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3/18 & 3/19

3/17/2013

Learning Targets
1. Identify and classify rocks based on mineral composition, texture, and origin.

Daily Agenda
GQ
Rock Identification Lab
Ride the Rock Cycle
Study Guides for Test

Test Wednesday Red!
Test Thursday White!

Study Guides due before the test for extra credit!!!

GQ....... If a black rock is said to have crystallized from magma, cooling slowly within the earth, what type of rock would it be?
            1. Sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic?
            2. fine grained or course grained?
            3.   intrusive or extrusive?
            4. mafic or felsic?

3/13 & 3/14

3/13/2013

Learning Targets
1. Identify and classify minerals based on specific characteristics.
2. Classify rocks based on their origins.

Daily Agenda
GQ
Mineral Identification Lab
Ride the Rock Cycle

Examples of cleavage

GQ......
1. Infer how plate tectonics would drive the rock cycle.
2. List the 3 types of rocks and where they

3/13 wacky wednesday

3/12/2013

Learning Targets
1. Identify and classify minerals based on specific characteristics.

Daily Agenda
GQ
What is a Mineral?
Identifying Minerals

minerals

Moh's Scale of Hardness

GQ Blog Back or write in notebook........
1. What is a mineral?
2. List 3 characteristics that might define a mineral.

3/11 & 3/12

3/10/2013

Learning Targets
1. Grade a product that will illustrate and explain the connection between surface phenomena, plate tectonics and the earth's internal structure by investigating a geographic location of significance.
2. Identify how minerals make up the products we use in our everyday life.

Daily Agenda
Tectonic Presentations
Seed Planting
GeoHunt Minerals

Diamonds are older than dinosaurs. The youngest natural diamond is over 900 million years old.

Explain this quote....."If it can't be grown, it has to be mined!"

3/5 & 3/6

3/4/2013

Learning Targets
1. Design a product that will illustrate and explain the connection between surface phenomena, plate tectonics and the earth's internal structure by investigating a geographic location of significance.

Daily Agenda
GQ
Review HW
Structure of the Earth Projects

Yellowstone Hotspot & Magma Chamber

GQ Blog Back ........
1. Describe the relationship between convection currents and seafloor spreading and give and example of where this occurs on earth.
2. What happens when 2 continental plates collide. List 3 geologic features.

Flippin Friday 2/29

2/28/2013

Learning Targets
1. Investigate plate tectonics by constructing your own convergent, divergent and transform plate boundaries and compare the geographic features that are created by each.

Daily Agenda
GQ
Edible Lab

GQ Blog Back........
1. What geographic features occur at a divergent tectonic plate boundary?
2. At which type of boundary would you find a subduction zone?
3. What type of boundary is the San Andreas Fault?

2/27 & 2/28

2/26/2013

Learning Targets
1. Compare seismic waves by evaluating how they move through the different layers of the Earth and its surface.

2. Investigate plate tectonics. identify the driving force behind their movement and evaluate their impact on human civilization.

Daily Agenda
New Seats
HW check
Review/finish Seismic Waves
Tectonic Videos
Puzzling Plates
Discussion Questions

GQ Blog Back......
1. What are the two types of body waves?
2. What are the two types of surface waves?
3. How are body waves different from surface waves?
4. How do you think tectonic plate movement causes seismic waves to occur in the Earth?

2/25 & 2/26

2/22/2013

Learning Targets
1. Prove the composition of the earth using seismic waves by comparing how they move through the different layers of the Earth.

Daily Agenda
HW check
GQ
Fake Fold-able
Seismic Waves
Investigation

GQ Blog back or write in notebook......
1. What is the state of matter of the Earth's crust? mantle? outer core? inner core?
2. Predict how scientists use seismic waves to determine the composition and state of matter of the layers of the earth.

Flippin Friday 2/22

2/21/2013

Learning Targets
1. Assess myself on my quiz.
2. Compare the layers of the Earth by identifying composition, thickness and state of matter for each.

Daily Agenda
Review Quiz
Structure of the Earth

No GQ.......pick up a diagram of the earth's layers and fill out the boxes using your reading that you annotated from last class. You will also color this by the color code listed on the back of the question sheet.

2/19 & 2/20

2/19/2013

Learning Targets
1. Investigate the layers of the Earth and compare their compositions, thickness and distinguishing characteristics that affect surface phenomena and have human impact.

Daily Agenda
GQ Blog
Quiz
Earth's Layers Reading
Fake Foldable