Week of Oct. 7

Road of Ice!

Our Week

Monday:  

Classwork
 1.  Glaciers+ Intro.
2.  Weathering Graphic Organizers and Little Boulder Story Analysis - due Tuesday

Homework:

Workbook p. 45-54 - Questions 1-2, 5-8, 10-12, 16-25 - Due Friday

Tuesday-Friday

Classwork
1.  Finish Weathering/Little Boulder Act.
2.  Glacier Activities 

• Digital Activity due in dropbox by Monday, Oct. 14
• All other Glacier Activities due on Friday

Climate Change in Action!

Links to use for Glacier Activities:
All About Glaciers
Glaciers 

Glacier National Park

Inconvenient Truth Clip

Glacial Landforms Presentation
Glaciers and Ohio

Let's take a look at some wind erosion!

The Badlands - USA

Bryce Canyon - Utah

Wind Erosion on Mars

Sand Dunes?

Week of Sept. 23

Extreme erosion!  Massive sinkhole in Florida!

Our Week

Monday:  1.  " How does water change the Earth's surface?"   2.  Begin Virtual Lesson and Lab ThinkCentral - due Thursday

Homework:  p. 28-40 - Questions - 1-2, 5-9, 11-16, 18-20, 24-27 - due Monday, 9/30

Tuesday:  1. "Karst Landforms"  2.  Finish Virtual Lesson and Lab  

Wednesday - Friday:  1. Discussion Virtual Lab Findings  

2.  Karst Landform Activities - Due Wednesday, Oct. 2

• Karst Topo Paper Model 

• Links to use to complete Karst Topography research questions

Caves and Karst

Karst Topography and Mammoth Caves

Karst Areas of US

Typical Karst Cave

Links:
Base Jumping in World's Largest Cave

Sinkholes!

Our Very Own Sinkhole!

Week of Sept. 16th

Colorado Flood!

Explain the matter and energy transfer going on here!

Our Week:

Monday:  1.  Lave Flow Report is due!  2.  Continue working on Explaining the Earth Activity  3.  WB p. 17; 1-14 due Friday

Tuesday:  1.  WB p. 4-16 due  2.  Continue Explaining the Earth Activity

Wednesday:  1.  Finish Explaining the Earth

Thursday: 1.  Explaining the Earth due in dropbox

Friday:  Share Explaining Earth Projects

Our Moon Rotating

Retreating thunderstorm 

Asperatus Cloud over New Zealand

Week of September 9th

What kind of cloud is this hovering over Wisconsin? What interactions of the Earth's spheres would cause this cloud formation?

Our Week

Monday:  Work on Lava Flow Lab Report - Due Thursday

Tuesday: 

 1. Pass out Earth Workbooks  

2.  Earth System begins  

3.  Dynamic Earth p. 4-17; Questions - 1-3, 5-17, 9-25 - due Friday

Wednesday-Friday:   Work on "Explaining the Earth's System" Digital Activity

Earth's System Activity Instructions

 You are to create a digital slide show that explains the following:

• How the Sun's energy drives convection in the atmosphere and in bodies of water, which results in the water cycle, ocean currents, and weather pattern
• How water moves through the Earth's crust, atmosphere, and oceans in a cyclic way, as liquid, vapor, and solid
• How ocean currents and weather patterns are related
• The physical and chemical composition of the atmosphere at different elevations

This assignment is due Monday, Sept. 16 in specified Schoology Drop Box

Here are some examples of the Earth's Spheres interacting - explain the interactions:

Water Sprite in Florida

Volcano Erupts in Iceland

Aurora at the top of the World

Islands of 4 mountains from above - Aleutian Islands, Alaska

The Earth's Shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet

Week of Sept. 3rd

Tunguruhua  Erupts! This 5,000 meter high volcano located in Ecuador, erupts about once every 90 years!

Our Week

Tuesday:  Finish Lava Flow Procedure - run first set of trials 

Wednesday-Thursday:  Review Class Lava Flow Data - run 2nd set of trials

Friday:  1.  Wrap of Lava Flow  2.  Science is Measurement Quiz

Sometimes lava is not the only thing that causes fire on our planet!  In this picture elk try to avoid this sweeping fire by standing in this river in Montana.  Where in the US is another forest fire causing major widespread damage?

Shield Volcanoes

Volcanoes are also common on other planets!  This is a shield volcano on Mars - it is the largest volcano in the solar system - Olympus Mons.