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Sixth Six Weeks
Week 4: May 12 - 16
Monday: Volcanoes and Plates lab due tomorrow.
Tuesday: Computer lab assignment
Use on line links and Chapter 11 to complete this assignment.
Read Chapter 11 Section 2. Diagrams of volcanoes are included in this section.
Volcano Assignment:
Due by Friday. Use loose paper (not your journal) for this assignment.
I. Sketch and label three basic types of volcanoes.
a. shield volcano
b. cinder volcano
c. composite volcano
Sketch Requirements:
Use at least a half page for each sketch. Sketch must be a cross-sectional diagram as shown in your textbook.
Label the diagram following accepted rules for scientific drawings: use pencil, label the parts to the side of the drawing.
II. Below your sketch, include the following descriptive details:
a. Type of volcano.
b. Example and where it's located. (Research link for location.)
c. Type of magma
d. Type of eruption
e. Plate boundary which caused volcano to form
III. Define volcano vocabulary
Photo glossary (Thanks, Canyon, for reminding me of this link!)
vent pipe (conduit)
crater lava vs. magma
caldera magma chamber
hot spot viscosity
'A'a
pahoehoe geothermal energy
andesite pyroclastic flow
rhyolite
basalt
extinct volcano
dormant volcano
active volcano
Lab quiz tomorrow covers last two labs.
Quiz is open journal.
Review:
1. Class notes from Monday.
2. Relative dating lab. (Circus bozoenzis)
3. Volcanoes and Plates lab.
4. After completing the Plate Tectonics test, you were to take notes in your journal while completing an online tutorial about earthquakes. I will include questions about the three types of earthquakes reviewed in this online lesson.
Earthquake Tutorial: THE BIG ONE
Wednesday: Work on volcano assignment
Thursday:
Two assignments are due tomorrow:
1. Volcano Assignment
See Tuesday entry above.
2. Egg Lab
a. Answer all questions.
b. Define all words.
c. For question # 11, identify the plate boundary type and the motion for the following landforms:
volcano, mountain range, rift valley, strike-slip fault
d. See page 301 in your textbook. Draw a cross sectional view of your home planet and label the inner core, outer core, mantle and lithosphere.
Friday: No HW/weekend!
Week 3: May 4 - May 9
Wednesday night:
Study for Plate Tectonics test.
Current Vocabulary list:
Ten Earthquake terms due by Thursday:
Chapter 11 pg 302-312
Fault
seismic wave
primary waves
secondary waves
focus
epicenter
earthquake
tsunami
magnitude
seismic safe
Vocabulary from Relative Age Lab:
Section 3 of Chapter 13:
absolute age
radioactive decay
half-life
radiometric dating
uniformitarianism
Week 2: April 28 - May 2
Monday assignments:
Due by Friday:
Ch 13 & 14 Outline and Plate Tectonics Packet
Students have had time in class
to complete this work.
Thursday:
Check the results page for the most recent quiz.
If you scored below a 71, you are to complete the homework
posted here. Assignment extended. Due no later than Monday, May 5.
EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION REVIEW
Assigned on Thursday 4/24 to students who scored 71 or below on the quiz.
Extension: Due by Monday 5/5.
Copy and paste the heading and questions 1- 10 into a word document.
Type complete sentences to answer each question.
Formal heading required in upper left corner:
Name
Foote (Prd.)
Date
Title: Evolution and the Origin of Life
1. How do Fossils Form ppt
Use your notes to answer this question: Fossils usually require hard parts...
2. What is an index fossil?
3. What is the significance of Burgess Shale fossils?
4. How is time divided on the Geologic Time Scale?
5. Clocks in the Rocks: Compare the methods of relative and absolute dating of rocks.
Inspiration software (encouraged, but not required) is available in lab 113.
6. What information did Dr. Stanley Miller's 1953 experiment provide?
7. How did scientific theories about the origin of life change once the extremophiles living along deep-sea hydrothermal vents were discovered?
