Agenda 11.30.07

MINERAL PRESENTATIONS

• Finish Mineral Presentations
• Study for Quiz on Tuesday
• Introduce In-Class Project: Mineral Field Guide
• HOMEWORK: Study for Quiz on Tuesday 12/4, look for small pictures on the internet of each of the 15 top rock-forming minerals:
  
• Quartz, Plagioclase, Orthoclase, Mica, Hornblende, Olivine, Calcite, Dolomite, Gypsum, Magnetite, Hematite, Talc, Pyrite, Garnet, Zircon

Answer To Yesterday's Quiz Question: Dipyramid

Sample Quiz Question: Draw a 3-D image and label the crystal system that has one c-axis and 3 a-axes.

Aokigahara Jukai

Today in class I told a story about this haunted forest where people were known to get lost -
to the left is a picture that I took while visiting it in Japan. In Japanese it is called aokigahara jukai which means "sea of trees". This forest is 1000 years old or so, and is thick with large, old trees and dense vegetation. It is located near lake Sai in the foothills of Mt. Fuji.

Mt. Fuji is located in what's called the "Five-Lakes" Region of Japan, which has quite the fascinating history. Just north of Mt. Fuji there was only one large lake called "Lake Senoumi". When Mt. Fuji erupted in 864 AD there was so much lava that it separated that lake into 5 separate lakes. It also created numerous lava caves and laid the bedrock for aokigahara jukai.

The myth that surrounds the forest suggests that evil spirits mess with the compasses of travelers and cause them to get lost - a myth that some geologists suggest is caused by the high magnetite content in the lava that was deposited there. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to test the myth myself, but if you ever get to visit Mt. Fuji, this is a must see geological spot!

Cheers!
Ms. B

11.29.07

WEBQUEST REVIEW

• Go over Rock-Forming Minerals Webquest
• HOMEWORK: Study for Crystallography quiz on Tuesday 12/4

NOTE: Starlab will not be here tomorrow, so report to class instead of the dance studio.

Answer to Yesterday's Sample Quiz Question: Octahedrons, tetrahedrons, cubes, and dodecahedrons are all categorized as isometric crystal forms because they all have 3 axes that are of equal length and at equal angles to each other.

New Sample Quiz Question (answer tomorrow): Name a crystal form that has 6 vertices.

Agenda 11.28.07

CRYSTAL SYSTEM NOTES

• Finish Crystal System notes (Pages 112-113 in Notebook), covers Monoclinic and Triclinic crystal systems
• Mineral Discovery Presentations; show & tell
  
• HOMEWORK: Study for Crystallography Quiz on Tuesday. You need to study the notes and your flash cards!
  

Sample Quiz Question (answer tomorrow): Explain why octahedrons, tetrahedrons, cubes, and dodecahedrons are all categorized as isometric crystal forms.

Note to Parents: Please arrange to pick up poster boards some time this week or next. All boards that aren't picked up will be used next year as samples.

Regional Science Fair Participants

Thank you parents for coming to the meeting today to take care of regional science fair paperwork. Hopefully it was informative and helpful - I know it certainly was for me! If you missed it, or didn't get the information you needed, please go to the IISEF website at the following address:

tlc.sbac.edu/scifair/

On this website you can download the necessary forms, which are:

1. Safety Assessment Form

2. Research Plan (1A)

3. Approval Form (1B)

* To type on the pdf forms, you need to save them to your computer first. When you open it in your pdf reader, you need to find the icon that looks like a paper with a pencil in your toolbar. If you click on that icon, it will bring you into a mode where you can adjust the form - you can fill out the form on the computer (everything but the signature) - and print it up. Make sure you have everything you need!

		Some Important Science Fair Dates
February 05, 2008		Complete Science Fair paperwork due to county office. Must be delivered by your school science fair coordinator
February 28, 2008		Santa Fe Community College: - Science Fair Setup (4:00 PM until 7:00 PM) - Public viewing will be from 6:00 PM until 7:00 PM
February 29, 2008		Judging (8:00 AM until 3:00 PM )
March 03, 2008		Awards (6:30 PM until 8:00 PM)

Agenda 11.27.07

ROCK FORMING MINERAL WEBQUEST - DAY 2

• DUE TODAY: Field Project #3, Grade Sheets, Flashcards on Notes
• Finish Webquest using the following websites:

mindat.org
www.minerals.net
www.theimage.com

• Hand back science fair projects
  
• HOMEWORK: finish webquest

IMPORTANT: Mineral & Crystallography Quiz on Tuesday 12/4

Agenda 11.26.07

ROCK-FORMING MINERAL WEBQUEST

• DUE TODAY: Nothing - homework was pushed back to tomorrow
  
• Webquest using www.mindat.org
• Grade sheets
• Hand back science fair projects
• HOMEWORK: Field project #3, Flashcards on Notes, Grade sheets signed, keep working on 3-d paper crystals

* The flashcards are based on the crystallography notes. You should be able to define the following: Each crystal system (Cubic/Isometric, Tetragonal, Hexagonal, Orthorhombic), Face, Vertex, Edge, Axis, Crystal System, Crystal Form)

*For the Field Project, Make sure you have ALL THREE PARTS: The construction, the field journal, and the Submission page. Find more information by going to the class documents link at the bottom left of this page.

