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By Tuesday, you need to have read and taken notes on the introduction to the respiratory system. Pages 375-379.
Nightly, review you material on the circulatory system. Highlight or illustrate your notes.
Chapter test on Circulatory system and Respiratory System on Monday November 19th.
Due Tuesday Nov 13th…all groups
An explanation of Continental Drift. There are 2 ways to present this information.
1) Write your description as a letter to the editor of a local paper explaining what Continental Drift is: define it, give the scientific evidence for it
2) Write the test for a children’s book explaining Continental Drift. You do not need to include the pictures, simply write the text for each page; above the text write – here I will put a picture of the continents as they are now, or here I will put a picture of the center of the Earth.
You should include the following vocabulary: plate tectonics; continental plates, convection, ring of fire, fossil record
Note: There is no vocab quiz this week. It will be next Monday and cover words learned in class this week related to the 3 kinds of rocks and crystals.
Due Monday Nov 19th (Green, Red); Tuesday Nov 20th (Blue)
Field Site #12
Name Date Due
GREEN BLUE
Field Site # 12
A Dirty Earth
Color Changes %: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Remember: Weather Data Chart
ALIEN DIARY ENTRY:
On separate paper, write a one paragraph description of Dirt!!! Describe its feel, its smell, its color, its _______……maybe you have some other sense that Earthlings do not. Also, tell-where is it found and how it compares to similar materials on your home world.
This week’s Arthropod is the isopod; information will be collected in class.
SOIL SAMPLING
PROCEDURES
1) From different areas in your field site, obtain two different soil samples. Each sample should be approximately 2.5 cups
§ Pick two sites that appear to be quite different – for example, one sample from a grassy area and another from under a rock or rotting log.
2) Spill a few tablespoons out on a paper towel. With a toothpick or fork, pick each sample apart. Identify as many materials in it as you can. List them on the chart on the back. Draw unknown materials and label them.
3) Put ONE sample into a sandwich bag. Label the bag and bring to school.
§ Be sure that you have from 2 – 3 cups of soil in this sample.
The other sample you may return to your field site.
4) Please do NOT include animal excrement or large dead animals (i.e. mice, etc.) with your soil.
5) Use the information from the two samples to write a Recipe for Soil below. Assume that you have to try and have your home planet scientists reproduce Earth soil. They will work from your Recipe.
SOIL SAMPLE #1 was collected from (describe the site)_________________________
SOIL SAMPLE #2 was collected (describe the site) _________________________
MATERIALS FOUND IN SAMPLE #1
MATERIALS FOUND IN SAMPLE #2
A RECIPE FOR EARTH
Material Approximate amount (for example 2 small leaves or
1/4 cup sand)
This Week’s Arthropod is The Isopod – if you are at the web site, the picture will not be available. Draw one from your memory of class work…or go to the web for one.
Habitat:
Life Cycle:
Diet:
Popular Names and other Misc. information:
