Assignment Ideas
to support the NGSS Earth Science Disciplinary Core Ideas
Each asterisk (*) represents the beginning of a new assignment. See also the Resource page.
Models, Methods, Cycles, Systems
*Write a "mini-research" paper from any of the following topics. Write 125 words or more, cite your source (cannot be from textbook or Wikipedia), write in your own words (no copy and paste), and include one graphic with labels: an illustration, diagram, or graph. Your choices:
How do scientists develop a theory? OR What is the Scientific Method? OR What is a “Fair Test” in science? OR What are scientific models?
*Write a mini-research paper from any of the following topics. Write 125 words or more, cite your source (cannot be from textbook or Wikipedia), write in your own words (no copy and paste), and include one graphic: an illustration, diagram, graph, etc.
-carbon cycle
-nitrogen cycle
-earth systems (geosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere)
-heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation)
-renewable energy
-transfer of energy
Earth’s Spheres
*Go to www.utdallas.edu Search “Earth’s Spheres”. Click on "Earth's." Make a large poster. On your poster hand-copy the first ten slides including all labels and diagrams. Give your poster a title. Make it look good.
*Structure of the Earth System (Prentice Hall red earth science textbook)
Read pages 14 and 15.
Do the following on page 14:
Draw and label figure 6.
Copy figure 6 caption.
Answer question in figure 6 using complete sentences.
Into what four spheres (parts) do scientists divide the Earth?
Copy a brief definition for each sphere of the Earth system.
Copy the first four sentences of the last paragraph
*Mini-researches on one of these: weather fronts, adiabatic cooling, convection currents, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes
SEVERE WEATHER: AIR MASSES
AND FRONTS
*Textbook Read pages 578 through 585.
On page 581 draw, shade in, label and copy the caption of figure 4.
On page 581, copy the first sentence BY HAND from the Fronts paragraph.
On pages 582 and 583, draw, label, and color one of the fronts at top of the pages. Include caption.
On page 582, copy the first sentence (in dark letters).
On page 582, answer the reading checkpoint using complete sentences.
On page 585, draw the little map and label it with the Hs and Ls. Label the kind of weather the Hs bring and the kind of weather the Ls bring (see little captions on pictures). What does the H stand for? The L?
On page 585, answer 1a using complete sentences (answer is back on 579).
On page 585, answer 2a using complete sentences (see 581).
SEVERE WEATHER: STORMS
*Textbook: Read 586-595
fig9 Draw, label, copy caption
587 Copy by hand: "How Thunderstorms Form"
fig11 Draw, label, copy caption
589 Copy BY HAND "How Tornadoes Form"
fig12 Draw, label, copy caption
592 Copy second paragraph under "How Hurricanes Form." A hurricane draws its energy.......
594 Copy last paragraph BY HAND: When a cold, dry..........
*Hurricanes Go to www.weatherwizkids.com. Click on weather, then "hurricanes" then scroll down to "How do hurricanes form?"
*Hurricane Animation Go to: http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-hurricanes.html. Watch it at least twice. Write 99 words or more to summarize. Include one illustration with labels.
*Tornadoes Go to: http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-tornadoes.html. Watch it two or three times. Write 99 words or more to summarize what you learn. Include one illustration with labels.
*Mini-research: HOW are clouds formed? NOT different kinds of clouds! Tell me HOW they are formed! 125, illustration, cite source
*Uneven Heating of Earth's Surface & Rising Warm Air
Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9007188/ns/weather-weather_news .
Watch it twice. Copy everything from each of the five slides by hand (no typing or copy and paste). Include the drawings and captions.
Last, write 50 words or more to explain how this relates to the investigations we've been doing in class with the convection tubes.
*Mini-research on WHAT CAUSES WEATHER? Can't use your text or Wikipedia on mini researches. 125 words or more. Always cite your source. Include one illustration.
