"There is no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure" – Colin Powell
by snodgrass on February 1, 2012 at 2:13 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Welcome to the second semester!!
Wed 2/1
We will be going over the lab reports and you till conduct a self-evaluation using the template provided to you in class to identify areas that you need to improve upon for the next lab report
HW: Develop three personal goals and brainstorm class goals
Thurs. 2/2
Tragedy of Commons Activity
HW: Select an appropriate, current, news article related to science and/or technology and print out a copy for tomorrow.
Fri 2/3
Part II – Tragedy of Commons activity
Tragedy of Commons – - discussion.
HW: Tragedy of Commons reflection
Tragedy of the Commons
by snodgrass on January 23, 2012 at 4:30 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Reminders - –
I will be conducting a mid-term review session Tues 1/24 after school.
Continue working on developing your reference notecards that you will be able to use on the open-ended portion of your exam and remember that the notecards are counted as a grade!
Cocoa and Crams review sessions will take place afterschool Wed, Thurs, Fri, and Mon. for all freshman. Be sure to take advantage of these study opportunities.
Earth Science midterm study guide
mid term topics standard 2012
Mon 1/23
Overview of Carbon Cycle; Recap of Water treatment and filtration.
Tues 1/24
Finish going over the Carbon cycle; graphing water cycle quizzes.
Review for mid-term
Wed 1/25
Mid-term review.
Study Tips:
- Use your study guide to create flash cards
- Use old tests and quizzes to review
- Review labs that were conducted in the first semester.
- Have someone quiz you
Good Luck!!
by snodgrass on January 17, 2012 at 10:13 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Reminders – -
There will be mid-term exam review sessions Tues 1/17, Thurs 1/19 and Tues 1/24 after school in PG04. If you cannot make it to a review session and you have questions/concerns please schedule an alternative time to meet with me as soon as possible.
Earth Science midterm study guide
Water cycle quiz Fri 1/20
Tues 1/17
Reviewing weathering - – using weathering notes students will work on a weathering review in partners.
Students will graph plate tectonic/rock cycle exams and will be given 4 5×8 notecards to take notes on for the open-ended portion of the mid-term exam.
HW: Studying the Water Cycle Wks.; Work on creating notecards for mid-term exam.
Wed 1/18
World’s water distribution demonstration. Going over the water cycle – - correcting water cycle hw.
HW: Answer human impacts on the water cycle presented in class using complete sentences.
Thurs 1/19
Water filtration/treatment introduction – - students will work in small groups to discuss human impacts on water quality and examine methods of water filtration and treatment.
HW: study for the water cycle quiz – - the processes involved in water cycle; labeling diagram; water distribution
Fri 1/20
Water cycle quiz.
Water treatment demonstration.
by snodgrass on January 9, 2012 at 9:17 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Reminders – -
Start going through your mid-term exam studyguide, identifying areas that you may need some extra help in reviewing. I will be conducting exam review this Thurs 1/12, Tues 1/17, Thurs 1/19, and Tues 1/24.
Mon 1/9
Students will be broken into groups to discuss and share with the class a type of weathering from the reading hw. They must present a visual with their description.
HW: Brainstorm procedures for testing the factors of affecting the rate of weathering.
Factors Affecting Chemical Weathering Lab Instructions
Lab Report Rubric
Tues 1/10
Work in small groups; select a problem to test a factor to determine its affect on chemical weathering. Construct a hypothesis. Identify all experimental variables and develop a prodecudure for testing your hypothesis.
HW: create a data table on which you can collect your data
Wed. 1/11
Finalize procedures and get teacher’s approval to begin tests.
HW: Begin typing your final draft of your formal lab report using the lab report grading rubric.
Thurs 1/12
Finish conducting experiment. Organize data and graph. Compare results that your group gathered with that of another group that had tested the same factor.
HW: Complete graphs and use guided questions to support the development of your conclusion and validity paragraphs.
Fri 1/13
Students will meet with their lab partners to discuss their test’s validity. for the first portion of class.
Abrasian lab activity – - students will work with their table partners to analyze a lab testing the mechanical weathering of certain rock types.
HW: Formal lab reports are due Tues 1/17. They must be typed.
by snodgrass on January 9, 2012 at 8:29 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Tues 1/3
Review of rock cycle in class.
HW: Plate Tectonics and the Rock Cycle Connection wks. Page 1 of studyguide
Wed. 1/4
Activity – - reviewing plate tectonic boundaries using a graphic organizer.
HW: Studyguide
Thurs 1/5
Review Game – - review of plate tectonics and the rock cycle.
HW: Study!!
Fri 1/6
Plate tectonics and Rock cycle test
HW: Weathering guided reading wks
by snodgrass on December 20, 2011 at 8:38 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Reminders – - - Quiz on mineral characteristics and properties and rocks. Thurs. 12/22
Mon 12/19
Mineral resources and ores – - small group activity looking at the impact minerals have on society.
HW: review mineral characteristics and properties for quiz Thursday.
Tues 12/20
Groups will finish sharing back on products with mineral resources.
Rocks and the rock cycle notes from PPT.
HW: Students should finish viewing powerpoint, taking notes on their outlines.
