Friday, March 18, 2011

OBJECTIVE:
2. Explain how the Earth's atmosphere has changed over time.

AGENDA:

• Stamp and Review homework questions
• Evolution of the Atmosphere presentation
• Evolution of the Atmosphere storyboard

HOMEWORK:

1. Atmosphere storyboard- due Monday
2. Evolution of Atmosphere questions - due Monday
3. Vocab cards - due next Friday

Thursday, March 17, 2011

*Happy St. Patty's Day!*

AGENDA:

• Review reading activity.
• Review Graph.
• Notes - The Atmosphere (17.1)

HOMEWORK:

1. Earth's Atmosphere questions - due tomorrow.
2. 17.1 Notes questions - due tomorrow.
3. Vocab Cards - definitions and pictures - due sometime next week.

LEFT SIDE                          RIGHT SIDE
1. Weather Ch. 17-20         2. Objectives
3. Weather drawing             4. Paragraph
5. Earth's Atmosphere         6. questions*
7. Atmosphere graph           8.
9. Vocab cards p. 1            10. vocab sentences (2 each word)
11. Vocab p. 2                   12. sentences
13. Vocab p. 3                   14. sentences
15. 17. 1 Notes                  16. questions*

*pages with a star need to be stamped for full credit.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

OBJECTIVE:
  1. Describe how the temperture of the atmosphere changes with height.

AGENDA:

• New Calendar.
• Earth's Atmosphere reading activity.
• Graphing the atmosphere activity.

HOMEWORK:

1. Notebook work.
2. Vocab cards.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

AGENDA:

• Turn in Study guide and 3rd quarter calendars.
• Take 3rd Quarter Benchmark

HOMEWORK:

1. None

Monday, March 14, 2011

AGENDA:

• Review for 3rd Quarter Benchmark using Japan Earthquake and Tsunami for context.

HOMEWORK:

1. Finish your benchmark study guide! - Due tomorrow!
2. STUDY STUDY STUDY!!!!

Friday, March 11, 2011

**Mrs. H in San Francisco for National Science Teachers Assocation Conference - back Monday!  Be good and good luck on your test! :)

*3rd quarter benchmark test next Tuesday, March 15!

AGENDA:

• Turn in notebooks
• Get Study guide and staple
• Take Oceans test
• Work on study guide

HOMEWORK:

1. Study guide for 3rd quarter benchmark.  3rd quarter benchmark is 10% of the semester grade!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

*NOTEBOOKS AND OCEANS TEST TOMORROW!

AGENDA:

• Oceans Circulation Notes
• Work and Study time

HOMEWORK:

1. Notebook work - notebooks due tomorrow!
2. study for test - this is the final regular test of the quarter!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

**NOTEBOOKS AND OCEANS TEST FRIDAY!!

AGENDA:

• Great Pacific Garbage Patch Questions and Reading.
• Go Green Flyer (excused for students taking the CAHSEE test)

HOMEWORK:

1. Go Green flyer - due tomorrow.
2. Student notebook work - notebooks due Friday!

LEFT SIDE                         RIGHT SIDE
33. Perils of Plastic               34. Ocean Image questions
35. 16.1 Ocean Circulation   36. Questions/ sw: 1, 3, 7, 15

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

*Today is CAHSEE testing for all 10th graders.  Remember to stop by and get your notes pages for class.  You can look in chapter 16.1 to find the information.

**OCEANS TEST AND NOTEBOOK DUE FRIDAY!  (End of the Quarter)

AGENDA:

• Ocean Layering Notes
• Surface Currents Notes
• Work time for questions

HOMEWORK:

1. Ocean layering questions
2. Surface currents questions
3. Student notebook work

LEFT SIDE                         RIGHT SIDE
29. Ocean layering              30. questions/sw: 5, 7, 14
31. 16.1 Surface Currents   32. questions/ sw: 6, 7, 10, 11

Monday, March 7, 2011

*The end of 3rd quarter is this Friday, March 11!
Notebooks are due and there is a test on the Ocean Unit on Friday.
The Geoscience benchmark test will be Tuesday, March 15.

AGENDA:

• Sea water properties notes.
• Work time for questions, vocab, and student notebook work.

HOMEWORK:

1. Salinity and temperature questions.
2. Density questions.
3. Graphs questions.
4. Vocab cards p. 3
1. ALL OF THESE ARE DUE TOMORROW