Read this text for this week’s blog post. Be prepared to write about what you saw, thought about and wondered after watching the film for our blog post this week.

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Post for following by Friday, end of day for your 8th post:

• Three pictures from the OB field day. Post your best pictures from last week.
• At least three pictures from the Barrio Logan field day.
  • label all of your photos and put a note on what your thinking is behind the work.
• Problem Set: Energy Usage
• Read the article on San Diego Energy Use. Watch the video on thermal energy generation. Also watch the video on renewable energy generation.
  • What are your thoughts on your own energy use in San Diego?
  • What would you like to see San Diego do to develop energy supply in the future? Why?
  • What is the relation between all types of energy harnessed on earth and the sun? Why is that significant?
  • What questions do you have about energy generation?
• An update of honors work from the past few weeks. What have you accomplished on your honors project so far? What is your timeline for further completion of work? How do you plan to get that done?

This folder has sample templates for you to use for your piece. This folder has sample layouts. You can use one of these or invent your own. Good luck!

Post the following:

• Read this text on water use in cities and begin this week’s blog post by answering these questions:
  • Estimate how much water you use per week (estimator)
  • How might you be able to cut back?
  • What struck you about the article?
  • What are other ways cities might save on water usage in the future? What plans should we pursue?
• What strikes you about “The Most Astounding Fact”?
• What was the most profound thought you gained from watching Chris Emdin’s keynote, We Got It From Here, Thank You For Your Service?
• After looking at where San Diego gets its water and future population projections what do you think are ideas for how we manage water here?

Today, you should be working on the following:

• Everyone should submit the book article to their area editor for another edit. The area editor needs to read through each paper and edit a second time for grammar and spelling. The text should be a third person account answering a question about their topic for the book. Area editors: please let Brian or Adam know if anyone in your group still does not have a complete 350 – 5oo word piece.
• Everyone should spend time completing a first draft of their additional book piece. Everyone must submit an article with processed photos for publishing. Everyone also has to submit a companion piece: either a 150 – 200 word sidebar, a visual (such as a graph) which gives information about their area of town, or a piece of art that may be used in the book. The first draft of this piece should be ready for critique Tuesday.
• Graphic designers must each complete two templates for the book by Wednesday, Mar. 6th.
• Read this text on water use in cities and begin this week’s blog post by answering these questions:
  • Estimate how much water you use per week
  • How might you be able to cut back?
  • What struck you about the article?
  • What are other ways cities might save on water usage in the future? What plans should we pursue?

Post the following for this week’s blog post:

• Take a quote out of the text we read on water. Write the quote down. Add a brief comment as to why you chose that quote. What is significant about it? What questions do you have as a result of this text?
• Watch the following brief video on the polar nature of water. What is interesting about how water behaves relative to other substances? What questions do you have about water after watching this?
• What strikes you about the pale blue dot speech in light of the current state of the world? Are Sagan’s comments still relevant? Why or why not?
• Three photos from our Little Italy field day that have been processed in PhotoShop or Light Room. What did you learn about processing photos this week?
• A link to the second draft of your piece for the Urban Field Guide.

Please put your Balboa Park photos in the group shared folder.

Post the following for Blog Post 5

• We discussed the phrase “science is a way of thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe” from Sagan’s final interview.  Write a paragraph on why is this phrase significant? Write a second paragraph on how it differs or is similar to previous definitions of science you’ve heard?
• What are your thoughts on the James Webb Space Telescope and the search for first light? Is it a worthwhile venture to spend $10 billion dollars to see back into deep time?
• Post a link to your notes and/or the beginning of your rough draft for your piece that will go in the field guide.
• Post at least two photos from Balboa Park with a note on what you are working on photographically.

I will be out Monday, February 13th for part of the day to do work at High Tech High Chula Vista and again this Thursday for part of the day doing an online lesson on our Weather Balloon Project. Check here if you’re wondering what to do.

Today, here is your task list for the morning.

• Finish Blog Post 4 from last week.
• Read this short NASA article on First Light and the James Webb Space Telescope. We will spend some time unpacking this text to understand what the big deal is. The video at the bottom of the article is also very helpful and worth the 2:30 view time.
• Read this article on the geologic history of San Diego. Take notes. We will be getting to this over the next week.
• Time permitting, watch this video and/or read this short article and make your first attempt at processing a photo in PhotoShop.
• Post the processed image to your blog.