WEATHER PATTERNS
*Textbook Read pp. 509-516
fig16-28 Draw, label, color, and answer in complete sentences
fig16-29 Draw, label, color both illustrations
fig16-30 Draw, label, color both illustrations
513 Activity. Answer both Qs in cs. SHOW YOUR MATH
516 Section Review 1 and 2 in cs
*Go to: http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-hurricanes.html Watch it at least twice. Write 99 words or more to summarize. Include one illustration with labels.
*Mini-research: HOW are clouds formed? NOT different kinds of clouds! Tell me HOW they are formed! 125, illustration, cite source
*Mini-research on Air Masses. 125, cite source, one illustration
*Mini-research: HOW are clouds formed? NOT different kinds of clouds! Tell me HOW they are formed! 125, illustration, cite source
*Mini-research on Air Masses. 125, cite source, one illustration
Pollution
*Textbook Read 696-704
704 Answer Section Review 1-4 in good complete sentences
Read 707-710
711 Answer Section Review 1-5 in good complete sentences
Currents and Climate
*Textbook Read 457-461
fig20Draw, color, label and copy caption
fig20What kind of water is denser and sinks?
fig20 In step 4 what happens to warmer water?
fig20Contrast the kind of water carried by surface and deep currents
461 Answer in cs: 1a,b,c
fig18Study map. Answer Q in cs
459How does El Nino effect weather?
457Why do the major ocean currents (top of page) move in those circular patterns (read the page for corrrect answer!)
Oceans and Climate
*Go to: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OceanClimate/
Read this page "Oceans and climate" and then at the bottom click on the next page, "The ocean's physical interactions with the atmosphere." Read this page, too.
Answer these Qs from each section (always in complete answers). Number them with my numbers:
first page: Oceans and Climate
1 Do you think the Earth's average temperature has risen very much over the last 100 years? Why or why not?
2 If man-made greenhouse gases (mostly from cars and factories) have risen by 30% since the industrial revolution, why has teh Earth's average temperature risen by only .05C?
3 If the Earth's average temperature was 15C a hundred years ago what would it be today if it was 30% higher? You must show your math.
4 What affects Earth's temperature besides greenhouse gases (you may have already answered this in Q#2 so just write it again).
5 Copy (by hand) the first sentence of second paragraph
6 All of the Earth's systems affect each other. Name all of the systems you remember: like hydrosphere, ..........
7 Look at third paragraph. In your own words summarize the main idea.
8 Why are phytoplankton important to humans? (click on article right side of page about phytoplankton)
9 Read the caption next to the illustration of the satellite above the Earth. What are the main purposes of the satellite?
second page: Ocean's Physical Interaction with the Atmosphere
10 Draw, label, color illustration
11 On right side click "what are phytoplankton"?
12 Read article
13 Write 35 words or more to tell important things about phytoplankton
*Mini-research “How Do Oceans Affect Climate?”
*Mini-research “What is thermohaline circulation?”
Earthquakes
*Current Earthquake Data Go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/ Write 125 words or more on anything you learned from clicking all around. For example, you can tell me what kind of information you can find out by searching through this website.
*mini-research: "How do geologists believe mountains were formed?" 125, cite source, one illustration
*New Fault Found in Idaho
Read the article at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada- twice. Write 125 words or more that mixes what you've learned in class about earthquakes and faults with information from the article. Also, include what you think he means when professor Ebel says, "something is imminent."?
Tsunamis
*Go to http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-tsunami.html.
Watch it two or three times. Write a 99 word summary. Include on illustration.
*Go to http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/explainer.tsunami.japan/index.html?hpt=T1
-Read the caption on the photo "What is a Tsunami?"
-Create five questions from the caption. Put answers in parentheses
-At the bottom click on each tab, beginning with the "animation" tab. Watch each one carefully, maybe twice
-Write 99 words or more to describe anything you learned from watching the tabs.
-Watch the Japan tsunami time lapse tab again. This is data from the tsunami in Japan. Watch the clock. At what time did the tsunami fist reach Australia? At what time did it reach Alaska? California?