8. What is the KT Boundary and how is it identified? Within your answer, define "KT" by identifying what each letter stand for and why the letter is informative.
9. KT Asteroid - How did it change Earth and where is the impact crater it formed?
10. Compare chemosynthesis to photosynthesis in a graphic organizer.
(Again, Inspiration encouraged, not required.)
11. You also need to read the basic pages from the homepage about radioactivity.
See the link titled "Get a Half-Life.
All of these questions have been discussed during class. Are you listening? If you need help, come to stretch tutorials on Thursday or ask for help during class.
Week 1: April 20 - 25
Monday: No homework
Tuesday:
Finish Weathering Graphic Organizer
Read Fossil Section of Glencoe Chapter 13 pages 366 - 372.
Wednesday: QUIZ THURSDAY
Study guide:
Rock Cycle and 3 types of rock
Know the process required for the formation of rock types.
Know basic characteristics of each rock type.
Know which rock type may contain fossils.
Class Notes on Origin of Life
KT Asteroid / KT Boundary
Stanley Miller's experiment
Hydrothermal Vents
Chemosynthesis vs. Photosynthesis
How Fossils are Formed
Burgess Shale...Why is it important?
Law of Superposition
Law of Original Horizontality
WEEKEND HOMEWORK:
FINISH WORK STARTED IN CLASS ON FRIDAY.
CRETACEOUS MAP AND GEOLOGIC TIME WS DUE MONDAY.
Fifth Six Weeks
Week 6 April 14 - April 18
Monday, April 14: Student holiday.
Tuesday, April 15: Wegener's Conclusion Statement
OPEN-JOURNAL QUIZ TOMORROW is based on this assignment.
You will use your conclusion statement as a guide during the quiz.
The conclusion statement is not a grade; it is for use on the quiz!
Assignment background:
Alfred Wegener claimed that all of Earth's continents were once one huge landmass he named Pangaea. He claimed that over billions of years Pangaea broke apart, and the continents moved toward their current locations.
Wegener collected impressive evidence to support this claim, and presented his continental drift hypothesis to other scientists many times. However, most scientists never supported his idea because he was never able to explain what caused the continents to move. Sadly, Alfred died before the technology was available which provided a reason his theory is correct, and he was never able to finish his conclusion statement.
Poor Alfred! He had a clearly stated claim. He had excellent evidence, too!
However, his reasoning was flawed! He thought the spin of the Earth could cause the continents to move.
Conclusion statements with flawed reasoning are mere prose in the world of science!
YOUR TASK: Write Wegener's conclusion statement!
We have talked in class about Wegener's claim that the continents drift (move). We also reviewed some the evidence Wegener gathered to support this claim. We have talked about seafloor spreading. Seafloor spreading is the explanation Wegener needed to convince others that his theory was correct! It is the REASON the continents are able to change position over time.
As you complete the Chapter 10 reading assignment, take notes in your journal to help Alfred write a conclusion statement explaining his theory.
Your notes will take the form of a conclusion statement (claim, evidence and reasoning).
I. State Wegener's claim: Continental Drift Theory
II. Evidence: List and describe in detail the evidence Wegener collected to support his claim.
III. Reasoning: Describe the reason Wegener's theory is true: Seafloor spreading causes the plates to move! Describe seafloor spreading, the cause of plate movement.
Week 5 April 7 - April 11
Monday: Reading assignment this week: Chapter 9 and Rock Hound link
Mineral packet and vocabulary are due by Wednesday.
Vocabulary:
1. rock
2. rock cycle
3. igneous rock
4. lava
5. intrusive
6. extrusive
7. basaltic
8. granitic
9. metamorphic
10. Make a Venn Diagram compare/contrast foliated versus nonfoliated
11. sediment
12. sedimentary rock
13. compaction
14. cementation
Note: You will not turn in a paragraph describing the rock cycle. However, you should be able to explain how the rock cycle functions using the processes listed in the diagram provided in the Chapter 9 packet.
