The following is the day-to-day schedule for Standard Earth Science. Please note that all listings for future dates MAY change. Links to worksheets and homework assignments will appear the day they are assigned.
The Atmosphere! You will have succeeded with this unit if at the end you can explain What the major gases in the atmosphere are, and how much of each there are. The three major greenhouse gases, how they work, and why they are important to us. Why we divide the atmosphere into layers and the names and properties of each layer. The various "colors" of the electromagnetic spectrum and how different types of light can have different amounts of energy. What we mean by the 'energy budget' of the Earth. (See page 373 in the text.) Be prepared for note check quizzes at any time!
Date	In Class (always get class notes if you are absent!!)	Homework
Wednesday 1/27	Throughout the last semester I have spoken about weather folklore, and how it has allowed people to predict the daily weather. Now you will verify what I have said. Today you will receive the instructions for a weather folklore project. You will receive the instructions and will be able to select a weather saying to research. Tomorrow we will meet in the library computer lab. The instructions are here to download. The links to suggested web sources are live in this document. You can see a sample of a slide show here. You will need to cite your sources correctly. Click here for instructions in Word format, and Here is a tool to help you! You will present your slide show to the class on Monday.	A very important assignment here. Talk to your old people at home and request that they provide the following information: the number of kWh (killowatt hours) from a recent electric bill if you use natural gas, the amount used from a recent bill an estimate of the number of gallons of heating oil used in a year You will be needing this soon to calculate your carbon footprint.
Thursday 1/28	Today we will meet in the library computer lab to work on the weather folklore project. The instructions are here to download. The links to suggested web sources are live in this document. You can see a sample of a slide show here. You will need to cite your sources correctly. Click here for instructions in Word format, and Here is a tool to help you! You will present your slide show to the class on Monday.	Work on your project tonight. Be prepared to do your best on Monday. And, a reminder to talk to your old people at home and request that they provide the following information: the number of kWh (killowatt hours) from a recent electric bill if you use natural gas, the amount used from a recent bill an estimate of the number of gallons of heating oil used in a year You will be needing this soon to calculate your carbon footprint.
Friday 1/29	Today Periods 1 & 2 will meet in the library computer lab to work on the weather folklore project. Today Periods 4 & 6 will meet in the Math computer lab (C207) to work on the weather folklore project. The instructions are here to download. The links to suggested web sources are live in this document. You can see a sample of a slide show here. You will need to cite your sources correctly. Click here for instructions in Word format, and Here is a tool to help you! You will present your slide show to the class on Monday.	Work on your project tonight. Be prepared to do your best on Monday. And, a reminder to talk to your old people at home and request that they provide the following information: the number of kWh (killowatt hours) from a recent electric bill if you use natural gas, the amount used from a recent bill an estimate of the number of gallons of heating oil used in a year You will be needing this soon to calculate your carbon footprint.
Monday 2/1	Good News! I am giving you an extra day to prepare your Weather Folklore presentation. The books are in the library. I have lots of passes! Today we will discuss the composition of the atmosphere - the major gases and their proportions and do some artwork. If you are not in class today, download the worksheet here and do it at home so that you do not fall behind.	A reading assignment for tonight: Read about the composition of our atmosphere. You may open an electronic copy of the assignment here, or do it online by clicking here. And, a reminder to talk to your old people at home and request that they provide the following information: the number of kWh (killowatt hours) from a recent electric bill<1> - if the electric company changed rates last month, add the 2 numbers if you use natural gas, the amount used from a recent bill an estimate of the number of gallons of heating oil used in a year You will be needing this soon to calculate your carbon footprint.
Tuesday 2/2	Today is a very special day! We will talk about what it really means, along with other weather lore. How accurate is the groundhog? Check here to see his average for the last 123 years! Today you will get a chance to explain to the class why your weather saying is true. If you are absent, you will get to present when you return. Be prepared.	You have homework tonight: Read the information on this document and create a graph. Then answer the questions. This is worth a lot of points. Avoid 'sloppy' and 'lazy'! As always, look over your notes. What will I ask you on the next quiz? Find out about your electric bill. Review your notes!!
Wednesday 2/3	The layers of the atmosphere. If you are not in class today, make sure that you get the notes, and turn in the homework when you return!	Read about the energy budget of Planet Earth, as explained by the textbook. Read about the energy budget of our atmosphere. You may open an electronic copy of the assignment here, or do it online by clicking here. As always, look over your notes. What will I ask you on the test next Monday?
