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NASA Internships for High School Students
Vocabulary on Google Drive: ever evolving...check it often...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12W-lYwjps8lzDuk4kqs0YfZyJ-zgOau30j8FsI45_2o/edit
All Interactive Notebook methods are now linked as two documents at the bottom of this page. They are named Interactive_Notebook _1 and Interactive_Notebook_2.
Notebooks will be due each Friday, with only occasional exceptions.
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/cosmic.html
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-cosmic-rays-help-us-understand-the-universe-veronica-bindi (Stay tuned; coming soon)
How did we find the distance to the Sun?
http://www.universetoday.com/117843/how-did-we-find-the-distance-to-the-sun/
TBA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7E1v24Dllk&list=PL6VWnVL2NlnS0vNOktUznLmq6Q2bxpAYy&index=12
Jan 12-17: Review your notes from the Earth Evolution and Climate Change units. We will do review in class as well. Starts Oct 4.
Jan 11: https://socratic.org/questions/how-does-salt-change-the-specific-heat-capacity-of-water (for Emily & Hannah)
Jan 9: Draft your experimental writeup.
Jan 6: (1) Essay is overdue ; (2) Write up your experiment as far as you can.
Dec 19: Write your second paragraph for the essay.
Dec 16: No class. Work on the essay. Try improving the your description and explanation of how the Earth's inner layers were and are beneficial to life. You may need to go back to a vodcast or your notes.
Dec 15: In your lab book, answer the four questions on the "Secrets in the Ice" handout.
Dec 14: Finish your graph.
Dec 13
TED Talk about changes in the ice cover over time. Watch and take notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjeIpjhAqsM
Dec 9: (1) Read and digest the handout given on Dec 8 (Causes of Climate). Be ready to answer questions. (2) In your Worldwide Climate Zones handout answer the page on Monsoons.
Dec 8: http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/troposphere.html
Dec 7: Finish your worksheet up through page 5.
Dec 6: Read the handout overview of climate change and greenhouse effect. Do selective highlighting and annotating so you can recount the most important ideas and ask questions.
Dec 5: You have submitted your essay on Google Docs.
Nov 30: Be prepared to use your poster(s) tomorrow to answer two essay questions.
Nov 21: The page numbers I gave you in class today may not match your textbook. Sorry about that. In your Earth Science textbook, you need to read pages 240-249. These include the sections about the principles of stratigraphy, dating layers of rock, the different types of unconformities and types of fossils.
Nov 18: Lab books are due today. Watch this vodcast for Monday morning and take notes on separate paper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsPFwYMCh4o
Nov 17: Watch and take notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EadTLGMu3LI
Nov 15 & 16: Study the new handout and notes you took today. Bring questions tomorrow.
Nov 14: Watch and take notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wissIOikrqc
Nov 10: (1) Once you write your paragraph about the Permian Extinction, make a "lost or found" poster (Interactive Notebook) for the cause of the extinction.
(2) Read pages 140-147 (How did we discover plate tectonics? What did we think before this theory?)
Nov 7-8-9: no new HW
Nov 4: Lab books due today. Read pages 164-167 mantle convection; 188-190: probing the Earth's interior. These sections inform us of why and how the crust forms and deforms since the Earth's beginning.
Nov 3: No homework. Be prepared to discuss what you saw in the movie yesterday and pose questions. Lab books due Friday, Nov 4.
Nov 1: Lab books due Friday, Nov 4. Today you wrote two questions in your notebook: What does atmosphere have to do with the origins of life on Earth? What is the evidence for the origin of life on Earth? Review your experimental, reading and class notes from the past 2 weeks. Write a thoughtful paragraph to each of these questions.
Mon, Oct 31: In class: Today you finish writing up your coacervate findings. Then click on these sites and do the virtual experiments. Each site is modeling the Urey-Miller experiment, but in different ways. The Wiley tutorial has a worksheet to go with it. Texas Gateway: take notes.
Weekend HW: Read the handout "Origin of Life:Twentieth Century Landmarks." Bull's eye comparison (Integrated Notebook, left hand side) of those two experiments.
http://www.wiley.com/college/trefil/0470118547/vdl/lab_miller_experiment/
http://www.texasgateway.org/node/10586
Wed-Thurs: Coacervate lab in progress
Tues, Oct 25: Answer questions 1-5 in your lab notebook from the nanoscopic thin film experiment.
Mon, Oct 24: Read through the entire lab handout and review your notes. You should be ready to proceed ahead tomorrow.
Fri, Oct 21: Notebooks due today.
Thurs, Oct 20: In preparation to watching a film addressing "What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning", make a list in your Earth Science notebook (RH side) of the effects, if any, you would expect to happen. Explain your thinking (Very important!)
Wed, Oct 19: No new HW (majority of class took PSATs)
Tues, Oct 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrMzS8e2BY (in class)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYOarZKipnU (in class)
Tues, Oct 18: On the left side of a page near your notes from today, to the Interactive Notebook Ring of Truth re: evidence for Earth formation, origin of water and life.
Mon, Oct 17: Bring questions about today's film on how the Moon was formed.
Fri, Oct 14: Read the article "Isotope analysis points to violent moon origin." THEN: Answer the following questions. Yes, I know I have your notebooks. Select another medium=notebook paper, googledoc, tattoo, etc... that you can show me on Monday.
1. Describe the Giant-Impact Hypothesis (GIH).
2. Describe and explain the isotope evidence that suggested the GIH needs revising.
3. What samples provided the new data? How were they sourced?
4. What explains the potassium isotope fractionation?
5. How might this discovery lead to more studies?
Thurs, Oct 13: Kudos to all of you on your homework last night! For homework tonight, read in your handout (the one with a model of the atom on the front page, not the one with the photos) from page 12 (starting with "Making New Elements") to page 18. In your notebook (RH side), record at least three new concepts (big ideas) you learn.
