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2015-2016 assignments
World Science Festival in NYC - live streaming access - check it out - lots on astronomy, biology
Vocabulary on Google Drive: ever evolving...check it often...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12W-lYwjps8lzDuk4kqs0YfZyJ-zgOau30j8FsI45_2o/edit
Mini-deadline Fri, Jun 10: You have added supporting evidence as additional paragraphs. Share with me on *YOUR EARTH SCIENCE FOLDER* so I can help you over the weekend. IT WILL HELP ME ALOT IF I CAN FIND EACH OF YOUR DRAFTS IN THE SAME PLACE. PLEASE AND THANK YOU :)
By now you should be able to put together a short (less than 5 minute) presentation on your thesis and evidence - think 3-4 slides. Quality, not quantity.
Mini-deadline Thurs, Jun 9: First draft of first paragraph that presents your thesis and how you will support it in your paper. This is your chance to get feedback from me that you are/are not on target.
Mini-deadline Wed, Jun 8: You have evidence of the connection to climate change and/or overpopulation to your natural disaster. Again, see the resource list below for those. After Wednesday, you will be able to check books out with the librarian to take home (ie, from my classroom.)
Final Project Resource List link below
Fri, Jun 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkR3TI6xyzU#t=2.315941
Bill Nye addresses the deniers of climate change.
Thurs, Jun 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtW2rrLHs08
Bill Nye on Climate Change. He speaks quickly. You can adjust the speed of the audio. Cornell notes.
Wed, Jun 1
Watch - you don't have to take notes. This film is an excellent introduction to the theme of our final project, about which you will learn more at the end of the week. How do high density populations, ie, cities, and other man-altered areas create a worse scenario in the face of a natural disaster"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8hfCN6k3YE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzlodnjPAuc - also good and explains how humans created a risky situation here
Watch Tuesday, May31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaI4MEWdc4
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To be shown in class or for HW next week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjRGIpP-Qfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOGoKCK17a4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY6SG7GPAlo
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC45k3S4R1Z4x6xcnTqzuNCw
May 27: All vodcast notes assigned Mon-Thurs are due today for a check.
May 26: Vodcast HW (patterns of earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes)/Cornell Notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAe8b6PG1PA
May 25: Study your "gallery walk" notes. Bring questions for tomorrow.
May 24: Vodcast HW - Cornell Notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3T8wM_4Fis
In class activity
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/legacy/plate-tectonics
May 23: Motion at plate boundaries - Cornell notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlFueumy74Q
May 20: Study your notes and worksheets that address the four aims* we worked on this week. There will be a short quiz Monday.
*(1) What is the theory of plate tectonics?
(2) How does plate tectonics differ from continental drift?
(3) What is the evidence that supports the theory of plate tectonics?
(4) What drives plate tectonics?
Notes on these are posted at the bottom of this page. Each page starts out with the date 5-18-16
If you did not read the handout "The Earth's Magnetic Field", get that done this weekend. Provide three questions on the reading that could be used as quiz questions.
May 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNMCTBdQtk - we will watch this in class tomorrow (Friday). Your HW tonight is to read the new handout on magnetic reversals and write 3 test questions based upon it.
May 18: Keith Meldahl - Magnetic Reversals - Cornell notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCzCmldiaWQ
B and C Block: Be sure you turn in your two vodcasts from LAST week (Wegener & Fossil types) as well as your Wegener paragraph, also assigned last week.
May 17: Color in your specialist map. You can find your map in color by going to this website. http://plateboundary.rice.edu/downloads.html
B Block notes from today
C Block notes from today
May 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyMLlLxbfa4&list=PLEB319590CD49830D
Bill Nye - Seafloor spreading (4 minutes) - Cornell Notes
May 13: Study your radioactive (absolute) dating and relative dating activities and practice questions. Quiz on Monday.
Skills you will demonstrate:
1. Interpret a radioactive decay graph for age of the specimen or how much parent or daughter isotope is present.
2. Interpret the rock layers for age and change using the principles of relative dating and the processes rock layers are subject to.
3. Use fossil correlation to date rock layers.
May 12: will be shown in class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKiNwTwaNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1-cES1Ekto
Homework: Write a paragraph using your evidence handouts and reading (and the songs!) to answer: How did Alfred Wegener arrive at his hypothesis of continental drift? How was his hypothesis received by scientists? Explain your reasoning.
May 11: no HW (if you missed it, here is the URL for the National Geographic vodcast on plate tectonics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSJNBMOjJs
May 10: Cornell notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbU809Cyrao
(Alfred Wegener)
May 9:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7PCCsL-abk Cornell Notes
(How fossils are created)
Extra Credit
This is really cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJZklKhG4k
(only 2 minutes long: geology in the making.)
