Technology Test

Go to this website: http://eduphoria.bastrop.isd.tenet.edu/Aware/OnlineTesting

Your login is: student ID (lunch code)
Your password is: bmsbears


Take your time and no talking is allowed during the exam.

After you have completed the test please click HERE to complete a brief survey.

Extra time? Click HERE

TAKS Review Material

OBJECTIVE 5 REVIEW MATERIALS

STEP 1:
CHOOSE A TOPIC:
seasons, astronomy, carbon cycle, renewable resources, nonrenewable resources, air pollution, nitrogen cycle, water cycle, lunar cycle, plate tectonics, rock cycle, weathering & erosion, photosynthesis, catastrophic events, how the dinosaurs went extinct, global warming, fossil fuels, eclipses, oceans affect on climate.


STEP 2:
Create a notebook page for each topic (Start with page 123).
You must create at least 3 review pages in your notebook.

Each page must include the following:

A. Title of the concept

B. A big idea or definition about the concept
C. A drawing / diagram
D. A question you created

E. Answer the question

STEP 3:

RESEARCH YOUR TOPIC using the sites below, study guide or textbooks.

Site 1: Click HERE for a powerpoint review of Objective 5 materials

Site 2: Click HERE for Brainpop.

Site 3: Click HERE for great science animations.

Example Notebook page: (Remember you must have 3)

SEASONS

The seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth which causes light to be more concentrated on different parts of the planet at different times of the year.





Q: Which position would be the northern hemisphere's winter?

A: The left position


This interactive site is great but currently not available.

Lunar Cycle Lesson

1. Click here to view the Brainpop lesson on the moon.
2. Click here to do an interactive lunar cycle activity.
3. Click here to take the lunar cycle challenge.

DDT and Ecosystems

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

In the late 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation and the environmental problems caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented portion of the American public. Silent Spring spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy—leading to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides—and the grassroots environmental movement the book inspired led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson


Paul Hermann Müller(January 12, 1899 – October 12, 1965) was a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate. In 1948 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hermann_Muller

Ocean Action Team Project

These links will be helpful when researching your topics:

RUNOFF (pollution):
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5 -Click on the strategies part to access areas w/ runoff

OVER HARVESTING (fishing):
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5

CORAL REEF DESTRUCTION & ARTIFICIAL REEFS:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5
Link 6
Link 7

After your research is completed please click here to use your userID / password that your teacher assigned to begin creating your campaign.

TAKS: Difficult Words & Questions

Click HERE to enter your TAKS data.

Topographic Map Quiz

Put your name on the top of your paper.

Number your paper from 1 to 13.

For a quick review over some cool topo maps click HERE.

Click HERE to find 13 pictures for you to match to the correct topographic map. Put the letter next to the correct number.

PLATE TECTONICS UNIT RESOURCES

LAYER C1 - helpful links:

* Click below to read & see pictures about the CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY.

• WEBSITE 1 - lots of good info about evidence for Continental Drift Theory.
• WEBSITE 2 - more of the above plus info about layers of the earth.
• WEBSITE 3 - A great animation & lesson on the break up of Pangaea.
• WEBSITE 4 - A wonderful lesson about Continental Drift Theory.
• WEBSITE 5 - An animation that shows how the plates might move in the future.
  

C1 - QUIZ
** After completing the c1 layer: Click on the link below to take a short quiz.
PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER & take it to your teacher so she can check your yellow sheet.

C1 QUIZ



LAYER CII - USEFUL LINKS

CII-f: Click HERE for instructions for Mountain Movers lab.
or Click HERE to go straight to the Mountain Movers Lab

Geology Dictionary
or look for the vocabulary link at the top of the blog for lots more dictionary sites.

C2 - QUIZ
** After completing the c2 layer: Click on the link below to take a short quiz.
PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER & take it to your teacher so she can check your yellow sheet.

CII QUIZ



LAYER B - USEFUL LINKS:


B Layer - QUIZ
** After completing the B layer: Click on the link below to take a short quiz.
PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER & take it to your teacher so she can check your yellow sheet.

B LAYER QUIZ


LAYER A - USEFUL LINKS:

B-a: Google Earth Tour: Click HERE for a video tutorial on how to create a Google Tour using Google Earth.
Requirements: Find 10 landforms on the earth that were created at plate boundaries.

• a computer with Google Earth downloaded.
• internet connection
• a video player for the tutorial
• a way to save the .kmz tour file & either email it or bring it to me from home on flash drive.

Review Materials:

• Click HERE to make sure you understand the plate tectonics theory.
• Click HERE for an interactive lesson on plate tectonics theory.
• Click HERE for another great interactive lesson on plate tectonics.

Vocabulary Review - Do you know all the words?

