Geology09-10

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Review for Geology Unit Test on December 8 & 9. Post Climate Discussion Prompt

**Assignments**
Blue - Wed 9/23 White - Thur 9/24 || //Read about Minerals in E.S. textbook pp77-89 (Sect 4.1) Take notes in the form of a web//, either by hand, or by using a tool such as: Blue - Fri 9/25 || Read about Igneous Rocks in the E.S. textbook, pp 99-113. Take notes, paying close attention to the bold vocabulary terms.
 * ~ Topic ||~ Date Assigned ||~ Homework - due next class (unless specified otherwise) ||
 * __Geology Intro:__
 * Density Quiz
 * Transition to Geology
 * ** PreAssessment **: what do you know about geology? || 3 - Thur 9/24
 * OmniGraffle (in your Apps)
 * [|Bubbl.us]
 * [|Webspiration]
 * [|Dabbleboard]  ||
 * __Minerals:__
 * <span style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mineral Notes
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mineral testing Activity || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Fri 9/25

Study for a Minerals Quiz in two classes. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Instructions for today's class.
 * __Minerals:__
 * <span style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mineral Notes
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Crystals: snowflakes and in caves || White - Mon 9/28

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Mon 9/28 || Read about Igneous Rocks in the E.S. textbook, pp 99-113. Take notes, paying close attention to the bold vocabulary terms.

Study for a Minerals Quiz in two classes. <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Period 3 ONLY- Study for Minerals Quiz. <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Write two questions you have based on what you read about Igneous Rocks. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Tue 9/29 White - Wed 9/30 || Read about Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rocks in Earth Science Text, pp122-138 (Ch 6), fill out both webs (handouts) for notes. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Thur 10/1 White - Fri 10/2 || Read the article, "Geologic Site of the Month - July 1997: Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth" handout or <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|online] and answer the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|questions]. No need to print these for class. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Mon 10/5 White - Tue 10/6 || * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Prepare for a Rock Cycle Quiz
 * __Rock Cycle:__
 * <span style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Warm Up
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Igneous Rocks Notes
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Rock Detective Intro
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Identifying Igneous Rocks || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Tues 9/29
 * __Rock Cycle:__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="wiki_link">Minerals Quiz
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="wiki_link"> Rock Cycle notes
 * <span style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Metamorphic & Sedimentary Rock Notes
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Rock Detective Work: Identifying Rocks || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Thur 10/1
 * __Geology Field Trip Prep__:
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rock Cycle Review
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cushing Formation Notes (from the board)
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Metamorphic Granola Bar Activity || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Fri-Mon 10/2-5
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Finish the web on the Portland Head Light reading packet
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Finish the Metamorphic Granola Bar activity questions ||
 * __Rock Cycle:__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Finish the web on the Portland Head Light reading packet


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="wiki_link">Finish Rock Detective NB || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Tue 10/6 || * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read the Field Trip Packet[[file:Station Instruction Packet.09.2.pdf]] ||
 * <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">__Geology Field Trip Prep__:
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Follow up questions for Metamorphic Granola Bar activity
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Finish the web on the Portland Head Light reading packet (blue day only)

White - Thur 10/8 || * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read the Field Trip Packet handout from class.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="wiki_link">Finish Rock Detective Notebook || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Wed 10/7
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Answer the questionnaire for the podcasting project.( Pink handout )
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Look through Packing List for field trip ||
 * __<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Geology Field Trip Prep: __
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Station Instructions - go over in class
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Map]

|| <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Fri 10/9 <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Fri 10/9 White - Tue 10/13 || Make sure you have what you need for the field trip. Meet the buses at the front of the school at 7:40 am on Wednesday. Don't forget:
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Packing List - go over in class
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Practice podcasting with Mrs. Barr/ Mrs. Wolinsky
 * <span style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Instructions for podcasting
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">dress for the weather
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">your station packet
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">lunch if you need it
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cell phone or iPod if that applies to you ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Geology Field Trip Prep || ALL - Wed 10/14 || Complete the Station Packet from the Field Trip

