Mr. Chris Hungerford

A. Review Wegener Hypothesis, Mid-Ocean Ridges, & Sea-Floor Spreading

B. Paleomagnetism Notes

C. Continental Drift Unit Review Questions

All Periods: Review Questions & Test on Continental Drift

All Periods: Continental Drift Review & Test

A. Review Mid-Ocean Ridge Diagrams and Sea-Floor Spreading

B. Vermont Waterfalls: Geology, Classification, Photos, & Hydroelectricity.

A. Greatest Discoveries in Earth Science Video & Questions

A. Land Masses Activity

B. Wegener's Hypothesis Notes. 

C. Write as Alfred Wegener, a  one-page letter to Science Magazine describing your hypothesis about continental drift:

Include correct date of letter and salutation (Dear...)

Paragraph 1: Introduction explaining continental drift hypothesis

Paragraph 2: Describe 4 pieces of supporting evidence for hypothesis

Paragraph 3: Describe the mechanism by which the continents move.

Signed by correct person who would have wrote this.

HW: Finish Letter Assignment.

A. Review & Share Wegener Letter Assignments

B. Mid-Ocean Ridges & Sea-Floor Spreading Notes

C. Draw a Mid-Ocean Ridge, and label and color the parts as shown in the diagram in your notes.  Draw in sediment on the surface of the ocean floor showing the correct amount as you move away from the ocean ridge.  Now draw an arrow starting at the ridge going both ways and indicate above the arrow if the rocks are getting older or younger as you move along the ocean floor and if there is more or less sediment as you move with the arrow.

HW: Finish Ridge Drawing

All Periods: Earth's History Test (College-Prep) & Ice Age

All Periods: Ice Age and Make-Up Work

All Periods:  Ice Ages

All Periods HW: Write a one-page paper about the ice ages, and the processes that are used to study them (ice coring,etc.)

All Periods: Earth's History Test (Not College-Prep) & Ice Age

All Periods: How the Earth was Made

All Periods: Geologic Time Scale Project

All Periods HW: Finish Time Scale for next class.

All Periods Extra Credit:  Pick one of these eras of history (Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, or Cenozoic) and write a one-page, single-spaced paper about it in your own words.

All Periods: Geologic Time Scale Project

All Periods: How the Earth was Made

All Periods: Test on Relative Age, Absolute Age, & Half-Life. 

All Periods: Geologic Time Scale Project

All Periods: Half-Life Lab Graphing and Lab-Write-Up

All Periods HW: Finish Half-Life Lab Write-Up

All Periods: Half-Life Problems (CP Only) & Finishing Half Life Lab Work

All Periods HW: Study for Test on Relative & Absolute Age, & Half-Life

     College Prep Only: Unconformity Types & Half-Life Problems.  Extra Credit.

All Periods Extra Credit: Monday - February 1st is the due date for selling fundraiser tickets to benefit the Haiti Relief Fund.  Sell 1 Ticket ($5) for 5 bonus points, or 5 tickets ($20) for 10 bonus points.

All Periods: Unconformity Questions, and Fossils & Geologic Time Video.

College-Prep HW: Read Section 8.2 and do Key Ideas.

All Periods: Absolute Age, Half-Life Lab Activity & Pooling Class Data

All Periods: Revisit Class Expectations, Research on the Haiti Earthquake & Writing a News Article about the Event.  Discussing Helping the Cause.

All Periods HW:  Finish Article & Fundraising for Haiti Extra Credit

All Periods:  Relative Age & Class Timing, Law of Superposition, Unconformities, Unconformities Worksheet & Review.

College-Prep HW: Read Section 8.1 and do Key Ideas 1-6 on pg. 206.

Exam: Rocks and Minerals Test

Period 1A/1B: Tuesday: Jan. 12 (8am)

Period 2A/1B: Tuesday: Jan. 12 (10am)

Period 3A/2C: Wednesday: Jan. 13 (8am)

Period 3B/3C: Wednesday: Jan. 13 (10am)

Period 6B/6C: Friday: Jan. 15 (8am)

Make-Up Exams: Friday: Jan. 15 (10am)

All Periods: Weather: Twister!

All Periods: Weather: Twister!

HW: Review Rocks and Minerals Test Packet for Exam

All Periods: Finishing Rock Cycle Games

HW: Finish Rock Cycle Game

All Periods: Reviewing Rocks and Rock Cycle with Games

All Periods: Rock Cycle Games

All Periods: Finish Rock Cycle Games & Holiday Party (Bring in Food or Drinks for Extra Credit - 5 points on a test grade)

All Periods:  Mineral Ad Presentations & Metals Video

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 6.1 (pgs. 135-138) and answer key ideas  questions 1-6 on pg. 138 using complete sentences.

