Welcome to Earth Science 226!

 

What we learn: Unit 1: Intro to Earth Science Unit 2: Geology *Minerals & Rock Cycle *Geologic History *Plate Tectonics Unit 3: Hydrology *Rivers *Groundwater *Oceans *Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Icebergs Unit 4: Meteorology *Atmospheric Structure *Fronts *Forecasting Unit 5: Astronomy *Electromagnetic Spectra *Telescopes *Phenomena

Ms. Mackenzie's Contact Information: Room 226 648-7918 (Direct BE Line) Email: mmackenzie@bonnyeagle.org   Mrs. Aryan's Contact Information: Room 226 648-7918 (Direct BE Line) saryan@bonnyeagle.org

 

Textbook Online No need to lug home the book!	Infinite Campus Check your grades!	Notebook Order Stay organized!
Prior Weeks What have we done in class?	Online Quizzes Here! Good luck!	Vocabulary List Keep track of vocab & definitions!
Current Event Links What's going on out there?	Class Blog Conversations about what's going on in Earth Science!	Quizlet Study Vocabulary using these Flashcards!
Technology Tips How to's, tips, and tricks	Student Photography Photos from around the district	Common Mistakes
BEHS Library THE place for research!	Final Exam Review	Project Guide What should your projects look like?

 

 

This Week's Agenda and Assignments:

 

June 8, 2012

1. Take the astronomy online quiz- open note!

2. Finish your solar system work from last Friday

3. Start studying for the final exam (4 days away!) 

• Go to classmarker.com
• Open up a new GoogleDoc and make a list of each online quiz we have had by date
• Go through EACH quiz beginning with the first quiz
• Copy EVERY question you ever got incorrect - even if you then got it correct later - and paste in the google doc
• Copy and paste the correct answer beside the question
• No need to repeat the question and answer if you got it wrong 2+ times. :) 
• It should look like this:

 

Question                                                                             Answer

1. Earth is an oblate spheroid due to                                   rotation.

2. NaCl                                                                                salt

 

 

 

 

JUNE 1st!

• Take online quiz
• Complete the intro to astronomy assignment - 
• You need to know the following. It's up to you how you learn and present to me what you know!
• Options: Draw a diagram, create a slideshow, take a quiz, or take notes on each:

Our solar system - Using CH 23 & Research Online

• Sun - compare/contrast to other stars in terms of size/temperature/age
• 8 planets (what makes each different? interesting details about each)
• Major differences between the terrestrial and Jovian planets 
• Earth’s moon
• 3 dwarf planets - what is the criteria for planet vs. dwarf planet (find online)
• asteroid belt
• near-Earth objects - asteroids
• comets & their two tails (draw them correctly!) why do they have tails and asteroids don't?
• Kuiper belt - where/what
• Oort cloud - where/what
• The International Space Station - where/what goes on there (find online)
• Who each planet is named after (usually Greek Mythology - eg: Neptune = Poseidon, god of the sea) (find online)
• Where solar system probes Galileo, Cassini, Pioneer, Viking, Spirit & Opportunity have gone (find online)
• Diagram - Be sure each is drawn, labeled, and described/defined
• Slideshow - each has a slide, title, picture/diagram, and bulleted text
• Quiz - Take a quiz on your knowledge of the above.  
• Outline: organized and complete 

 

• Continue copying and pasting your incorrect questions from classmarker.com to a GoogleDoc

 

May 29, 2012

• Finish Storms Chart
• Start studying for the final exam (10 days away!) 
• Go to classmarker.com
• Open up a new GoogleDoc and make a list of each online quiz we have had by date
• Go through EACH quiz beginning with the first quiz
• Copy EVERY question you ever got incorrect - even if you then got it correct later - and paste in the google doc
• Copy and paste the correct answer beside the question
• No need to repeat the question and answer if you got it wrong 2+ times. :) 
• It should look like this:

 

Question                                                                             Answer

1. Earth is an oblate spheroid due to                                   rotation.

2. NaCl                                                                                salt

 

 

 

 

 

May 25, 2012

• Finish Tornado Intercept 
• Take today's online quiz
• Organize your notebook
• Today's Online Assignment: 
• Complete the storms chart on the back of your Tornado Intercept worksheet
• These will be graded for right or wrong - be sure your answers are correct (don't trust wikianswers - make sure the site is reliable!) 
• Check grades on IC AT THE END OF CLASS (I'll be putting grades in while you work!) 