Thursday 2/4	Today we'll cover more information about the atmosphere.	Extra Credit Opportunity!!Come watch a movie about observation. Stay after school for about 45 minutes and find the pineapple. As always, look over your notes.
Friday 2/5	Today we do a Micro-Lab with greenhouse gases. See what CO2 and H2O can do! If absent, make this up in a few minutes Monday. Let me know if you will be here before school, after school, or during a free period. Come during lunch if you can.	WARNING!! There will be a small but FUN test Monday on the atmosphere! You might want to look over this review puzzle, which can help you prepare for the test. Can you explain everything to your ??
Monday 2/8	Test!!!. Another chance to see how well you are doing. Do you understand the material? Can you explain it to your ? Didn't do the CO2 and H2O lab last week? Make this up in a few minutes today! Come during lunch if you can. Let me know when you will be coming in. After school available only until 2:30 (I have a meeting).	As always, look over your notes. You have a reading assignment tonight!! Read sections 21.1 & 21.2 (pages 464 to 473). Answer these questions: Section 21.1: 1, 2, 3, 4. Section 21.2: 1, 5. You may complete the assignment online by clicking here.
Climate and Climate Change: You will have succeeded with this unit if you can describe and explain the difference between weather and climate what causes differences in climate why and how the climate has changed since the Earth was born 4.6 billion years ago. how human activities are increasing the rate of climate change, and the consequences of this increased rate. how various chemicals effect the climate.
Date	In Class (always get class notes if you are absent!!)	Homework
Tuesday 2/9	Today we'll start to work on your family's contribution to climate change. If you are not in class today, you are still responsible for filling in the bold parts of the Family Greenhouse Gas Worksheet by the time you return from vacation!!! Next: Donal MacIntyre told us about the Ultramat III. Today you will see for yourself what the Ultramat is telling us. If you are absent, download the worksheet and turn it in tomorrow. Don't fall behind! Didn't do the CO2 and H2O lab last week? Make this up in a few minutes today! Come during lunch if you can. Let me know when you will be coming in. After school available only until 2:30 (faculty meeting).	Please finish the CO2 worksheet if you did not finish it in class. As always, look over your notes. Can you explain everything to your ??
Wednesday 2/10		Fill out the bold parts of the Family Greenhouse Gas Worksheet! Get it done now, and you won't have any other homework over vacation!
Thursday 2/11	The carbon cycle and the word 'sequestration', Greena will show us how to lighten our carbon footprint, and we really need to discuss that test on the atmosphere.....	As always, look over your notes. Can you explain everything to your ?? Extra Credit! Come see Ms. Frizz! More Extra Credit! This is an internet assignment that you can do at home or at the library. The instructions are in this document. Follow the directions, take the online quiz, and print out your own carbon footprint. There are several samples in the classroom. Turn this in by Monday, February 22. More Extra Credit! The Inuit have something to say about climate change. Read this article and write a 10% summary. Turn this in by Monday, February 22.
Friday 2/12	Climate - what it is and what it isn't. We will see a video about it. If you are absent, download the note sheet! A review of the carbon cycle. Today is the 201st anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the shy man who stirred up such exciting events among scientists.	As always, look over your notes. Can you explain everything to your ?? If you have not completed the family greenhouse inventory, you must have it done when you return from vacation. Otherwise, NO HOMEWORK!! More Extra Credit! This is an internet assignment that you can do at home or at the library. The instructions are in this document. Follow the directions, take the online quiz, and print out your own carbon footprint. There are several samples in the classroom. Turn this in by Monday, February 22. More Extra Credit! The Inuit have something to say about climate change. Read this article and write a 10% summary. Turn this in by Monday, February 22.
Monday 2/15 - Friday 2/19	Vacation!!	Get outside! Observe!
Monday 2/22	Climate - what it is and what it isn't. We will discuss El Nino, ENSO, and the effect of sunspots. Also, how are we adding methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.	As always, look over your notes. You have a reading assignment tonight!! Read section 21.3 (pages 474 to 477). Answer these questions: Section 21.3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. You may complete the assignment online by clicking here. What will be on the test next Monday?