Rocks and the Rock Cycle
Rocks and Rock Cycle PPT Notes
Wed. 12/21
Finish overview of rock cycle with powerpoint – - guided questions fro review on mineral characteristics and porperties and rocks.
HW: Read through and brainstorm ideas for rock cycle cartoon/storybook project due at the end of the period Fri 12/23.
Thursday 12/22
Quiz – - mineral characteristics and properties
Students will be working on rock cycle cartoon/storybook in class.
Fri 12/23
Rock cycle storybook/cartoons are due at the end of the period.
by snodgrass on December 14, 2011 at 9:43 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I apologize for the error/delay in publishing this weeks schedule!!
Reminders – -
Quiz Wed – - plate tectonic theory and plate boundaries
Mon 12/12
Overview of each plate boundary using satellite images to view the locations around the globe at which these boundaries occur.
Sea floor spreading demonstration and review wks.
HW: Study for quiz and complete sea floor spreading review
Tues 12/13
Hot spot activity and the formation of the Hawaiian Islands
Review for plate tectonics quiz
HW: Study for quiz!!
Wed 12/14
Plate tectonics quiz. Complete part II. of Hawaiian Islands activity.
HW: Brainstorm 2nd quarter goals personal and for the class; identify 2 key strategies/ actions that need to take place to reach goals; choose appropriate reward.
Thurs. 12/15
Goal setting – quarter 2.
Discussion of Hawaiian Island activity part 2.
Yellowstone – - another hotspot (notes).
Brainstorm – - what are minerals?
HW: guided reading on minerals and their properties
Fri 12/16
PowerPoint on Minerals; their characteristics and properties to review guided reading.
Mineral Ore Activity – - understanding minerals as natural resources
HW: conduct independent research to discover what types of minerals are required to manufacture your assigned product.
by snodgrass on December 5, 2011 at 4:53 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Reminders – -
Current Event due Friday
Quiz on plate boundaries – - postponed to next Tuesday!!
Mon 12/5
Graph test scores, analyze your performance on the test using the format provide to determine the areas that you still need help with.
Plate Tectonics introduction - – reading pgs 172 – 181 answering questions 1-4 started in class, to be finished for HW.
Tues 12/6
Students will be watching the video – - Continents Adrift and should record the main points discussed in the video as well as a few supporting details or examples of each on the video notes sheet.
When the video is finished students will work on completing the sketches of the plate tectonics boundaries using the link below to geology.com
Plate Tectonic Boundaries animations and simple sketch overviews
HW: finish Plate Tectonics guided reading using the reference above and complete the drawing conclusions at the bottom of the video notes page for Continents Adrift.
Wed 12/7
Current event article choices discussed; Period 3 graphing test scores.
Labeling the structure of the earth.
Structure of earth resource
Discussion of plate tectonics theory and continental drift hypothesis.
HW: work on current event
Thurs 12/8
Overview of plate boundaries using multimedia instruction students will fact check their sketches and guided reading notes.
HW: Earth on a slow Boil reading and questions wks, Current event due tomorrow
Friday 12/9
Review of plate boundaries using notecards and bonus bills
Hawaiian Hot spot activity
HW: Complete Hawaiian Hotspot activity, study plate boundaries
by snodgrass on November 29, 2011 at 1:23 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Reminders – -
Test Friday – - density, states of matter, phase changes, heat transfer, laws of thermodynamics, forms of energy and transformations of energy
Studyguide will be due Fri 12/2
Nature of Energy and Matter Studyguide
Mon 11/28
Graph and go over conduction lab activity. Distribution of studyguides for test friday. Review of the laws of thermodynamics (ppt) and the forms of energy. Introduction to the transformations of energy.
Laws of Thermodynamics
HW: Review and Reinforcement Wks – Energy, Work on the first page of the studyguide
Tues 11/29
Students will work in pairs to come up with an ‘everyday’ example of an energy transformation involving at least 3 forms of energy, draw a picture of thier energy transformation, then explain how each law of thermodynamics relates to their energy transformation. Additional practice tracing the transformations of energy for the generation of electricity. Pair and share – - describe another common energy transformation that illustrates the second law of thermodynamics well.
HW: Complete the seconds page of your study guide; Extra credit opportunity answering question that will be posted below.
Extra Credit Opportunity
Wed 11/30
Warm-up – - crossword puzzle of test vocabulary. Group review game part I.
HW: Study for test – - complete page three of studyguide
Thurs 12/1
Review game part II – - studying for test.
HW: Study for Test!!
Fri 12/2
Energy and States of Matter Test
by snodgrass on November 21, 2011 at 8:40 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Congratulations to Periods 3 and 5 for meeting your Quarter One goals! Keep up the effort and continue to challenge yourself!
Mon 11/21
Conduction lab summary – - students will work in pairs to analyze their data from the conduction lab and use it to ‘prove’ the second law of thermodynamics.
HW: Define the forms of energy using any available resource – - text, Internet, dictionary.
Forms of Energy – notes outline
Tues 11/22
Graph Heat Transfer quiz scores and go over quizzes. Forms of energy collage activity.
Forms of Energy notes – - key
Wed 11/23
Sharing energy collages.
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