Mr. Woods Room

I’ll help you with the review guide.

It’s been my honor and privilege to meet you and work with you this semester. With apologies to Bad Company and Spock:

Reach for the sky, but don’t forget to churn up the ground.  “Live long and prosper.”

Seniors will take the final exam.

Choose one of the activities:
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/legacy/radioactive-dating-game
The Geologic Timeline
Trees:  Recorders of Climate Change

Standard:  Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to understand how rock relationships and fossils are used to reconstruct the Earth’s past.
Learning Target: Interpret a geologic cross-section and describe how unconformities form, as well as construct an argument applying principles of relative age.
Open:  Complete 21.1 & 21.2 section assessments
Work:  Notes 21.1 & 21.2 section assessments, 
Close:  half life demonstration

Test on Earthquakes & Volcanoes

Standard:  Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to understand how rock relationships and fossils are used to reconstruct the Earth’s past.
Learning Target:  I will be able to explain the principles of relative dating.
Open:  How do we know what happened first?
Work:  Notes 21.1.  Organizer/notes:  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/topics/time/froshlec8.html
Include a diagram & explanation of all the terms except biotal succession.
Close:  check in with me for progress

Test tomorrow!

Standard:  Understand how plate tectonics creates certain geologic features, landforms, Earth materials, and geologic hazards.
Learning Target:  I know the hazards of earthquakes and understand the actions to take.
Open:  complete section assessments
Work:  check & go over all section assessments
Close:  review guide

Standard:  Understand how plate tectonics creates certain geologic features, landforms, Earth materials, and geologic hazards.
Learning Target:  I understand the measures of earthquakes. 
Open:  earthquake video
Work:  lab p. 541, notes 19.3 & 19.4
Close:  begin section assessments