 

 

May 18, 2012

• Take today's online quiz
• Check grades on IC
• Put the rest of your notebook in order 
• Today's Online Assignment: 
• In a Google Doc:
• Paste your favorite cloud picture and explain why it's your favorite*
• Paste your favorite sunset or sunrise picture and explain why it's your favorite*
• Paste your favorite lightning picture and explain why it's your favorite*

*Must be actual pictures - not photoshopped or drawn/painted/enhanced! 

• Cloud seeding for the Bejing Olympics - summarize how, why this is done and if it works
• Give information about a career in meteorology that is NOT a weather person on the news
• schooling, salary, job description, typical day 
• Find today's weather forecast for a different country
• Paste the link, then compare and contrast the one we watch on wcsh6.com
• If you have extra time, go through the questions on classmarker.com that you have ever gotten wrong. (The final is 16 school days away...) 
• Share the GoogleDoc with me
• Have a good weekend! :) 

 

 

 

 

May 4, 2012

• Saco River Article & Questions
• Crossword
• Online Quiz
• Put your notebook in order
• Honors Work!

 

April 27, 2012

• Finish Gasland
• Take the online quiz
• Check your grades
• Meet with me regarding anything related to the Plate Tectonic Unit

 

March 16, 2012

• Take the online quiz (click on the "Online Quizzes Here" link above)
• Check your grades (click on the Infinite Campus link above)
• Put your notebook in order (click on the Notebook Order link above) 
• SHOW ME YOUR NOTEBOOK WHEN DONE! 
• Today's Online Assignment  
• Go to your Google Docs
• Make a copy of the file I shared with you ("Cloning the Wooly Mammoth")
• Drag the copy to your "Earth Science" collection
• Delete the original copy (my copy - the one you can't edit) 
• Complete the assignment by Wed, 3/21/2012 

 

 

 

March 5, 2012

• Take the online quiz (click on the "Online Quizzes Here" link above)
• Check your grades (click on the Infinite Campus link above)
• I will be meeting with each one of you today and tomorrow! 
• Put your notebook in order (click on the Notebook Order link above) 
• Today's Online Assignment: create an electronic poster to present on a place/landform formed by weathering or erosion
• STEP 1: Choose a topic related to weathering (breakdown of rock) OR erosion (transport of rock)
• Topic suggestions: (Topics need to be specific! e.g. not waterfalls, but Angel's Falls)
• Wikipedia's list of erosional landforms
• Waterfalls (i.e. Angel's Falls, Victoria Falls/Devil's Pool, Niagara Falls)
• Boulders (i.e. Devil's Marbles)
• Mountain knife-edges or horns (Matterhorn or the knife edge trail at Katahdin)
• New Hampshire's Old Man on the Mountain
• Beach erosion in Maine (specific storms or specific places that are affected)
• Glacier National Park
• Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy 
• Death Valley - Mud Cracks & Traveling Rocks
• Other - If you think of something else, run it by me!
• Tell me your topic when it's chosen.
• No duplicate topics! 
• STEP 2: Research & save info to GoogleDocs
• MUST have 4+ Text Boxes with information
• 1 - How was your place formed? (Formation)
• 2 - Where is it? (Location)
• 3 - Other interesting information of your choice
• MUST be in your own words
• FRAGMENTS only - no complete sentences
• Keep the bulleted information short! 
• **Keep a list of the websites you use to find this information!!**
• STEP 3: Save pictures
• Finding and saving pictures
• Find large pictures only
• Thumbnails will get pixelated if used on a big screen
• Upload picture files to GoogleDocs (upload file) 
• Do NOT drag into a GoogleDoc because you can't get it out!  

 

March 6, 2012

• Put electronic posters together
• STEP 4: Build your poster
• Open GoogeDocs
• New -> Presentation 
• Choose color of your poster 
• Slide -> Background
• Using the TextBox button, add text boxes 
• Title textbox
• Should clearly be the title
• Bigger, different font 
• Informational textboxes
• EACH textbox needs a title 
• UNDER each title, make a bulleted list of information related to the title
• Drag pictures into the slide
• MATTE them by placing a solid box behind them
• Consistent coloring! 
• EACH picture needs a caption
• Use a text box 
• When done, check:
• Is it too busy?
• Are the colors consistent and related to your subject?
• Are there 3+ pictures?
• Are there 4+ textboxes?

