Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Tuesday, November 26

1. Watched video on sea level rise and identified various cities that would be under water: https://youtu.be/VbiRNT_gWUQ

- We then read the article found here and answered all 5 questions:






2. Watched this tutorial on how to use the online map: https://youtu.be/6Wl4B7WevSQ

3. We then used the ipads to go to this website and spent some time exploring what would happen in coastal cities throughout the united states and Canada https://riskfinder.climatecentral.org


Next class you will need to do the associated data tables

Friday, 22 November 2019

Friday, November 22

1. watched this video:https://youtu.be/_UjAxuSuLIc and this one: https://youtu.be/QHK2Zg5OibI

2. read the rubber ducky article from here: https://betterlesson.com/lesson/631913/currents-and-the-great-ducky-spill?from=favorites

3. We watched this Bill Nye video: https://youtu.be/w_8mw-1HYFg

4. We mapped the path of the rubber duckies using this map

4. We then watched the first 30 min of the movie chasing coral (you can find it on Netflix)

Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Wednesday Nov 20

1. Video on cell phone addiction: https://youtu.be/sL8AsaEJDdo

2. review salinity graph
3. went through all the definitions for the water cycle
4. Did a walk and talk with 6 water stories found here: https://betterlesson.com/lesson/resource/3236635/water-story-cards

5. Exit ticket today

Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Tuesday, November 19

1. Review Salinity
2. Graph Salinity - We did the Atlantic ocean together and you needed to graph the pacific ocean on your own. We did questions #1-4




3. We also started lesson 7.1 Today (Salinity and the Water Cycle) found here: https://betterlesson.com/lesson/639200/water-cycle-salinity?from=favorites


videos for today:
https://youtu.be/ZhL68D9BPiw
https://youtu.be/IgvFx5PHihQ

Monday, 18 November 2019

Monday, November 18

1. Review passive and active continental margins
2. Videos:
salinity: https://youtu.be/jzTBR2APU-k
the dead sea: https://youtu.be/qIipINltwUk
the oceans layers:https://youtu.be/TxdiU3LJlZ8

3. We did fill in the blanks notes on salinity and density.


Looked at a map from space of ocean salinity (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aquarius/multimedia/gallery/pia14786.html


Friday, 15 November 2019

Friday November 15

1. discussed parts of passive continental margins and did fill in the blanks diagram *good test questions*
2. watched this video: https://youtu.be/c0vDr2GnOOo on passive vs active continental margins
3. finished fill in the blanks notes

Wednesday Nov 13 double block

1. tides lesson: https://betterlesson.com/lesson/631909/tides?from=search

Note: we handed the graph in for marks (not accepting late work for this one)

Tuesday November 12

1. Pink Sheet questions from text book.
2. Oceanography fill in the blank notes
3.

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Tuesday, November 12

Sorry for going off grid there fore a while


Today we started our new unit on Oceans
1. Fill in the blank notes
2. Pink sheet with 13 questions on it. Should be done up to #4 today.

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Tuesday, Oct 29

1. videos on mineral hardness, cleavage/fracture and special properties:
hardness test: https://youtu.be/9r7C5SD14Hw
cleavage and fracture: https://youtu.be/1SGC3VBQZY0
special properties: https://youtu.be/1SGC3VBQZY0

2. We finished our definitions of the physical properties found here: https://betterlesson.com/lesson/617672/introduction-to-minerals?from=master_teacher_curriculum


3. We used our mineral hardness identification kits and did some hands on activities testing hardness of our minerals.

4. We finished 1.3 -

Note: Minerals workbooks due YESTERDAY

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Wednesday Oct 23 Early Dismissal

1. Video: Properties of Minerals: https://youtu.be/32NG9aeZ7_c
- color, hardness, lustre, cleavage/fracture, streak, other (taste, magnetism, double refraction, fizz under acid test)


2. Workbook: minerals




Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Tuesday, Oct 22

1. Review why minerals are important: https://youtu.be/hA2HKKKa5zY
2. Small review of properties of minerals and the 5 characteristics of a mineral

3. Discussed the differences between coal and diamond:
 


4. Fill in the blank notes, definitions and hands on activity making tetrahedrons out out magnet-tiles
https://betterlesson.com/lesson/619209/cleavage-and-fracture

Monday, Oct 21

1. We talked about the bias in this video: https://youtu.be/1577EJ1Pskg

2. We then looked at this video to see if there was any bias: https://youtu.be/ynN39sfqT8w

3. Then we looked at this video to identify that we use minerals everyday: https://youtu.be/hA2HKKKa5zY

Afterwards we did this lesson: https://betterlesson.com/lesson/617672/introduction-to-minerals


You handed in page 5 of the practice questions for marking

Friday, 18 October 2019

Friday Oct 18

Today we did the unknown rock identification lab

www.willisscience.com › docs › Rock_Identification_Lab_.248172045.doc


**** ROCK POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS ARE DUE ON MONDAY****

Wednesday, Oct 17

1. video: https://youtu.be/kRUwchlza88

Today we talked about the difference between regional and contact metamorphism and did a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting them.

2. Then we did this lesson: https://betterlesson.com/lesson/617987/metamorphic-rocks-ii?from=breadcrumb_lesson

We talked about the sequence of metamorphism and how gneiss (said 'nice') is the most metamorphic rock you can get.



Wednesday, 16 October 2019