All Periods: Rock Types: Sedimentary, Igneous, & Metamorphic, & Rock Cycle.  Beginning Rock Cycle Games.

All Periods: Adopt a Mineral Project

All Periods: Adopt a Mineral Project (Computer Lab & Library)

All Periods: Project due Next Class.

All Periods: Mineral Identification Lab or Finishing Guides (Mid & Basic)

All Periods: Mineral Identification Lab

All Periods HW: Recopy Mineral Lab Data Neatly to turn in next class.

All Periods: Mineral Brainstorm & Definition, Four Criteria Characteristics, Silicate Minerals, Non-Silicate Mineral Groups.  Introduction to Minerals Video.

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 5.2 (pgs. 117-122) and answer section review questions 1-6 on pg. 122 using complete sentences.

Mid & Basic HW: List ten everyday objects on a sheet of paper, now list off at least one mineral (not element) that is used in making that object.  You can get this information from the video we watch and from other resources.

All Periods: Mineral Identification Guides: Color, Streak, Luster, Fracture & Cleavage, Hardness, & Special Properties. Make a Brochure from Chapter 5.2.

College Prep HW: Finish Guide for Next Class

All Periods: Day off Due to Fire

All Periods: Rivers Review and Test

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 5.1 (Pages 111-116), and do Section Review Questions 1-7 on page 116.

All Periods: Stream Table Lab

All Periods: Steven's Brook Observations

All Periods HW: Review for Rivers Test

All Periods: Stream Erosion: River Formation, Tributaries & Watersheds, Stream Load & Discharge, Stream Gradient, & Meandering Streams.  River Landforms: From Source to Sea with Questions.

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 15.3 (Pages 415-418) and do Section Review questions 1-6 on page 418.

All Periods: Watersheds & River Restoration Computer Research

All Periods: Water Cycle Children's Book Assignment

All Periods HW: Finish Water Cycle Books for Next Class

All Periods: Erosion in the World: Niagara Falls

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 15.2 (Pages 411-414) and do Section Review questions 1-7 on page 414.

All Periods: Make-Up Work & Learning about Classmates: Name Bingo

All Periods: Water Cycle Children's Book Assignment

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 15.1 (Pages 407-410) and do Section Review questions 1-6 on page 410.

All Periods: Soil Review, Test, & Reviewing the Test.

All Periods: Erosion Definition & Examples, Video - Erosion: Landslide

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 14.4 (Pages 387-394) and do Section Review questions 1-7 on page 394.

All Periods: Moist cast and ribbon test of soils and pooling class data.

All Periods: Soil Posters on Differences between Sand, Silt, & Clay.

All Periods HW: Review for Test next period on Soils, Soil Particles, Using the Soil Triangle, and using the feel, moist cast, and ribbon soil tests.

All Periods: Soil Notes (Soil, Sand, Silt, and Clay Properties, and Using a Soil Triangle explanation and practice.

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 14.3 (pages 383-386) and answer questions 1-4 in the section review. 

All Periods HW: Bring in a small soil sample from home in a sealed plastic bag.

All Periods: Qualitative observations of soil types and texture from feel test.  Pooling class data and doing percentages of soil types in the class.

All Periods: Sugar Lab Results Collection & Write-Up

College Prep HW: Finish Sugar Lab

All Periods: Weathering Project Research and Poster Work

All Periods HW: Finish Weathering Project for next class.

All Periods: Weathering Quiz & Sugar Lab or Weathering Computer Lab Project

All Periods: Weathering Quiz & Sugar Lab or Weathering Computer Lab Project

All Periods: Chalk Activity Part B.  Rates of Weathering: Differential Weathering, Exposure Amount, Climate, Topography, Human/Plant/Animal Activities.  Exposure of Surface Area Granulated & Sugar Cubes Lab Part A.

All Periods: Sugar Lab and Data Collection

All Periods: Get Unit Effort Sheet Signed and Study for Weathering Quiz

All Periods: Chemical Weathering (Oxidation, Hydrolysis, Carbonation, & Acid Rain).  Chalk model of Acid Rain Weathering Activity Part A.

All Periods HW: Come prepared for field trip with proper clothing, footwear, lab notebook, writing utensil, and a camera if you have one.  This is graded!

College Prep HW: Read Ch. 14.2 (pgs. 379-382) and answer section review questions 1-6 on pg. 382 using complete sentences and ideas. (Due Friday)

All Periods: Topography and Weathering Field Trip to Aldis Hill (Hard'ack)

Thursday: October 8, 2009 - Periods 2C/3A & 3BC (8:50-11:15am)

Thursday: October 8, 2009 - Period 6 (12:10-2:37pm)

Friday: October 9, 2009 - Periods 1 & 2 (7:35-10:00am) (New Date!) 

All Periods: Weathering: Mechanical (Exfoliation, Ice Wedging, Abrasion, Plant Activity, & Animal Activity). Weathering Walk.