 

IF you are not done, but the class is ending,

• SAVE the presentation

 

IF you are completely done with the project, 

• VIEW the slide in full screen mode
• Using ctrl-shift-4, take a picture of the slide
• On your desktop, change the name of the slide to your LAST name
• OPEN an email, address it to me at mmackenzie@bonnyeagle.org, and ATTACH the picture file
• Practice presenting the poster
• Don't start with "I did..."
• Instead start with a fact about your place 
• Don't use "okay," or "like," etc. 

 

All done with your poster? 

• Review for open note station quiz - rock identification & weathering/erosion
• Take your notes up back and answer the questions! 

 

 

 

February 17, 2012

• Take the online quiz (click on the "Online Quizzes Here" link above)
• Take the station quiz - ONE person at each pair of questions 
• Check your grades (click on the Infinite Campus link above)
• Put your notebook in order (click on the Notebook Order link above)
• Ask yourself: "Should I sign up for the Earth Science Honors Challenge after break?"
• Pros: 1/2 an honors credit, looks good on transcript
• Cons: Higher level of work on three projects 
• Today's Online Assignment  
• Launchball 
• At the end of class, show me the number of levels you completed and you'll get that number bonus points! 
• EMAIL me mmackenzie@bonnyeagle.org a screenshot of the highest number of levels completed 
• Use command+control+shift+4 to take the picture
• Use command+v to paste it in the email 

 

 

February 10, 2012

• Take the online quiz (click on the "Online Quizzes Here" link above)
• Check your grades (click on the Infinite Campus link above)
• Put your notebook in order (click on the Notebook Order link above) 
• Today's Online Assignment  
• Go to your Google Docs
• Make a copy of the file I shared with you ("Metals Fact Sheet")
• Drag the copy to your "Earth Science" collection
• Complete the assignment by Wed, 2/15/2012 
• Homework I need to check off TODAY:
• Gems worksheet ?s 1-13
• Outline pgs. 47-54 

 

 

February 3, 2012

• Take the online quiz (click on the "Online Quizzes Here" link above)
• Check your grades (click on the Infinite Campus link above)
• Put your notebook in order (click on the Notebook Order link above) 
• Today's Online Assignment  
• Go to your Google Docs
• Make a copy of the file I shared with you ("Google Maps")
• Drag the copy to your "Earth Science" collection
• See instructions from last week if you don't have an "Earth Science" folder yet. 
• Open the copy 
• Put your name in the upper right corner
• Complete the assignment by Wednesday :D
• Print before class starts on Wednesday so you can hand it in!! 

 

January 27, 2012

• Check your grades (click on the Infinite Campus link above)
• Please complete this survey 
• Take your time with it 
• Only Mrs. Aryan and Mrs. Mackenzie will see your answers
• Put your notebook in order (click on the Notebook Order link above) 
• Take the online quiz (click on the Online Quizzes Here link above)
• Today's Online Assignment 
• Go to your Google Docs
• Create a Collection named Earth Science
• Drag the document I shared with you into this collection.
• control-click on the document in your list of documents and choose "Don't Show in Home"
• Open the document
• Go to File -> Make a copy
• Most documents I will share with you are View Only so you can make a copy in order to edit them.
• Open the copy 
• Put your name in the upper right corner
• Complete the assignment by Wednesday :D
• Print before class!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 4, 2012

• I have a student completing an independent study in Anthropology. If you wouldn't mind helping, please take her survey (on religion and politics) by clicking here. THANKS!

 

December 15, 2011

1. Check Infinite Campus for missing work

 

2. Read this article

• http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/story/2011-12-08/chile-glacier-retreat-climate-change-global-warming/51746812/1
• Take notes on the Evidence and Rate of Retreat

 

3. On the Shared Google Presentation, you will be making TWO slides.

• 1st slide - Find a picture* online of a glacier or an iceberg. Save the picture to your computer. Make the picture your slide background. (Format - Presentation Settings - Change Background)
• Insert a text box and state
• A - What exactly is the reader looking at? (Scientifically what is going on in the slide?)
• B - Why did you choose this picture?
• 2nd slide - Find a political cartoon* from the sites above. Save the cartoon. Insert the image on a slide.
• Insert a text box and state
• A - Why did you choose this cartoon?

 

*No one else has already chosen this picture.

