Monday (10/29)

• Planet Earth: Pole to Pole

Tuesday (10/30)

• Tilt vs Season Lab
• Students will trade their lab procedures with another group, scoring the procedures on its completeness.
• Scoring Rubric

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

Thursday (11/1)

• Investigate: Activity 2

Friday (11/2)

• Digging deeper: How geologists find out about Paleoclimates?
• Read and summarize each section using the handout.  Draw a picture (label) for each section that represents the topic being discussed.

Monday (10/22)

• Soil vs Water Lab
• Answer question from the book on pg E91
• Read/outline Digging Deeper: Weather & Climate
• Geowords/definitions
• Understanding & Applying Questions 1 - 4 (E95) restste/write complete sentences. (Due Friday!)

Tuesday (10/23)

• Discuss Data
• Create class average chart for data
• Conclusion
  • Restate hypothesis - including whether correct or incorrect
  • Soil data
  • Water data
  • Explanitory data
• Homework 2 (E95
  • Look at newspaper articles and discuss the style of writing used (informational, expository, ?) Divide The bullets between the group members.
  • Each person will be responsible for writing a paragraph about their topic.

Wednesday (10/24)

• Climate Handout
• Quick Lab - Earth's tilt vs. Solar Radiation

Thursday (10/25)

• Season vs angle of Sun investigation
• Article writing: Round robin

Friday (10/26)

• Library LIN
• Identifying manipulated and responding variables

Monday (10/15)

Quick Write

• What is climate?
  How is climate different from weather?
  What kinds of processes and events cause eartth's climate to change?
• Chapter Challenge: Climate Change
• Group Plan Sheet - Do not turn in your plan sheet.  You will use it throughout this chapter as a guideline for what needs to be completed.

Tuesday (10/16)

• Think about it: Present Day Climate (E84)
  How would you describe the physical environment of your community?
  How would you describe the climate of your community?
• Investigate (E85)
  #1 - Community = Western Washington
  #2 - complete the data charts using the different tables provided in the book.  For Seattle, Spokane, and New York. 
  #3 - use a topography map of your town to answer the questions.
• Data Chart
• Homework - Due Thursday
  Writing Investigative Questions
  

Wednesday (10/17)

• Start Part C: this section will reuire you to write a hypothesis and write an experiment to test your hypothesis. Use the Lab inquiry sheet to write your investigation.
• Inquiry Format (Investigation write up is due Monday, 10/22)
• Write-up help
• Investigation rubric

Thursday (10/18)

Friday (10/19)

Monday (10/8)

• Read E63 - E67
• Reading Handout
• geowords/definitions in own words
• Draw/label fig 1
• Check your understanding questions 1 - 3
• Understand and Apply questions (restate/write complete sentences/use examples as support)

Tuesday (10/9)

• Study Guide: Due Thursday - no late assignment excepted!
  Can be used as test notes during the test

Wednesday (10/10)

• Study Guide: Due Thursday - no late assignment excepted!
  Can be used as test notes during the test

Thursday (10/11)

• Chapter One test
• Study guide Due

Friday (10/12)

• Tom Brokov: Global Warming

Monday (10/1)

• Read/outline E50-E55
• Draw/label figures 1 & 2
• Geowords/definitions - Take the definition from the text (don't use sticky notes)
• Understanding and Applying questions 1 - 4 - Do Not write in science log
  * write complete sentences
  * use examples as support
• Homework: write a three paragraph paper on the following topic.Do Not write in science log
• "What causes sunspots & solar flares and what are some of the problems caused by them?"

Tuesday (10/2)

• Structure of the Sun Lecture

Wednesday (10/3)

• Activity 6 Investigate
• Part A & B

Thursday (10/4)

• Activity 6 Investigate
• Part A & B

Friday (10/5)

• 1/2 day