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Second Quarter: November 12, 2008 to January 29, 2009

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Week #19: January 26, 2009 to January 29, 2009 (Final Exam Week!)

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 1/26/09:

Due Wednesday, 1/28/09:

Wednesday, 1/28/09:

Due Monday, 2/2/09:

  • Enjoy your 3-day weekend after finals!

 

Week #18: January 20, 2009 to January 23, 2009 (No Block Schedule This Week)

Classwork

Homework

Tuesday, 1/20/09:

Due Wednesday, 1/21/09:

  • Read Section 12.2 in your new textbook, pages 301-304. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 on page 304 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the terms in question #8 on page 300: Seismograph, seismogram, epicenter, P-wave, S-wave, magnitude, and intensity.
  • Complete Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country booklet and home safety assessment worksheet. Due next week on Thursday, January 22, 2009. Worth 20 points test credit! Go here for Word® Document to type in to.

Wednesday, 1/21/09:

Due Thursday, 1/22/09:

Thursday, 1/22/09:

Due Friday, 1/23/09:

  • Read Section 12.3 in your new textbook, pages 305-308. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 on page 308 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the terms in question #8 on page 308: earthquake, earthquake-hazard level. damage, tsunami, safety, and prediction.

Friday, 1/23/09:

Due Monday, 1/26/09:

  • Download the Fall 2008 Final Review Sheet in MS Word® format and in PDF format. Also download the Final Exam Schedule. Answering ALL of the questions on your own and turning them in on the Day of the Final will add 15 points to your final exam grade. You can’t beat that, now can you?

 

 

Week #17: January 12, 2009 to January 16, 2009

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 1/12/09:

  • Download the Fall 2008 Final Review Sheet in MS Word® format and in PDF format. Also download the Final Exam Schedule. Answering ALL of the questions on your own and turning them in on the Day of the Final will add 15 points to your final exam grade. You can’t beat that, now can you?
  • Finish Killer Quake video and questions and turn in

Due Tuesday, 1/13/09:

  • No homeworkJ

Tuesday, 1/13/09:

Due Thursday, 1/15/09 Block Day:

Thursday, 1/15/09 Block Day:

Due Friday, 1/16/09:

  • Read Section 12.1 in your new textbook, pages 294-300. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 on page 300 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the terms in question #11 on page 300: earthquake, seismic wave, body wave, surface wave, P wave, S wave, Rayleigh Wave, and Love Wave.
  • Complete Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country booklet and home safety assessment worksheet. Due next week on Thursday, January 22, 2009. Worth 20 points test credit! Go here for Word® Document to type in to.

Friday, 1/16/09:

Due Tuesday, 1/20/09:

 

 

Week #16: January 5, 2009 to January 9, 2009

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 1/5/09:

Due Tuesday, 1/6/09:

  • Take progress reports home to be signed by your parent. You sign too and return to me for 15 points of homework credit!

Tuesday, 1/6/09:

Due Thursday, 1/8/09 Block Day:

  • Read Section 11.1 in your new textbook, pages 273-278. Answer questions 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 on page 278 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the terms in question #12 on page 278: stress, compression, strain, tension, shear stress, folds, faults.

Thursday, 1/8/09 Block Day:

Due Friday, 1/9/09:

  • No homeworkJ

Friday, 1/9/09:

Due Monday, 1/12/09:

  • Have a nice weekend!

 

 

Week #15: December 15, 2008 to December 19, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 12/15/08:

Due Tuesday, 12/16/08:

  • Read Section 6.2 in your new textbook, pages 129-134. Answer questions 1, 3, and 4 on page 134 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the terms in question #9 on page 134: igneous rock, magma, coarse grained, fine grained, felsic, mafic, and intermediate.

Tuesday, 12/16/08:

Due Thursday, 12/18/08 Block Day:

  • No homeworkJ

Thursday, 12/18/08 Block Day:

Due Friday, 12/19/08:

  • No homeworkJ

Friday, 12/19/08:

Due Monday, 1/5/09:

  • Have a nice Winter Break!

 

Week #14: December 8, 2008 to December 12, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 12/8/08:

Due Tuesday, 12/9/08:

Tuesday, 12/9/08:

Due Thursday, 12/11/08 Block Day:

  • No homeworkJ

Thursday, 12/11/08 Block Day:

Due Friday, 12/12/08:

  • Read Section 6.1 in your new textbook, pages 124-128. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8 on page 128 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the terms in question #9 on page 128: rock, igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, and rock cycle.