 

Climate change political cartoons

• Find a political cartoon from one of the following sites:
• http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/subject/325/The-Climate+Change-Comics-and-Cartoons.php
• http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/globalwarming/ig/Global-Warming-Cartoons/
• http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/directory/c/climate_change.asp

 

 

4. Work from yesterday - Due Tuesday

 

November 18, 2011

Info for PSA

 

November 15, 2011

• EPICENTER = town directly above where the earthquake happened
• Why is finding the epicenter important?
• How EQs are named
• Where the most damage could be (esp. in populated areas)
• Virtual Earthquake - Epicenter Lab
• EQ Epicenter Lab Online
• We will tackle one as a class. Do 2 more for full credit. Do 3 more for extra credit. (Must have Good Job! or Excellent Work! to receive credit.)
• Take a snapshot using command+control+shift+4 and then paste using command+v your certificate & answers into a Pages document.
• All 3 (or 4) should be on ONE page. Print when finished.
• *Do not exit Pages until you have the printed paper in your hand from the printer.
• *Erase ANY data that may be on your desktop. Do not save the Pages document.

 

 

October 28, 2011

• Take today's quiz
• Check your grades - It's the end of the quarter!
• Today's Online Assignment: Natural History Museums (I shared with you an example.)
• Which museum - in or outside of the US- would be the BEST one to visit for geologic history?
• What makes a museum great you ask? Dinosaur and early human fossils OF COURSE, but also other types of fossils and a GREAT education department to educate visitors.
• When you find a museum that fits this profile, create a page that has the following:
• Title= the name of your museum
• Map of where it is in the country/world
• Be sure not to zoom in too much so we can see where it is!
• Include caption with city & state or city & country
• Picture of what it looks like
• With caption
• How much general admission is
• Other features you can pay for in addition to general admission and what they get you.
• How big is their variety of fossils they have? (Name the animals/plants/insects they have.)
•   Include:
• Which era/periods those fossils are from
• What type of fossil is it? (unaltered, petrified, amber, cast, mold, track, coprolite, etc.)
• Is there a virtual tour? If yes, what is the link?
• What would be the thing you would want to see at the museum most? Why?
• Put your name in the bottom right hand corner
• Be sure all the information fits into ONE page
• If you need more room, go to File -> Page Setup and change all margins to .5.
• Look at your page and make sure it's neat and the space is used wisely. 
• Not too much white space but not too crowded
• Make pictures bigger but not pixelated
• Change font bigger or smaller
• Print to hs-tchrsrmnew

 

October 21, 2011

• Check your grades
• Take the online quiz
• Q1 Bonus: Launchball -> Play the levels - independently!
• How many levels can you beat?
• I need to witness the check marks on the introduction page at the end of class in order for you to get credit!

 

Create an electronic poster to present on a place/landform formed by weathering or erosion

• STEP 1: Choose a topic related to weathering (breakdown of rock) OR erosion (transport of rock)
• Topic suggestions: (Topics need to be specific! e.g. not waterfalls, but Angel's Falls)
• Wikipedia's list of erosional landforms
• Waterfalls (i.e. Angel's Falls, Victoria Falls/Devil's Pool, Niagara Falls)
• Boulders (i.e. Devil's Marbles)
• Mountain knife-edges or horns (Matterhorn or the knife edge trail at Katahdin)
• New Hampshire's Old Man on the Mountain
• Beach erosion in Maine (specific storms or specific places that are affected)
• Glacier National Park
• Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy 
• Death Valley - Mud Cracks & Traveling Rocks
• Other - If you think of something else, run it by me!
• Tell me your topic when it's chosen. I will write it on the board.
• STEP 2: Research & save info to GoogleDocs
• How was your place formed? (Formation)
• Where is it? (Location)
• Other interesting information
• **Keep a list of the websites you use to find this information!!**
• STEP 3: Save pictures
• Finding and saving pictures: FOUR options
• Upload picture files to GoogleDocs (upload file) OR
• Attach the photos you will want to use to an email to yourself OR
• Save pictures to your pendrive OR
• Upload the pictures as "files" to GoogleDocs.  
• STEP 4: Build your poster
• Open a new presentation in GoogleDocs 
• Choose color of your poster (can be a solid color or picture)
• Format -> Background
• Using the TextBox button, add a title and textboxes
• Double click on the box itself to change line or fill color
• EACH textbox needs a title
• UNDER each title, make a bulleted list of information related to the title
• Drag pictures into the slide 
• EACH picture needs a caption
• When done, check:
• Is it too busy?
• Are the colors consistent and related to your subject?
• Are there 3-5 pictures?
• Are there 3-5 textboxes? (MUST include the location and formation)
• Is there a clear title?

