• Week of Oct. 6th
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• The Great Super Continent - Pangaea - this massive landform was created about 270 million years ago and broke up about 220 million years ago
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• What about the future?
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Questions to Consider:

1.  What is the hypothesis of continental drift?

2. Why was the hypothesis of continental drift rejected initially?

3.  What are the 3 types of evidence that supports continental drift?

4.  What are the super-continents of Pangaea and Gondwana?

5.  What is the theory of plate tectonics?

6.  What are the 3 types of evidence that support the theory of plate tectonics?

7.  How does the process of sea-floor spreading work?

8. What is a magnetic field reversal?

9.  How do the locations of earthquakes and volcanoes relate to the theory of plate tectonics?

10. What are some of the early contributions of scientists who developed the theory of plate tectonics?

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• Bill Nye Greatest Discoveries Continental Drift

• Pangaea Explained

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• Pangaea Gizmo
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• Sea Floor Spreading Animation
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• Bar Magnet and Compass Interactive
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• Scrat's Continental Crack-up
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• Pangaea Animation
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• Pangaea Inter. Map
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• Pangaea Inter. Puzzle
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• Continents On the Move
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• Sea Floor Spreading Animation
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• Video - Magnetic Field Reversals
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• Bill Nye: 100 Greatest Discoveries - Mag. Field
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• Earth's Magnetic Field HD

Week of Nov. 11th

Our Week

Monday

Classwork - 1.  Finish Density Layers Lab - collected Wed.

2.  Begin/continue Interior Earth Activities - due Mon., Nov. 18

Homework - WB p. 165; 4-7, 12 - p. 199; 1-9 - due Thursday

Links for Activity 4  and Act. 5 in Earth Interior Activities

How Do We Know About the Layers of the Earth?

How the Earth Got its Heat

Tuesday

Live Oaks Field Trip

Wednesday

Classwork - 1.  Collect Density Lab  2. Continue Interior Earth Activities

Thursday 

Classwork - 1.  Check/go over WB p. 165 and p. 199  2. Review for Eval. 2.  Continue Earth Activities

Friday

Classwork - Evaluation on the Rock Cycle and the Earth's Layers

Homework -  Earth Activities due Monday

Week of Nov. 4th

2008 Hawaii - First ever discovery of tunnel to the mantle of the Earth!  

Men have walked on the Moon and sent robots to Mars, but when it comes to exploring our own planet deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface!

How Deep Have We Gone?

• 1960's - Project Mohole (named after scientist who discovery the Moho Boundary between the Crust and Mantle) - US scientists drilled a few meters into oceanic crust

• 1980's - Russia - drilled 12 km 

• 2011 - Russia - Exxon Mobile drilled just over 12 km

• Present-2020 - Japan - Drilling to the mantle will bring back samples

1 Billion $ Mission to Reach the Mantle

Questions For You - Why is reaching the mantle of the Earth going to be very challenging, and why do it?

Our Week

Monday

Classwork - Complete all Rock Activities - collected on Wed.

Rock Cycle Interactive Animation

Rock Cycle Song

Homework - WB p. 154-164; 1-2, 5, 10-12, 14, 20-23 - due Wed.

Tuesday

No School for Students

Wednesday

Classwork - 1. Check/go over bookwork p. 154-164  2. Turn in Rock Activities

Homework - WB - p. 192-198; 1-2, 6-15 - Due Mon. 11/11

Layers of the Earth Song

Question : Can you identify the 3 main compositional layers of the Earth? (Core is divided into 2 parts) Where is the Moho?

Thursday

Classwork - Mystery Colors Lab - due Tues., Nov. 12

Homework- Finish Mystery Colors Questions

Friday

Classwork - Begin Interior of the Earth Activities - should be finished by end of class Tuesday, Nov. 12 ??

Homework - nothing new assigned

Links for Interior of Earth Activities

How Do We Know About Layers Deep Within the Earth


The Earth's Birth: Our Planet Develops Its Inner Heat