May 5: 2 vodcasts -
Vodcast on (fossil) correlation - Cornell notes - lots of practice in preparation for tomorrow's activity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JEyNFlJBIw
Vodcast on unconformities - Cornell notes - super-short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rm7lvvrx_A
FRIDAY: Be prepared to turn in vodcast notes from 4/12, 4/28 (extra credit), 4/29 and 5/5.
May 4: Study your new vocabulary words and geologic concepts (Principles and Processes).
Homework for Tues, May 3: Finish answering the worksheets for the Green River Formation. They will be turned in tomorrow. We will continue the relative dating worksheet tomorrow.
Videos to be shown in class Tuesday, May 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGhogd0G7_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDVbe38lI2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-RMtaqWH5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJRy4ZmtkXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNA0qr8l3Q
Mon, May 2: Answer today's AIM: "Compare and contrast absolute and relative dating." Turn in on separate paper tomorrow or share with me as a Google doc.
Fri Apt 29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EadTLGMu3LI Cornell notes.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/tertiary/eoc/greenriver.html More info on the Green River Formation,especially how they dated it.
Thurs, Apr 28: Vodcasts on the Green River Formation. First one - no notes. We will be working with this rock formation in class. The second one is more detailed. If you take notes, show me and you will get extra credit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKq9FC5y748
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDVbe38lI2s
Wed, Apr 27: Complete the Deep Time work.
Both days: Classes are working on Deep Time Activity
Tues, April 26: C Block in class http://sciencecourseware.com/VirtualDating/
Homework: You have finished step 34 and have tried one of the virtual dating options (isochron or carbon -14.)
Mon, April 25: B Block In class http://sciencecourseware.com/VirtualDating/
Homework: You have finished at least through step 14.
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Fri, April 15: Finish answering the questions at the end of the Radioactivity worksheet. The "Stretching Exercises" are extra credit. On Monday next, you will turn in your three graphs and your answers. Enjoy your break.
Wed, April 13: Study the notes you took in class today from our guest speaker. (Did you take notes??)
Tues, April 12: B Block - no HW (SBAC); C Block: Finish graphing the data you collected.
Mon, April 11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1920gi3swe4
Take Cornell notes on absolute dating of rocks.
TIME TRAVEL BROCHURES due FRIDAY, APRIL 8
Wed, April 6: Lay out your information on Microsoft Brochure. By Thursday, you should be able to show me a draft that meets all of the requirements on the rubric.
Tues, April 5: Continue travel brochure research. Tomorrow you should be ready to draft the brochure using the rubric.
Mon, April 4:
Day #1 of Earth time travel brochure.
IF you have the Permian as your time period, this is a good vodcast on evidence for the Permian extinction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ig6zKiNTc
Fri,Apr 1:Study your Snowball Earth notes for a quiz Monday (multiple choice).
ALSO: B BLOCK: Please have ready for checking the notes on Milankovitch Theory (Wed night HW).
C BLOCK: Please have ready for checking the notes for the Tuesday and Wednesday night vodcast assignments.
Nice tutorial
http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eec/globalwarming/tutorials/milankovitch/
Wed, Mar 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQSHxY5ZR6w (5 minute video on Milankovitch Cycles=theory of why we have had periodic ice ages.)
Tues, Mar 29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNtQwUO9ff8 (10 minute video on the Cambrian explosion. Listen for what it was, hypotheses of why it happened, and why it is important.
Mon, Mar 28 (posted late): Answer the questions on the reading "Snowball Earth: The discovery of evidence that the Earth was once frozen from pole to pole." Questions were handed out in class.
Fri, Mar 25:
THREE TASKS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wissIOikrqc Pay particular attention to the association of climate change and each extinction. Is there a pattern? Take Cornell notes.
You are also reading a short article on the series of "snowball Earths". ***FYI: The printout cut off part of the second paragraph of this article. It is posted on a Shared Google Doc entitled New Scientist Reading URL
Finish the article from San Jose State University.
Thurs, Mar 24: 1. Read handout pages 6/12 and 7/12. Be ready to discuss.
2. Be prepared to collect more data tomorrow. Think about answers to the question, "How is this activity different from actual albedo?
Wed,Mar 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX3pHD7NH58 take Cornell notes. Be listening for dropstones.
Tues, Mar 22: study for quiz. Finish reading first handout on Snowball Earth.
Mon, Mar 21: Study all of your notes on early earth atmosphere and how life may have developed on Earth. Quiz Wednesday.
Thurs, Mar 17: B & C block: catch up on late work.
Wed, Mar 16: finish watching the vodcast, "Why is there air?" posted on Monday. Take notes.
Tues, Mar 15: B Block: We will start the activity tomorrow. Nothing new tonight.
C Block: Be prepared to justify your decision about a warmer or cooler early Earth.