 

October 13, 2011

Chemical Weathering Lab

• Graph - Draw by hand OR create online using this site, or this site, or a site/program of your choosing
• MUST have all requirements of a graph - EVEN if you have to print it then add things by hand
• Takes up entire sheet of paper
• Each axis has labels and units
• Key - if needed
• Best fit line
• Title = x vx y
• Analysis question #3: Use this site!

 

October 6, 2011

• Click here to give me your BE gmail address.
• Check your grades
• Notebook Order
• Lab Report
• You have been invited by email to share a Google Doc.
• Go to your Google Docs.
• Open the lab you now have access to.
• COPY everything.
• Open a new document in Google Docs.
• Paste the lab. (This allows you to edit it.)
• Complete the sections: Hypothesis and Background

 

 

September 29, 2011

Rock Cycle and Rock IDs

 

September 28, 2011

Mineral Quiz

Intro to Rock Cycle

 

September 27, 2011

• Mineral Station Quiz
• Intro to Rock Cycle and 3 Families

 

September 26, 2011

• Continue working on first current event blog
• Tomorrow: Mineral station quiz!

 

September 23, 2011 *Happy Fall!*

• Check grades (link above)
• Hand back Density Labs and Topo Islands
• Online Quiz (link above)
• Put Notebooks in Order (link above)
• Bring up to me to check!
• Today's Online Assignment: Our class blog for current events!
• Check your email and accept the invite to the class blog (do not make your own blog!)
• Go to our class blog (link above)
• Read the directions
• Find a current event (use the link to Current Events above if you need help!)
• Write a New Post with the criteria
• Due posted by Wed

 

September 22, 2011

• Diamonds of War - Video
• Review Minerals for Friday's Quiz

 

September 19, 2011

• Tom Lehrer's Element Song - Can we sing it?
• Atomic symbols to know for Earth Science
• Intro to Minerals 2.2
• Mineral ID - Stations

 

September 16, 2011

• Check your grades on IC (link above)
• Take today's science quiz (link above)
• Put your laptop away and continue working on the density lab
• Materials are in back of the room!
• LAB DUE Tuesday 9/20

 

September 9, 2011

• Intro to the HS computers
• You will always use the same number laptop in my class
• Hold them with 2 hands
• Do NOT touch the screen (they are not touch-screen)
• Do NOT save ANY work on them
• To save work
• Save the file to the desktop
• Upload the file to GoogleDocs
• Bring the file on the desktop to the trash
• Make sure you LOG OUT of your GMail before closing
• Do NOT give anyone your password!
• If you can't access your email, you must see Mr. Harvey in the computer lab by the library.
• ALWAYS put your computer back in the number slot where it belongs and PLUG IT IN!
• Log into your GMail
• How to Compose an Email
• How to Attach a File
• Settings -> Cog -> Mail Settings -> General (Default Text Style) & Themes
• How to Log Off
• Check your grades on Infinite Campus (link above)
• Take the online quiz (link above)
• Will need username from Mrs. Mackenzie
• Password = science
• You will see these questions again on future quizzes. Make sure you look at which ones you got correct/incorrect!
• Red X = incorrect answer (the one you chose)
• Green Check = correct answer
• Put your notebook in order (link above)
• Online Assignment - Using Google Earth 
• Open Google Earth and Open Office (or Pages)
• Google Earth -> Preferences -> Exaggeration = 3
• Uncheck ALL layers except Roads and Borders & Labels 
• 1. Put your name in the top right corner of the document you opened
• 2. Capture and paste a bird's eye view of your house using Google Earth.
• ctrl+command+shift+4       adds the image to the computer's memory. Ctrl-V to paste.
• command+shift+4      places the image on the desktop. Drag into document.
• 3. Add a layer Gallery -> Volcanoes  Capture an image of the newest volcano with its name off the southeast coast of Hawaii (still underwater.)
• 4. Add a layer Gallery -> 360Cities. Go to northeast Wyoming. There you will see 2 360 red discs. Double click on the more northern one to enter the picture. 
• 5. Capture an image within that picture of Devils Tower then Exit Photo.
• Add a layer More -> Wikipedia. Find the W icon on top of Devil's Tower.
• 6. Capture an image in the Wikipedia entry to show the elevation of Devils Tower.
• Add a layer -> More -> Parks/Rec -> US National Parks
• 7. What is the only National Park in New England? Capture and paste a picture of the symbol over where it is.
• 8. Capture a side profile of the JFK Space Center in Florida using the layer 3D Buildings. Be sure to include the side with the NASA logo.
• ***Be sure #s 1-8 are on ONE page only. Print to hs-tchrsrmnew.***