Friday, 12/12/08:

Due Monday, 12/15/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!

 

 

Week #13: December 1, 2008 to December 5, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 12/1/08:

  • Current Event: Spectacular Conjunction of Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon. Go outside tonight just after dark and look to the western sky to see something very cool! I will have a telescope set up on the bridge between 5 and 6 PM this evening if you want to come by and have a look.
  • Discuss Reuniting Pangaea exercise and Wegener’s evidence for Continental Drift.
  • Continue Plate Tectonics video and questions #s 6-15

Due Tuesday, 12/2/08:

  • Finish Reuniting Pangaea exercises if not done.
  • Go to the LA County Museum of Natural History’s E. Hadley Stewart, Jr. mineral museum for extra credit! Do a report on 5 minerals that you saw. You should include all of their physical/chemical properties, where they are found, and what they are used for. Take digital pictures of each mineral at the museum and put into your report. Your report can be done in either MS Word or PowerPoint. You must save your receipt as proof that you went to the museum. 20 points of classwork extra credit possible if you do a really good job! You must have an MLA works cited if you use an outside source other than the notes you take at the museum. The last day to turn in this extra credit will be Tuesday, December 2, 2008.

Tuesday, 12/2/08:

Due Thursday, 12/4/08 Block Day:

  • Study for Quiz on Section 10.1 on Continental Drift, Mid Ocean Ridges, and Sea Floor Spreading
  • Finish Internet Investigation on Sea Floor Spreading

Thursday, 12/4/08 Block Day:

  • Internet Investigation on Sea Floor Spreading: go over and collect
  • Quiz on Section 10.1 on Continental Drift, Mid Ocean Ridges, and Sea Floor Spreading
  • Continue Plate Tectonics video and questions #s 6-15

Due Friday, 12/5/08:

  • Read Section 10.2 in your new textbook, pages 247-254. Answer questions 1-6 page 254 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the terms in question #9 on page 254: tectonic plate, divergent, convergent, convection, transform, ridge push, slab pull, subduction zone, and mid-ocean ridge.

Friday, 12/5/08:

Due Monday, 12/8/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!

 

Week #12: November 17, 2008 to November 21, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 11/17/08:

Due Tuesday, 11/18/08:

  • Read Section 10.1 in your new textbook, pages 238-246. Answer questions 1-6 page 246 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the key terms continental drift, mid-ocean ridge, sea-floor spreading, and Paleomagnetism on page 239.

Tuesday, 11/18/08:

  • Stamp/Go over homework section 10.1
  • Plate Tectonics video and questions: Finish #s 1-5
  • Hand out and explain Plate Tectonic Travel worksheet

Due Thursday, 11/20/08 Block Day:

Thursday, 11/20/08 Block Day:

  • Stamp/Go over Plate Tectonic Travel worksheet
  • Plate Tectonics video and questions: Finish #s 1-5
  • Reuniting Pangaea Lab

Due Friday, 11/21/08:

  • No homeworkJ

Friday, 11/21/08:

  • Reuniting Pangaea Lab

Due Monday, 12/1/08:

  • Have a nice Thanksgiving Week!
  • Go to the LA County Museum of Natural History’s E. Hadley Stewart, Jr. mineral museum for extra credit! Do a report on 5 minerals that you saw. You should include all of their physical/chemical properties, where they are found, and what they are used for. Take digital pictures of each mineral at the museum and put into your report. Your report can be done in either MS Word or PowerPoint. You must save your receipt as proof that you went to the museum. 20 points of classwork extra credit possible if you do a really good job! You must have an MLA works cited if you use an outside source other than the notes you take at the museum. The last day to turn in this extra credit will be Tuesday, December 2, 2008.

 

Week #11: November 12, 2008 to November 14, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Wednesday, 11/12/08:

Due Thursday, 11/13/08:

Thursday, 11/13/08:

Due Friday, 11/14/08:

Friday, 11/14/08:

Due Monday, 11/17/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!
  • Go to the LA County Museum of Natural History’s E. Hadley Stewart, Jr. mineral museum for extra credit! Do a report on 5 minerals that you saw. You should include all of their physical/chemical properties, where they are found, and what they are used for. Take digital pictures of each mineral at the museum and put into your report. Your report can be done in either MS Word or PowerPoint. You must save your receipt as proof that you went to the museum. 20 points of classwork extra credit possible if you do a really good job! You must have an MLA works cited if you use an outside source other than the notes you take at the museum. The last day to turn in this extra credit will be Tuesday, December 2, 2008.

