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November 2007
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Monday (11/26)
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Tuesday (11/27)
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Wednesday (11/28)
- Investigate
With your partner, brainstorm as many effects of increased global warming temperatures (a few degrees Fahrenheit) as you can.
- As you come up with possible result of global warming, ask yourselves “what effect it may have?”
- For example: if you think glaciers will recede… what would happen as a result of the glaciers melting?
- How will higher temperatures affect the following processes:
Animal life, Evaporation, Glacial Activity, Plant Life, Precipitation, Ocean Circulation
- With your partner, review your list. Compare your list with others at your table. Cross out any that may be far-fetched (if you’re not sure… ask the teacher).
- Create a poster listing the remaining ideas. Organize your ideas on the poster using the following headings: Geosphere (earth), Hydrosphere (water), Atmosphere (air), Cryosphere (frozen), and Biosphere (living)
Title your poster (use the purpose of this activity as your title)
Write each of the sphere’s definitions on your poster
Using pictures from magazines (or hand drawn) add pictures to represent each sphere.
On a separate piece of paper, write down how each of the possible results might affect the Fife community.
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Thursday (11/29)
- LIN Phase 4
- Library computers
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Friday (11/30)
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Imagine you and your partner are scientists who are going to write a proposal asking for grant money to do an experiment. Pick one of the ideas on your poster that you would like to investigate further.
Design a project in which you would gather data from the real world.
- Research your chosen “sphere” and your topic: use the Internet, your book, and other resources
- Create a bibliography for all resources used. The more resources the better.
- Example: Sphere: hydrosphere, Topic: rising sea levels.
- In order to study higher sea levels, you would have to include why the sea levels are rising. You may have to discuss a few different spheres
- Explain the impact global warming would have on the “sphere” you chose
- Following my example from above… I would search how global warming will affect the hydrosphere and rising sea levels.
- Collect data to support your findings
- Use charts and graphs
- Show changes over time
- Use pictures to help support your findings
Create an experiment: Develop a testable question. How could you test your findings? What factors are being influenced by global warming.
- How you would collect your data
- How frequently and how long you will collect it
- How you will analyze it
Create a presentation of your information (poster, power point, news letter, etc)
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Monday (11/19)
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Tuesday (11/20)
- How does the "greenhouse effect" affect climate?
- Write an inquiry lab for the above question
- Inquiry lab format
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Wednesday (11/21)
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Thursday (11/22)
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Friday (11/23)
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Monday (11/12)
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Tuesday (11/13)
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Wednesday (11/14)
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Thursday (11/15)
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Friday (11/16)
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Monday (11/5)
- Think about it... When its winter in Fife, Washington, it is summer in Australia. Explain why the seasons are reversed in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
- Investigate Part A and B... follow all the directions
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Tuesday (11/6)
- Investigate Part C: Follow directions... you are being asked to redo procedures for
Part A (work not completed is homework)
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Wednesday (11/7)
- Laptops in the classroom: LIN
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Thursday (11/8)
- Investigate Part D and E
- Hoemwork
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Friday (11/9)
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Monday (10/29)
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Tuesday (10/30)
- Tilt vs Season Lab
- Students will trade their lab procedures with another group, scoring the procedures on its completeness.
- Scoring Rubric
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Wednesday (10/31)
- Seas of Grass
- Over the course of the school year students will be watching the thought provoking "Journey To Planet Earth" series, as a way to expose stduents to globa issues that are based in the fundamentals of the important of earth Science.
- Overview: Among the most endangered ecosystems today are the world’s grasslands. Threats menacing them include overgrazing, soil erosion, urbanization, and replacement of natural vegetation with agricultural fields and tree plantations. When native grasslands disappear, so do the unique plants and animals that depend on them. Also at risk, are unique human cultures and lifestyles specially adapted to them: Mongolian nomads, Argentine Gauchos, and American cowboys all have developed distinctive ways of thriving in the challenging conditions of the world’s grasslands, whether we call them prairies, pampas, veldts, or steppes. The preservation of both our cultural and our natural heritages, therefore, depend upon how successfully we can preserve the natural grasslands that support both
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Thursday (11/1)
- Investigate: Activity 2
- All components of the investigate must be completed
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Friday (11/2)
- Digging deeper: How geologists find out about Paleoclimates? (Due Friday 11/5)
- Read and summarize each section using the handout. Draw a picture (label) for each section that represents the topic being discussed.
- Answer all components of "Understanding & Applying" questions
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Preparing for the Chapter Challenge (Due Friday 11/9)
Create a newspaper article explaining how geologists use the climate proxies to find out about paleoclimate. Each topic should be one to two paragraphs long. Resources can be your textbook or the internet… make sure you include a bibliography and everything is in your own words.
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Article must include the following topics:
- Deep sea sediments
- Glacial landforms and sediments
- Ice cores from Antarctica
- Pollen studies
- Tree rings
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