Wed, Oct 12: Interactive Notebook assignment: Grasp A Concept (LH side of page) on radioactive isotopes.
Tues, Oct 11: Notebooks due today. We will continue with atomic nuclei tomorrow.
Thurs, Oct 6: Work on rewriting your Big Bang essays. Feel free to email me with questions and when you are ready for me to look at the next version. Make sure all of your answers for the M&M lab are completed. I will check lab books Monday.
Wed, Oct 5:
Priority 1: Finish the radioactive decay questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRwey6cwGHo
Watch this vodcast and take notes in your interactive notebook on the right hand side.
Tues, Oct 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFdR_yMKOCw
Watch this vodcast and take notes in your interactive notebook on the right hand side.
Oct 3: Notebooks due today. Read pages 428-436 in your textbook. The section is entitled Overview of the Solar System.
Sep 30: Due today is the revision of the Big Bang evidence essay, incorporating my comments and anything else you see that you can improve. Please share it with me as a Google Doc.
Due Monday: a quiz on star life cycle. Study your notes and page 467 of your text. Notebooks due Monday.
Sep 29: *let's do it for HW: On the left hand side of the page, draw an HR Diagram with just the axes labeled. Then place each stage in a Sun-like star's lifecycle where it belongs on the H-R diagram. (In other words, record pictorially what we did as a class activity today.)
Sep 28: "Life of a Star" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prkEf2if4MQ
Notes on the right hand side. We will "IN" it in class.*
Sept 27: Read pages 465-471. Fill in the worksheet for a Sun-like star.
Sept 26: (1) Review your notes on H-R diagrams. (2) In your notebook on the left hand side, do the Interactive Notebook "Grasping a Concept." The explanation is linked below. The concept is the H-R Diagram.
Sept 23: Finish the star diagram charting. Read pages 456-464 in your textbook. Record definitions in bold on your handout. Lab books due today.
Sept 21: Get your textbook signout sheet signed.
September 20: Finish the Universe Adventure evidence of nucleosynthesis and evolution of stars and galaxies. Prepare to be questioned tomorrow. Interactive Notebook on the left side: Fold-It 4
September 19, 2016: Watch and take notes on separate paper. Topic: CMB and how it informs us about the Big Bang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kqWWLpyMpY
INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS DUE Monday, Sep 19.
Fri, Sep 16: Observe the Moon tonight, Saturday and Sunday. You generated a list of variables to look for: shape of the Moon (phase); color; time of day; where in the sky; apparent distance traveled from one night to the next; evidence of rotation. Your notes go in the Interactive Notebook. Good luck!
Thurs, Sep 15: Calculate the averages you were assigned. (Catch up on past HW if necessary.)
Wed, Sep 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-xNMdIXJIs
Take notes on the right. Do a Fold-It 2 on the left.
Tues, Sep 13: Interactive Notebook entry on the left side of your page (based on our discussion about the Universe: Do a Fold-It 1 (refer back to Sept 2 for explanation.) You can either do a Vocabulary or a Riddle card. The TERM you will use is "paradox." Use the Universe as your context.
Mon, Sep 12: "Test" tomorrow on the nature of light and EMR. This is to assess your understanding so far, but not for a grade. Your interactive notebook will be the best source to study.
Fri, Sep 9: Read two pages about Hubble's Law and Hubble's Constant linked to the work of two astronomers. Highlight or record for each page "who, what, where, when, why, how." Annotate in the margin questions that you have. Select one or more of those questions on the Internet and record the answers. You may use the back of the page or additional paper.
Notebooks due today for a formative evaluation, i.e., how is it working so far?
Thurs, Sep 8: Tonight's HW is reinforcement of what we have learned, plus some history:
Click on the purple Fundamentals bar. Read the first four pages. Click on anything it tells you to. Definitely click on the additional info when it offers it to you, e.g., Cosmic Conundrum. Write down what you want to remember on the right side. Don't do an interactive notebook for this one yet. Keep the left side open.
Wed, Sep 7: Watch vodcast and take notes - right hand side of page; then on left hand side, do Single Frame Cartoon Project. (Can be found in the Interactive Notebook pages uploaded below, entitled DOC090216 or DOC090216_001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVApTLE7Csc
Tues, Sep 6: http://www.bozemanscience.com/ap-phys-126-the-nature-of-light/?rq=wave%20light%20duality
Take notes on right hand side of fresh page. On the left, use the Fold It 2 - Compare and Contrast Two Terms.* The terms are "particle" and "wave" in reference to light behavior. Recall that these strategies are linked below.
*Tri-fold a piece of paper.
Left side-one TERM and a multi-color ILLUSTRATION.
Inside left side-the word, a LINK, THREE COMPLETE sentences defining or using the word in student terms.
Right side-one TERM and a multi-color ILLUSTRATION.
Inside right side-the word, a LINK, THREE COMPLETE sentences defining or using the word in student terms.
Inside Center: a bull's-eye diagram to compare and contrast the two terms. (The uploaded doc shows you how to make the bull's-eye. It's not what you are used to.)
Fri, Sep 2: First vodcast. Use your interactive notebook to take notes - his presentation on the RIGHT hand side, your annotations afterward on the LEFT.
http://www.bozemanscience.com/light
Refer to two documents below entitled DOC09022016 and DOC09022016-001. - you will be using Fold It 1 - Vocabulary/Riddle Card on the left hand side of your notebook. The right hand side is your info - light.
Fold-It 1: 2-sided card. Front side has multi-color illustration representing the term. The back top has the term. Underneath is the link(synonym or mnemonic). Underneath that, THREE sentences explaining the word in context.
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