Mon, Mar 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocsV1cA4K4A "Why is there air?"
ONLY watch and take Cornell notes on the first 2:26 minutes. STOP after that. The narrator is very good but talks quickly. Remember you can slow down the vodcast using the icons in the lower right hand corner; and you can stop and start the film also. You are listening for more details or different info than what we have learned about early Earth atmosphere from our reading.
Fri, Mar 11 (Posted late): You have a short reading and questions to answer that you started in class. If you did not finish you should do so before class on Monday.
Enjoy the beautiful weather!
Wed & Thurs: Your presentations are due now. Share them with me on Google Drive.
Tues, Mar 8: You are continuing work on your presentation. Students who are ready to present before Thursday will get extra points.
Mon, Mar 7: You are continuing work on your presentation. Students who are ready to present before Thursday will get extra points.
Friday, Mar 4:
(1) By the end of class today you can tell me about one mission to your planet, what was discovered, and the significance of the discovery. This information - in your own words - will be on your Google Drive.
(2) By Monday, you will have the answers to questions 4-12 ("Quick facts") on your Google Drive. These are important because we will be making a poster visual with this information.
Thursday, Mar 3: Day One of "Planet Specialist Project." You will gather information to present your findings to the class.
The presentation may be a Powerpoint, a video you create, poster with explanation, 3-D model with explanation. Due Thursday next.
You have a hand-out with 12 questions specifying the information you need to find. The presentation will address the first three questions. The answers to the other nine will be compiled in some kind of class display (each class decides what they want to do) for the hallway. Answers due Tuesday next.
In addition to the vodcast you watched and took notes on, you need to access a text source and two more Internet sources. One of those must be www.nasa.gov or a "spin-off" from that home site. The third site may also be NASA-based or university-based. You are not restricted to three. By all means, more reliablesources can make a stronger presentation.
Questions will be posted shortly.
Monday, Feb 29: Select a planet in our Solar System, not including Earth. Yes, you may choose Pluto. Find an informational vodcast on your planet. Take notes. Post the notes and the URL to your Google Folder and share it with "anyone who has the URL." I'll be in charge of sharing those with the Earth Science classes.
Friday, Feb 26: Quiz on H-R Diagram and Star LIfe Cycles on Monday. I will also collect your HW (vodcast notes) for the three vodcasts assigned since Feb 8. Check below if you are unsure.
The following link will take you to test review questions & answers that students submitted. You are responsible for knowing both of these documents, B and C Block. Questions will be in multiple choice format and short answer format. Some questions will be based on pictures of the H-R Diagram or a star life cycle.
B Block
Answers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zfbh1pxEh8_Vbm48GlcRII8xTEBUJJAv2vEwAorVFGI/edit
C Block
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wCfx2UWY4ITTJvnwV1Cmt6l1OkoIV7i57bncRwMS1ec/edit
Answers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15HineCZ6L0U6mLcBk9Ulw5F4-FB1W3NJ-Jx4TneECE4/edit
Thurs, Feb 25: STUDY the set of questions that your class developed during class today. Finish graphing the data that your class collected with the light sensor. Tomorrow you will take a practice quiz then do a lab on parallax. Monday after the quiz.
Tues, Feb 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUQAIldqPww Take notes on parallax: what it is, how to measure it. You need this knowledge to do the lab on Wednesday. Friday
Mon, Feb 22: Tonight you draw a story strip that illustrates Stellar Beginnings and Stellar Birth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prkEf2if4MQ This 14 minute video is a good review of the stages of a star's life cycle.
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http://www.zachtronics.com/spacechem/ - This is a cool site where you get to create molecules, rather like the stars.
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/Labs/StarLife/starlife_main.html Website for Thurs and Fri
Thurs, Feb 11: Study your organizer and vocabulary from the reading last night. Small vocab quiz tomorrow. The handouts are linked at the bottom of this page. Each is titled Star Evolution...
Wed, Feb 10: Stellar Evolution reading assignment - pp437-440. Tasks: (1) Highlight vocabulary and write a definition using clues in the text. Your own words, please. (vocab is in bolded text) (2) Summarize what happens in each stage and why.
Tues, Feb 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b22HKFMIfWo Watch the final six minutes. Same expectations as for last night.
Notes for today are posted below DOC021016.pdf.
Mon, Feb 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b22HKFMIfWo Watch just the first 6 minutes tonight. Cornell note sheet will be provided. In addition to main ideas, which you should record, the presenter gives you A LOT of statistics. You don't have to capture every single factoid. Pick five that you think are really important.
DOC020916.pdf (posted below) are the mindmaps made of the Sun and the temperatures of the layers of the Sun.
