Thursday, September 1, 2011

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES:

1. Make your notebook neat and colorful - personalize it!
2. Bring in tape - 5 points each roll (up to 5 rolls allowed before progress report cutoff on 9/9.
3. ExtraCredit Book Questions -16 possible points!
1. COPY and ANSWER any of the Assessment questions for chapter 1 (q’s 1-16, found on page 29) at the end of the chapter.
2. Please LABEL YOUR PAPER clearly with your name, period, Chapter 1 Assessment Questions Extra Credit and the question #’s. Correct answers will receive 1 extra credit point each.

 AGENDA:

• Hurricane Katia
• Wunderground Info for Hurricane Katia
• Finish Hurricane Ike Map*
• Map Questions*
• Lat & Long Vacation Map*
• Vocab Cards* (officially due tomorrow)
• Time to work on extra credit questions if desired

HOMEWORK:

1. Vocab Cards - definition and picture due tomorrow.
2. any other notebook work (like vocab sentences) that you need to do.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

AGENDA:

• Tropical Storm Katia
• Wundergroung Info on Katia
• Wunderground Map of all Tropical Storms in World
• Go Over Lat & Long practice worksheet answers
• Plot Hurricane Ike
• Hurricane Ike questions

HOMEWORK:

1. Vocab cards - definition and pictures due Friday!
2. Lat & Long Vacation worksheet - due tomorrow!

NOTEBOOK
LEFT SIDE                              RIGHT SIDE
9.  Lat & Long Notes                10. Battleship
11. Lat & Long Practice            12. Lat & Long Vacation
13. Hurricane Ike Map*            14. Map Questions*

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

OBJECTIVE:
#2. Explain how we use latitude and longitude to locate a specific place on Earth.

AGENDA:

• Stamp HW questions
• Latitude and Longitude Notes
• Latitude and Longitude Practice
• Battleship
• Online Battleship Game
• Lat and Long practice worksheets

HOMEWORK:

1. Lat & Long practice worksheets.
2. vocab  cards - due Friday!

Monday, August 29, 2011

OBJECTIVE:
#1.  Name 2 different types of maps and what they can show us.

AGENDA:

• Stamp Turlock Map
• Hurricane Irene
• Types of Maps Notes
• Notes questions
• Vocab Cards

HOMEWORK:

1. Finish Maps Notes questions - due tomorrow!
2. Vocab cards - word, definition and small picture - Due Friday!
3. Paragraph about your map of Turlock.  What did you include and why?

NOTEBOOK

LEFT SIDE                            RIGHT SIDE
1. Mapping the Earth              2. Objectives
3. Turlock Map                      4. Paragraph about map
5. Vocab Cards                     6. Sentences (2 for each word).
7. Types of Maps Notes        8. Questions*

*Must be stamped (these are due tomorrow for a stamp)

Friday, August 26, 2011

OBJECTIVE:
#4. Demonstrate what you have learned about science and Earth's spheres by correctly answering test questions.

AGENDA:

• Hurricane Irene
• Google map of hurricane path
• Wunderground Hurricane Info
• Test Review
• Unit 1 TEST
• Make a map of Turlock assignment

HOMEWORK:

1. Complete your map of Turlock. Remember, as long as your map has the following, you can make this map any way you want, though it must be drawn by hand.
1. your house.
2. at least 10 important places that are important to you.
3. Pitman High School.
4. A title.
5. A legend.
6. A north arrow (north will always be at the top of the map).
7. use at least 3 different colors.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

*Notebooks Due Today!*
*Quiz on Chapter 1 tomorrow!*

OBJECTIVE:
#3.  Name and describe 1 piece of evidence for changes in the Earth's magnetic field.

AGENDA:

• Hurricane Irene Update
• Irene News (SFGate)
• Irene Photos
• Weather Underground Data for Irene
• Turn in notebooks
• Video (Magnetic Storm) and video questions

HOMEWORK:

1. Reveiw chapter 1 in your book for a quiz tomorrow.  Don't worry about section 3 on Maps.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

*Notebooks Due tomorrow!
- Science and Sphere's TEST (very small) on Friday!*

OBJECTIVE:
#2. Describe the shape of Earth's magnetic field.

AGENDA:

• Hurricane Irene
• Virginia Earthquake
• USGS Earthquake info
• Laughtershocks
• SF Chronicle Article
• Magnetosphere Lab and lab questions
• work time

HOMEWORK:

1. Finish lab questions.
2. be sure your notebook is complete!  2 pages or original student work due tomorrow.

NOTEBOOK

LEFT SIDE                        RIGHT SIDE
11.  Earth's Spheres Notes   12. Questions
13. Magnetosphere Lab       14.  Lab questions

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

*Notebooks Due Thursday!*

AGENDA:

• Makeup work forms/policy
• Objectives
• Hurricane Irene
•   Hurricane Irene Info
• Earth's Sphere's notes
• Earth's spheres questions

HOMEWORK:

1. Finish Earth's spheres questions - due at beginning of class tomorrow.

Monday, August 22, 2011

*First Notebook Collection will be this Thursday!*

AGENDA:

• Go to library to get textbooks. (keep books safe at home unless otherwise instructed)
• Work on Textbook Tour worksheet in class.

HOMEWORK:

1. Finish Textbook Tour worksheet.  Due Tomorrow!
2. Work on original student work in notebook.  2 pages can be completed.  1 under the Branches of Science questions and 1 under the Science Fair reading questions.
3. First Notebook Collection will be this Thursday!

Friday, August 19, 2011

AGENDA:

• Notebook Introduction
• Notebook setup

HOMEWORK:

1. Do 1 page of Original Student work.  Do this work under either the Branches of Science questions OR under the Science Fair reading questions.  Choose 1 of the 16 items as your work.
2. Per 6 only - finish and color your scientific method comic strip.

NOTEBOOK ORDER

LEFT SIDE                     RIGHT SIDE
1. Name page                2. Geoscience Notebook Setup Page
3. Science & Earth's...    4. Objectives page
5. Branches of Science    6. Branches Questions/student work
7. Scientific Method        8. Your comic
9. Science Reading         10. Reading Questions/ student work