-Look at Historical Tsunamis again. Click on the different tsunamis until you find the one which resulted in the most deaths. Copy the caption,
Plates & Volcanoes
* Go to: http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-volcanoes.html.
-Watch the whole thing at least twice. Write a 99 word summary or just copy everything you read.
-Draw and color the animation that shows convection currents of magma pushing the plates apart
-Draw and label the map that shows the boundaries of the plates and continents
-What happens when two plates push against each other storing energy, and then the plates give?
*Plate Boundaries Go to: http://www.scec.org/education/k12/learn/plate4.htm. 1Read the second paragraph under "Plate Boundaries." 2Then play the animation three times. 3Draw and label the diagram. 4Write 35 words or more to describe what is happening in the animation. 5Copy in your neatest handwriting: the second paragaph you already read (just above the diagram) and the paragraph below the diagram. 6From all that you have just learned, write 25 words or more to answer this: "What is seafloor spreading?"
*Textbook: Read 132-140.
-135Answer all eight Qs in complete sentences
-138Draw the little pangea on the left (not the key)
-140Answer 2a, 2c, 3a in complete sentences
-132 extra credit: Do the activity and answer the two Qs. Draw an illustration to show what happened. 135fig10 Draw, label, color, copy caption
Forces in the Earth's Crust
*Textbook: Read 162-168. Study all the figures.
-162 Do Discovery Activity. Write 50 words or more to tell what happened and how this relates to what you read on pages 162-168.
-163 fig2 Draw, label, and copy caption
-163answer reading check point in cs
-164-165fig3 Draw, label and copy captions (don't draw the photographs)
-165Go online (right side of page). Go to the site and type in the code. There are ten students sites. Choose one to surf through and then write 50 words or more to tell what you learned. Include one illustration or drawing.
*Convection Currents in the Mantle Move Plates
Go to http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node195.html. "MANTLE CONVECTION"
-Copy all of it by hand, including the diagram
-Write out six great questions and put the answers in parentheses
*Sea-Floor Spreading I
Textbook: Read 141-149 (textbook)
141 Do Discover Activity. Answer the four Qs in CS
142 Draw,label, color fig15. Add caption and answer Q. Include title
143 fig16 Draw,label,color, add caption and answer Q
146 Study fig19. Which crust (oceanic or continental) is subducting (going under) the other one?
146 Study fig19...Which has more density, oceanic or continental crust? How do you know?
147 fig20 Draw,label,color and add caption
*Sea-Floor Spreading II
Textbook: Do skill lab on 148-149 and turn your model in with this assignmnent
1What problem is your model supposed to answer?
2What is the Skills Focus?
3Use the questions under Analyze and Conclude to guide you in writing 125 words or more to tell exactly how your model illustrates (shows) how Sea Floor Spreading works. Use the language you read about in pges 143-147
Igneous Rocks
*An Introduction to Igneous Rocks” Go to http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/fichter/IgnRx/Introigrx.html
-Read the first section “Formation, Classification and Identification.”
-Write a 125 word reflection on anything you learned. Choose one diagram to draw with labels and color. At the end, tell me the two most important things you learned from this article.
*Go to: http://www.rocksandminerals4u.com/igneous_rocks.html.
Read the entire article.
Answer the following in complete sentences. Number your answers.
1. Name 12 elements and gases that may be present in magma.
2. Copy: The elements form chemical combinations that _____________ in patterns to form eight minerals.
3. When magma cools into igneous rock above the ground it is called what?
4. Name five materials that come out of a volcano.
5. If molten magma cools and crystallizes before it gets to the Earth’s surface, it is categorized as _________________________.