Agenda 11.20.07

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NOTES

• Crystallography notes
• Have a Great Holiday!
• HOMEWORK: Field Project #3 (Due Tues 11/27), Flashcards on Notes (Due Mon 11/26), Finish creating 3-D crystal patterns (Due Mon 11/26)

Agenda 11.19.07

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE NOTES

• DUE TODAY: Science Fair Questionnaire
  
• Give out Science Fair Extra Credit
• Crystal Structure Notes
• HOMEWORK: Field Project # 3 (DUE 11/27)

Agenda 11.16.07

CLASS SCIENCE FAIR EXPERIENCE

• Class goes to the Science Fair
• Science Fair Questionnaire (Lab Section of notebook)
  

1. What is the title?
2. Who is the author?
3. Why did you choose this project? (Why did it interest you?)
4. What is the author's hypothesis?
5. What is the independent variable? (What was he/she testing?)
6. How did he/she measure the dependent variable?
7. What was the conclusion?
8. Based on the data presented, did you agree with the conclusion that the author made?
9. If you were to conduct this experiment, what would you do differently?

• HOMEWORK: Finish questionnaire, Field Project #3 (due Nov. 27)
  

To the Science Fair Participants

I just wanted to mention again to all the students who partook in the science fair that I am so very proud of you! It takes a lot of guts to stand before strangers and give a presentation. You all did a wonderful job, and the results were not surprising! We had 13 out of the 20 regional winners, as well as one of the alternates. Good work guys and gals!

-Ms. B

There will be an extra credit assignment for those who partook to reward you for your extra efforts on Monday.

Agenda 11.15.07

KMS SCIENCE FAIR

• Tsunami Video
• Judging for the Science Fair
• Homework: Field Project #3: Submissions for "Modern Mineral Discoveries Magazine" DUE Nov. 27th

Agenda 11.14.07

SCIENCE FAIR PREPARATION

• Students get final Project numbers for Science Fair, put boards in a pile to be brought to media center.
• Hand back Quizzes, review answers.
• Paste Quizzes onto Pg. 110 and update TOC.
• Finish Science Fair Presentations OR watch Bill Nye: Rocks
• Homework: Field Project #3: Submissions to Modern Mineral Discoveries Magazine DUE NOV 27

NOTE: You can Retrieve class documents (i.e. Field Project #3 Info Sheet) by clicking the link (under IMPORTANT LINKS) Class Documents. I will put up more as necessary. Please also note that you can comment on the agendas as well as the documents. This is a tool so that if you have a question, I can answer it and then everyone can see the response. Please feel free to use this service.

IMPORTANT: There will be no Homework Club on Thursday 11/15/07 Due to SCIENCE FAIR

Agenda 11.13.07

SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS - DAY 5

• New field project assigned, handed out worksheet, answered questions.
• Science Fair Presentations
• HomeWork: Field Project # 3 due NOV 27 (The tuesday after Thanksgiving Break)

IMPORTANT DATE: Next Notebook check and Test on Friday, December 7th

Agenda 11.12.07

SCIENCE FAIR PRESENTATIONS - DAY 4

• Science Fair Presentations

Important: Students participating in the science fair who have not yet received a letter. Here is the schedule -
Wednesday 11/14/07: There will be a call for all Science fair students to set up in Media Center at 3:15 - you will leave your 6th period class to do this.
Thursday 11/15/07: You will go to homeroom, then you will report to the media center. You will stay by your poster so that you can talk to judges that pass by your project.

Optional: 6:30-8 PM Thursday evening- bring your parents to see the award ceremony. Students chosen to move on to the next round will be announced at this time.

ECO 11.29.07

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

Date: 11/29/2007 Time: 6 - 9 p.m.

Science Movie Night: An Inconvenient Truth

Close the Day...Open your Mind. The Florida Museum of Natural History is open late on these special Thursday nights! Co-sponsored by the University of Florida Student Government.

Winner of two Academy Awards, this documentary aims to inspire viewers to reverse the effects of global warming, but it fails to address the controversy surrounding this issue. Explore the politics of the global warming debates with UF Political Science Professor Albert Matheny. *

For 50 points Extra Credit: Attend the viewing and the debate, then write a 1/2 page (preferably typed) response on whether or not you agree with the arguments presented. Make sure to support your argument with examples from scientific data, the movie, or the debate.

