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Week 9: Earthquake And Volcanoes

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What did you do in the lab today?  - We worked in bigger groups to talk about our background knowledge on volcanoes and earthquakes  - Watched a video on the earthquake in Nepal, and talked about it in the whole class  - Watched a video on volcanoes, and the sound pushed the clouds away, before the shock -  We made predictions on the map of volcanoes and earthquakes  - EARTHQUAKE          - P: Waves               - Can travels through anything           - S: Waves               - Can only travel through liquid  What was the big question? ​ What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion? ​ Day 9:  It plates that move, not the continent  Map of geology to create Pangea  - Fossil evidence  Wegener and Plate Tectonics - German climatologist and geologist  - Proposed a theory of continental drift ...

Week 8: Geology That Kids See

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What did you do in the lab today?​ Sand Lab:  Sand 1: 1. Size = Small  2. Shape =  Pebble Jagged  3. Color = Pink, red, clear 4. Found = Ocean sand (Hawaii)  5. Erosion = Water   Sand 2:   1. Size = Small, medium  2. Shape = Pebble 3. Color = Red 4. Found = Desert (Morocco)  5. Erosion = Wind Sand 3:  1. Size = Kind of big 2. Shape = Bigger Pebble  3. Color = Black  4. Found = Volcano (Hawaii)  5. Erosion Heat Sand 4  1. Size = Big  2. Shape = Shells  3. Color = White and clear 4. Found = Ocean (Florida) 5. Erosion = Water  Sand 5:  1. Size = Small  2. Shape = Pebble  3. Color = Pink, Red, Black, White, Yellow 4. Found =  Beach, Ocean/Water (Long Island)  5. Erosion = Wind  Sand 6:  1. Size = Super Small 2. Shape = Pebble - Round 3. Color = Yellow 4. Found = Desert  (Colorado) 5. Erosion = Wind  Sand 7:  1. Size: Pebble 2. Shape: Circle, Square...

Week 7: Rock Cycle and Law of Superposition

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What did you do in the lab today?​ - We talked about how to assess students           - check for understandings, asking questions, quizzes, group discussion, projects, and presentations.  - Having an "A" means having an understanding that the teacher expects. - We went over the exam  - We also went over Acivitymaina  - Completed the Starburst lab What was the big question?​  What is the Rock Cycle and Law of Superposition? What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion?​ Read the online textbook

Week 6 Geological Time

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  What did you learn in lab today? - The connection between the 2008 election and the coast of the South.  - The stegosaurus and T-rex were not around at the same time - Life started on Earth around 3 Billion years ago  What was the big question?​ How does geologic time impact Earth? What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion?​ - We took an exam 

Week 2 Sun, Earth and Moon

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What did you do in the lab today?​  1. How do the phases of the moon occur?          - The phases of the moon occur with the moon's rotation around the sun, and the amount of Sun is reflected off the moon 2. What causes the seasons          - The rotation of the Earth around the Sun, and the tilt of the Earth 3. What causes a lunar eclipse?           - The alignment of the Sun, moon, and Earth The Catholic church believed that Earth was in the center of the universe. This is not the truth; it's actually the sun. The math that comes from Copernicus and Galileo. Solstice is either the longest or shortest day of the year. What was the big question? ​ What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion?​ Read the online textbook What did you learn?​ What was most helpful?​ - Getting to see the diagrams for a visual was really helpful  What do you need more information on?​ - I am still a little confused on the...

Galaxies to Black Holes

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What did you do in the lab today?​ - The Spring and Fall equator  - Summer and Winter Solstices  - Talked about our slideshows  What was the big question?​ How was the Universe formed? What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion?​ READING  

Week 4: Our Solar System

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  What did you do in the lab today?​ - We talked about the reading, Misconceptions Die Hard.  - We made a scale model of the sun and the 4 inner planets What was the big question? How big is the solar system? What did you learn in Thursday's discussion? What did you learn? What was most helpful? - Getting to see a different version of the scale of our solar system. What do you need more information on? -  I feel like I have a good understand of how our universe was formed What questions, concerns, and/or comments do you have? - At the moment no