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Ms. Cecilia Tang![]() Welcome to Ms. Tang's science class! Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see a running agenda for ACADEMIC EARTH AND SPACE for SPRING SEMESTER 2013. Thank you! Miss Tang phone: 610-579-7891 1/31/2013 • Homework: • Chemistry and Minerals Vocabulary Quiz on FRIDAY • Chemistry and Minerals TEST on next TUESDAY • Mineral Lab Pre-Lab Questions • Read Chapter 2 (any sections not read yet) • Agenda: • Lesson: Minerals • Worksheet: Mineral Groups • Lesson: Mineral ID • Practice for Lab 2/1/2013 • Homework: • Chemistry and Minerals TEST on next TUESDAY • Start to study and work on review questions • Have you answered the extra credit review questions? • Read Chapter 2 (any sections not read yet) • Agenda: • Take Chemistry/Minerals Vocab Quiz • Lab Practice Instructions • Mineral Lab 2/4/2013 • Homework: • Chemistry and Minerals TEST TOMORROW • Study Review Questions • Study how to identify minerals • Have you answered the extra credit review questions? • Read Chapter 2 (any sections not read yet) • Agenda • 25 minutes to FINISH lab and all questions. 1 per group will be turned in for CORRECTNESS • Review answers of pre-lab/Mineral lab…what to look for for tomorrow’s test • Review of Chemistry of Minerals Sheet • Chemistry Review Sheet – TURN IN TO BE GRADED • Chapter 2 Review Sheet #2 – complete on own Essay for Tomorrow In terms of appearance, salt and sugar are two very similar substances. Both are white, grainy, and look like small cubes. However one of these substances is a mineral and the other is not. Determine which substance is a mineral and which is not and provide an explanation to support your decision. 2/5/2013 • Homework: • Work on Plate Tectonic Vocab List received after testing today. • Agenda • TURNED IN "Chemistry of Minerals Review Packet" • Took Chapter 2 Chemistry and Minerals Test • Worked on Vocab List for Plate Tectonic Unit on own 2/6/2013 • Homework: • Work on Plate Tectonic Vocab List - vocab should be defined by Friday • Agenda • Plate Tectonics Computer Lab - Pt 1. 2/7/2013 • Homework: • Complete definitions for Plate Tectonic Vocab List • Plate Tectonic Vocab Quiz on TUESDAY 2/12/13 • Plate Tectonic Unit Test on THURSDAY 2/14/13 • Agenda • Plate Tectonics Computer Lab - Pt 2. Part 1 and Part 2 collected together at end of period. 2/8/2013 • Homework: • Read Chapter 9.1. and 9.2 in text and answer Reading Guide worksheets • Plate Tectonic Vocab Quiz on TUESDAY 2/12/13 • Plate Tectonic Unit Test on THURSDAY 2/14/13 • Agenda • Lesson: Continental Drift • Mesosaurus Fossil Worksheet • Lesson: Plate Tectonics • Read text to answer end of Continental Drift notes and begin homework 2/11/2013 • Homework: • Read Chapter 9.3 in text • Finish Earthquake and Volcano Graphing Lab • Plate Tectonic Unit Test on THURSDAY 2/14/13 • Plate Tectonic Vocab Quiz on TUESDAY 2/12/13 • Agenda • Lesson: Plate Tetonics • Volcano and Earthquake Graphing Lab • Lesson: Sea floor spreading • Read text to answer end of Plate Tectonic Notes and begin HW 2/12/2013 • Homework: • Chapter 9 Practice Quiz (answers posted below) • Plate Tectonic TEST THURSDAY • Have you answered the extra credit review questions? • Read Chapter 9 (any sections not read yet) • Agenda • Chapter 9 Vocab Quiz • Sea Floor Spreading Notes (Entire note packet should be completed) • How to read Paleomagnetism: “Sea Floor Spreading and Paleomagnetism” • Evidence of Plate Tectonics Lab (Start and complete tomorrow) QUIZ ANSWERS: 1.C 2.C 3.B 4.D 5.A 6.C 7.D 8.A 9.B 10.A 11.A 12.C 13.D 14.C 15.D 16.lithosphere 17.Divergent 18.Seafloor spreading 19.Transform fault boundary 20.Hotspots 2/13/2013 · Plate Tectonic TEST TOMORROW · Have you answered the extra credit review questions? These are found with the study guide attached to the unit vocabulary list. · Read Chapter 9 (any sections not read yet) Agenda: · Evidence of Plate Tectonics Lab · Review evidence of Plate Tectonics Lab – Peer grade · Plate Tectonics: Test Practice (see answers below) ESSAY QUESTION FOR TEST: Review/Practice Test QUIZ ANSWERS:
