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T Jan 30 |
Minerals and Rocks
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W 31 |
- The Elements Song:
- Periodic Table Haikus:
- Where do the Elements come from?
- Notes on Chemistry (In Orange Handouts booklet pg 4-6)
- Notes Rock Types and Cycle
- Identify rocks around the room as Ig, Sed, Meta and why
- Finish Workbook #1-22
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Th Feb 1 |
- (Put up Minerals of Canada poster)
- NaCl Love song:
- Mineral Notes (Handouts book pages 7-18)
- Mineral Lab (using large samples, one at a time)
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F 2 |
- Mineral Lab
- Click here: Quiz hints for quiz next class
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M Feb 5 |
- Chemistry and Minerals Quiz /15
- Finish Mineral Lab
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T 6 |
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W 7 |
- go over lab
- Follow-up: pg 19-21 in Handouts booklet
- Practice for Quiz:
- Finish White Workbook up to #47 – good mineral review (esp #23 to 47) 🙂
- Quizlet – search for Mineral Identification quizzes
- Etc
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Th 8 |
- Quiz – pass the mineral pictures
- Start Igneous Rocks notes
- bring winter gloves tomorrow
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F 9 |
- Meet in Room 203 (science wing)
- Combining Minerals Lab – bring winter gloves
- Ch 3 notes, to end of section B
- Workbook #51, 53, 56
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M Feb 12 |
- Ch 3 notes up to end of E Pg 24-26
- Igneous Lab pg 28-29
- Ig Lab Summary Qs pg 29
- Review for quiz (next class)
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T 13 |
- Rock Cycle & Bowen’s Quiz /10
- Finish/go over Igneous lab,
- Summary Qs pg 29
- Finish Ch 3 notes Pg 26-27
- Assign White Workbook pg 19 #48 – 57 and 59
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W 14 Happy Valentine’s Day! |
- Igneous rock id activity
- Extra review:
- Create a mind map of all the Igneous material (Ch3) for use on the quiz tomorrow. You will also be given a pink data booklet to use.
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Th and F Feb 15 and 16 |
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T Feb 20 |
Volcanoes
Viscosity Demo
- Video (3.5 min): Felsic vs Mafic
- T-chart of mafic vs felsic
- Pillow Lava:
- Pahoehoe vs aa: type “pahoehoe vs aa” into google images
- Columnar Joints: type “columnar joints” into google images
- Create a song mafic vs felsic: Create a Song (due next class)
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W 21 |
- Ch 3 (pg 22 to 29 in Orange booklet) Quiz /18
- Sing songs (for bonus) and hand in
- Go Over: Types of Volcanoes and Types of Magma (orange booklet pg30-31 Sections A & B)
- Types of Volcanoes powerpoint
- Types of Hazards (pg 32)
- Discuss Volcanoes and Tectonics (pg 32-35 orange booklet)
- Handouts booklet: do as many Qs as you can from pg 36 to 42
- White workbook: pg 13 #58 & 60
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Th 22 |
- Notes: volcano predictors, sills vs lava flows, lava vs magma (fill in white workbook # 61, 63, 64)
- Intrusive Features video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KKA0yOi6xQ
- Test Overview
- Finish orange handouts booklet (pages 36-44)
- Finish workbook (pages 1-16, all questions)
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M Feb 26 |
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T 27 |
- Test Ch 1-4 Minerals, Igneous, Volcanoes
- White Workbook is also due
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W 28 |
Weathering and Erosion
- Notes W and E
- Purple Handouts booklet pg 1-2 (using notes and internet)
- White Workbook #1-3, 6-14
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Th 29 |
- Go over W&E worksheets
- Mass Wasting
- Purple Handouts pg 4-7
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- Good explanation (5 min)
- Good visuals (3 min)
- Good video (1 min):
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F Mar 1 |
- Go over Mass Wasting worksheets
- Weathering on Quizizz.com (Ms. Della will host a live game…)
- White Workbook: all questions pages 1-4
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M Mar 4 |
- W&E & Mass Wasting Quiz /10
- Demo sand in water on overhead…
- Streams notes (to saltation)
- White Workbook pg 5 # 1, 5-8, 10-14, 17, 18
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T 5 |
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W 6 |
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Lion’s Park
Meet in classroom – we’ll walk over together, if the weather allows.