Fri, Feb 5: Documentaries today (in-class)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fVQ1jZxD4I (Hunting the Edge of Space, Part II)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOK_htkd-OI (Dark Matter and Dark Energy)
Thurs, Feb 4: (1) Study for Big Bang quiz tomorrow - some multiple choice, one writing prompt. The notes from this week are posted at the bottom of this page. The file is called DOC020416copy.pdf.
(2) C Block ONLY: You will turn in HW assignments from Jan 21-Feb 1 on Friday.
Wed, Feb 3: Reminder that (1) Test on Big bang evidence Friday. (2) C Block ONLY: You will turn in HW assignments from Jan 21-Feb 1 on Friday.
Tues, Feb 2: You are responsible for catching up with any vodcasts or previous paper HW assignments tonight.
Mon, Feb 1: https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_burchat_leads_a_search_for_dark_energy
You may get to see this in class. Either way, make sure you take Cornell notes. Listen to when she starts with a question. Use those questions as anchors.
(2)
Also in class today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg - Dan Burns models spacetime. It will help you understand references to "General Relativity".
Fri, Jan 29:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbeiZ3ei6Is
You will watch in class. Listen for answers to the questions on your worksheet.
Be ready to take a short multiple-choice quiz on Redshift and CMB on Monday.
Thurs, Jan 28: Read through these pages. You don't have to take notes because we did them in class (C block only.)
http://www.universeadventure.org/big_bang/elemen-formation.htm
http://www.universeadventure.org/big_bang/evolut-starsandgalaxies.htm
Wed, Jan 27: Read and take Cornell notes on these two pages of Universe Adventure (CMB Discovery & Origin of the CMB). The second page is available on paper in my classroom if you want the support.
http://www.universeadventure.org/big_bang/cmb-discovery.htm
http://www.universeadventure.org/big_bang/cmb-origins.htm
Tues, Jan 26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH4Dchf-ujw (CMB) (you haven't seen this one)
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.eiu.microwave/evidence-for-the-big-bang-theory/ (this is the one we saw in class.)
C Block: The notes about CMB are linked at the bottom of this page: DOC012616.pdf
Mon, Jan 25: Finish your Hubble vodcast questions and Hubble's Law worksheet for tomorrow.
Hubble Vodcast questions and page two of "Explosion?" worksheet linked at the bottom DOC01252016.
Fri, Jan 22: What is light? Tonight, find out why we also think light behaves like a particle!
Vodcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1tflE-L2Dc - Mr.Andersen on the wave/particle duality of light (6:09).
Vodcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc - Dr. Quantum explains the double-slit experiment.
Take Cornell Notes (left half of page - main ideas; right half of page - details. Be ready to apply what you learn to the in-class activities next week.
In-class video if you want to watch again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8fS_W4ZI1A
If you were absent: Notes from the last two days posted at the bottom. Seven pages listed as es01212016_01.pdf, etc, and DOC01232016.pdf.
Thurs, Jan 21: What is light?
Vodcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAVPRDnzSpE- Mr. Andersen discusses the properties of light (8:44). Take Cornell Notes (left half of page - main ideas; right half of page - details. Be ready to apply what you learn to tomorrow's activities.
Wed, Jan 20: Complete the Multiple Intelligences "Test" and score it. Turn in tomorrow.
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2014-2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA1Ap2iIb-8
Tutorial on Microsoft Brochure
FYI: You can "close caption" (CC) any vodcast to read as well as hear the presentation. Also, you can download the vodcast to your device using any number of free download programs. I use savefrom.net
Fri, Jun 12: This weekend:
(1) Study the layers of the Earth in your packet and/or textbook. Answer the questions on the next page of your handout. You do NOT have to answer the question about what minerals the continental and oceanic crust and the mantle contains. You DO need to answer what the outer core and inner core are made of.
(2) Study how the p waves go through every layer but the s waves don't. Be able to explain why.
(3) Be able to explain how p and s waves informed us about the interior of the Earth.
(4) Be able to use the p-wave and s-wave travel time chart to locate an epicenter. Guaranteed to be on the test next week.
You will also be offered a chance to retake one test from quarter 4 in addition to the final exam.
http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/playgame.html
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/supervolcano/programme.shtml
Find link on this page to the Supervolcano Game. See directions in your packet.
If you get an error message, type in www.bbc.co.uk then in the Search Box type in Supervolcano.
Thurs, Jun 11:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBS7BKqHRhs - vodcast on the relationship between type of wave and which Earth layers can be penetrated by them
Wed, Jun 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBS7BKqHRhs - vodcast on locating the epicenter of an earthquake. Will help with your in-class activity.
Tues, Jun 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0AEtX-uPLA Vodcast on earthquakes. Take notes. Also: Read the first two sections in your text on earthquakes. Answer the end of section questions.
Mon, Jun 8: Finish your two review worksheets from class. Study your packet!
