Week 19 / May 27 to 30
Monday / No school - Memorial Day holiday.
Tuesday / Go over test etc. Folders & papers. Review Semester. GPS projects.
Wednesday / Project presentations. Review.
Thursday / Project Presentation. Review.
Friday / Final Tests
Week 18 / May 19 to May 23
Monday / The Rock Cycle - discuss and activity. (Senior last day in class) GPS projects.
Tuesday / ID Rocks in the lab.
Wednesday / Cemetery rock ID project.
Thursday / Review activity. GPS Projects.
Friday / TEST - Rocks and MInerals
Week 17 / May 12 to May 16
Monday / Igneous rocks (observe samples and identify). GPS - find waypoints
Tuesdayfinish / Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. GPS - enter waypoints.
Wednesday / (GPS hide and seek)
Thursday / Rocks and minerals GPS project
Friday / Rocks and minerals GPS project
Week 16 / May 5 to May 9
Monday / Mineral identification Intro - lab activity (observe samples and identify). Work on Minerals Poster/gemstone model.
Tuesday / Continue with mineral identification.Work on Minerals Poster/gemstone model.
Wednesday / Density, specific gravity, finish ID minerals,Work on Minerals Poster/gemstone model.
Thursday / Uses of minerals and review.Work on Minerals Poster/gemstone model.
Friday / Finish mineral project and gem model, hang 'em. Quiz on minerals.
Week 15 / April 28 to May2
Monday / Add your own pictures to erosion and deposition summaries.
Quiz 8-9 (VK gone today)
Tuesday / Basic Chemistry of Matter, elements, compounds
Wednesday / 5 characteristics of minerals. assign poster project on one mineral
Thursday / Gemstones, symmetry
Friday / Physical Properties for identifying minerals. work on one mineral.
Week 14 / April 21 to 25
Monday / Chapter 8 wind, water, glaciers. Mass movement (gravity) and wind.
Tuesday / Glaciers, types, formation, erosion features
Wednesday / Finish glaciers (depositional features), start surface water
Thursday / Surface water
Friday / Lakes, types and formation processes
Week 13 / April 14 to 18
Monday / Photos of weathering and Erosion - wind and Glaciers. Do WS 4-2
Tuesday / Soils - Types and composition. Soil textural triangle. Lab.
Wednesday / Soil horizons. Do WS 7-3.
Thursday / Test 7 - Weathering and Erosion
Friday / Good Friday, No School
Week 12 / April 7 to 11
Monday / Finish climate change. Review Weather and Climate. Give Review assignments.
Tuesday / Test on Weather and Climate. Do WS 7-1
Wednesday / Weathering - mechanical weathering
Thursday / Weathering - chemical weathering
Friday / Surface area activity - erosion - take pix.
Week 11 / March 31 to April 4
Monday / Return Quiz. Finish Weather Map activity. Begin Climate through climatograph. Make climatograph for Canby. Make a climatograph for one other location of similar latitude.
Tuesday / Factors determining climate. Determine cause of the different climate in the area chosen yesterday.
Wednesday / Koeppen's Climate Classification System. Project - choose 2 cities, make climatographs.
Thursday / Determine climate zones for each location. Here and there project work.
Friday / Climate change and complete here & there project.
Week 10 / March 24 to 28
Monday / Complete cloud project.
Temperature and the atmosphere. Make isotherm maps (groups of 4).
Tuesday / Pressure in the atmosphere and surface winds. Assign natural disasters projects. Draw for presentation date.
Wednesday / Air masses, fronts, storms. Weather mapping activity.
Thursday / Complete any weather topics.
Review for test. Assign review WS.
Friday / TEST Meteorology
Week 9 / March 17 to 21
Monday / Begin meteorology - Weather Factors & intro activity. Atmospheric heating factors. Assign cloud diary.
Tuesday / Temperature and the atmosphere. Make isotherm maps (groups of 4).
Wednesday / Weather projects. Discuss precipitation types.
Thursday / Cloud types. Work on Cloud diary.
Friday / HUMIDITY. Work on Natural Disasters Project.
Week 8 / March 10 to 14
Monday / Finish galaxies, local group, etc...
Review Activities and assignments
Tuesday / TEST 30-31
Wednesday / Begin meteorology - Weather Factors & intro activity. Atmospheric heating factors
Thursday / No School - State BB
Friday / NoSchool - State BB
Week 7 / March 3 to 7
Monday / Constellations
Tuesday / Life cycle of stars.
Wednesday / Finish life cycle of stars. Milky Way and other galaxies.
Thursday / Our place in space (ours and other galaxies)
Friday / Snow day
Week 6 / February 24 to 28
Monday / Go over Tests, Share presentations in groups. Begin The Sun"
Tuesday / Sun features, sunspots. What's the big deal about sunspots?
Wednesday / Star characteristics
Thursday / Finish star characteristics & start star life cycle.
Friday / Finish star life cycle.
Week 5 / February 17-21
Monday / Shortened Periods (P-T Conferences). Go over Comets and Meteoroids. Give planet project assignment.
Tuesday / Planet Presentations + review for test
Wednesday / Planet presentations. TEST Solar System
Thursday / Chapter 30 - discuss layers of the sun and do diagram of sun layers.
Friday / Sunspots - discuss. Research and share...what's the big deal about sunspots. Other Features on sun's surface. Work on Vocab
Week 4 / February 10-14
Monday / Chapter 29 - begin vocabulary (do as statements from the book). ppt through kepler's 1st law. Activity - ellipses and eccentricity.
Tuesday / Kepler's other laws and Newton's law of universal gravitation. Your weight and age on other planets.
Wednesday / Graphing one characteristic about the other 8 planets and share. Other things in our solar system.
Thursday / Solar System Formation. Assign - presentations on one planet.
Friday / Other things in the solar system. Planet presentations.
Week 3 / February 3-7
Monday / The Earth-Moon-Sun System. Moon Phases.
Tuesday / Eclipses
Wednesday / Tides - find and plot tides for one location.
Thursday / Present Space invention.
Review
Friday / Test Earth-Moon (Chapter 28)
Week 2 / January 27-31
Monday / Snow day!
Tuesday / Intro Ch 28, Space Exploration. Assign one page space mission summary. Start on Vocab sheet.
Wednesday / Finish space mission summary, work on Model.
Thursday / The Moon's surface features. Questions (on whiteboard, put answers on paper) about moon features. Summarize one feature (Show example for Bruce Crater; show, tell).-
Friday / Moon characteristics. All work is due from the week.
Week 1 / January 20-24
Monday / No school - Teacher's inservice
Tuesday / Procedures. Pretest (take and go over questions 1-1)). Book tour, 4 areas of Earth science
Wednesday / Go over 11-20 on pretest. Do survey monkey survey. Review measurement. Begin lab activity, density.
Thursday / Go over end of pretest. Review Graphing requirements.
Friday / Complete lab activity, graphing, and lab report.