College Prep HW: Read Ch. 14.1 (pgs. 373-378) and answer section review questions 1-7 on pg. 378 using complete sentences and ideas.

Mid & Basic HW: Find three examples of mechanical weathering around your home.  Discuss what type it is and details about why it is that type.

All Periods: Weathering Project or Finishing Topographic Map Models

All Periods: Scientific Method & Mapping Review

All Periods HW: Review for Test

All Periods: Scientific Method & Mapping Test

All Periods: Mapping Review & Quiz.  Finishing Topographic Model Project.

All Periods: Make-Up, Candle Lab, and Extra Credit Mt. Mansfield Topography.

College Prep HW: Do Chapter 1: Test Prep on pgs. 24 & 25 problems 1-12.

Mid & Basic HW: Your car will not start.  Make up an experiment with the following steps to test for one reason it may not start.  Include: Observations, hypothesis, control, independent variable, dependant variable, and Conclusion.

All Periods: Topographic Maps: Aldis Hill (Hard'ack) Model Projects

All Periods: Signed Field Trip Permission Slip

All Periods: Topographic Maps: Aldis Hill (Hard'ack) Model Projects

College Prep HW: Do Chapter 3: Test Prep on pgs. 80 & 81 problems 1-14, & Review for Mapping Quiz.

Mid & Basic: Review for Mapping Quiz.

All Periods: Map Reading Skills: Direction, Legend, & Scale.

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 3.3 (pgs. 67-72) and answer section review questions 1-7 on pg. 72 using complete sentences.

College-Prep: Topographic Maps: Topography, Elevation, & Contour Lines.

Mid & Basic: Map Reading Skills: Direction, Legend, & Scale.

Extra Credit: Bring in a medium sized cardboard box for our projects.

All Periods: Observing orienteering and tracking in the wilderness.  Answering questions about using stars, animals, and landmarks to travel in the wild.

All Periods: Map Reading Skills: Latitude, Longitude, Degrees, & Minutes.  Finding and Making Coordinates for Locations in Vermont.

College Prep HW: Read Ch. 3.2 (pgs. 61-66) and answer section review questions 1-7 on pg. 66 using complete sentences and ideas.

Mid & Basic HW: Pick a place that you would like to go on vacation in North America.  Draw a map of how you would get there, and how many miles it is.

All Periods: Simpson's Scientific Method Review & Quiz.  Candle Lab Write-up.

College Prep HW: Read Ch. 3.1 (pgs. 57-60), and answer section review questions 1-4 on pg. 60 using complete ideas and sentences.

Mid & Basic HW: Make a map that shows how you would get from your house to school.  Use as much detail as possible, with road names and distances.

All Periods: Map Reading Skills: Latitude, Longitude, Degrees, & Minutes.  Finding and Making Coordinates for Locations in Vermont.

College Prep HW: Neat or Typed Candle Lab Write-Up to Turn In.

All Periods: What's New or Good?  Do candle experiment and collect data as a class.  Review steps and vocabulary of the scientific method, & example.

All Periods: Scientific Method Notes.  Simpson's Scientific Method Activity. Candle Lab Discussion.  Compost Presentation.

All Periods HW: Review Notes & Worksheet for Quiz on Scientific Method.

All Periods: Partner introductions to the class.  Observation practice in the classroom with thermometers, meter sticks, and magnifying glasses.  Discussion about quantitative vs. qualitative observations, and graphing.

College Prep HW: Cover textbooks and read Chapter 1.1 (pgs. 5-8) and answer section review questions 1-5 on pg. 8 using complete sentences.

All Periods: Discussion of importance of Earth Science brainstorm & concept map.  Observations of burning candles, and scientific method intro activity. 

College Prep HW: Read Chapter 1.2 (pgs. 9-16) and answer section review questions 1-8 on pg. 16 using complete sentences.

Mid & Basic HW: Make 10 qualitative and 10 quantitative observations of a place that you visit, or your home, and write them on a sheet of paper.

All Periods: Filled out index cards with personal facts and favorites.  Got into assigned seats by alphabetical order.  Homework is to get pictures or other items to share with the class.  Handout Course Syllabus.

All Periods: Tectonic Plates Puzzle Projects

All Periods: Tectonic Plates Puzzle Projects

All Periods: Tectonic Plates Puzzle Projects

All Periods: How Continents Move & Tectonic Plates

All Periods: Types of Plate Boundaries

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Period 1A/1B: Monday: June 7 (8am)

Period 2A/1B: Monday: June 7 (10am)

Period 3A/2C: Tuesday: June 8 (8am)

Period 3B/3C: Tuesday: June 8 (10am)

Period 6B/6C: Thursday: June 10 (8am)

Make-Up Exams: Thursday: June 10 (10am)