Fri, Jun 5: Read pages 164-167 (What Drives Plate Motions?) Study your packet. We will review on Monday and test on Tuesday.
Also, if you want to retake the Earth timeline part of the exam, you need to at least get events IN ORDER. Example: You need bacteria before you can have oxygen. Plants need to reach land before animals can reach land. Mammals come before humans. That kind of stuff! Make and study flash cards with number - event - era.
Thurs, Jun 4: Text reading pages 147-156 (note-taking guide provided.)
Wed, Jun 3:
In class online simulation: (Handout will be provided)
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/legacy/plate-tectonics
Homework Vodcast
Highly recommended by previous classes. You can annotate your other notes while watching this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXYAdzmwQsc
Tuesday, Jun 2: Vodcast to watch - note-taking guide provided
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCzCmldiaWQ Keith Meldahl Magnetic Reversals and Sea Floor Spreading
Monday, Jun 1: Text reading - finish what you didn't get done in class
Vodcast - note-taking guide provided
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CsTTmvX6mc Bill Nye Sea-Floor Spreading
Fri, May 29: Quiz Monday on earth history events, as we practiced in class today.
Given a set of cards, put them in order by time.
Be able to group according to era. To be a "ninja", group according to period and epoch.
Be able to describe & explain the permo-triassic and K-T extinctions.
At the bottom of this page, the flash cards are linked. I should have paper copies ready by 2:30 today, if you need a set.
Wed, May 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYN_lXU9PA
TED talk on Earth's extinction events. I recommend you make a Cornell notes organizer (two-column) with a heading for each extinction event. You are listening for (1) what was the event, (2) how and why did it result in extinction of species (3) over what period of time did the extinction happen (hint: these things don't wipe out species overnight.)
Fri, May 22: See info below. Rough draft due today so that you can get feedback in time to make additions and corrections by Tuesday.
Thurs, May 21: Mini-goal for your brochure project: Integrate the information you found about atmosphere, climate, continents, oceans, & life into your planned vacation activities. Examples: Can I (the tourist) breathe? Will I walk, swim, fly, drive? What's available to eat? What will the lodging be like? Am I safe? Do I need protection? Am I traveling alone or with a group? Is this a "kid-friendly" vacation? What clothes & equipment do I need to bring? Is this a fun, scary, relaxing, and/or educational vacation?
REMEMBER: You will show me a very rough draft of your brochure by the end of the day Friday. FINAL PRODUCT due TUESDAY, May 26.
Wed, May 20: Mini-goal for your brochure project: Find information for the six topics listed in your Information Organizer on page two. As the directions state, make pages in your lab book to collect this information. Web pages are listed below.
Tues, May 19: Project underway. Think tonight about what activities would be fun to do given the conditions of your time period.
Monday, May 18: Study your notes on early Earth and how life might have arisen for a quiz tomorrow. The questions will be very similar to the ones we practiced today in class.
This week - after we finish the online Miller experiment, we will start a project. Below are some helpful websites. You will get more details in class.
http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0072528087/student_view0/web_links.html
http://www.complex-life.org/node/the-earth-forms-4567-million-years-ago/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/history_of_the_earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwfCmzAEiY8 (continent movements through time)
Cambrian (Burgess Shale) web sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5QV7tck470
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqBYO894eM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbhGWDjOkP0
Ordovician web sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQhlUqLFDxQ
Silurian web sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndgVglNi2s
Devonian web sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BHReLUabA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q05JFgXnZDc
Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) & Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) web sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jraCiIXIDE
Note: the site below links to a collection of Carboniferous videos EXCEPT the very first one is Devonian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URHPTu9Glqs&list=PLKGy3N6BPD9aR0umCzJeh049k5qNYWnfM
Permian web sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ig6zKiNTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt4X6A1U1WI
Triassic web sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVPclPzRJk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFJFmldko8
Jurassic web sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuIGwt34SIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIHRT-SkIs
Cretaceous Period:
early: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4UO1CD6Y4
late: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WcjyCF6cXg
Paleocene Epoch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXIhLNhtVg
Eocene Epoch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYSC6623K7I
Oligocene Epoch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWjwHE6iJls
Miocene Epoch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbJ9cC5_aI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSg8afDZrs
Pliocene Epoch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4iyv4Hcktg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4iyv4Hcktg&list=PLhD02mXF5UtdQ8_0h0Hf9vUj2PowExWgJ
Pleistocene Epoch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPf2o5ZrWis
Holocene Epoch:
Friday, May 15: Lab Books due today (coacervate lab).
In class link:
http://www.wiley.com/college/trefil/0470118547/vdl/lab_miller_experiment/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS7fJU9nafE
This video shows an application of the Coacervate idea. You want to record what you see and the applications this research center has developed.
