Earth Science with Mrs. Wilson

1. Water Test – if you did not finish today, you will be able to complete your test on Monday

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1. Warm Up – PAge 148: What is a water shortage? What is a drought?
2. Ocean Floor Quiz
3. Water Shortage/Drought simulation activity
4. Notes on water shortages and droughts-page 149
5. Out activity – water shortages and droughts-page 148

Homework: We will have a test over saltwater on Tuesday, February 9

1. Warm Up – Page 132: What are the main features of the ocean floor?
2. Took notes on waves, currents, and tides – I’ll post them tomorrow
3. Play-doh ocean floor features modeling
4. Reviewed for Friday’s test over water

Homework: Study for Friday’s test: You can go to Study Island, or look at these PowerPoints: (Please note, they are from previous years and may have information on them that we did not discuss in class – just ignore it!)

• Freshwater Review 
• Saltwater Review
• Saltwater Jeopardy
• Saltwater Notes

1. Warm Up – Page 146: What is the difference between a volcanic island and a seamount?
2. Draw, label, and color features of the ocean floor from pages 462-463 (classwork grade)

Homework: Quiz on Friday over the ocean floor: you will be given a blank ocean floor diagram and be asked to label it and decriptions and asked to match them up correctly

1. Warm Up – Page 132: What is the chemistry of ocean floor including temperature, density, pressure, and salinity?
2. Complete Waves, Currents & Tides powerpoint – under the cut
3. Modeled the features of the ocean floor using play-doh

Homework: Get Progress report signed

Note: Tomorrow and Thursday are early release

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1. Warm Up – Page 146: Draw what you think the ocean floor looks like.
2. Finished up the PowerPoint we worked with yesterday. (See yesterday’s post for the show)
3. Tried to model the ocean floor using clay. Didn’t work so well, so tomorrow we’ll try again with play-doh!

Homework: Get your progress report signed

Note: Tomorrow is Early Release!

1. Warm Up – Page 130: What do you know about ocean water?
2. Demo 1 – temperature and density
3. Demo 2 – salinity and density
4. Began talking about waves and tides

I’ll upload the questions that went with the demo tomorrow. Here are some great photos showing the temperature and denisty demonstration we looked at today:

Ocean Model - temperature & density

Close up of hot water on top of denser cold water

Hot water side - denser cold water sinking to bottom

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1. Warm Up – Page 144: What conditions effect the strength of an ocean wave?
2. Completed waves, currents, and tides foldable while viewing a PowerPoint

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Congratulations on everyone who had a project represented in the science fair. I am so proud of all of you. You did such a great job. I know you learned a lot about science and how to be scientists.

The Gwinnett Regional Science & Engineering Fair will be on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center. If you are a first or second place winner, you qualify to attend. Please complete an abstract this weekend and turn into me on Monday. I need to turn in all paperwork next week to have you registered.

If a first or second place winner is unable to attend the regional science fair, the runner up will take their place.

Abstract Information

Warm Up – discussed NASA Day of Remembrance. Some of you wanted to know if there was information on those who were lost on the ground crews or doing other things in the space program. This link has more information.

We then evaluated our own science fair projects and had a chance to look at everyone else’s projects. You also left comments for people to let them know how they did. Finally, I announced our fair winners. I am going to post this separately.

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