This should be placed in the Above & Beyonds section of your notebook.

*Make sure you find Ms. B so she can check off that you attended!

Agenda 11.9.07

VOCABULARY QUIZ

• Hand out Science Fair letters
• Vocabulary Quiz
• Homework: Prepare for presentations

Important: Students participating in the science fair will be in the media center on November 15th to talk to the judges about their projects. Students are not to bring parts of their experiments into school on that day. There will be an award ceremony between 6:30-8 that night, where the students chosen to move on to the regional fair will announced. Our classes will tour the science fair projects on Friday the 16th.

Agenda 11.8.07

SCIENCE FAIR PRESENTATIONS: DAY 3

• Review for Tomorrow's Quiz
• Science Fair Presentations
• Homework: Study for Tomorrow's Quiz, Prepare for presentations
  

IMPORTANT: There will be no presentations tomorrow (on Friday) because of the quiz. Presentations will continue on monday.

Agenda 11.7.07

SCIENCE FAIR PRESENTATIONS - DAY 2

• Warm up #4: What does the presence of a cleavage plane in a mineral tell you about the chemical bonds the mineral has?
  
• Science fair presentations
• Homework: Study for Quiz (Fri), Prepare for presentations

Important: The quiz on Friday (11/9/07) will not only be vocabulary (study flashcards), but application of the words. For example: A question might read, "Why are all minerals crystals? " Students will have to understand both definitions, and write a coherent sentence that explains the answer. A sample answer would be, "All minerals are crystals because crystals are simply solids with an orderly arrangement of atoms. One of the criteria for a substance to be classified as a mineral is to have an orderly arrangement of atoms. By definition, all minerals must be crystals."

Agenda 11.6.07

SCIENCE FAIR PRESENTATIONS: DAY 1

• Due Today: Mineral webquest creative follow-up
• Finish KWL: Learned Column*
• Review answers to webquest
• Science fair presentations
• Homework: Study for Quiz, prepare for presentation, finish learned column for KWL
  
• Important date: Mineral Vocabulary Quiz on Friday 11.9.07
  

*I will be looking for 5 know / 6 want / 9 learned

Updated Table of Contents

Table of Contents (*Note that entries in red should be highlighted in the notebook)

Classroom Procedures........................................................1
Table of Contents................................................................2-5
Above and Beyonds............................................................6-20
Warm-up Activities............................................................21-40
Labs......................................................................................41-60
Goals…………………………………….......................…......…....61
Unit 1: Scientific Method….……...........…............……….…63
What Science ………………………......................……………..65
What Science Is Not……….………............…...........………..67
Sudoku Science …………………………......................……….69
Scientific Method Vocabulary……………..........................71
Scientific Method Notes……………...........……..........…….73-77
Scientific Research Notes (from presentation)…..........79
Scientific Method Quiz………………………….........….........80
Scientific Method Test…………………........……….........….81
Unit 2: Atomic Structure………………….......................…83
What is matter?................................................................85
Atomic Vocabulary……………………........….................…..87
Periodic Table Notes………………………….................……89-90
Atomic Bonding Notes………………………….............….....91
Atomic Structure Quiz………………………............…........93
Atomic Bonding Readings……………………..................…94
Atomic Structure Test…………………………….................95
Edible Atom Field Journal………………….…...................96
Unit 3: Rocks and Minerals............................................97
Mineral Notes..................................................................99-103
Mineral Vocabulary........................................................105
Textbook Scavenger Hunt............................................106
Mineral Webquest..........................................................107
Mineral KWL...................................................................108
Webquest Creative Follow-up......................................109
Mineral Vocabulary Quiz...............................................110
Crystallography Notes....................................................111-114
Webquest #2 (15 rock-forming minerals)...................115
Field Project #3...............................................................116
Crystallography Quiz......................................................117
Mineral Identification Key.............................................118
Rock Cycle Notes.............................................................119
Venn Diagram...................................................................120
Rock Type: 2 Column Notes.........................................121
Unit 3: Test.......................................................................128
Unit 4: Land Forms and Plate Tectonics....................129
K.W.L.................................................................................130
Essay Strategy Activity...................................................131
Earth's Interior.................................................................133-134
New Discoveries! Reading..............................................135
Unit 4: Vocabulary...........................................................136
USGS Handout..................................................................137
Plate Tectonics Reading...................................................139
Plate Tectonics Cornell Notes.........................................140-143

Agenda 11.5.07

WEBQUEST DAY 2

• Due today: Science Fair Posters, Lab books, and Lab reports
• Finish webquest using new website: www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/min_intro.html&edu=high
• Paste webquest onto Pg. 107 in notebook
• Homework: to create a song, poem, or story based on what we've learned in the webquest. Goes on Pg. 109 in notebook. You do not need to paste in the sheet the assignment is listed on!

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