Mineral classification lab write up is due by Thursday.
Lab Report Requirements
I. Title: Mineral Classification Lab
II. Purpose of the lab
III. Hypothesis
IV. Data
V. Analysis-
Here's an example of how you should analyze the data you collected:
1. Make a list of all minerals in the luster category which you observed as shiny/metallic.
2. Use a Mineral Field Guide (book or the online ) to identify whether each mineral in the shiny/metallic list is a member of the Sulfide, Sulfate, Oxide, Halide, Carbonate, Native Element, or Silicate group of minerals.
3. If at least three of the minerals in the list are in the same mineral group, this manner of classifying minerals is considered successful.
VI. Conclusion-
Here's what your conclusion statement should include:
Claim: What happened? Were you able to classify minerals successfully using the properties you observed?
Evidence:
What evidence (recorded in your data table and revealed in your analysis) supports your claim?
Choose one property which leads you to create a list of minerals which are truly members of the same mineral group (Sulfide, Sulfate, Oxide, Halide, Carbonate, Native Element, or Silicate). Choose one property which was not a all successful in classifying the minerals into groups. Evidence is based directly on your data and analysis.
Hint: In this inquiry lab, properties which are most obviously caused by an orderly arrangement of atoms and a definite crystalline structure are the properties which are most helpful in the correct classification of minerals.
Again, a correct classification of minerals means your analysis generated a list minerals with properties in common which includes at least three minerals which have same mineral group identity (Sulfide, Sulfate, Oxide, Halide, Carbonate, Native Element, or Silicate).
Reasoning: Explain why some properties are valid measures of a mineral's identity and other properties are not valid.
Your reasoning statement must rely on the definition of the term mineral. Review Chapter 8 Section 1 and class notes.
Week 4 March 31 - April 4
Monday 3.31
Topic this week: Minerals
Reading assignment: Chapter 8 and online website links.
Due by Thursday:
1. Mineral packet.
Research a halide at the Mineralogical Society website
MINERAL GROUPS
2. Vocabulary Chapter 8
a. Nine terms: mineral, crystal, magma, silicate, hardness, luster, specific gravity, streak.
b. compare and contrast fracture vs. cleavage.
Tuesday 4.1
Lab Over view:
Imagine the Mineralogical Society has misplaced its key for identifying mineral groups.
CMS students have been hired to create a key which will be useful for classifying minerals worldwide into specific groups. Scientists who study minerals use a mineral's chemical composition to classify specimens. Your goal is to create a method for observing 10 minerals samples in 10 different ways. Record you observations is a data table listing 10 minerals by name and 10 properties. You may use background reading (Ch 8 or online) to brainstorm a list of possible properties you can either observe or research.
Wednesday 4.2
Inquiry Lab continues.
Thursday 4.3
Quiz is postponed until next week.
Homework Due: Ch. 8 packet, and vocabulary.
All data must be recorded by the end of class today.
Band members who missed a day of the lab have a one day extension for completing the lab.
Friday 4.4
Share lab findings: Which properties best describe minerals groups?
Class discussion: mineral groups.
Students will continue analyzing data and will
write a conclusion statement during class on Friday.
Finish the lab write-up as homework this weekend if you do not turn it in on Friday.
Final due date: Monday 4.7.08
Week 3 March 24 - 28
Monday 3.24: HOLIDAY!
Tuesday 3.25
Chapter 7 assigned reading.
Complete Chapter 7 packet by Thursday.
(Packet due as class begins on Thursday.)
Wednesday 3.26
Chapter 7 packet due tomorrow.
Longitudinal/Transverse wave lab started today.
Taking the makeup Ocean test on Thursday?
Before taking the test, here for review: two games and a practice quiz.
Foote's Ocean Test Review Page
Ocean Unit Test
Thursday 3.27
Wave Properties Lab completed in class today.
Quiz tomorrow.
Study:
1. Section 2 of Chapter 7.
2. WAVE PROPERTIES info in packet (pages 31 and 26).
Know how mechanical and electromagnetic waves differ.
