Monday-

6th- Finish illustrating the mass wasting thinking map from class .... absent today? 6.8.2ErosionMassWastingTM.pdf (64.09 KB)
7th- Finish ch 7 lesson 1 outline ....  absent today?  7.7.1Stenos4PrinciplesRelativeAgeDating.pdf (293.83 KB)
Need to review the Rock Cycle?  Click here for neat interactive review

Tuesday-

6th- Finish classwork on shoreline erosion     water erosion/rivers/floods
7th- Relative Age worksheet    to be announced

Wednesday-

6th- Finish classwork on water erosion/rivers/floods (forgot the colors to use for shading?  click here to see the list!  shoreline erosion
7th- ch 7 lesson 1 Reinforcement (workshet distributed towards the end of class) to be announced
      Need help visualizing how the rock layers can form & move?  Click here to link to a video clip.

Thursday-

6th- Finish classwork on erosion from glaciers & wind
7th- WIGWAP for quiz from last Friday & Coloring page showing various periods of geologic time to be announced

Friday- Enjoy the week off!

1. Evolution of Homologus & Analogous Structures

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/similarity_ms_01

2. Geologic Time

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/gtpage1.html

3. Guess the Embroyo - (must click launch interactive once you open the link) .... match the embryo to the animal it will develop into

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/guess-embryo.html 

 4. Remember Continental Drift?  Quick review from last year ....

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/lsps07_int_biogeography/

5. Advanced Learners also check out:

Classifying Life - (must click launch interactive once you open the link)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/classifying-life.html

Our Family Tree - (must click launch interactive once you open the link)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/our-family-tree.html

1. Shape it Up - events that shape our landforms

http://www.kineticcity.com/mindgames/warper/

2. Weathering Animation

https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/elearning/module07swf.swf

3. Erosion - Effects of Slump

https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/elearning/module11swf.swf

4. Erosion & Deposition along the coast

https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/elearning/module14swf.swf

5. Soil Horizons

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/309/deploy/interface.html

6. How Caves Form

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_int_caveform-fla/

7. Weathering Brain Bop

http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078741831/164213/00050754.html

 

 

Has animations showing the movement of volcanic ash after a volcano puffs out the ash.  (Has Mt. St. Helen's half way down the page)

http://puff.images.alaska.edu/Google_Earth2.shtml

Information on the Redoudt 1989 eruption - an airplane flew into the ash cloud in/near Alaska; all  4 engines stopped.  Had to descend, where engines restarted, and made an emergency landing in Alaska.    http://puff.images.alaska.edu/Redoubt_webpage/Puff_redoubt_ash.shtml

7th grade links to games on Natural Selection & Evolution....

Record your answers to the questions below each link on a piece of binder paper.

Natural Selection Game .... http://www.nysci.org/charlieandkiwi_finches/

1. What were the variations in the birds during the Natural Selection game?
2. What environmental factor caused the small seeds to disapppear?
3. What will happen if the finch cannot find anything to eat with its beak shape?
4. What might happen to a finch that had a mutation that made its beak a different shape from that of the parent birds?
5. Why did the ground finches with the big beaks survive?

Darwin's Evolution game .... http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html

6. Make a thinking map to record the variations of the traits you could see in the "Things".
7. After playing the game four times, take the quiz - what is your thing's scientific name?

Finished early? Here is a game about natural selection in fish!  ....the  single guppy

Interactive Commic Strip - The Amazing Mundo!

http://www.amnh.org/ology/index.php?channel=earth#features/mundo?TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=750

Go to the following links in the order listed.  Once you have completed the links, you may start the MI high interactive which is below the links. Below each link is a statement to copy onto binder paper & complete.

Seedless plants:

Moss:  http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/moss.html

1. For moss to reproduce sexually it requires ______ to transport sperm to eggs.
2. The sporophyte generation of a moss is ____ & produces spores.  (hint: answer is either diploid or haploid)

Seed Plants:

Life cycle of gymnosperm: http://img.sparknotes.com/figures/9/9f79f1dbce762884bf644e4ac8450061/gymnospermlifecycle.gif

3. In the gymnosperm, the male cone is called a _____, the female cone is called a ____.

How seeds travel: http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/dispersal.htm

4. Some plants reproduce using seeds, which must move from the plant to a new location.  To move the seed, some plants rely on the wind, ____, ____, ____.  Coconuts use ___ to move, while dandelions use ___, and apples ______________________________.   Some plants have their seeds catch a ride on an animal like cattails, burdocks and ______.

Life cycle of angiosperm: http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/angiosperm.html

5. A plant that has a ___ is an angiosperm which means ________.  Inside the flower, the carpel is made up of ____________________________________, and is the female part of the plant.  Meiosis takes place in the _____ and ____ of the flower.  The pollen grain carries ______ and enter through the pollen tube.  A seed is formed which will g_________ later.

*Parts of an angiosperm: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/plant_repro/eng/Introduction/activity1pop.htm

6. Draw and label the reproductive parts of an angiosperm.

*= this is a site from the United Kingdom, the flower parts they emphasize are a little different.

MI interactive on parts of a flower & zaping seeds before they spread:   (Turn in your paper before doing this)

Plate boundaries interactive .... Explore how plate boundaries effect your world ...

http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/plates/?TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=750

Explore life along the Deep Sea Vents:

http://www.amnh.org/ology/index.php?channel=earth#features/deepseavent?TB_iframe=true&height=535&width=750