 

 

First Quarter: September 2, 2008 to November 7, 2008

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Week #10: November 3, 2008 to November 7, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 11/3/08:

Due Tuesday, 11/4/08:

  • Read Section 7.1 in your new textbook, pages 154-158. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4 with full sentences and concept map the vocabulary words ore, lode, placer deposit, and gemstone on page 155.

Tuesday, 11/4/08:

Due Thursday, 11/6/08 Block Day:

Thursday, 11/6/08 Block Day:

  • Pass out homework packet sheets for sections 4.1, chemistry practice problems #1-15, section 5.1, section 5.2, and section 7.1
  • Mineral Resource Project in IRC

Due Friday, 11/7/08:

  • Get homework packets for sections 4.1, chemistry practice problems #1-15, section 5.1, section 5.2, and section 7.1 ready to turn in.
  • Finish Mineral Resource Project if needed.

Friday, 11/7/08:

  • Collect homework packets for sections 4.1, chemistry practice problems #1-15, section 5.1, section 5.2, and section 7.1
  • Guest Speaker: Former LCHS Alumnus (Class of 1993) Professor Brandon Browne from Cal State Fullerton. He will be talking about his work as a volcanologist and the Angeles Forest Institute Summer Program!

Due Wednesday, 11/12/08:

  • Have a nice Veterans Day weekend!
  • Go to the LA County Museum of Natural History’s E. Hadley Stewart, Jr. mineral museum for extra credit! Do a report on 5 minerals that you saw. You should include all of their physical/chemical properties, where they are found, and what they are used for. Take digital pictures of each mineral at the museum and put into your report. Your report can be done in either MS Word or PowerPoint. You must save your receipt as proof that you went to the museum. 20 points of classwork extra credit possible if you do a really good job! You must have an MLA works cited if you use an outside source other than the notes you take at the museum. The last day to turn in this extra credit will be Tuesday, December 2, 2008.

 

 

Week #9: October 27, 2008 to October 31, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 10/27/08:

Due Thursday, 10/30/08 Block Day:

  • Do maps test corrections that were handed back to you last Thursday

Thursday, 10/30/08 Block Day:

Due Friday, 10/31/08:

  • Read Section 5.2 in your new textbook, pages 109-114. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 (Vocabulary Concept Map) on page 114 with full sentences.

Friday, 10/31/08:

Due Monday, 11/3/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!
  • Go to the LA County Museum of Natural History’s E. Hadley Stewart, Jr. mineral museum for extra credit! Do a report on 5 minerals that you saw. You should include all of their physical/chemical properties, where they are found, and what they are used for. Take digital pictures of each mineral at the museum and put into your report. Your report can be done in either MS Word or PowerPoint. You must save your receipt as proof that you went to the museum. 20 points of classwork extra credit possible if you do a really good job! You must have an MLA works cited if you use an outside source other than the notes you take at the museum. The last day to turn in this extra credit will be Tuesday, December 2, 2008.

 

 

Week #8: October 20, 2008 to October 24, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 10/20/08:

  • Traeger out todayL
  • National Geographic Video: Splendid Stones. Write down 10 things that you learned from the video and give this to the sub.

Due Tuesday, 10/21/08:

  • No homework

Tuesday, 10/21/08:

  • Hand out chemistry practice problems #s 1-15
  • Finish going over notes on the periodic table and atomic structure
  • Finish Atomic Structure internet investigation from last week.

Due Thursday, 10/23/08 Block Day:

  • Complete Chemistry Practice Sheet #s 1-15
  • Review section 4.1 for quiz on block day

Thursday, 10/23/08 Block Day:

  • Stamp/go over chemistry practice sheet #s 1-15
  • Review basic atomic structure and the periodic table
  • Quiz on atomic structure and the periodic table: Section 4.1
  • Introduction to Compounds and Minerals Section 5.1
  • National Geographic Magazine: Cavern of Crystal Giants
  • internet investigation ES0506
  • Hand back maps tests for corrections

Due Friday, 10/24/08:

  • Read Section 5.1 in your new textbook, pages 102-108. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9 on page 108 with full sentences.
  • Concept map and define the following key terms on page 103: mineral, silicate mineral, nonsilicate mineral, crystal, and silicon-oxygen tetrahedron.