6. Compare what happens to magma when it cools at the surface of the Earth or forms underground pockets.
7. Compare the rate (how fast) of cooling that occurs for fine-grained (small crystals) and large crystals.
8. What does the slower cooling that takes place underground do to the size of crystals?
9. Name eight types of igneous rocks.
Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
*Go to http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/geology/meta_regional.html
1. Copy: "Metamorphose means change. When rocks are metamorphosed, they are changed into a different kind of rock."
Study the webpage carefully.
2. True or false: regional metamorphism occurs over small areas on the Earth. Explain your answer
3. List three forces powerful enough to change these huge underground areas of rock
4. What has the power to metamorphose all those rocks?
5. Draw, color, and label illustrations A and B
6. Then click on the link to "contact metamorphism"
7. Read the article. Write 50 words or more to compare and contrast regional and contact metamorphism
8. Draw, color, and label the illustration.
Rock Cycle
*Click on this address: http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html.
1. Read the page. Why is it true that the elements that make up rocks are never created or destroyed?
2. Click on every image on the rock cycle diagram and study what happens. List two things that surprise you about how rocks change.
3. Draw, label and color the diagram. At the bottom, write a 25 word summary about your rock cycle diagram.
History of the Earth
*Mini-research on : index fossils law of superposition relative age dating radiometric dating half-life carbon-14 dating radioactive elements Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions unconformities Pleistocene ice age
*Textbook Radiometric Dating (textbook)
Read pages 324 through 329 and answer the following:
324 Most atoms are stable. But what happens to some atoms that are not stable?
324 What happens during radioactive decay?
324 In what type of rock are radioactive elements found?
324 When is an igneous rock’s birthday?
324 What happens to the radioactive elements in igneous rock over time as it decays?
324 Copy: “The amount of the original radioactive element goes down but the amount of the ____________________________ element goes up.
324 Tell about the rate (how fast it happens) of decay for each radioactive element
324 Just copy: “This radioactive decay is sort of like a clock because it keeps changing at a constant rate.”
324 What is the “half-life” of a radioactive element?
324 Draw, label, and caption figure 10.
324 Draw, label, and caption figure 11.
324 Draw, label, and caption figure 12.
325 Last paragraph. Why isn’t carbon dating any good for dating very ancient fossils or rocks?
326 Draw, label, and caption figure 13.
326 Answer 2a using complete sentences.
Hydrology
*mini-research: What is hydrology (or hydrogeology)? OR What does a hydrologist do? 125 cite source one illustration
The Universe
*Go to Blue Shift/Red Shift at :
http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=SGMedia&hsimp=yhs-sgm_fb&&p=animation%20of%20blue%20shift. Click on the youtube video that says "What is a Red Shift?" (2:29)
-Watch the video twice.
-Then write 75 words or more to describe the difference between a red shift and a blue shift. Include at least one diagram WITH LABELS and a CAPTION. Color will help!
What is a Spectrograph and Other Definitions
*Definitions
1.Write 35 words to tell me about a spectrograph. Look it up and cite your source.
2.Write definitions for each of the following. Some, but not all, are found in your text. Number them from 1-12: 1universe 2galaxy 3light year 4cosmic background radiation 5Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram 6Hubble Redshift 7cosmology 8solar flare 9solar wind 10sunspot cycle 11aurora 12nuclear fusion
*Mini-research two of the following topics: Write 125 words with one illustration and cite your source OR produce a two minute video you can share with your class all about one of the topics. Cite your sources of information.
Topics:
- Describe the position and motion of our solar system in our galaxy and the overall scale, structure, and age of the universe.
-Describe how the Big Bang theory accounts for the formation of the universe.
- Explain how observations of the cosmic microwave background have helped determine the age of the universe.
- Differentiate between the cosmological and Doppler red shift.
- Identify patterns in solar activities (sunspot cycle, solar flares, solar wind auroras, disruption of radio and satellite communications, or power grid disturbances).
- Describe how nuclear fusion and other processes in stars have led to the formation of all the other chemical elements.
to support the NGSS Earth Science Disciplinary Core Ideas
Each asterisk (*) represents the beginning of a new assignment. See also the Resource page.
