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Friday August 27, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010



Extended Reading Sheet – Earth’s Interior

Reading Study Guide 1.1 Unit A

Safety Rules Illustrations and Contract

Collaborative Group Job Responsibilities

Prospectus Quiz

Warm Up: 1. List the four major areas you will be studying in 8th Grade Science.

Tape Prospectus Quiz Here

Tape Earth’s Interior Extended Reading Sheet

Here

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Friday, August 27, 2010




Lab Safety Rules Collaborative Group Job Responsibilities

Prospectus Quiz

1. Goggles – Must be worn when chemicals are used.

2. Smelling Chemicals – hold six inches away and “waft” them.

3. Chemical Contact with skin – wash exposed area with water for 15 minutes

4. Clean up all messes immediately.

5. Proper disposal of poisons – follow teacher directions.

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6. No eating or drinking during lab – keep hands and pencils out of your mouth

7. Horse play out – No throwing, wrestling, punching, or shoving.

8. Fire – use fire blanket, tell the teacher, stop, drop and roll.

9. Better safe than sorry – if in doubt – ASK!

Homework: 1. Lab Safety Illustrations 2. Signed Lab Safety Rules Contract 3. Extended Reading – Earth’s Interior (highlight and answer ?s)

Tape Signed Lab Safety Contract Here

Tuesday , August 31, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Graph of Earth’s Interior

Quiz on Earth’s Layers

Diagram Notes – Earth’s Layers

Demo – Will a denser material sink or float?

Warm Up: 1. How does the density of material differ from the inner core to the crust?

2. How does the temperature of the material change from the inner core to the crust?

3. Which layer of the earth is the thinnest?

4. What does the lithosphere consist of?

5. What two types of crust do most large tectonic plates contain?

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Homework: 1. Graph of Earth’s Interior Questions

2. Study for quiz on Earth’s layers

Density Demo – 1. Draw, color and label the cup of fresh water and salt water.

2. Copy and answer the “what do you think” questions on

page 9 of the text book.

1.What did you observe when you mixed the two liquids?

2. What does this tell you about materials of different densities?

Tape Earth’s Layers Diagram with notes Here

Tape The Earth’s Interior (funny graph) page here

Tape Quick Check Here

Tuesday , August 31, 2010


Thursday, September 2, 2010

Friday, September 3, 2010

Extended Reading – Drifting Continents

Section 1.2 review – Questions 1 - 4

Diagram Features of the Crust and Mantle

Video Questions – Earth’s Crust

Quiz – Earth’s layers

Warm Up: 1. What type of material makes up the inner and outer core?

2. Describe a tectonic plate.

3. How do the crust and mantle differ in temperature and density?

Tape Earth’s Layers Quiz

here

Tape Drifting Continents Extended Reading Sheet

Here

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Homework: 1. Read section 1.2 of Unit A – pages 14-19 in textbook

2. Complete section 1.2 review, questions 1-4 on page 19 in textbook

3. Extended Reading Sheet – Drifting Continents (Read, highlight and answer ?s.



Tape Bill Nye Video Questions here

Tape labeled Features of the Crust and Mantle Diagram

here

Extended Break – No Homework Video Questions – Our Changing Earth

Video Quiz

Warm Up: 1. Using the paper provided, draw the outline of a large landmass. Fill in mountains, rivers, lakes and any other features you choose. Color your landmass using colored pencils.

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Homework: 1. No homework – extended break.

Tuesday , September 7, 2010


Tape Our Changing Earth Video Questions here

Tuesday , September 7, 2010


Tape your landmass you created here.

Extended Reading – Sea Floor Spreading

Extended Reading – Theory of Plate Tectonics

Pre-Assessment

Lab Safety Pen-Pal Letter

Warm Up: 1. No notebook setup today. Sit quietly and wait for teacher instructions.

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Homework: 1. Extended Reading – Sea Floor Spreading ( Read, Highlight and answer ?s

2. Extended Reading – Theory of Plate Tectonics ( Read, Highlight and answer ?s)

Monday, September 13, 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010



Tape extended reading Sea Floor Spreading here

Tape extended reading Theory of Plate tectonics

here

Reading Study Guide 1.3 Unit A Evidence of Pangaea

Warm Up: 1. Finish coloring your landmass you created last week.

2. Cut our your landmass into 4 or 5 large curved pieces.

3. Wait for teacher instructions.

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Homework: 1. Read Section 1.3 of Unit A pages 22- 28

2. Complete Reading Study Guide 1.3 Unit A pages 5 and 6



Tape Evidences of Pangaea here

Tape Map of Pangaea here



Tape Reading Study Guide 1. 3 pages 5 and 6 here

Reading Study Guide 1.4 Unit A

Extended Reading – Convection and the Mantle

Activity – Modeling Plate Movement – Divergent Boundary

Diagram Notes – Divergent Boundary / Sea Floor Spreading

Warm Up: 1. Label and color the map of Earth’s crustal plates by using pages R56

and R 57 in your textbook and the transparency on the overhead.

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Homework: 1. Read section 1.4 of Unit A in your textbook (pages 30-36)

2. Complete Unit Study Guide 1.4 Unit A (page 7 and 8)

3. Extended Reading – Convection and the Mantle – read, highlight and answer ?s

4. Study for crustal plate quiz on Tuesday

Friday, September 17 2010




Tape Earth’s Crustal Plates Map here

Tape Extended Reading – Earth’s Crust and Mantle

here

Tape Reading Study Guide pages 7 and 8 here

Tape Diagram Notes (divergent plate boundaries)

here

Tape Modeling Plate Movement

activity directions here

The Curious Case of the Mesosaurus –

What Happens During Convection

Plate Map Puzzle

Activity – Modeling Convergent Boundaries

Diagram Notes – Convergent Boundaries

Warm Up: 1. From what three sources did Wegner gather evidence to support his continental

drift theory?

2. What happens at a spreading center?

3. What features are found at divergent boundaries?

4. Where could you find the oldest rock on the sea floor? EXPLAIN your answer!

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Homework: 1. The Curious Case of the Mesosaurus – What Happens During Convection

2. Plate Map Puzzle

Tuesday, September 21 2010




Tape Diagram Notes on Convergent Boundaries here

Tape Activity Worksheet – Modeling Convergent

Boundaries here

Tape The Curious Case of the Mesosaurus here

Chapter 1 Review Unit A pages 39-40

Study for Test

Demo – Convection CurrentsDiagram Notes – Transform Boundary Video Questions – Continents Adrift

Warm Up: 1. Use the information you have been given in class to complete the graphic

organizer on plate boundaries.

Page 19 Page 20

Homework: Chapter 1 Review – Write answers on page 19 and 20 of your notebook 1. Write out question and correct answer for questions 7-15 -- page 39

2. Answer in complete sentences questions 19-25 -- page 40.

3. Draw the chart of questions 26-31 and fill in the type of boundary – pg 40


Friday , September 24, 2010

Tape the Plate Boundaries Graphic Organizer here


Friday , September 24, 2010

Tape the Diagram Notes

here

Tape the Video Questions for Continents Adrift here

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