Friday, 10/24/08:

  • Stamp HW section 5.1 in your new textbook, pages 102-108. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9 on page 108 with full sentences.
  • Go over vocabulary for Section 5.1
  • internet investigation ES0506

Due Monday, 10/27/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!
  • Go to the LA County Museum of Natural History’s E. Hadley Stewart, Jr. mineral museum for extra credit! Do a report on 5 minerals that you saw. You should include all of their physical/chemical properties, where they are found, and what they are used for. Take digital pictures of each mineral at the museum and put into your report. Your report can be done in either MS Word or PowerPoint. You must save your receipt as proof that you went to the museum. 20 points of classwork extra credit possible if you do a really good job! You must have an MLA works cited if you use an outside source other than the notes you take at the museum. The last day to turn in this extra credit will be Tuesday, December 2, 2008.

 

 

Week #7: October 13, 2008 to October 17, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 10/13/08:

  • Pass back science basics test and show how to do test corrections
  • Origins of matter

Due Tuesday, 10/14/08:

  • Work on science basics test corrections

Tuesday, 10/14/08:

  • Origins of matter and the periodic table

Due Thursday, 10/16/08 Block Day:

  • Read Section 4.1 in your new textbook, pages 81-86. Answer questions 1-8 on page 86 with full sentences.

Thursday, 10/16/08 Block Day:

  • Stamp/go over HW section 4.1
  • Properties of Matter Lab: finish
  • Notes on the periodic table
  • Atomic Structure internet investigation

Due Friday, 10/17/08:

  • No homework

Friday, 10/17/08:

  • STEP assembly presentations today
  • Notes on the periodic table and atomic structure

Due Monday, 10/20/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!
  • Go to the LA County Museum of Natural History’s E. Hadley Stewart, Jr. mineral museum for extra credit! Do a report on 5 minerals that you saw. You should include all of their physical/chemical properties, where they are found, and what they are used for. Take digital pictures of each mineral at the museum and put into your report. Your report can be done in either MS Word or PowerPoint. You must save your receipt as proof that you went to the museum. 20 points of classwork extra credit possible if you do a really good job! You must have an MLA works cited if you use an outside source other than the notes you take at the museum. The last day to turn in this extra credit will be Tuesday, December 2, 2008.

 

 

Week #6: October 6, 2008 to October 10, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 10/6/08:

  • Geocaching Lab!: Finish and turn in

Due Tuesday, 10/7/08:

  • Finish test corrections started in class.

Tuesday, 10/7/08:

Due Thursday, 10/9/08 Block Day:

  • Read Section 3.3 in your new textbook, pages 63-68. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 10 on page 68 with full sentences.

Thursday, 10/9/08 Block Day:

  • Pasadena Topographic Map Lab
  • Review for test on Maps Chapter 3

Due Friday, 10/10/08:

  • Review for test on Chapter 3 on Maps on Friday, 10/10/08.
  • Get HW packets ready to turn in: Chapter sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.

Friday, 10/10/08:

  • Turn in HW packets: Chapter sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.
  • Test on Chapter 3, Maps.

Due Monday, 10/13/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!

 

 

Week #5: September 29, 2008 to October 3, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 9/29/08:

Due Tuesday, 9/30/08:

  • No homeworkJ

Tuesday, 9/30/08:

  • Get new Earth Science Textbooks!
  • Textbook familiarization

Due Thursday, 10/2/08 Block Day:

  • Cover your new textbook and bring to class Thursday to show Mr. T.
  • Read Section 3.1 in your new textbook, pages 53-56. Answer questions 1-6 on page 56 with full sentences. Be prepared for a reading quiz on Thursday.

Thursday, 10/2/08 Block Day:

  • Check for covered textbooks.
  • Stamp/go over HW Section 3.1
  • Reading Quiz using Beyond Question® on homework section 3.1
  • Geocaching Lab!

Due Friday, 10/3/08:

  • Cover your new textbook and bring to class Friday to show Mr. T if you didn’t show it to him on Thursday.
  • Read Section 3.2 in your new textbook, pages 57-62. Answer questions 1-7 on page 62 with full sentences.

Friday, 10/3/08:

  • Stamp/go over HW Section 3.2
  • Check for covered textbooks
  • Geocaching Lab!: Finish
  • Next Week
  • Pasadena Topographic Map Lab
  • Review for Test on maps next week.

Due Monday, 10/6/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!