Models, Methods, Cycles, Systems
*Write a "mini-research" paper from any of the following topics. Write 125 words or more, cite your source (cannot be from textbook or Wikipedia), write in your own words (no copy and paste), and include one graphic with labels: an illustration, diagram, or graph. Your choices:
How do scientists develop a theory? OR What is the Scientific Method? OR What is a “Fair Test” in science? OR What are scientific models?
*Write a mini-research paper from any of the following topics. Write 125 words or more, cite your source (cannot be from textbook or Wikipedia), write in your own words (no copy and paste), and include one graphic: an illustration, diagram, graph, etc.
-carbon cycle
-nitrogen cycle
-earth systems (geosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere)
-heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation)
-renewable energy
-transfer of energy
Earth’s Spheres
*Go to www.utdallas.edu Search “Earth’s Spheres”. Click on "Earth's." Make a large poster. On your poster hand-copy the first ten slides including all labels and diagrams. Give your poster a title. Make it look good.
*Structure of the Earth System (Prentice Hall red earth science textbook)
Read pages 14 and 15.
Do the following on page 14:
Draw and label figure 6.
Copy figure 6 caption.
Answer question in figure 6 using complete sentences.
Into what four spheres (parts) do scientists divide the Earth?
Copy a brief definition for each sphere of the Earth system.
Copy the first four sentences of the last paragraph
*Mini-researches on one of these: weather fronts, adiabatic cooling, convection currents, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes
SEVERE WEATHER: AIR MASSES
AND FRONTS
*Textbook Read pages 578 through 585.
On page 581 draw, shade in, label and copy the caption of figure 4.
On page 581, copy the first sentence BY HAND from the Fronts paragraph.
On pages 582 and 583, draw, label, and color one of the fronts at top of the pages. Include caption.
On page 582, copy the first sentence (in dark letters).
On page 582, answer the reading checkpoint using complete sentences.
On page 585, draw the little map and label it with the Hs and Ls. Label the kind of weather the Hs bring and the kind of weather the Ls bring (see little captions on pictures). What does the H stand for? The L?
On page 585, answer 1a using complete sentences (answer is back on 579).
On page 585, answer 2a using complete sentences (see 581).
SEVERE WEATHER: STORMS
*Textbook: Read 586-595
fig9 Draw, label, copy caption
587 Copy by hand: "How Thunderstorms Form"
fig11 Draw, label, copy caption
589 Copy BY HAND "How Tornadoes Form"
fig12 Draw, label, copy caption
592 Copy second paragraph under "How Hurricanes Form." A hurricane draws its energy.......
594 Copy last paragraph BY HAND: When a cold, dry..........
*Hurricanes Go to www.weatherwizkids.com. Click on weather, then "hurricanes" then scroll down to "How do hurricanes form?"
- Copy the paragraph by hand.
- Draw and label the illustration.
- Click on "Weather" at the top again. Click on "Thunderstorms" and write out by hand “what causes a thunderstorm?”
*Hurricane Animation Go to: http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-hurricanes.html. Watch it at least twice. Write 99 words or more to summarize. Include one illustration with labels.
*Tornadoes Go to: http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-tornadoes.html. Watch it two or three times. Write 99 words or more to summarize what you learn. Include one illustration with labels.
*Mini-research: HOW are clouds formed? NOT different kinds of clouds! Tell me HOW they are formed! 125, illustration, cite source
*Uneven Heating of Earth's Surface & Rising Warm Air
Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9007188/ns/weather-weather_news .
Watch it twice. Copy everything from each of the five slides by hand (no typing or copy and paste). Include the drawings and captions.
Last, write 50 words or more to explain how this relates to the investigations we've been doing in class with the convection tubes.
*Mini-research on WHAT CAUSES WEATHER? Can't use your text or Wikipedia on mini researches. 125 words or more. Always cite your source. Include one illustration.