Quia review games will not be posted for quiz.
Friday 3.28
Weekend reading assignment is posted on the homepage.
Make up work for those absent Friday
Friday Wave Properties Quiz
Task completed after quiz:
1. Sound wave assignment
2. Explore mineral and rock-related web links posted on the homepage.
Week 2 March 10 - 14
Monday:
Due tomorrow for 1st and 2nd period: Wave Lab Conclusion Statement. Details posted under Friday, 3.7.08
Tuesday - Wednesday:
Study for Ocean Unit test. Review practice test provided on Monday.
Thursday: Ocean Unit test today.
Friday: Have fun... Spring Break!
Extra credit over the break:
1. Read two National Geographic articles about an epidemic called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
linked here:
Mysterious epidemic causing disappearance of bees could put a strain on fruit growers
and other farmers who rely on the insects to pollinate their crops.
Disappearing Bees
2. Find another article about the bee epidemic from a reliable publication. You will turn in a copy of the article with your final typed report.
3. After completing the background research, follow the format provided to summarize the articles.
Format
Problem: What is currently happening to bee populations worldwide?
Claim: Answer the question in one sentence.
Evidence: What evidence does the article provide which supports the claim that bees are vanishing?
(3-4 sentence minimum)
Reasoning: What are suggested explanations for the epidemic?
(3-4 sentence minimum)
4. If you are traveling, find out if the bee epidemic is a problem in the area you are visiting. If you are staying home during the holiday, find out how the bee epidemic impacts the local area. Type a report of your findings.
Final products you will turn in for extra credit:
All work must be typed.
1. Write a report summarizing your research. Follow Claim-Evidence-Reasoning format.
2. Turn in a copy of the article you found through your own independent research.
3. In a one-page typed report, describe how a local community or a place you visited is impacted by the CCD epidemic.
Week 1 March 3 - 7
Friday, 3.7.08
Finish conclusion statement for wave lab. First and second period students will have an extra day to complete this assignment due to our late start for school on Friday.
Format for the conclusion statement is posted here.
Wave Lab
Problem: How do particles move in a wave?
Claim: One sentence clearly stating what you observed and what you have learned in assigned reading or notes about particle movement in waves.
Evidence: Include observations made during the lab and real-world observations of particle movement in a wave.
Reasoning: Scientific principles which explain ocean motion in general and particle oscillation in waves specifically.
4th Six Weeks
Week 6: February 25 - 29
Tuesday: Whale Shark CSI:
Solve the case to determine why the whale sharks are dying.
Task I
1. Complete Ocean Surface Current WS (individual assignment)
2. Each group must have one set of index cards completed by Wed.
Define one vocabulary word per index card. See class handout for vocabulary words.
Wednesday: Students turned in vocabulary note cards today. (One set per group.)
They also completed a single page of answers to analyze a map showing surface current temperatures and locations.
Thursday: Presentations are due Monday, March 3rd
Here's how presentations will be graded: CSI Presentations Grading Rubric
Describe an experiment which would test your hypothesis regarding the cause of whale shark deaths. Imagine you have unlimited funding to test your hypothesis. Many of you have asked if we will conduct the experiments. These are simply design ideas; we will not be able to run the experiments. Design an experiment which is plausible (possible) and also follows the clues provided.
Groups must bring some form of visual aid to make their presentation more interesting. Powerpoint notes are permisible as are costumes, posters, or handouts.
HELPFUL LINKS REMINDER!
Upwelling in the Ocean
So...What is El Nino, anyway?
World Atlas Maps
Marine Food Chains
Friday: Weekend homework.
Finish Whale Shark CSI work.
Students who scored below a 70 on the last quiz may take home a corrections quiz to improve their grade.
Ask Ms. Foote for a copy if you are interested.
Week 5: February 18 - 22
Monday:
Weekend homework: Read and outline Ocean article.
Due Tuesday as class begins:
1. Number each paragraph.
2. Write three bulletted notes outlining the main idea of each paragraph.
Tuesday: Review class notes.
