Assignment #8 (due 1.30)

Please complete ONE "visual haiku" for 1.30 using the instructions below:

1. Choose one haiku from the collection of haiku you completed as part of today's Layers of the Earth Haiku assignment.
2. Write your haiku in a large, legible, and creative font on the blank side of 5" x 8" index card (provided by T-Mac).
3. Design a colorful and detailed border for your visual haiku.
4. Illustrate and add color/visual detail to the remaining areas of your visual haiku. 

NOTE: The design and colors you choose should relate to the words of the haiku. Example: Reds and oranges would be great color options for a haiku about magma in the mantle!

A Haiku about your Visual Haiku

by T-Mac

A poem to help teach 

Learning about Earth through word
Find joy in this work

No homework tonight...

...but please be sure to bring your Layers of the Earth notes handout to class tomorrow!!

Also, check out Mr. Lee's Layers of the Earth Rap here! You can play it for all of your family members and friends!!

REMINDER: Assignment #7 (Layers of the Earth Haiku) is due next Monday, 1.27!

Assignment #6 (due 1.17)

No overnight homework, but please come to class tomorrow prepared for one last in-class work session with your partner on the Campus Mapping Project. NOTE: Any work past class on Wednesday will need to be completed on your own time. Please remember that the final project is due this Friday, 1.17. This will count as Assignment #6.

No homework tonight, but...

...please come to class prepared for an in-class work session with your partner on the Campus Mapping Project. NOTE: Any work past class on Wednesday will need to be completed on your own time. Please remember that the final project is due this Friday, 1.17.

No weekend homework!

Relax--and get your snow dancing on! We may be in for some winter weather next week!

No homework tonight...

...get some rest--and come to class tomorrow prepared to work with your partner on the NOVA Schoolyard Mapping Project!

Assignment #5 (due 1.9)

As part of your thinking around the NOVA Schoolyard Mapping Project, please take the time between now and class tomorrow to notice any features of our school campus that you may not have noticed before (buildings, paved areas, green space, fencing, landscaping, outbuildings, roads...etc.). You are welcome to a list. Be prepared to discuss in class tomorrow.

No homework tonight!

Welcome back everyone! I am so excited to hear about all of your memorable Winter Break experiences!! See you on Wednesday for some new, rad Earth and Space Science--comin' at you, 2020 style!!!

Also, please click here for the link to the National Geographic documentary about the history of our planet we began watching last decade.

Assignment #4 (due 12.19)

Please answer the following question. Your response should be in complete sentences and approximately 2 paragraphs in length (neatly written or typed).

Consider the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth (click for the link to the trailer). Based on the information provided in the trailer, do you think the movie accurately represents Earth's interior (layers/core)? Be sure to include evidence from the trailer in your argument. 

NOTE: We have not discussed Earth's interior composition in great detail yet--do your best!

Assignment #3 ( due 12.18)

Please complete the Geologic History Timeline assignment for Wednesday, 12.18.

No homework tonight...

...get some rest!

No homework tonight...

...go outside and play.

No homework tonight...

...great job with our Clarkia fossil lab today!!! Enjoy an evening off--see you tomorrow!!

Assignment #2 (due 12.6)

Please complete Prompt 1 (Brainstorm) of the Earth in the Beginning assignment. You can either highlight the necessary detail in the article OR make a bulleted list in the space provided on Page 3. This part of the assignment is due tomorrow (12.6).

NOTE: Your diagram for Prompt 2 (Design) is due next Tuesday, 12.10.

Also, click here for the link from the Earth's History on a Football Field video from today's class. SO COOL!!

Assignment #1 (due 12.4)

Please complete the Qualitative vs. Quantitative? handout from today for 12.4. Also, be sure to bring your copy of What's the Deal on Data? to class for continued work on 12.4 (NOTE: This one is NOT homework!).

Also...happy 2nd Trimester!!!