WEATHER PATTERNS
*Textbook Read pp. 509-516
fig16-28 Draw, label, color, and answer in complete sentences
fig16-29 Draw, label, color both illustrations
fig16-30 Draw, label, color both illustrations
513 Activity. Answer both Qs in cs. SHOW YOUR MATH
516 Section Review 1 and 2 in cs
*Go to: http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-hurricanes.html Watch it at least twice. Write 99 words or more to summarize. Include one illustration with labels.
*Mini-research: HOW are clouds formed? NOT different kinds of clouds! Tell me HOW they are formed! 125, illustration, cite source
*Mini-research on Air Masses. 125, cite source, one illustration
*Mini-research: HOW are clouds formed? NOT different kinds of clouds! Tell me HOW they are formed! 125, illustration, cite source
*Mini-research on Air Masses. 125, cite source, one illustration
Pollution
*Textbook Read 696-704
704 Answer Section Review 1-4 in good complete sentences
Read 707-710
711 Answer Section Review 1-5 in good complete sentences
Currents and Climate
*Textbook Read 457-461
fig20Draw, color, label and copy caption
fig20What kind of water is denser and sinks?
fig20 In step 4 what happens to warmer water?
fig20Contrast the kind of water carried by surface and deep currents
461 Answer in cs: 1a,b,c
fig18Study map. Answer Q in cs
459How does El Nino effect weather?
457Why do the major ocean currents (top of page) move in those circular patterns (read the page for corrrect answer!)
Oceans and Climate
*Go to: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OceanClimate/
Read this page "Oceans and climate" and then at the bottom click on the next page, "The ocean's physical interactions with the atmosphere." Read this page, too.
Answer these Qs from each section (always in complete answers). Number them with my numbers:
first page: Oceans and Climate
1 Do you think the Earth's average temperature has risen very much over the last 100 years? Why or why not?
2 If man-made greenhouse gases (mostly from cars and factories) have risen by 30% since the industrial revolution, why has teh Earth's average temperature risen by only .05C?
3 If the Earth's average temperature was 15C a hundred years ago what would it be today if it was 30% higher? You must show your math.
4 What affects Earth's temperature besides greenhouse gases (you may have already answered this in Q#2 so just write it again).
5 Copy (by hand) the first sentence of second paragraph
6 All of the Earth's systems affect each other. Name all of the systems you remember: like hydrosphere, ..........
7 Look at third paragraph. In your own words summarize the main idea.
8 Why are phytoplankton important to humans? (click on article right side of page about phytoplankton)
9 Read the caption next to the illustration of the satellite above the Earth. What are the main purposes of the satellite?
second page: Ocean's Physical Interaction with the Atmosphere
10 Draw, label, color illustration
11 On right side click "what are phytoplankton"?
12 Read article
13 Write 35 words or more to tell important things about phytoplankton
*Mini-research “How Do Oceans Affect Climate?”
*Mini-research “What is thermohaline circulation?”
Earthquakes
*Current Earthquake Data Go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/ Write 125 words or more on anything you learned from clicking all around. For example, you can tell me what kind of information you can find out by searching through this website.
*mini-research: "How do geologists believe mountains were formed?" 125, cite source, one illustration
*New Fault Found in Idaho
Read the article at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada- twice. Write 125 words or more that mixes what you've learned in class about earthquakes and faults with information from the article. Also, include what you think he means when professor Ebel says, "something is imminent."?
Tsunamis
*Go to http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-tsunami.html.
Watch it two or three times. Write a 99 word summary. Include on illustration.
*Go to http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/explainer.tsunami.japan/index.html?hpt=T1
-Read the caption on the photo "What is a Tsunami?"
-Create five questions from the caption. Put answers in parentheses
-At the bottom click on each tab, beginning with the "animation" tab. Watch each one carefully, maybe twice
-Write 99 words or more to describe anything you learned from watching the tabs.