Be ready to turn in your Rock Detective Notebook || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Fri 10/16 White - Thu 10/15 || Study for your <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Rock Quiz. Use your notes to prepare for this quiz. Topics include: terms for Igneous Rocks, Metamorphic and Sedimentary rocks; Bowen's reaction series; Rock cycle steps. This quiz is a combination of fill in the blank, T/F, and short answer. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue -Tue 10/20 White - Mon 10/19 || Read pp 443 - 459 in Earth Science textbook about Plate Tectonics. Answer questions 1-4 on pp 459. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Thursday 10/22 White - Wed 10/21 || Decide on your platform for your Geology Field Guide Project. Gather photos and other media you might need. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Monday 10/26 White - Fri 10/23 || [|Geo Web Guide Product Descriptor 2009.pdf] HW: Start on your map page, have all the pages made for your site, complete the introduction page. See Geology Field Guide Project and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Making maps]. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Wed 10/28 White - Tue 10/27 || Complete at least half of your rocks and minerals page for next class. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Fri 10/30 White - Thur 10/29 || Complete your timeline page for next class. Read Geology of Maine Packet. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Thur 11/5 White - Wed 11/4 || **In Class:** **Homework:** <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Mon 11/9 White - Fri 11/6 || In Class and Homework: <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Thur 11/12 White - Tue 11/10 || Homework: Complete the Student Reflection. Include the url for your field guide on the top of your reflection. Print a copy and turn it in. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Mon 11/16 White - Thur 11/12 || <span style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Google Earth Project information Explore Google Earth to understand how the "layers" and the "places" sections work. Answer questions 1-4 on. Back up your work. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Wed 11/18 White - Tues 11/17 || Complete Questions 5-10. Save the place markers in Google Earth into your folder to create a tour. Back up your work.
 * __Geology Field Guide Project__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="wiki_link"> Field Trip debrief
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Finish Field Trip Packet
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Finish Rock Det. NB
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Check out the photos from the field trip! (Make sure to look at Mr. Biskup's, too. They are fun!) || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Thu 10/15
 * __Geology Field Guide Project__
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rock Quiz
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Start Field Guide Project
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Start Plate Tectonics || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Fri 10/16
 * __Plate Tectonics:__
 * <span style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Plate Boundary Activity
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Planning for Geology Field Guide Project || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3 - Tue 10/20 - 10/22
 * __Geology Field Guide Project__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Planning for Geology Field Guide Project
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Start Introduction page and Map page || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Fri 10/23
 * __Geology Field Guide Project__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Complete Map page
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Work on Rocks and Minerals Page || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Mon 10/26
 * __Geology Field Guide Project__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Timeline activity in class
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Work on Rocks and Minerals Page
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Start timeline page || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Tue 10/27
 * __Geology Field Guide Project__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Peer Review of History Page
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Work on Geologic Features Page
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Start glossary and bibliography || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Thur 11/5
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With a partner, use the Peer Editing document to review your history essay. You should spend about 20 minutes on this in class. (<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Period 3 - you have already completed this.)[[file:Geology Website.PeerReview.2B.doc]]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Work on completing your Yodio/podcast to put on your Geologic Features page. Please make sure to read the product descriptor for the requirements. [[file:Geo Web Guide Product Descriptor 2009.pdf]]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Use the instructions to embed your podcast into your Geologic Features page.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Make any edits and changes to your pages that are needed
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Start your bibliography and glossary ||
 * __Geology Field Guide Project__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Work on Geologic Features Page
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Complete glossary and bibliography
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Honors Challenge : Work on making connections between the ideas on your pages. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Fri 11/6
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Complete any missing pieces for your field guide. Be sure to read through each page for errors.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Be ready to publish your guide next class. ||
 * __Geology Field Guide Project__
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Publish guide online
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Complete Reflection || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Tue 11/10
 * Google Earth Project
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Overview of GE
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Start answering questions in the Earth science questions file. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Thur 11/12
 * Google Earth Project
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Answering questions in the Earth science questions file.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Save the place markers || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Fri 11/13

Read the rubric and check that your answers are meeting the criteria. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Write a conclusion (constructed response) that answers the prompts: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When you are finished, put your kmz file, your Pages document with the answers to the questions and your conclusion into the Drop box. Make sure you have your last name in each file. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Fri 11/20 White - Thur 11/19 || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**All:** Write a conclusion (constructed response) that answers the prompts.
 * Google Earth Project
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Write the conclusion for the GE project || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Tues 11/17 || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Period 3 only**: (due Thursday in class)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Plate tectonics is a central unifying theory for the field of geology. A theory is an explanation for how or why something in nature occurs. Describe how the theory of plate tectonics ties the ideas together from each of the questions.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Questions 6-12 are concerned with types of evidence that we see on the surface of the earth that are clues for plate tectonics. Scientists have been aware of some of the evidence for a long time (early part of the 1900s), while others are newer pieces of information. Which type of evidence is newest? How did that new evidence help scientists formulate the theory of plate tectonics? (These resources might be helpful)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How can a tool like Google Earth help someone formulate an understanding for plate tectonics? What are some limitations of Google Earth in particular?
 * Google Earth Project
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Write the conclusion for the GE project || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Thur 11/19

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When you are finished, put your kmz file, your Pages document with the answers to the questions and your conclusion into the Drop box. Make sure you have your last name in each file. || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Tue 11/24 White - Mon 11/23 || No homework - Happy Thanksgiving! || <span style="color: #0009ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Tue 12/1 White - Mon 11/30 || Read the packet on Antarctica in preparation for Mike Weiss' presentation || <span style="color: #0009ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Thur 12/3 White - Wed 12/2 || Study notes for Antarctica quiz; Prepare for Geology Unit Test || <span style="color: #0009ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue - Mon 12/7 White - Fri 12/4 || Study notes for Antarctica quiz; Prepare for Geology Unit Test ||
 * Geology Wrap Up
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Electricity Pre-Assessment
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Magnetic Storm" video || <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Mon 11/23
 * Global Warming and Antarctica
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Overview of greenhouse effect & global warming impacts
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Clips from "An Inconvenient Truth" & <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|"Climate Connections from Wild Chronicles"]
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 * Antarctica Presentation
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Overview of Mike Weiss' geological expedition to Antarctica
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Take notes in preparation for a quiz || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Thur 12/3
 * Global Warming and Antarctica
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Questions from last class]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Effects of warming on the climate and planet - Article assignment
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Clips from "An Inconvenient Truth", "Six Degrees" and "The 11th Hour" || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3 - Mon 12/7

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