Happy Halloween

Hopefully you had a safe and enjoyable night tonight. Tomorrow (Thursday) we will review our questions, play some quake Jeopardy. We will take the test on Friday. Study all of the Earthquake chapter. Focus on knowning faults, plate movement, waves, and safety. If you have any questions, let me know.

Check out the Mac O Lantern that some folks made. It is a real Macintosh computer, but inside a pumpkin. Some people have too much time.

Earth Quake

This week we will finish up earthquakes. We will shake our creations on Monday and see if we can make them fall. We will have another test this week as well. Probably Friday.

Planet in Peril extra credit.

Well I am sure our earthquake proof buildings are drying over the weekend. They will be ready for some upgrading on Monday, then their test.
Here is a link to the questions for the Planet in Peril extra credit assignments. It is 20 questions long. Each complete, CORRECT answer is worth 1 point. They are due on Monday as soon as you walk into class.
If the link does not work, you can use this one, and go to the bottom of the page where it says educators. The questions are under that link.
Remember, the program is available on iTunes.
Each episode is only 1.99 for a 1.45hour long episode. You do not need an iPod to view iTunes, all you need is a computer. iTunes is a free download from apple.com.

Have a good weekend.

Planet in Peril

I forgot to mention it in class today, but if you watch the CNN special called A Planet in Peril. The show will air today and Thursday at 9pm on CNN. I will provied questions for you to answer and I will provide 20 points total (two homeworks) for watching and answering the questions.

Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta

On Grades

By Wednesday afternoon, all grades will be 100% up to date. If you have anything that you think you should have turned in and it is living in your binder, locker, bedroom, or whatever, please get it to me!
The end of the semester is quickly approaching. If you do not understand a concept, or need help on something, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Slinky Lab

Here are the questions for your homoework. This is due Friday.

1. If you change how fast you shake the slinky, how it is affected?
2. How did distance affect the intensity of the shake of the slinky? How about the side to side distance of the slinky?
3. If you change how hard you shake the slinky, how it is affected?
4. How can you relate the slinky to an earthquake?
5. Is the slinky more like a P wave or an S wave? Why?
6. Why did we do three trials of each distance?
WHEN FINISHED do the Math Analyzing Data on page 56 of the Inside Earth book.

13 days since I posted!

This is crazy. I am sorry that I did not update this in a while. the homework you were assigned from Thursday was to write three myths about Earthquakes. Some students got papers that said Volcanos, and some said Earthquakes. If you wrote about Volcanos, that is fine, but you will write about earthquakes when we do the same assignment in a few weeks. Here is a to link the directions for the myth homework.
The work from Friday that is due today are the questions from the 1906 article. Here is a link to the questions.
For homework tonight, you will write a procedure for our lab tomorrow. Here is a linkto that assignment.

Cont Drift Packet

If you still need the cont. drift packet it is here 1,2,3,4,5,6,. You can download it, and finish answering the questions. It is due on Wednesday 10/2/07. Also due on Wednesday are the complete chapter review questions. Remember there will be a test on Friday.
On Wednesday, I will only see my first period class, as we are on an assembly schedule then.First and second period will work on their chapter review packets. We will finish them and go over them on the second half of Thursday's class. Here is a picture of what we think Pangaea looked like.