Mr. Moore
ELGHS - SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
New Web page
This page is no longer being maintained. Our district has switched to a new website format, and you can now find my current website at: http://www.elgs.k12.wi.us/olc/73 Thanks.
Monday, May 22, 2017
Buckthorn Removal at School Forest
The ELGHS chapter of the National Honor Society organized a buckthorn removal event on Sunday. Several members spent the morning uprooting this invasive species from a section of the school forest. This technique of buckthorn control is both effective and chemical free, although a bit laborious. My AP Environmental Science class has also been out there working on this project. We're a long way from done. In parts of the forest, I'd estimate that buckthorn makes up 90% of the understory, so we'll be continuing our efforts for the foreseeable future.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Electronics Recycling Event
The ELGHS National Honor Society will be holding an
electronics recycling event on Saturday April 8th at the High
School. Most items are free to drop off, with the exception of monitors,
TVs, and refrigerators. All items will be recycled by Cyber Green in an
environmentally friendly way. See the Flier for details.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Water Testing at The Trout Farm
The AP Environmental Science class was invited out to
Henschel’s Indian Museum and Trout Farm earlier this month to test water
quality in several of their ponds and wells.
This is the second year of an ongoing study of various water quality
indicators including: nitrate, turbidity, total dissolved solids, dissolved
oxygen, and pH. It has been an
invaluable experience for the students to do hands on water testing and compare
measurements with the results that we’ve seen in the nearby Sheboygan
River. It’s shocking to kids that there
can be such a significant difference between two ponds that are separated by
only a few feet of walkway, but it can be explained when we test the two
different sources feeding the ponds. What
we’ve learned so far is that this is a very dynamic system, and that the
groundwater is moving with a great deal of freedom. We’ve seen fluctuations in one pond
associated with heavy rain events, while another one seems unfazed. It’s a real challenge to figure out the
system, making it a very exciting field study for these advanced students. But at the end of the day it’s hard not to be
exciting when there are several dozen rainbows jumping on the surface at
feeding time.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Google Classroom 2016-2017
Welcome back! Once again this year I will be using Google Classrooms for all of my classes as a primary way of communicating assignments and information with students. You can still find my weekly lesson plans on this website by clicking on the "Lesson Plans" button to the left.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Electronics Recycling Event Success!
Last Saturday the ELGHS chapter of the National Honor Society hosted an electronics recycling drive in connection with Cybergreen, a recycling company based in Green Bay. This event was open to everyone to get rid of old or unused electronic equipment in an environmentally safe way FREE of charge (except TVs and monitors). All items collected are stripped of their valuable components for recycling by Cybergreen. These items are not being shipped overseas and contributing to the growing electronic waste problem occurring in many developing countries, rather they are being domestically processed and kept out of landfills. The NHS earns a percentage of the overall collection, so the more we collect, the better it is for everyone. We will be hosting this event again next spring, so start saving your junk! This year we nearly filled an entire semi, and we're optimistic that we can collect even more next year. Thank you to everyone who came to support NHS and help the environment.
Monday, February 22, 2016
CAPP Biology Students at Lakeland
On Thursday the AP/CAPP Biology class spent the afternoon with Professor Greg Smith at Lakeland College performing a plasmid extraction and purification that we cut with restriction enzymes and ran in a gel. Students then took the data from that gel to create a map of the plasmid sequence. It was hours worth of micropipetting, microfuging, and electrophoresis...in other words, a pretty awesome day.
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