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​​A day-Tuesday December 19, 2017/B day-Wednesday December 20, 2017

Assignment
1 - Finish Extensions and Interventions for Geosphere Unit

Geosphere Intervention
Starter #41

​A day-Friday December 15, 2017/B day-Monday December 18, 2017

Assignment
1 - Extension - Discovery Channel's Super Volcano 
2 - Intervention - Geosphere Unit Packet
Geosphere Intervention
Starter #40 - Turn In Starters 
Geosphere Unit Intervention
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A day-Wednesday December 13, 2017/B day-Thursday December 14, 2017

Assignment
1 - Geosphere Unit Test
Starter #39

A day-Monday December 11, 2017/B day-Tuesday December 12, 2017

Assignment
1 - Geosphere Unit Study Guide
Use Quizizz Code 550717
Starter #38
Pg 93 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Thursday December 7, 2017/B day-Friday December 8, 2017

Assignment
​1 - Types of Volcanoes
Starter #37
Pg 92 - Types of Volcanoes
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A day-Tuesday December 5, 2017/B day-Wednesday December 6, 2017

Assignment
1 - Test Earthquake Buildings
Starter #36
Pg 91 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Friday December 1, 2017/B day-Monday December 4, 2017

Assignment 
1 - Earthquake and Engineering Project
​"You be the Engineer"

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Starter #35
Pg 89 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 90 - You be the Engineer
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Mighty Wave Maker Simulator

A day-Wednesday November 29, 2017/B day-Thursday November 29, 2017

Assignment
1 - Geosphere Quiz #3
2 - Earthquake Introduction

Geosphere Quiz #3 Review
Starter #34
Pg 86 - Glue in your Geosphere Quiz #3
Pg 87 - Write out the question(s) you missed (it is a sentence not a number) on the quiz then explain what the correct answer is for each question you missed along with the notebook page the answer to the question is found.
Pg 88 - Earthquake Introduction
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Earthquake Textbook Pages

​A day-Monday November 27, 2017/B day-Tuesday November 28, 2017

Assignment 
1 - Mantle Plumes Activity
2 - Geomap Interpretive Activity
**Quiz Next Class

Starter #33
Pg 83 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 85 - Reflection Directions
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Thanksgiving Break Wednesday November 22  - Friday November 24, 2017

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A day-Monday November 20, 2017/B day-Tuesday November 21, 2017

Assignment
1 - Plate Tectonics Activity
2 - Plate Tectonic Notes
​3 - Mantle Plumes Activity

Starter #32
Pg 78 - Candy Bar Tectonics
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Pg 79 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 80 - Plate Tectonics notes
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Plate Tectonics PowerPoint for Notes
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Pg 81 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Thursday November 16, 2017/B day-Friday November 17, 2017

Assignment
1 - Finish How the Earth was Made

Full Video of How the Earth was Made from YouTube
Starter #32 will be next class
Pg 77 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Tuesday November 14, 2017/B day-Wednesday November 15, 2017

Assignment
1 - A New Theory - Activities to explain the support and evidence for the theory of plate tectonics.
 2 - History Channel's " How the Earth was Made" Documentary Video
Starter #31 - Begin New Starter
Pg 75 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Friday November 10, 2017/B day-Monday November 13, 2017

Assignment
1 - Geosphere Quiz #2 - Quiz covering pages 66 - 71 from the science notebook

Starter #30 - Turn in Starters
Pg 72 - Glue in your Geosphere Quiz #2
Pg 73 - Write out the question(s) you missed (it is a sentence not a number) on the quiz then explain what the correct answer is for each question you missed along with the notebook page the answer to the question is found.

A day-Wednesday November 8, 2017/B day-Thursday November 9, 2017

Assignment
1 - Alfred Wegener Research and Pangaea Puzzle

Starter #29
Pg 71 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Monday November 6, 2017/B day-Tuesday November 7, 2017

Assignment
1 - Introduction to Seismic Waves

Starter #28
Pg 69 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Thursday November 2, 2017/B day- Friday November 3, 2017

Assignment
1 - Finish Earth's Internal Investigation Webquest
Starter #27
Pg 67 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Tuesday October 31, 2017/B day-Wednesday November 1, 2017

Assignment
1 - Earth's Internal Investigation Webquest
2 - Geosphere Quiz #1 - Interventions
Starter #26
Pg 64 - Glue in your Geosphere Quiz #1
Pg 65 - Write out the question(s) you missed (it is a sentence not a number) on the quiz then explain what the correct answer is for each question you missed

A day-Friday October 27, 2017/B day-Monday October 30, 2017

Assignment
​1 - Radioactive Decay Activity
​2 - Geosphere Quiz 1 - Notebook pages 50 - 63
Starter #25
Pg 63 - Reflection Directions
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Radiometric Dating Activity - Each of the beads represent a proton in a metamorphic rock or meteorite.  Look at the color key on top of the worksheet to determine what color represents parent material and which one represents daughter material.  Then take that information to find the absolute date (age) of the rock models.

A day-Wednesday October 25, 2017/B day-Thursday October 26, 2017

 Assignment
1 - Sedimentary Stories Group Activity
2 - Understanding Radioactive Decay
Quiz Next Class - Review Notebook Pages 50 - 63
Starter #24
Pg 61 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Monday October 23, 2017/B day-Tuesday October 24, 2017

Assignment 
1 - Density Review
2 - Reshaping the Earth's Surface



Starter #23
Pg 56 - Density Review Problems
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Pg 57 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 58 - Reshaping Earth's Surface
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Reshaping Earth's Surface PP for notes
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Pg 59 - Reflection Directions
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A day-Thursday October 19, 2017/B day-Friday October 20, 2017

Assignment
1- Inside the Earth Activities
Starter #22
Pg 53 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 55 - Reflection Directions
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​​A day-Tuesday October 17, 2017/B day-Wednesday October 18, 2017

Assignment 
1 - Floating Crust Activity
​2 - Composition of Earth's Systems
Starter #21 - New Starter
Pg 49 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 51 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 52 - Floating Crust
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Step 2 - Blue Liquid - water
Step 3 - Yellow Liquid - Vegetable Oil
Step 4 - Green Liquid - Corn Syrup
Step 5 - Purple Liquid - Rubbing Alcohol
Step 6 - Orange Liquid - Dish Soap

​A day-Wednesday October 11, 2017/B day-Monday October 16, 2017

Assignment
1 - Earth Systems in the Geosphere
Starter #20 - Turn in Starters
first grade for the 2nd quarter
Pg 46 - Intro to Geosphere
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Pg 47 - Reflection Directions
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Pg 48 - Geology Vocabulary
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Five new vocabulary words are
1 - Catastrophism
2 - Composition 
3 - Radioactive Decay
4 - Readiometric Dating
5 - Uniformitarianism
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