January 6-7, Tues/Wed

Daily Schedule:

• Activote Review Questions
• Notebook Page 53 - Plate Boundary Arrows
  
• Plate Boundary Overview
• Click here for the Google Earth Plate Boundaries file!
  

Homework:

None

January 5, Fri/Mon

Daily Schedule:

• Bill Nye
• Page 52: Plate Boundary Forces Lab
• The last 50 million years.

Homework:

None

Happy New Year!

Happy 2009!

awesome-ness!

December 16-17, Weds/Thurs

Daily Schedule:

• Notebook Check
• Convection Lab wrap-up.
  
• Convection Frayer Map
• Questions using the ActivExpressions
• Convection is the source - Oh Yeah!
• Lava Lamp!
  
• Convection Frayer Map KEY - Aesthenosphere
• 
  

Homework:

• Enjoy your break!
  

December 15-16, Mon/Tues

Daily Schedule:

• Journal Question (page 48)
  
• Layers of the Earth Overview!
• Earth's Interior Diagram KEY
• Layers, Layers, Layers, Density, Density, Density
• YouTube Clip - Aesthenosphere-like stuff
• Convection Lab (page 49)
  

Homework:

• Find convection in your house. This is a family activity.
  

December 11-12, Thurs/Fir

Daily Schedule:

• Daily Business
• Pages 40-45 should be in your notebook!
• Interior of the Earth worksheet.
  

Homework:

• Nothing

December 9-10, Tues/Wed

Daily Schedule:

• Why I was gone??
  
• History of the Earth
• Turn in Take-Home exam.

Homework:

• NONE
  

December 8-9, Mon/Tues

I will be gone the on Monday and Tuesday so the daily schedule might be a little off. Remember, your MN Geology take home quiz is due next Wed/Thur (12.10-11).

Daily Schedule:

• Glaciers Movies

1. Overview Video
2. Glaciers Rock the House in 619
3. The Fastest Glacier NOVA - PBS
   

• MN Map Lab in 3D
• Glacier Notes
• Glacier Terms - Define and Draw (Notebook Page 43)

Homework:

• MN Geology Take-home Exam Due December 10-11!
  

December 3-4, Wed/Thur

Daily Schedule:

• MN Gravel Lab (Page 41)
• MN Geologic History Summary (page 42)

Homework:

Please look at your map and explore it a bit. It should work nicely with your note summaries on page 42. There will be a take-home exam next class where you will need to teach someone about MN's history. Get ready!

MEGAmap - MN Geology

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December 1-2, Mon/Tues

Daily Schedule:

• Finish Google My Map Project

Homework:

• My Map Survey - This is required!