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UNIT 1 - The Earth and Its History - ASSESSMENT DUE DATES
Scale Model Timelines -
Report to Parliament -
Quiz - Stratigraphy and Layers -
Groundwater Lab - MAJOR LAB 1 -
Geologic Timeline Quiz -
Test -
Files and notes for Unit 1 - The Earth and its History - are designated by the number 6
Slides and Notes for Student Use - Check here for notes and handouts you can print off or copy electronically for your use in class.
IN CLASS ASSIGNMENTS
1 - Scale Model of Time Periods and your life. Draw your scale model on 1 page of 8 1/2 x 11" paper. Due Friday, February 15, 2019
2 - Parliamentary Report. Research one area of Earth Science studies in Canada and prepare a 1 page briefing for the Minister of NRCAN. Formal report format not required for this assignment. Due Monday, February 19, 2019. Click HERE for the assignment outline.
3 - 6.1 Groundwater Lab - Students will use a Heli Shaw Cell to test a question about groundwater. The document with the rubric can be found HERE. Lab Due Wednesday, February 27, 2019
STUDENT SAMPLES
Tyler, Taylor and Catherine made these videos of their groundwater experiment using the Heli-Shaw Cell!
Video 2 - Testing the Water before the Trial
COMPUTER ACTIVITIES and INTERACTIVE SITES
Relative Dating Overview and Practice
Fossils Interactive Website and Note Outline - February, 2013
Interactive Map - Find your address in geologic history. This article explains how. or jump right to the Interactive Site
Scotese.com - Christopher Scotese makes various maps of ancient environments.
VIDEOS
Crash course in Ecology - 13 minute crash course in the evolution of life through the first 4.6 billion years.
The Story of Life and Earth - Watch the whole 90 minute video or check out relevant sections from what we are learning in class
The Great Huma Odyssey - 3 Episodes - 45 minutes each. The environmental and biologic drivers of human evolution
The earth in 24 Hours - This 2 minute video compresses 4.6 billion years of history into a 24 hour clock to show when key moments in the history of life occurred!
Drifting Continents - Pangea -> Amerasia. See how the continents have moved in the last six hundred million years and what is predicted to happen in the next 200 million years. Don't just watch the you-tube video though, check out the original journal article in "Nature", "Supercontinent Cycle.
Kola Bore Hole - Hell at the Bottom of the Deepest Hole on Earth - A smash up video on the Russian project to drill to the center of the Earth
ARTICLES
ANTHROPOCENE - Are we really in a new geologic epoch? That depends on the definition of an Epoch
Zealandia - Lost Continent being explored by Earth Scientists - September 2017
Massive Sea Monster found in Antarctica - June 2019 Discovery of Elasmosaur skeleton
99 MIllion Year old Baby Bird - June 2017
What Dinosaurs looked like - February 2017
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