Wednesday, February 6, 2013

AGENDA:

     •Watch "The Core."

HOMEWORK:
     1. Due Thursday: "The Core" questions

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

AGENDA:
     •Watch "The Core"


HOMEWORK:
      1.Due Thursday: "The Core" questions

Monday, February 4, 2013

AGENDA:
•Watch "The Core"

HOMEWORK:
1.Due Thursday: "The Core" questions

Friday, February 1, 2013

*This is Mrs. Hollister's last day for a few months.  I start maternity leave on Monday!  Your sub will be great and she will have all the same lessons so you will still learn some outstanding new stuff about the Earth!  Also, all class rules and procedures will be the same, so nothing should feel different about the class.

Work hard for yourselves and earn good grades and I will see you when I return later this year!
I will miss you! :)

AGENDA:

• Turn in What The? #2
• Turn in Ch. 9 Plate Tectonics Notebook
• Plate Tectonics TEST

HOMEWORK:

1. NONE - Enjoy the SUPERBOWL and have a great weekend!

Thursday, January 31, 2013

*TEST and NOTEBOOK for Chapter 9 Plate Tectonics tomorrow!*

AGENDA:

• Notes - transform fault boundaries and hot spots
• study time and time to organize your notebook

HOMEWORK:

1. Due tomorrow: Ch. 9 Plate Tectonics Notebook
2. STUDY FOR THIS LARGE AND IMPORTANT TEST!!!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

*Ch. 9 TEST and NOTEBOOK this Friday.  This is the last test before progress reports so work hard and do great on it!!*

AGENDA:

• How the Earth Was Made: The Deepest place on Earth  - a video about the Marianas Trench and Plate Tectonics
• National Geographic Info on the trench
• James Cameron reaches the bottom of the trench!
• James Cameron video of his dive

HOMEWORK:

1. Due tomorrow: 9.3 Convergent Boundaries questions

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

*Ch. 9 TEST and NOTEBOOK are this Friday! Work hard and be prepared!*

AGENDA:

• Convergent Boundary Notes
• Converngent Boundary Sequence of events
• USGS website
• Animations of each type of plate boundary
• 3 types of plate boundaries

HOMEWORK:

1. Due Thursday: Convergent boundary events
2. Due Thursday: finish plate bounary map questions

Monday, January 28, 2013

*Ch. 9 TEST and Notebook due this FRIDAY!!  Study and be prepared. :) *

AGENDA:

• Turn in grade printouts - periods 1-5 only
• Divergent Boundary Cards
• Paleomagnetism
• Paleomagnetism from Wikipedia
• Vocab words

HOMEWORK:

1. Due tomorrow:  vocab words: all of page 1 front and back, and divergent boundary, seafloor spreading, Paleomagnetism, and mid-ocean ridge.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Happy Friday and Happy Hoops Day Rally!

AGENDA:

• Review Homework
• Divergent Boundary Notes
• Divergent Boundary action diagrams and sentences
• Hand out new grade printout (except for 6th period - you will get your grade on Monday)

HOMEWORK:

1. Due Monday: seafloor spreading sentences
2. Due Monday: parent signature on grades

Thursday, January 24, 2013

AGENDA:

• Review Homework
• QUIZ
• Plate Tectonics Theory Notes
• Simple Plate Tectonics Explanation
• Plate Boundaries Explanations
• Plate Boundaries Map
• Remember - we live on what is considered to be the Sierra Nevada Microplate (even though you will not be tested on this! :) )  Here is a diagram that shows the microplate from http://fieldguides.gsapubs.org/content/7/373/F4.large.jpg

HOMEWORK:

1. Due tomorrow: Plate Tectonics Questions
2. Due tomorrow: colored plate boundaries map (divergent = red, convergent = yellow, transform = purple, outline land in green, oceans light blue, hot spots - orange)
3. Due tomorrow: Plate Boundaries map questions 1-8 only