 

 

Week #4: September 22, 2008 to September 26, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 9/22/08:

  • Turn in HW packets: Quick Introduction to Scientific Notation, Metric System Friend of the Scientist front and back, and practice graphs sheet and graphs
  • Test on Earth System Spheres and Interactions, Scientific Notation, metric unit conversions using decimal jump method, measuring, and graphing.

Due Tuesday, 9/23/08:

  • No homework

Tuesday, 9/23/08:

Due Thursday, 9/25/08 Block Day:

  • No homework

Thursday, 9/25/08 Block Day:

Due Friday, 9/26/08:

  • Finish map basics lab from class and be ready to turn in on Friday.

Friday, 9/26/08:

  • Go over how GPS works. Basics of GPS and Geocaching Lab. Go here, here, and here to find out more about the GPS technology we use in class.

Due Monday, 9/29/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!

 

 

Week #3: September 15, 2008 to September 19, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 9/15/08:

Due Tuesday, 9/16/08:

  • No homework

Tuesday, 9/16/08:

Due Thursday, 9/18/08 Block Day:

Thursday, 9/18/08 Block Day:

Due Friday, 9/19/08:

  • Study for Test next Monday on Earth System Spheres and Interactions, Scientific Notation, metric unit conversions using decimal jump method, measuring, and graphing.
  • Get HW packets together: Quick Introduction to Scientific Notation, Metric System Friend of the Scientist front and back, and practice graphs sheet and graphs

Friday, 9/19/08:

  • Make second graph on practice graphs sheet
  • Metric Measuring Madness: finish and grade in class.
  • Go over Traeger’s Summer Vacation Slide Show in Google Earth® and Earth System Spheres
  • Review for Test on Earth System Spheres and Interactions, Scientific Notation, metric unit conversions using decimal jump method, measuring, and graphing.
  • Next Monday
  • Turn in HW packets: Quick Introduction to Scientific Notation, Metric System Friend of the Scientist front and back, and practice graphs sheet and graphs
  • Test on Earth System Spheres and Interactions, Scientific Notation, metric unit conversions using decimal jump method, measuring, and graphing.

Due Monday, 9/22/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!
  • Study for Test next Monday on Earth System Spheres and Interactions, Scientific Notation, metric unit conversions using decimal jump method, measuring, and graphing.
  • Get HW packets together: Quick Introduction to Scientific Notation, Metric System Friend of the Scientist front and back, and practice graphs sheet and graphs

 

 

Week #2: September 8, 2008 to September 12, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Monday, 9/8/08:

Due Tuesday, 9/9/08:

Tuesday, 9/9/08:

Due Wednesday, 9/10/08:

  • Bring lab donations
  • Do parts 1 and 2 of “Quick Introduction to Scientific Notation” worksheet.

Wednesday, 9/10/08:

  • Receipt lab donation requests
  • Stamp/go over parts 1 and 2 of “Quick Introduction to Scientific Notation” worksheet
  • Metric conversions and measurements: The Big Mars Orbiter Mix-up
  • Metric conversions using the decimal jump method and conversion practice

Due Thursday, 9/11/08:

  • Complete “Metric System: Friend of the Scientist” problems 1 through 26.

Thursday, 9/11/08:

  • Receipt lab donation requests
  • Go over “Metric System: Friend of the Scientist” problems 1 through 26.
  • Measuring Lab

Due Friday, 9/12/08:

  • Complete back side of “Metric System: Friend of the Scientist” worksheet.

Friday, 9/12/08:

  • Receipt lab donation requests
  • Measuring Lab: Finish
  • Graphing guidelines and graphing
  • Lab on Data Acquisition and Graphing with Vernier Instruments?
  • Next Monday: Traeger’s Summer Vacation Slide Show in Google Earth® and Earth System Spheres
  • Next Tuesday: Test on earth system spheres, scientific notation, metric conversion, measuring, and graphing

Due Monday, 9/15/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!

 

 

Week #1: September 2, 2008 to September 5, 2008

Classwork

Homework

Tuesday, 9/2/08:

Due Wednesday, 9/3/08:

  • Get class  materials (binder, paper, pens/pencils, ruler, calculator)

Wednesday, 9/3/08:

Due Thursday, 9/4/08:

Thursday, 9/4/08:

Due Friday, 9/5/08:

Friday, 9/5/08:

  • Computer password verification and Internet Investigation in IRC. Do not come to the classroom. Go directly to the IRC.

Due Monday, 9/8/08:

  • Have a nice weekend!

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