• Click HERE for review games / flashcards.
• Click HERE for more vocabulary review games.
• Click HERE for more flashcards.

Animations:

• Click HERE for animations of landforms created by plate boundaries.
• Click HERE for an animation of convection currents in the mantle.

Blood Splatter Animations

Click here to view tutorials & animations about the forensics of blood splatters.

Weather Test Review

Click here to play some vocabulary review games.

Warm & Cold Fronts

Use your handout & the links below to complete the Venn diagram comparing warm fronts & cold fronts.

Click the links below to learn more about each topic:
Air Masses
Cold Fronts
Warm Fronts
Animations of Cold & Warm Fronts
Satellite Images of Air Masses

Air Pressure

Click HERE to view the air pressure animation.

In your notebook, please use complete sentences to answer the following questions about how the air pressure changes as a storm passed through Palm Beach, Florida.

1. When the pressure graph is at the lowest point where is the storm in relation to Palm Beach?

2. Where is the storm when the pressure is at its highest in Palm Beach?

3. When the pressure begins to rise up again where is the storm located (in relation to Palm Beach)?

4. Based on the image and your understanding of air pressure, what kind of weather should Palm Beach, Fl experience for the next 24 hours?

5. What relationship is there between air pressure and type of weather you might be experiencing?

Exam Review

Electromagnetic Spectrum:

Website 1 shows the wavelengths of visible light.

Website 2 has a table of visible light wavelengths.

Website 3 has NASA's great site for electromagnetic waves.

Website 4 is a spectroscope extention activty for preAP students.

Greenhouse Effect:

Website 1 is a tutorial for greenhouse effect.

Website 2 is a great animation showing the greenhouse effect.

Experimental Design:

See the previous posts below for help with identifying variables in an experiment.

Science Equipment:

Website 1 is an equipment online quiz.

Safety:

Website 1 is a list of safety guidelines. These are also found in your notebook.

Radiation from the Sun

Click here to view an animation of earth's surface temperature over 1 year. Watch it several times slowly.

On your small paper write 3 sentences that describes what happens to earth's temperature over the 1-year period.

Monster Storms

Click here to login to the Jason Project website.

Your user id & password should be your lunch code.

Once you login go to the left side of page & click on "Monster Storms."
On the next page click "Mission 1."
On the next page click "Defining a Storm."
Read this section & fill in the blanks on your notes.
When you have completed the reading you must choose 5 of the underlined words. On the left side of your notebook create a drawing for each word. Label your drawings.

You may use the internet for ideas, but images are usually blocked.

Have Mrs. Miles stamp your paper when your drawings are completed.

Getting off to a great start!

The 3rd week of school is about to start. Things are going great so far. Make sure you are checking your grades on Skyward (progress reports go out next week) and looking at the daily assignments calendar (tab at the top of the page).

Field Trip: October 1st.
JJ Pickle Research Facilty
Earth Science Career Fair

2010-2011 School Year

Back to School Night is Thursday, August 19th 5:00-7:00 p.m.

School Starts Monday, August 23rd.

Analyzing Cemetery Data

Problem: What are the main causes of death over the last 200 years.

1. Click here to open the excel document with all of the cemetery data from BASTROP, ELGIN & AUSTIN.

2. Your table group will be given a range of dates.

3. You must find the year(s) with the largest number of deaths in your range.

4. Once you have found that year you must research the following things to find correlations between deaths and war/disease/disaster.

5. 1 person research Texas wars
1 person research diseases in Texas
1 person research any natural disasters that might have occurred near Bastrop (floods, fires)
1 person research man-made disaster that might have occurred (explosions, car wrecks, etc)

6. Each person must write a one paragraph conclusion that answers the problem question above.
Your paragraph must have at least 6 complete sentences. Your paragraph must include the following stem: I conclude that the deaths in the year ____ were caused by _____.

7. Turn paper into the class box.

Cemetery Graph

Click here to open a PDF document containing all of the State Cemetery Data.

You will work with a partner to create a graph of all the deaths for a certain range of years.

1. Turn your graph paper sideways (landscape).

2. USE A PENCIL

3. Title the graph Texas State Cemetery Deaths

4. Label the x-axis Years

5. Label the y-axis Number of Deaths

6. Create a BAR GRAPH

7. Use colored pencils / markers to color your graph.

8. Put all names at the top of the graph.

9. Tape your graph to the colored paper.

Epidemic Research

If you have finished entering at LEAST 25 names from the cemetery you will now complete the following. (If you have not finished please use the last blog post to complete your data entry.)



1. Using a program like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc and create the table below:

Texas Epidemics After 1800

Epidemics Description Years Deaths Regions Affected

2. Use Google to research Texas epidemics & fill out your table.


3. When you are done save your table in 2 places: Your desktop & Your student folder.