Thursday, May 14: no class today/no HW. Of course, if you wish to do Friday's HW now, go for it. Start the weekend on a high note!
Wednesday, May 13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2xly_5Ei3U
Take notes on this vodcast about the Miller-Urey experiment.
Tuesday, May 12: Vodcast - take notes on the first two minutes only. You are listening for factors that would create a warmer Earth or a cooler Earth. The narrator will not tell you straight out. You must think about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyn754vw8ZQ
Monday, May 11: Lab books due today. Web site to visit tonight:
http://www.complex-life.org/node/the-earth-forms-4567-million-years-ago/
Go through each page (it is expanded below the "slide" in case that is easier to read). You don't have to take notes yet.
Friday, May 8: Two short vodcasts on the question of life elsewhere in the Universe
Take notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldk8D5a6S3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ep30dsR-I
Thurs, May 7: Review all of your notes from Monday forward.
Tues, May 5: See below. Reminder that we are doing a lab experiment over the rest of the week. You must have closed-toed shoes on in class each day for safety, otherwise you will not be able to participate.
Mon, May 4: Vodcast #1 - a nicely crafted explication of the Hadean by college geology students. Notes on main ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odf8HAqXsTQ
For tonight or Tuesday night:
Vodcast #2 & #3
Another student production - the first two parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pOCT9nrxvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x8OCoY1i3k
Fri, May 1: Study for quiz on Monday. Your worksheets and text pages you've read and answered questions about will help you.
Thurs, April 30:
Using your worksheet entitled, "Chapter 26: Earth's History/Relative Time-What Came First?" , draw and describe the steps that led to the formation you see in the picture. This is the same process we went through in class this morning, that is modeled in your textbook.
Tomorrow we review what we have learned about absolute and relative dating. Quiz Monday.
Wed, April 29:
(1) Vodcast: I will give you an outline that you can flesh out as you watch this vodcast. (2) Then read the section on geologic time periods in your textbook and add details to your outline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r10oh1NHKv4
Tues, April 28: Read pages 242-244 (unconformities, correlation) and pages 245-249 (fossils) [6th edition - wall climber cover]. If you have another edition, you are looking for Chapter "Geologic Time" Sections: "Unconformities" and "Fossils." These two sections should complete the chapter.
Questions to answer:
(1) What are fossils?
(2) What are the conditions that favor the preservation of organisms as fossils?
(3) How are fossils used to correlate rocks of similar ages that are in different places?
Mon, April 27: read pages 238-242 in your text (wall climber cover). If you have another edition, you are looking for Chapter "Geologic Time" Sections: geology needs a time scale, some historical notes about geology, relative dating key principles, applying relative dating principle. Be sure to study the pictures. You should be able to answer "Focus on Learning" questions 1,2,3 on the first page of the chapter.
**If you can, please read on to 243-244: unconformities, correlation of rock layers.
Fri, April 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYvCJLb7tE Grand Canyon documentary watched in class.
No HW over the break.
Thurs, April 16: Read the text pages assigned last night.
Wed, April 15: http://www.bozemanscience.com/law-of-superposition
Watch Mr. Andersen on two of the principles of stratigraphy. Take good notes.
If you can't watch the vodcast, go to your text: Chapter 8 pp 240-243 "Relative Dating - Key Principles". You are answering Learning Objective 3:"What are the basic laws, principles, and techniques used to establish relative dates?"
Tuesday, April 14:
Green River Formation vodcast (where your varves came from)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDVbe38lI2s
Watch the first 2 minutes to get oriented. Then jump to 8:45 and watch to minute 10:54.
Monday, April 13: Watch two vodcasts on radiometric dating. Take Cornell or another choice of structured notetaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7weHZIQ5o (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1920gi3swe4 (New Zealand Guy - more comprehensive discussion)
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April 10: Homework-free weekend! See you Monday.
Unit 3: Weather and Climate: QUIZ on WEATHER THIS FRIDAY. REVIEW THURSDAY.
Thursday, April 9: Review your handouts and notes in your lab book. Quiz tomorrow.
Wednesday, April 8:
Study your notes and your handouts on weather. We will review tomorrow in class.
Tuesday, April 7: In-class links
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/sfcloop/radsfcus_exp_none.html
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/fntcodes2.shtml
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/sfcloop/namne_wbg.html
Reinforcement of today's lesson: interpreting weather maps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkE3F5AuWBQ
Monday, April 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Ewqm0YHUI Met Office Weather Fronts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzqvGIAWHOk Met Office - Cyclone and Anti-cyclone experiments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCz8J_mxswg Cyclones and anti-cyclones explained..well, sung actually. With apologies to people with perfect pitch or who dislike ABBA.
April 3: Read pages 392-400 (if you have the 6th edition of Foundations of Earth Science.) Use the list of questions to key in on the important ideas. Write your answers in complete sentences on separate paper (b/c I have your lab books this weekend.)