-Watch the Japan tsunami time lapse tab again. This is data from the tsunami in Japan. Watch the clock. At what time did the tsunami fist reach Australia? At what time did it reach Alaska? California?
-Look at Historical Tsunamis again. Click on the different tsunamis until you find the one which resulted in the most deaths. Copy the caption,
Plates & Volcanoes
* Go to: http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/natural-disasters-volcanoes.html.
-Watch the whole thing at least twice. Write a 99 word summary or just copy everything you read.
-Draw and color the animation that shows convection currents of magma pushing the plates apart
-Draw and label the map that shows the boundaries of the plates and continents
-What happens when two plates push against each other storing energy, and then the plates give?
*Plate Boundaries Go to: http://www.scec.org/education/k12/learn/plate4.htm. 1Read the second paragraph under "Plate Boundaries." 2Then play the animation three times. 3Draw and label the diagram. 4Write 35 words or more to describe what is happening in the animation. 5Copy in your neatest handwriting: the second paragaph you already read (just above the diagram) and the paragraph below the diagram. 6From all that you have just learned, write 25 words or more to answer this: "What is seafloor spreading?"
*Textbook: Read 132-140.
-135Answer all eight Qs in complete sentences
-138Draw the little pangea on the left (not the key)
-140Answer 2a, 2c, 3a in complete sentences
-132 extra credit: Do the activity and answer the two Qs. Draw an illustration to show what happened. 135fig10 Draw, label, color, copy caption
Forces in the Earth's Crust
*Textbook: Read 162-168. Study all the figures.
-162 Do Discovery Activity. Write 50 words or more to tell what happened and how this relates to what you read on pages 162-168.
-163 fig2 Draw, label, and copy caption
-163answer reading check point in cs
-164-165fig3 Draw, label and copy captions (don't draw the photographs)
-165Go online (right side of page). Go to the site and type in the code. There are ten students sites. Choose one to surf through and then write 50 words or more to tell what you learned. Include one illustration or drawing.
*Convection Currents in the Mantle Move Plates
Go to http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node195.html. "MANTLE CONVECTION"
-Copy all of it by hand, including the diagram
-Write out six great questions and put the answers in parentheses
*Sea-Floor Spreading I
Textbook: Read 141-149 (textbook)
141 Do Discover Activity. Answer the four Qs in CS
142 Draw,label, color fig15. Add caption and answer Q. Include title
143 fig16 Draw,label,color, add caption and answer Q
146 Study fig19. Which crust (oceanic or continental) is subducting (going under) the other one?
146 Study fig19...Which has more density, oceanic or continental crust? How do you know?
147 fig20 Draw,label,color and add caption
*Sea-Floor Spreading II
Textbook: Do skill lab on 148-149 and turn your model in with this assignmnent
1What problem is your model supposed to answer?
2What is the Skills Focus?
3Use the questions under Analyze and Conclude to guide you in writing 125 words or more to tell exactly how your model illustrates (shows) how Sea Floor Spreading works. Use the language you read about in pges 143-147
Igneous Rocks
*An Introduction to Igneous Rocks” Go to http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/fichter/IgnRx/Introigrx.html
-Read the first section “Formation, Classification and Identification.”
-Write a 125 word reflection on anything you learned. Choose one diagram to draw with labels and color. At the end, tell me the two most important things you learned from this article.
*Go to: http://www.rocksandminerals4u.com/igneous_rocks.html.
Read the entire article.
Answer the following in complete sentences. Number your answers.
1. Name 12 elements and gases that may be present in magma.
2. Copy: The elements form chemical combinations that _____________ in patterns to form eight minerals.
3. When magma cools into igneous rock above the ground it is called what?
4. Name five materials that come out of a volcano.
5. If molten magma cools and crystallizes before it gets to the Earth’s surface, it is categorized as _________________________.