Walking Scavenger Hunt – if you are absent, please do this assignment
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W 6 |
- Start Ground Water notes
- Porosity/Permeability demo (shale, sandstone, water, scale)
- Finish Ground Water notes
- Purple pg 12-17
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Th 7 |
- Go over Purple pages 16, 17
- Video:
- White workbook: jump ahead and do pg 14-18
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F 8 |
- Streams and Ground Water Quiz /10 (open notes)
- Glaciers: pg 18 Notes to end of Moraines
- White: pg 9 #1 erosional part, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18
- Purple: pg 22 # 1-5, 8-10, pg 23 # 1-14, 17-22
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M Mar 11 |
- Glaciers: Notes to end of pg 20
- Purple: pg 22 to 28 – complete any not finished yet
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T 12 |
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W 13 |
- Go over pg 28 (crossword) in purple booklet
- Glaciers Quiz /10
- Start Sed notes Pg 29 in purple handouts
- Sedimentary Lab
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Th 14 |
- Finish lab
- Finish Sedimentary Rocks Notes
- Review
- Test overview
- Sedimentary Rocks worksheet in handouts booklet (pg 33-34)
- White workbook
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F 15 |
- Go over pg 33-34 purple booklet
- Review videos:
- Check key for white workbook from beginning of unit in right column
- Surface Processes Review in handouts booklet (pg 35)
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Happy Spring Break! |
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T Apr 2 |
- Group review activity
- Ensure your white workbooks are completed for handing in tomorrow
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W 3 |
- Surface Processes test /65
- Hand in White Workbook
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Geologic Time |
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Th 4 |
- Relative Dating Notes
- Green Handouts Book Pg 1-4,
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F 5 |
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M Apr 8 |
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T 9 |
- Notes: Buried Lava Flow vs Sill
- White Workbook pg 1-4 (hand out today) (See KEY on first day of this unit)
- Relative Dating Quiz /16
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- Pre-read radioactive dating website:
- Pre-read radioactive dating (in-class text):
- “Earth Past and Present” pg 337 – 346
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W 10 |
- Radiometric Dating notes and lab (pg 7-9 green)
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Th 11 |
- Question: How do you think scientists find out the absolute age of a sedimentary layer?
- Go over lab (pg 7-9 green)
- Finish notes
- More practice questions (pg 8 & 10 green)
- Relative time and Absolute Time WS (pg 11-12 green)
- Practice Macaroni Quiz (pg 13 green)
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F 12 |
- Macaroni quiz /5
- Geologic timescale
- Notes on rest of chapter (pg 14-15 green)
- White workbook pg 5-8
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M Apr 15 |
- Timeline on a String
- Geologic Timescale Activity (adding machine tape) (green pg 16)
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T 16 |
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W 17 |
Fossils
- Put events into pink data booklet pg 4
- Notes: Relative dating with fossils
- Work on White Workbook (do what you can from pg 1-16)
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Th 18 |
- demo Mold & Cast
- Do IEH Lab Activity to learn fossils (find all phyla names, we’ll go over these before you proceed)
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M April 22 |
- Go over IEH Lab Activity
- Put phyla names, etc onto pg 5 pink data booklet
- Look at pg 3 in pink data booklet
- Practice Quiz (quiz in couple days)
- Real Fossils Activity (pg 25 green workbook, in class activity using real fossils, no answer key available)
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T 23 |
- Practice Quiz (fossils and read out events)
- Time to work on workbooks – can do white pages 1-16 (see key at beginning of unit)
- (omit for now pg 10 #7, pg 11 #5, pg 12 #9 10, pg 13 #14)
- Review for quiz
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W 24 |
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Th 25 |
- Faunal Succession/Correlation Exercise (green pg26-28)
- Sed environments/which way is up worksheet (green pg 30)
- Review
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F 26 |
- Review page (on OneNote)
- Fossils (PP) and Fossil ID Review Activity (PP)
- TGT
- Review on own or with a partner
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M Apr 29 |
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Internal Processes |
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T Apr 30 |
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W May 1 |
- Try This: Calculate the rate of plate motion, in cm/y, if a plate has moved 300 km in 10 million years. (Show work, answer is 3 cm/y)
- Continue Ch 9 notes (Part B, including subduction zone)
- Practice:
- Orange Handouts booklet pg 1-6 (mostly multiple choice)
- White workbook rest of questions from pg 1-8
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Th 2 |
- Finish Ch 9 notes (Part C)
- Movie: Where Terranes Collide (25 min; orange booklet pg 9-10)
- Homework: Local Plate Tectonics (pg 11 orange booklet)
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M May 6 |
- Questions on Local Plate Tectonics? Finish and hand in
- Go over Orange booklet pg 1-6
- Discuss Geology of BC (Orange pg 7-8, referring to video yesterday)
- Make a mind map of Plate Tectonics as a way to study for the quiz next class (includes subduction zone and rate calculation, plus other…)
- Review Video (12:43 min)
- Finish off pages 1-8 in White Workbook
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T 7 |
- Quiz on Plate Tectonics /10
- Ch 10 notes: Earthquakes (pg 12-13 orange (inc Surface Waves))
- Start pages 9-14 in White Workbook #1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 26, 30
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W 8 |
- Chapter 10 notes (finish): Earthquakes (orange pg 13-15)
- Earthquakes word search with clues (orange pg 20)
- Continue White Workbook pg 9-14
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Th 9 |
- Go over homework
- Detailed description of how to locate an earthquake
- Epicentre Home Assignment (Orange pg 16-19)
- Work on White Workbook (finish pages 1-14)
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F 10 |
- Quick Quiz on Earthquakes /5
- Layers of the Earth Diagram (pg 23)
- Walk to the Centre of the Earth!
