Severe Weather Safety

We will finish up how the four types of severe weather form and then move on to severe weather safety. You will be creating a safety poster over your choice of weather. I have attached the rubric to classroom. 

Bell Ringer - Have out your jigsaw handout and be prepared to finish up our discussion. 

Predicting Severe Weather

We are moving on to the last standard in our Human Impact Unit. We will be looking at how to predict severe weather, such as blizzards, thunderstorms, hurricanes & tornadoes. We will spend the next two weeks looking at these 4 types of severe weather, what they are, are to predict them & safety.

Bell Ringer (2/22-23/17) 

Watch this video after the bell ringer - Severe Weather 

Final Reflection

Today we will complete the final reflection on the uneven distribution of resources on Earth and how they ended up that way. As you prepare to write this reflection think of the video The Last Mountain & the article we read last week over the distribution of resources.

Bell Ringer (2/2-21/17)

Distribution of Resources

We will be spending the majority of class looking at how resources are distributed around the world and why? There is obviously an unequal distribution, but why? What has caused this unequal distribution? The first part of class will be spent analyzing and discussing a world map of the distribution of resources, followed up by an article.

Bell Ringer (2/16-17/17)

Cause and Effect of Using Resources

We are going to look more specifically at the cause and effect of using resources, both renewable and nonrenewable. We will be using information from the The Last Mountain video to create cause and effect statements on both mining/using coal and using wind turbines for energy.

Bell Ringer (2/15/17)

The Last Mountain

We will continue to watch The Last Mountain. Remember to focus on how mining for coal, specifically mountaintop removal affects Earth. We will continue to stop the video periodically to discuss what we see.

Bell Ringer - Be prepared to share out ways that mountaintop removal impacts the Earth.

The Last Mountain

We will be watching the video The Last Mountain. It is a video involving the removal of coal, we will be looking at the processes they use and how it impacts Earth. You will have a list of questions to answer as we watch the video. We will stop periodically to discuss them and reflect.

Bell Ringer (2/8-9/17)

Continue with Quiz

We will use the first 30 minutes of class to continue to complete the student generated quizzes over Earth's Systems. Remember both the requirements and good doc to create you quiz are in google classroom. The second half of class we will focus on our new unit Earth and Human Activity, specifically how humans impact the resources we have on Earth.

Bell Ringer - get with your partner and continue to work on your quiz, we will share good news at the end of class.

Review of Earth Systems Unit

You will be creating a quiz over the past for topics that we have focused on. Your quiz will be based on the rock cycle, layers of the Earth, plate tectonics/fossils & types of plate boundaries. You will be creating this quiz to test your classmates knowledge on these four topics, make sure you include an answer key. 

Bell Ringer (2/3/17)