April 1: Look at Figure 13.16 on pg 383 in your text. It shows the air pressures over the globe for January and July. In your lab book, compare and contrast patterns you see.
If you have a different text, you are looking in the chapter on "Atmosphere in Motion", section entitled "General Circulation of the Atmosphere."
March 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvk-hBFnBTI The Met Office tells you about air masses. (It always sounds better with a British accent!)
March 27:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeAp3CuGjk8 - Bill Nye on air pressure
March 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK_N0o9ORVE
Weather Station explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8uskqf3kU
Anemometer explanation
March 25: Finish the reading and note-taking assigned on Mar 24, if you need to. Your note sheets will be rechecked tomorrow. If you received less than 18/20 on your final POM, make additions and corrections - on a new page, if possible so writing isn't cramped - and show me your progress tomorrow.
Tomorrow: half-day schedule: you will be in new groups to make the components of a weather station.
Unit 2: Earth-Moon-Sun Dynamics
March 24: Use pages 310-325 if you have the rock climber on your cover or the copy of those pages to find the answers to the structured note-taking guide. Yes, I believe you can do all of this for homework.
March 23-24: Over these two days we will wrap up the EMS Dynamics Unit.
After today's class, you will have enough information to complete a POM-Diagram-Explanation in your lab book about the challenge question your group worked on. Tuesday, your group presents the diagram and explanation to the class. This serves as your "test" for this unit. Wednesday we begin Weather and Climate.
March 20: Amazing Day: Total solar eclipse on the first day of Spring!
And, coming up April 4, a lunar eclipse.
http://shadowandsubstance.com/
March 19: Watch vodcast. Notes provided in class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuhNZejHeBg
March 18: Two assignments:
(1) Finish completing the lunar and solar eclipse calendar and maps. Start looking for patterns.
(2) Rework your moon phase explanation if you got less than a 10/10.
March 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3gacnHb9TI - Why the Moon is so awesome in the winter. Take notes.
March 11, 2015 - Go to www.spaceweather.com. Explore the types of information you can find therein and record those categories in your lab book. We will be using this site several times.
March 10, 2015 - your POM sheets from today should be completed (sunrise/sunset & moonrise/moonset)
March 9, 2015 - Earth Motions - this is a review! Believe it or not, some people are fuzzy on these concepts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlDejjY2I0
Unit 1: Beyond Earth
Fri, Mar 6: Study for a quiz on Monday, which will cover the use of parallax, H-R Diagram reading, and star life-cycle understanding. There will be multiple choice and short answer type problems. The practice sheets we used and activities we did Thursday and Friday are representative of the questions you might see.
Wed, Mar 4: Finish your answers to the parallax activity, including the error analysis.
How to do the error analysis: You will divide two numbers. The numerator is (your measured arm length minus the calculated arm length). The denominator is your measured arm length. Then multiply the answer by 100 to get a percent.
Example: Calculated arm length is 53 cm. Measured arm length is 50 cm.
Error analysis: (50-53)/ 50 x 100 = 6%. If the numerator is negative, take the absolute value.
NASA vodcast on how to calculate distance using parallax. There is alot of interesting history as well. The key info is located about 4:30-5:30. But I encourage you to watch ALL of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqI67fkdiL8
Fri, Feb 27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUQAIldqPww Watch, listen, do the experiments, take notes on the handout.
Thurs, Feb 26:
Lab books due tomorrow.
Projects due tomorrow. If you have any doubts about being able to finish during class tomorrow, make arrangements with your team members to work during "free block", after school, or whatever it takes. Late projects may have points deducted (does not include Costa Ricans).
Wed, Feb 25:
(1) Complete the HR Diagram Worksheet in your lab book. We will go over answers tomorrow.
(2) Thank you for your Big Bang Essay rewrites. Your final grades are posted.
(3) Your projects are due by the end of the day Friday. I expect that some of you will be finished tomorrow. I will move you guys forward so your weekend HW will be less. I hope that's a motivator for the rest of you. :)
Tues, Feb 24:
Oops. Forgot to give you the handout. You get a night off.
Mon, Feb 23:
Big Bang Essay rewrites are overdue. Revisions tomorrow or the 5 stays on the books.
Today, we start a 3-4 day project to design the life cycle of a particular protostar to scale. You will receive the approximate radii and masses of the stars in your life cycle. I will also give you a rubric for how you will be assessed.
Below you will find help in thinking about how to scale your stars to proportions that we humans can "wrap our heads around."
If you need a refresher on scaling for your project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ckG3ncM8E
Examples of scaling the contents of the Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSyAXHqPo20
http://www.astronomynotes.com/chapter1/s2.htm
http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/scale/
http://www.chaospark.com/science/stellar.htm
Fri, Feb 13: Lab books due today. Refine your Big Bang Essays and make sure they are accessible to me on Google Drive or the Hapara Dashboard before Sunday night, Feb 22. Have a safe and restful break.
