIDAY (11:00 a.m.-1:30 pm) |
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1 |
JAN 9 Welcome to Muddy
Waters! Getting to know you. What is FYE? What are
environmental geology and the Muddy Waters course?
Pre-assessments. |
JAN 11
Analysis of water: field parameters. Keeping a field notebook. Field safety contracts. Intro to the "Thirsty
City" Project. A copy of the guide to using field probes
appears here:
Using
Field Probes.
Dress for
outdoor work today!
"E-mail us!"
due. |
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2 |
JAN 16
Principles of colorimetry.
Transitions.
Read Chap. 3 in the CSS book before coming to
class today. |
JAN 18
Lab safety.
Collecting and analyzing data for the Thirsty City project.
Measuring chloride, sulfate, phosphate, nitrate, and fluoride.
No need to dress
for outdoor work today;
we will be in the lab for the whole period.
Copies of the procedures are linked here:
Chloride
Sulfate
Nitrate
Fluoride. |
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3 |
JAN 23 How you learn. Guest presenter:
Katherine Gleiss of the Learning Support Center.
Read
Chap. 5 and 6 in the CSS book before coming to class today. The
first deadline for "Thirsty City" is today! |
JAN 25
Drinking water standards.
Academic integrity and plagiarism.
Team-building and the NEIU Rock Wall.
Dress for wall-climbing today!
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4 |
JAN 30
VIsit from Molly Mansfield, Ronald Williams Library.
Read Chap. 1 and 4 in the CSS
book before coming to class today.
"Reading the NEIU Catalog" due. The second deadline for
"Thirsty City" is today! |
FEB 1
Field trip to Lake Michigan. Water
treatment processes. Dress for outdoor work today!
"Avoiding Plagiarism" due. |
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5 |
FEB 6
Guest presenter
from the Academic Advising Office. |
FEB 8
Measuring area and volume. Snow depth and water equivalent
measurements.
Dress for outdoor work today!
The third and final deadline for "Thirsty City" is today! |
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6 |
FEB 13 Intro
to
"Chicago Rivers"
Project.
Watersheds.
Stream discharge.
"Meet With
a Professor" due. |
FEB 15 Indoor work on Chicago
Rivers.
Gathering
online stream discharge data.
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7 |
FEB 20
Work
on Chicago Rivers.
Calculating recurrence interval and probability.
Data interpretation.
Your Academic Plan is due! |
FEB 22
Work on Chicago Rivers.
Flood
Insurance Rate Maps. |
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8 |
FEB 27 Work
on Chicago Rivers.
Read
Chap. 10 in the CSS book before coming to class today. |
MAR 1 Chicago
Rivers project is due! Intro to H2O: Where Does It Go? project. Dress for outdoor work today!
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9 |
MAR 6
The NEXUS International Water conference. You will display your
Chicago Rivers posters at this conference! |
MAR 8
H2O: Where
Does
It Go? The water cycle. Visit with John Murray, NEIU
Chief Engineer.
Dress for outdoor work today! (We may
or may not be going outside, so be ready for anything.) |
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10 |
MAR 13
The water cycle: Urban aspects.
H2O: Where Does It Go? Preparing for the confluence trip. |
MAR 15
H2O: Where Does It Go? outline is due!
Field trip to
the Confluence. Dress for outdoor work today! |
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11 |
MAR 20
Spring Break. No class.
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MAR 22
Spring Break. No class.
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12 |
MAR 27
Basic concepts of locks and dams.
Intro to the Great Debate. |
MAR 29
Field trip to
Gompers Park. Last day to drop a course. |
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13 |
APR 3
Intro to MyPlan.
Prepare for the Great Debate. |
APR 5
Prepare for the Great Debate.
Guest speaker John Quail from Friends of the
Chicago River. |
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14 |
APR 10
Prepare for the Great Debate. |
APR 12
The Great
Debate!
Intro to the "Balancing
Act" Project.
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APR 17
Balancing Act: maps and calculations.
Finding precipitation data online. |
APR 19
Determining annual stream flow from a watershed. Evaluating
impacts of yesterday's flooding.
Dress for
field work today! |
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APR 24
Simple
water budget calculations. FYE course evaluations. |
APR 26
Balancing Act final activity. |
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MAY 1 No class. |
MAY 3
Field trip.
Course
evaluations.
Dress for
a field trip today!
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Copyright 2013 Laura L. Sanders. Last updated
April 23, 2013.
