Earth & Life Under The Microscope

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

Monday-

6th grade- ch 2 lesson 2 WIGWAP & finish answering Visual Checks and Reading Checks from TB p. 334-337 in composition book
7th grade- finish classwork (fill in thinking map, recopy thinking map, illustrate the examples & for moceular biology - add definition and example using TB p. 254-256) - do on a piece of binder/printer paper

Tuesday-

6th grade- finish classwork
7th grade- fanswer Standards check questions #1-6 from textbook p. 256 - full complete sentences, restate the question.

Wednesday-

6th grade- finish classwork
7th grade- finish classwork

Thursday- 

6th grade- study for tomorrow's quiz on ch 8 lesson 1   .... Today's computer activity - 6th graders click here!
7th grade- study for tomorrow's quiz on ch 6 lessons 2 and 3. ..... Today's computer activity - 7th graders click here!

Friday - Enjoy weekend!

http://www.growingthenextgeneration.com/just-for-kids-games.html

Build a Soil Profile Game Like Tetris

http://www.growingthenextgeneration.com/agrium-games/SoilTris/index.htm

River Channel with large meanders, erosion and deposition along river curves (inside the curve vs. outside the curve), formation of oxbow lake & floodplain...
     http://serc.carleton.edu/details/files/19077.html

Grand River - photo sequence from 1939-1996 showing the re-formation of a meander in the Grand River....
     http://serc.carleton.edu/details/files/19164.html

Link to explanations of the various types of land use, colors to shade & map symbols:

Habitat Slides (can click on each habitat to find out more)

List of all the symbols and land uses.

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

 

 

Monday-

6th grade- Rewrite/type rock & mineral notes (neatly) onto different paper from composition book
7th grade- Classifying Organisms Crossword puzzle

Tuesday-   6th graders: click here for today's 6th grade in class computer activity ;
                  7th graders: click here for today's 7th grade in class computer activity

6th grade- Rock/mineral project due Thursday  
7th grade- Answer the 4 Reading Check questions from Textbook pages 244-251.  (Reading Check questions are located on p. 245, 247, 249, 250.)

Wednesday-

6th grade- Rock/mineral project due Thursday
7th grade- Finish classwork

Thursday-

6th grade- Study for Rock/mineral quiz tomorrow (chapter 2 lesson )
7th grade- Study for quiz on ch 6 lessons 1 and 4 tomorrow.

Friday- Enjoy weekend!

Monday-

6th grade- finish backside of Journey through the Rock Cycle
7th grade- Finish video questions from Animal Classification

Tuesday-

6th grade- Rock cycle comic strip & ch 7 WIGWAP
7th grade- Research your animal phylum

Wednesday-

6th grade- Rock/mineral research ..... assignment of the rock/mineral is based upon different criterion for each class - explained below....you may click the blue underlined link to help you ...

first period mineral list: mineral must start with your first initial, and end with -ist
second period rock list: rock must start with your first initial,
third period list: You were assigned a state, research either the rock or mineral for the state you were assigned   .... unfortunately some states have neither a state rock, nor a state mineral.  I will assign a different state to you in class if your assigned state has neither a state rock nor a state mineral.

7th grade- Research your animal phylum  ..... lost the project directions? Click to download: 7.PhylumResearchPoster.pdf (73.33 KB)

Thursday-

6th grade- Rock /mineral research  ..... lost the project directions?  Click to download: 6.RockMineralTMproject.pdf (31.13 KB)
7th grade- Practice for presenation on phylum

Friday- enjoy your weekend!

Link to geology diagrams labeled in both Chinese (Cantonese?) and English.

http://hkss.cedd.gov.hk/hkss/eng/education/gs/eng/hkg/chapter2.htm

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

Warning: topics today deal with death & are morbid.

First:  Where will fossils form?  - Burrying Bodies   http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaurs/burying_bodies/burial/index.shtml

Second:  How are fossils formed? - Making Fossils  http://www.abc.net.au/beasts/fossilfun/makingfossils/default.htm

Third: Can you put together the skeleton?  - Skeleton Jigsaw  http://www.abc.net.au/beasts/fossilfun/skeletal_jigsaws/default.htm

Fourth: start homework OR check out these options if you finish early & do not wish to start on your homework -

Footprints - http://www.abc.net.au/beasts/fossilfun/footprints/default.htm

Camouflage - http://www.abc.net.au/beasts/fossilfun/camouflage/default.htm

 

Lost your handout from today?  Click to download:

7.CompFossilsHandout.pdf (28.96 KB)