Thurs, Feb 12: IN CLASS: Work through this tutorial with a partner. Write answers in complete sentences in your lab book.
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/Labs/StarLife/starlife_main.html
On Friday, be prepared to discuss the HW from Wed, your thoughts from the Gallery Walk, and what questions you were able to answer from the tutorial.
Wed, Feb 11: Watch vodcast and take notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM9CQDlQI0A
"Describe and Explain" due Thurs morning, Feb 12!
Tues, Feb 10: Big Bang Quiz tomorrow. "Describe and Explain" due Thurs morning.
Notes from Friday: Observation vs. Inference
Observations =
objective or subjective
you can see it, hear, smell, taste, feel
data
graph or table
measurement using technology
(temperature COBE)
calculation
Inference:
a conclusion
answers the “So what?”
deeper meaning
what we can take from the information
requires an observation or evidence
detailed explanation
Observation: The further out the
galaxy is, the younger it appears.
Inference: Your turn:
We are looking back in time.
Time travel is possible.
Universe is moving and changing.
Light takes time to travel.
Fri, Feb 6: Lab books due today. Use the handouts you received today and your writing to prepare for a "Describe and Explain" paragraph about evidence supporting the Big Bang Theory on Monday.
Thurs, Feb 5: Lab books will be turned in tomorrow for another grade. Make sure that your lab book entries for this week are complete: Graphs and tables pasted in? Questions answered in complete sentences? Pages are labeled with the name of the lab or activity?
Wed, Feb 4: For the curious:
Why does the Universe accelerate as it expands?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6o2bUPdxV0
More discussion of dark energy and dark matter:
http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_burchat_leads_a_search_for_dark_energy?language=en#t-311257
Tues, Feb 3: http://www.universeadventure.org/big_bang/expand-galaxy.htm
Read and click on animations. Answer the following questions:
1. What IS expanding in the Universe?
2. What is NOT expanding in the Universe?
3. Why does it appear that we are at the center of the Universe?
Support your answers to Qs 1-3 using evidence from the web site.
Fri, Jan 30: Lab books due today. No HW this weekend.
Thurs, Jan 29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqsi_LDUn0 how a prism works
For the curious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YYBCNQnYNM (why do certain spectral lines appear)
For those who would like to watch the CMB video again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kqWWLpyMpY Neil de Grasse Tyson's video on CMB, shown in class on Wednesday.
Wed, Jan 28: http://www.universeadventure.org/big_bang/cmb-origins.htm
Visit this page of the Universe Adventure to learn more about Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation.
Be sure to click on the Movie: The Last Scattering. In your lab notebook,
(1) Describe what you see in the movie. How does this short movie relate to CMB? Write as if you are explaining it to someone who didn't see the movie and doesn't understand CMB yet.
(2) Answer these questions: How does temperature relate to redshift of light?
(3) Why does the CMB cool down?
(4)What do the colors on the CMB map represent? What does "anisotropies" mean?
(5) Why did denser areas in the early universe become galaxies, stars and planets?
(6) Why are maps of CMB shaped like ovals?
(7) Click on "Acoustic Oscillations", "Imaging the CMB", "Black Body Radiation", Cosmic Conundrums
Jan 26: Wed, Sep 3: http://www.universeadventure.org/fundamentals/light-em.htm
Visit this page of Universe Adventure to further learn about the EM spectrum. Wherever there is a blue prompt, click on it to explore further.
Answer these questions in your lab book:
1. Name of the seven wavelength groups in order from shortest to longest.
2. How does energy of the wave vary according to length?
3. Give an example of each wavelength in your daily life.
4. Light has particle-like properties as well as wave-like properties because it is composed of photons. How fast do photons move?
5. Explain why things that are further away from us appear younger.
More fun facts:
1.The Sun, like all stars, emits all of the EM spectrum.
2."Light" is the name we give to all EM spectra, not just visible light.
Jan 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsL-JNCjAK0 (2:18)
Watch this vodcast and take structured notes (Cornell method). This short segment compliments what you learned last night. Use the questions ("Video #2") in your handout to guide your notetaking. Below are two terms you will hear that you may not be familiar with.
Notes will be checked Monday for a homework grade.
Vocabulary
Static = not moving; stationary
Cosmology = the study of the cosmos (the universe)
Jan 22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVApTLE7Csc
Watch this vodcast and take structured notes (Cornell method) as demonstrated in class. Notes will be checked tomorrow for a homework grade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 This is the Powers of Ten video that we watched & took notes on in class today.
Jan 21: Look at the night sky. Write down your observations.
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