Wednesday: STUDY FOR QUIZ.
What's on the quiz?
Quiz covers notes, readings, labs and Sections I and II of Chapter 18.
You should study:
Ocean packet Sections I and II
Focused Study Guide (you glued this in your journal last week!)
Notes: Denstiy currents and thermohaline circulation
Notes: Oceans of Earth (and continents).
Notes: Features of the Seafloor
Sonar Lab background paragraphs.
Thursday: Quiz today.
We will finish the Sonar Lab in class on Friday.
Weekend Homework:
Due Monday:
1. Complete Sonar Lab graph.
2. Ocean Profile graph and questions.
3. Ups and Downs matching worksheet.
4. Ocean Trenches worksheet.
Students missing class due to practice TAKS test should come by class to turn in work during stretch or after school. Turn your work in at the verical file box for your class period.
Week 4: February 11 -15
Tuesday night homework:
1. Complete Chapter 18 packet.
2. Complete Density Lab analysis for Part I
3. Complete Density Lab Part II: Design an experiment.
Helpful hints: What changes could you make to Part I to establish a continuous thermohaline circulation in the basin?
Can you think of a way to establish a third density layer in the basin? Outline your own experiment. Come to class prepared to brainstorm ideas for running an experiment of your own design on Thursday.
Wednesday night homework:
Prepare for Lab Design Challenge
Option # 1: Thermohaline Circulation
Option #2: Four layered density chamber
Lab description is due at end of class on Thursday.
Include :
Problem Statement
Hypothesis
Research : "Part I of lab and notes" is sufficient
Materials: Bring from home anything not provided in Part I.
Procedures
Analysis
Conclusion
Thurday night homework: CHANGE IS GOOD! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
QUIZ POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT THURSDAY! ; ).
Study items for next week:
I. Reading Assignments: Oceans Alive website link on homepage should be explored and read from a home or a school computer.
Students were provided an opportunity to read this text (on school computers) Thursday 2/7 and Friday 2/8. Students are also to read Chapter 18 Sections I and II of their textbook as homework this week.
II, Quiz this week includes: Chapter 18 Section I and II vocabulary and a bit of geography.
GIVEN A MAP WITH NO LABELING, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND SPELL CORRECTY THESE MAJOR FEATURES OF YOUR HOME PLANET:
Week 3: February 4 - 8
Monday: Finish assigned vocabulary word triangle for gallery walk.
Also due tomorrow: Air pressure activity should be glued into journal before class.
Tuesday: Quia Vocabulary Flashcards
Wednesday: Study for quiz. Weather and Climate Gallery Walk Guidebook notes will be turned in tomorrow before the quiz.
Weather and Climate quiz covers:
Vocabulary; Using map symbols to read a weather map; Interpreting an isobar map
Thursday: Brief reading assignment.
Friday: NO WEEKEND HOMEWORK!
Week 2: January 28 - February 1
WORK ASSIGNED ON THURSDAY IS DUE by MONDAY.
Thursday, January 31:
Lab completed in class: Interpreting a Weather Map
Activity questions are due by Monday.
Friday, February 1:
Computer lab activity assigned. The printer in the computer lab jammed, and many students could not print their work.
Therefore, due date is extended to Tuesday, February 5.
Computer Lab Activity description:
Part 1. Weather for Kids online vocabulary: Weather for Kids
Write your own definition for each "ingredient" shown on the recipe card for weather:
temperature, pressure, volume, density and then take the quiz posted at the link for exploring the effects of combining all ingredients.
Part 2. Weather Maps: Know the Code.
Answer all pressure activity questions.Pressure Activity
Answers are posted on the website under the "Teacher Guide" link.
Check your own answers, but simply pasting in an answer will not be honored as completed work.
Isobar maps (final question) will be completed in class on Monday.
Week I was a two day "week."
A Beginner's Guide to Global Warming
MySpace Music Article NY Times
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