- Ch 11 Notes
- Ch 11 Fill in the Blank (pg 25-26)
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M May 13 |
- Beginning Activity: List 5 ways we have learned details about the centre of the Earth
- Alternate way to organized layers of Earth in a diagram
- Start “The Core” (pg 21-22 orange booklet)
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T 14 |
- Finish “The Core”
- White workbook (finish pages 1-14 and 18-20)
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W 15 |
- Finish The Core
- Go over: Orange pg 21-22 (The Core WS), pg 25-26 (Earth’s Interior WS)
- Study for 5 mark quiz on Earth’s Interior
- Quiz in last 5-10 minutes of class.
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Th 16 |
- Beginning Activity: Draw and label a rift and subduction zone area
- Strike Dip Notes and Activity
- Notes on Faults
- Work on Workbook (start pg 21 #1-17, omit 5 for now)
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F 17 |
- Notes: Folds, Isostacy
- Playdough activity (orange pg 30-31)
- White Workbook (pg 15-17 Isostacy, and pg 21 to 33)
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T May 21 |
- Go over Pladough activity, with playdough
- Picture Mix-up! (orange pg 32)
- Structural Geology 3-D Block Diagrams
- Practice block diagram
- For each model, complete cross-sections, draw strike/dip etc on map, as directed, and answer the following questions on the back of said model:
- Model 1: # 1
- Model 2: # 3
- Model 3: # 6, 7
- Model 4: # 10
- Model 5: # 14
- Model 6: # 16, 17, 18, 19
- Note: simple rules on pg 212 of pdf
- Remember:
- Strike is always parallel to the lines on the map
- Dip points in the direction the layers are tilting underground
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W 22 |
- Practice block diagram
- Continue Structural Geology lab
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Th 23 |
- Practice block diagram
- Finish Structural Geology Lab
- Do worksheet (orange pg 35-36)
- Work on white workbook
- Start a REFERENCE SHEET for the test
- Put your name on it in ink!
- Must be hand written (not typed), by you.
- 8.5 by 11 paper, one side only
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F 24 |
- Start Review
- Test overview
- Processes and plate boundaries (pg 37)
- Plate movement calculation (pg 38)
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M May 27 |
- Volcano review day (video, OneNote, questions in review)
- Review Package (key on back of Orange booklet and here –>)
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T 28 |
- Continue Review Package
- Continue one-sided, 8.5×11, reference sheet
- Teams Games Tournament
- Bonus Quiz /5
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W 29 |
- White Workbook due
- Ch 4, 9-12 test /65
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Metamorphic Rocks, Resources, Planetology |
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Th 30 |
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
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F 31 |
- Quick review of limits, characteristics of meta rocks
- Minerals in meta rocks
- Meta lab – name together, then write a history of each rock in set (parent rock, processes underwent in what location…)
- Workbook pg 38-42 (Crossword, fill-in-blank, texture matching)
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M Jun 3 |
- FINAL EXAM REVIEW DAY:
- Old provincial exams are an excellent way to review
- Create a REFERENCE SHEET:
- 1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
- Hand written by you
- Your name on it in ink
- Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
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T 4 |
- Cans Activity (review of Min, Ig, Sed, Meta rocks)
- Review Minerals and all three rock types (3 more crosswords)
- Work on Reference Sheet for final exam
- 1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
- Hand written by you
- Your name on it in ink
- Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
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W 5 |
RESOURCES
- Notes: geology of BC, important BC resources, types of deposits
- Video (3 min): Formation of Ore Deposits
- Workbook section F pg 1-8 at least #1-4, 9-16, and beyond if you can, if we’ve covered it.
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Th 6 |
- Notes: Fossil Fuels
- Videos:
- Workbook page 1-8 (finish off)
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F 7 |
PLANETOLOGY
- Compare planets of Solar System to Earth
- in 5 groups
- use internet to find information (see pg 8a) about your assigned planets (Use NASA sites!)
- record on chart paper for presentation to class tomorrow
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M Jun 10 |
- Presentations to class
- Discuss, create T-chart of inner vs outer planets
- Solar System PP
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T 11 |
- Nebular Model
- Inner Planets chart
- Workbook Pg 9-14
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W 12 |
- Tectonic Analysis of Planet X143B-M Exercise
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Th 13 |
- Planet X143B-M Exercise due
- Meta/Resources/Planetology Test /30 (OPEN NOTES, all multiple choice)
- Review (see practice exams to the right)
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F 14 |
- Classroom structure activity (~45 minutes)
- Work on Reference Sheet for final exam
- 1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
- Hand written by you
- Your name on it in ink
- Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
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M Jun 17 to W 19 |
- Review: Old provincial exams are an excellent way to study!!
- See three practice exams (2 linked above, 2 days ago; 1 linked to the right)
- Games
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- Kahoot (tdella): go to kahoot.it and enter code (expires )
- Quizizz (tdella): go to attached links (expires June 26, 2024)
- Work on Reference sheet
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Th June 20 |
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