30a: Fossils, Climate Change, Rock Formations, The “jig-saw” shape of current continents 30b: There was no explanation for how the continents moved 30c: (1) Paleomagnetism – (2) especially the equal mirrored patterns across the mid-ocean ridge, (3) dating rock samples from drilling at different zones of the ocean, (4) hot spots and how they have formed hotspot island chains like Hawaii
2/20/2013 • Homework: • Volcanoes Vocabulary Quiz on THURSDAY • Volcano TEST on next MONDAY • Read Chapter 10.1 with worksheet • Agenda: • Lesson: Volcanoes Pt. II • Hazards of Volcanoes (Collected Today) • Volcanoes and Graphing Lab (Started) 2/21/2013 • Homework: • Volcano TEST on next TUESDAY (Date Change!!!) • Read 10.2 + 10.3 in text • Read Igneous Rock Lab • Agenda: • Volcanoes Vocabulary Quiz TODAY • Volcanoes and Graphing Lab • Start Igneous Rock Notes 2/22/2013 • Homework: • Volcano TEST on next TUESDAY (Date Change!!!) • Reading WS for 3.2 • Study, study, study • Agenda: • Finish Igneous Rock Notes • Igneous Rock Lab • Time for HW if finished early 2/25/2013 • Homework: • Volcano TEST Tomorrow • Read any sections of Chp. 10 not yet read • Agenda: • Volcanoes of Hawaii Video – TURN IN MOVIE SHEET for grade • Test Review Sheet – Keep as reference 2/26/2013 • Homework: • Start working on Weathering Vocab • Agenda: • Volcanoes and Igneous Rock Test 2/27/2013 • Homework: • Agenda: 2/28/2013 • Homework: • Agenda: •Identifying Geological Processes Review WS •Begin Soil Size/Deposition Paper 3/1/2013 • Homework: • Finish: Weathering/Erosion Review Packet • Have questions ready for review when Miss Tang returns Tuesday • Weathering Unit Vocab Quiz Monday • Weathering/Erosion Unit TEST WEDNEDAY March 6 • Agenda: • Meandering Rivers WS • Sedimentary Rocks • Weather/Erosion Review Packet - Begin 3/4/2013 • Homework: • Finish: Weathering/Erosion Review Packet • Have questions ready for review when Miss Tang returns Tuesday • Weathering Unit Vocab Quiz Monday • Weathering/Erosion Unit TEST THURSDAY March 6 • Agenda: • Vocab Quiz • Movie • Tang Absent 3/5/2013 - 2/5/2013 • Homework: • Finish: Weathering/Erosion Review Packet • Have questions ready for review when Miss Tang returns Tuesday • Come into enhancement to finish Sedimentary Rock Lab • Weathering/Erosion Unit TEST THURSDAY March 7 • Agenda: • Finish Movie • Sedimentary Rock Lab 3/6/2013 - 3/6/2013 • Homework: • Weathering/Erosion Unit TEST THURSDAY March 7 • Essay: Explain how sediments are created and distributed. Describe the process of how these sediments then become the rock sandstone? • Short Answers: A. Explain horizontal sorting. B. Explain two ways that chemical weathering and mechanical weathering are different. C. Explain how coquina would be formed. D. Describe what surface area is and how it affects the rate of weathering.. • Agenda: • Answered questions on previous review • Additional Weathering/Erosion/Deposition/Sedimentary Rock Review 2013 - 3/7/2013 • Homework: • Work on New Vocabulary List • Agenda: • Weathering and Erosion Test • Begin Vocab for Earthquakes and Metamorphic Rocks 2013 - 3/8/2013 • Homework: • 3.4 Metamorphic Rocks Reading WS • Work on New Vocabulary List • Agenda: • Metamorphic Rock Notes • Metamorphic Rock Lab 2013 - 3/11/2013 • Homework: • Finish Deformation/Stresses WS • Work on New Vocab List - Vocab Quiz Wed 3/13 • Agenda: • Lesson: Deformation Notes • Modeling Faults Lab • Start Deformation review WS • If time permitting, Start Earthquake notes • Homework: • 8.1 Earthquakes Reading WS • Finish Time Subtraction Problems WS • Vocab Quiz Wed 3/13 • Agenda: • Lesson: Earthquake Notes • Investigating the Speed of Earthquake Waves Lab • How to Subtract Time & Time Subtraction WS 2013 - 3/13/2013 • Homework: • Finding the Origin Time of Earthquake • Agenda: • Lesson: Earthquake Notes • Finding Distance to the Epicenter Lab 2013 - 3/14/2013 2013 - 3/15/2013• Homework: • 8.2 Part II- Earthquakes Reading WS • EARTHQUAKE TEST Wednesday 3/20 • Finding the Epicenter Graded WS tomorrow! • Agenda: • Lesson: Measuring Earthquakes Notes • Lesson: How to find the Epicenter • Reviewed how to find the origin time of earthquakes. • Homework: • Earthquakes Practice Problem WS • EARTHQUAKE TEST Wednesday 3/20 • Agenda: • Graded Worksheet: Finding the Epicenter • Earthquakes Practice Problems while others were finishing • Lesson: Started Hazards of Earthquakes & Tsunamis 2013 - 3/18/2013 • Homework: • 8.4 Earths Inner Structure Reading WS • Work on Tsunami Lab - Will only have 15-20 minutes to complete in class tomorrow! You should complete the Data Table 2 and 3 and just leave the compass graphing for tomorrow! • EARTHQUAKE TEST Wednesday 3/20 • Agenda: • Lesson: Hazards of Earthquakes • Lab: Tsunami Lab - GREAT PRACTICE OF ALL 'QUAKE SKILLS!!!! • Reviewed how to find the origin time of earthquakes. 2013 - 3/19/2013 • Homework: • EARTHQUAKE TEST Wednesday 3/20 • Agenda: • Lab: Tsunami Lab - GREAT PRACTICE OF ALL 'QUAKE SKILLS!!!! • Reviewed for Earthquakes Test tomorrow! • Earthquakes Test tomorrow -- must know S-P intervals, origin times, distances from epicenters, and how to calculate where the epicenter is!!! • Short Answer Qs for tomorrow: " Describe what materials P waves and S waves can move through. Be sure to tell WHY they can move through those materials (think of in class demonstration)" and "Explain the differences between a normal fault and a reverse fault." 2013 - 3/20/2013 • Homework: • Start Geologic Time Vocabularly - Quiz after Spring Break • Agenda: • Earthquakes Test!!!!! 2013 - 3/21/2013 • Homework: • 12.1 Reading WS AND 12.2 Notes in NOTE OUTLINE • Agenda: • Lesson: Relative Time • Relative Dating Practice • 15 minutes to work on Chapter 12 dating. 2013 - 4/2/2013 • Homework:
• Agenda: • Review of Relative Dating WS • Lesson: Geologic Time Scale • Geologic Time Scale Practice Problems 2013 - 4/3/2013 • Homework:
• Review of Rock Correlation • Lesson: Half-lives and Absolute Dating • Interpreting the Geologic Time Scale • Homework:
• Geologic Time Vocabulary Quiz • Geologic Time Scale - Reviewed Answers and Turned In! • Practiced Radiometric Dating 4/5/2013 • Homework:
• Reviewed Basic Radiometric Dating • Partner Assignment: Radiometric Dating Advanced for Extra Credit • Worked on Geologic Time Review 4/8/2013 • Homework:
• Geologic Time Test 4/9/2013 • Homework:• MIDTERMS WEEK - STUDY STUDY STUDY • Agenda: • Worked on Midterm Review Packet 4/10/2013 • Homework:
• Worked on Midterm Review Packet 4/11/2013 and/or 4/12/2013
4/15/2013 • Homework:
• Agenda: • Alternative Energuy Table Worksheet
4/16/2013 • Homework: • Finish Crunch The Fossil Fuels Numbers • Read Chapter 4 in text • Quiz on CONTENT and Vocab on Natural Resources Thursday • Agenda: • Volcanoes Vocabulary Quiz TODAY • Volcanoes and Graphing Lab • Start Igneous Rock Notes 4/17/2013 • Homework: • Quiz on CONTENT and Vocab on Natural Resources Thursday • Agenda: • Watched "How the Earth Was Made" • Homework: • Start Atmosphere Vocabulary List! • Vocab Quiz NEXT Thursday • Agenda: • Quiz on Natural Resources! Content AND Vocab • Finished "How the Earth Was Made" 4/19/2013 4/22/2013 • Homework: • Reading WS for