{"id":99,"date":"2017-07-23T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/odonnell17online\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:35:34","slug":"week-9-energy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/week-9-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 09: Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary:<\/h3>\n<p>This week we are going to think about how we get the energy we need to power our activities as a society and as individuals. We&#8217;ll compare the traditional fossil fuels to the alternative energies. While we do this, we&#8217;ll be thinking about how to test hypotheses statistically.<\/p>\n<p>The reading\/watching requirement this week is shorter than usual. This is intentional &#8211; you should be focusing more of your time on your group&#8217;s data analysis for the poster project and you should be filming\/editing your group video. We&#8217;ll have our video editing workshop in class this week.<\/p>\n<h3>Learning Objectives:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>understand where our energy comes from<\/li>\n<li>apply statistics to test hypotheses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Unit 9 Class 16 [day\/date] Required Readings\/Videos:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Science Forward Video: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Cbn83mBu9zo\">Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading: <\/strong>Muller RA. 2008. Ch 5: Key Energy Surprises <em>from<\/em> Physics for Future Presidents. New York: WW Norton. Pgs. 65-76.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch ONLY ONE (based on your group):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Group 1: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2zCeyrYiY2E\">Green Revolution: Hydrogen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Group 2: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/POAVeoclXA4\">Green Revolution: Biomass<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Group 3: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/mmg\/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=70736&amp;from=\">Green Revolution: Wind Power<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Group 4: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/F8--gs_z9uM\">Green Revolution: Solar Power<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Group 5 and Group 6: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DYct56Gefvs\">Green Revolution: Microbes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Unit 9, Class 16 [day\/date]Self Assessment<\/h3>\n<p>[insert form]<\/p>\n<h3>Unit 9, Class 17 [day\/date] Required Readings\/Videos<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=51wOisfdIPo\">SciShow: Facts About Fracking<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading: <\/strong>Harris, Taylor, and Taylor. <em>CatchUp Math and Statistics for the Life Sciences<\/em>. New York: WH Freeman and Company. Ch. 38 and 40.<\/p>\n<h3>Unit 9, Class 17 [day\/date] Self Assessment<\/h3>\n<p>[insert form]<\/p>\n<h3>Unit 9 Assignments<\/h3>\n<p>POSTER: Annotated Bibliography due [time\/date]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: This week we are going to think about how we get the energy we need to power our activities as a society and as individuals. We&#8217;ll compare the traditional fossil fuels to the alternative energies. While we do this, we&#8217;ll be thinking about how to test hypotheses statistically. The reading\/watching requirement this week is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}