Week # 4 - Sept. 21-28 Almost everyone is making progress on turning in assignments on time. This will be a critical week for your success in the course, getting caught up if needed, participating in on-line issue discussion, and working on Exam # 1. Fourth Week Assignments - due on Sept 28: Topic 4 and Exam # 1  Past due Assignments: Topic 3 Lab # 2  NOTE on Late Assignments: Starting last week, the grace period is over and I will begin to deduct points for work completed after the due date. The due dates given for Wednesdays may be liberally interpreted as on the discussion board by 9:00 AM on the Thursday morning. An informal grace period exists until Friday. After that it is definitely late. For this past week this applies to Topic 3 only. I do appreciate early returns on assignments as I can then space out my response times. If there is an Elmhurst computer malfunction this does not apply. If you need an extension (without late point deduction) due to out of town business or illness, I need PRIOR notification (email or phone call). The honor system applies and many repeated requests will become suspect.

Week # 4 - Sept. 21-28

Almost everyone is making progress on turning in assignments on time. This will be a critical week for your success in the course, getting caught up if needed, participating in on-line issue discussion, and working on Exam # 1.

Fourth Week Assignments - due on Sept 28:
Topic 4 and Exam # 1

Past due Assignments:
Topic 3
Lab # 2

NOTE on Late Assignments: Starting last week, the grace period is over and I will begin to deduct points for work completed after the due date. The due dates given for Wednesdays may be liberally interpreted as on the discussion board by 9:00 AM on the Thursday morning. An informal grace period exists until Friday. After that it is definitely late. For this past week this applies to Topic 3 only.

I do appreciate early returns on assignments as I can then space out my response times. If there is an Elmhurst computer malfunction this does not apply. If you need an extension (without late point deduction) due to out of town business or illness, I need PRIOR notification (email or phone call). The honor system applies and many repeated requests will become suspect.

Fourth Week Assignments Due on Sept. 28

1. On-line Lecture Discussion: Do the readings in the text book and correlate that with the Topic 4 Mineral Resources
Mineral resources are really mostly metals that must be mined and dug out of the ground. Most of the chemical elements are found in one form or another in the rocks of the earth. This week you have a choice of questions to do for Content Question A relating to the necessity of metals and mining. The Content B question is included on the metal mining report. The issue question continues the theme of mining by posing the question: Should more public lands be opened for mining? If we live in a modern society, the elements found in everyday conveniences must be found in the earth somewhere and processed into usable items.

2. EXAM # 1 due Sept 28, is now posted.

Exams are found on the Exam Index Page

See How to do an Exam - Introduction for directions on exam completion and reporting. Briefly, download the exam and work on it in any way that is comfortable for you; type the short answer/essay questions in MS Word; finally Open Blackboard, click on Course Materials, and then click on the Exams folder, and finally click the appropriate exam number report form. Click the multiple choice answers and copy paste the essay questions into the exam. Be sure to click the SUBMIT button on the bottom. I will monitor for exams that get locked out, so that you can try again, but to be sure send me an email if you get locked out.

The exam answers are found in one form or another in the textbook, sometimes I give reference pages, other times you will have to find the info yourself. The index can be useful. Sometimes the answers will require an application of a concept or principle found in the text. Work hard on the multiple choice questions as the answers are in the text, but many students are careless.

Students ARE NOT PERMITTED to share information or check answers on exams with other students. Very minor clarifications may be discussed. The honor system applies.

If you have questions about any exam questions, I will be available for clarifications, and maybe a few hints, so please give me a call or email - BUT do not wait until the last minute if you have some questions.

I am definitely expecting an on time submission of the exam. If you are finding yourself behind in some other aspects of the course, make a supreme effort to get the exam done completely and on time as this is where a majority of the points in the course are found. I can not provide other students feedback on the exam until all students have submitted it.

A LOOK AHEAD:

1. Collect some rain or water samples and measure the pH in preparation for Part I. Procedures 1 and 2. Lab # 4 due April 6. You need to take advantage of when it rains and not wait until the last minute.

3. You may want to look ahead begin work on the Energy Assessment Lab. This will be due in the 5th week -Oct. 5. This requires you to keep track of gasoline use and find electric and natural gas bills.