Section 17.1 • Finish Atmosphere Graphing Activity if not finished in class • Atmosphere Vocabulary Quiz THURSDAY • Agenda: • Lesson: Structure of the atmosphere • Atmosphere Graphing Activity • Homework: • Reading WS for Section 17.2 - Heating the Atmosphere • Finish The Cause of the Seasons Investigation Activity if not finished in class • Atmosphere Vocabulary Quiz THURSDAY • Agenda: • Lesson: Causes of the Season and Heating the Atmosphere • The Cause of the Seasons Investigation Activity 4/23/2013• Homework: • Reading WS for Section 18.1 - • Atmosphere Vocabulary Quiz THURSDAY • Agenda: • Lesson: End of Chapter 17 and Chapter 18.1- Water in the Atmosphere 4/24/2013• Homework: • Finish Weather Map Station Model Practice - answers uploaded in E&S Course space • Atmosphere Vocabulary Quiz THURSDAY • Agenda: • Lesson: Chapter 18.2- Clouds • Weather Station Model Lesson 4/25/2013• Homework: • Reading WS for Section 18.2 and 18.3 if not completed in class • Atmosphere Vocabulary Quiz THURSDAY • Agenda: • Atmosphere Vocabulary Quiz • Weather Station Model Lab • Read Section 18.2 and 18.3 4/26/2013 • Homework: • Anything left unfinished from Thursday • Agenda: • Watch "An Inconvenient Truth" w/ movie sheet • Homework: • TEST on Chapters 17 and 18 THURSDAY • Complete Isotherms Practice • Agenda: • Lesson: Clouds & Environmental Issues (note packet should be complete) • Reviewed/returned Atmosphere Lab • Started Isotherms Practice (complete for homework) 4/30/2013 • Homework: • TEST on Chapters 17 and 18 THURSDAY • Complete Isotherms Lab • Start Review packet questions for test • Agenda: • Reviewed Isotherms • Isotherm Lab • Review Packet for Test 5/1/2013 • Homework:• TEST on Chapters 17 and 18 THURSDAY • Extra credit questions and review packet • Agenda: • Reviewed Adiabatic Temperature Changes and Types of Precipitation • Worked on Review Packet for Test 5/2/2013 • Homework:• Vocabulary for Weather Unit • Agenda: • Atmosphere Test • Worked on Weather Unit Vocab 5/3/2013 • Homework:• Parts A and B ONLY of Surface Weather Lab • Reading Worksheet for Chp. 19.1 • Agenda: • Lesson: CHapt 19 - Air Pressure and Winds • Surface Weather Lab 5/6/2013 • Homework:• Worksheet: Wind and Pressure Relationships • Reading Worksheet for Chp. 19.2 • Agenda: • Lab: Interpreting Surface Weather - finished and turned in. • Lesson: Air Masses and Fronts • Practice: Drawing Isobars 5/7/2013 • Homework:• Vocab Quiz Tomorrow! • Finish Isobars Lab • Agenda: • Collected: 19.2 • Reviewed: Air Pressure and Wind • Lesson: Thunderstorms • Lab: Drawing Isobars 5/8/2013 • Homework:• Finish any classwork left over • Reading WS for 20.1 • Weather Test WEDNESDAY • Agenda: • Collected: Drawing Isobars Lab • Vocabulary Quiz • Lab: Fronts and Air Masses • WS: Weather Mapping • WS: Naming Hurricanes • WS: Reading WS for 20.1 5/9/2013 • Homework:• Finish Weather Pressure Systems Lab • Air Fronts Review • Weather Test WEDNESDAY • Agenda: • Collected: Drawing Isobars LaB (4th period) • Lab: Weather Pressure Systems Lab • WS: Air Fronts Review 5/10/2013 • Homework: • Reading Worksheet 20.2 Fronts • Agenda: • Reviewed: Air Fronts • Lesson: Severe Weather 5/13/2013 • Homework: • Reading Worksheet 20.2 Fronts • TEST MOVED to THURSDAY for Keystones • Agenda: • Lesson: Severe Weather • Demo Lab: Hurricanes • Movie: Tornados 5/14/2013 • Homework: • Severe Weather Review - test yourself! • TEST MOVED to THURSDAY for Keystones • Agenda: • Weather Map Analysis Lab • Movie: Tornados 5/15/2013 • Homework: • TEST on Weather TOMORROW • TEST Essay: Compare and contrast hurricanes and tornados. Also, study the review we went over today! Agenda: • Reviewed! • Movie: Inside the MegaStorm - Hurricane Sandy |
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