6. Compare what happens to magma when it cools at the surface of the Earth or forms underground pockets.
7. Compare the rate (how fast) of cooling that occurs for fine-grained (small crystals) and large crystals.
8. What does the slower cooling that takes place underground do to the size of crystals?
9. Name eight types of igneous rocks.
Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
*Go to http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/geology/meta_regional.html
1. Copy: "Metamorphose means change. When rocks are metamorphosed, they are changed into a different kind of rock."
Study the webpage carefully.
2. True or false: regional metamorphism occurs over small areas on the Earth. Explain your answer
3. List three forces powerful enough to change these huge underground areas of rock
4. What has the power to metamorphose all those rocks?
5. Draw, color, and label illustrations A and B
6. Then click on the link to "contact metamorphism"
7. Read the article. Write 50 words or more to compare and contrast regional and contact metamorphism
8. Draw, color, and label the illustration.
Rock Cycle
*Click on this address: http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html.
1. Read the page. Why is it true that the elements that make up rocks are never created or destroyed?
2. Click on every image on the rock cycle diagram and study what happens. List two things that surprise you about how rocks change.
3. Draw, label and color the diagram. At the bottom, write a 25 word summary about your rock cycle diagram.
History of the Earth
*Mini-research on : index fossils law of superposition relative age dating radiometric dating half-life carbon-14 dating radioactive elements Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions unconformities Pleistocene ice age
*Textbook Radiometric Dating (textbook)
Read pages 324 through 329 and answer the following:
324 Most atoms are stable. But what happens to some atoms that are not stable?
324 What happens during radioactive decay?
324 In what type of rock are radioactive elements found?
324 When is an igneous rock’s birthday?
324 What happens to the radioactive elements in igneous rock over time as it decays?
324 Copy: “The amount of the original radioactive element goes down but the amount of the ____________________________ element goes up.
324 Tell about the rate (how fast it happens) of decay for each radioactive element
324 Just copy: “This radioactive decay is sort of like a clock because it keeps changing at a constant rate.”
324 What is the “half-life” of a radioactive element?
324 Draw, label, and caption figure 10.
324 Draw, label, and caption figure 11.
324 Draw, label, and caption figure 12.
325 Last paragraph. Why isn’t carbon dating any good for dating very ancient fossils or rocks?
326 Draw, label, and caption figure 13.
326 Answer 2a using complete sentences.
Hydrology
*mini-research: What is hydrology (or hydrogeology)? OR What does a hydrologist do? 125 cite source one illustration
The Universe
*Go to Blue Shift/Red Shift at :
http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=SGMedia&hsimp=yhs-sgm_fb&&p=animation%20of%20blue%20shift. Click on the youtube video that says "What is a Red Shift?" (2:29)
-Watch the video twice.
-Then write 75 words or more to describe the difference between a red shift and a blue shift. Include at least one diagram WITH LABELS and a CAPTION. Color will help!
What is a Spectrograph and Other Definitions
*Definitions
1.Write 35 words to tell me about a spectrograph. Look it up and cite your source.
2.Write definitions for each of the following. Some, but not all, are found in your text. Number them from 1-12: 1universe 2galaxy 3light year 4cosmic background radiation 5Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram 6Hubble Redshift 7cosmology 8solar flare 9solar wind 10sunspot cycle 11aurora 12nuclear fusion
*Mini-research two of the following topics: Write 125 words with one illustration and cite your source OR produce a two minute video you can share with your class all about one of the topics. Cite your sources of information.
Topics:
- Describe the position and motion of our solar system in our galaxy and the overall scale, structure, and age of the universe.
-Describe how the Big Bang theory accounts for the formation of the universe.
- Explain how observations of the cosmic microwave background have helped determine the age of the universe.
- Differentiate between the cosmological and Doppler red shift.
- Identify patterns in solar activities (sunspot cycle, solar flares, solar wind auroras, disruption of radio and satellite communications, or power grid disturbances).
- Describe how nuclear fusion and other processes in stars have led to the formation of all the other chemical elements.