Tuesday 2/23	Today we will take some time to learn about the very beginning of the environmental movement. Rachel Carson was the first to warn the public about the long-term dangers of misusing pesticides. In class today you will read part of her book, A Silent Spring, and respond to it. If you are absent, the reading is here. Do Part One of the assignment.	As always, look over your notes. What will be on the test next Monday? Can you explain it to your ??
Wednesday 2/24	Today we will take some more time to reflect on Rachel Carson's book. In class today you will do Part Two of the response to A Silent Spring. If you are absent, the reading is here. Do Part Two of the assignment.	As always, look over your notes. What will be on the test next Monday? Can you explain it to your ??
Thursday 2/25	Today we will continue our study of climate and climate change. What causes the climate to change? Are our actions changing the climate so that we can not survive in it? Avoid succession!! How about a small practice QUIZ ? ! ?	As always, look over your notes. What will be on the test Monday??? This review sheet might help.
Friday 2/26	Meet in the Math Computer Lab, Room C207 to complete the Family Greenhouse Gas Worksheet. If you are absent today, contact me as soon as possible to find out how you can complete the worksheet.	Make sure that you have completed the Family Greenhouse Gas worksheet. As always, look over your notes. What will be on the test Monday??? This review sheet might help.
Monday 3/1	TEST on the atmosphere (look over those old tests!) and climate (your notes and that practice quiz from last week). It will be so much fun!	As always, look over your notes. Extra Credit! Today I will show part one of a video. Come and watch the first hour today. Five extra credit points! Tomorrow I will show the second hour, for an additional 5 points. You must watch the first part to earn any extra credit.
Tuesday 3/2	If we are going to study acid rain, it would be helpful to know what an acid really is. Today Moby will help you understand.	As always, look over your notes. What story am I telling you? Tell it to your Extra Credit! Today I will show part two of the video for an additional 5 points. If you watched the first part, come see the end!
Wednesday 3/3	A chance to play with acids and bases. Please dress for mess. If you are absent today, you must make it up within a week.	As always, look over your notes.
Air Pollution! You will have succeeded with this unit if at the end you can Identify the 5 primary pollutants, what creates them and how they affect us Explain photochemical smog, how it forms and what it does to us Explain the difference between good and bad ozone, why there is a 'hole' in the ozone layer, and what it means Answer the following questions: Explain Photochemical Smog. Make sure that your response includes the weather conditions that allow smog to form, the primary pollutants that go into smog, the secondary pollutants that are created in smog, and the damage that smog does. Explain Ozone. Make sure that your response includes what ozone is, how ozone allows life on land, 'good' vs. 'bad' ozone, what is causing depletion of 'good' ozone, what the effects of ozone depletion are in Australia and everywhere in the world. Explain Air Pollution. Make sure that your response includes the 5 primary pollutants, what causes them, what happens to them when they enter the atmosphere, and the good and bad points of the 3 ways to remove pollution from smoke that we have discussed.
Thursday 3/4	Today we start working in class on pollution, including the 5 major types of air pollution. You will be working in teams, and will be teaching the class about one of the major types of pollution. If you are absent, you must sign out a book when you return and write a 2 paragraph essay about one of the topics in this unit.	Tonight, think about how you would teach the class about your team's assigned type of air pollution. Practice on your parents, gerbil or goldfish. Maybe you can find some more information on the web.
Friday 3/5	Your teams will be teaching the class about one of the major types of pollution. If you are absent when your group presents, you must sign out a book when you return and write a 2 paragraph essay about one of the topics in this unit.	Tonight, think about how you would teach the class about your team's assigned type of air pollution. Practice on your parents, gerbil or goldfish. As always, look over your notes. Understand them? Able to explain them to your goldfish or gerbil? Great! Don't understand something? Make a note and ask me!
Monday 3/8	Your teams will be teaching the class about one of the major types of pollution. If you are absent when your group presents, you must sign out a book when you return and write a 2 paragraph essay about one of the topics in this unit.	Tonight, think about how you would teach the class about your team's assigned type of air pollution. Practice on your parents, gerbil or goldfish. As always, look over your notes. Understand them? Able to explain them to your goldfish or gerbil? Great! Don't understand something? Make a note and ask me tomorrow!
Tuesday 3/9	Your teams will be teaching the class about one of the major types of pollution. If you are absent when your group presents, you must sign out a book when you return and write a 2 paragraph essay about one of the topics in this unit.	Talk to your invisible friend!
Wednesday 3/10	Your teams will be teaching the class about one of the major types of pollution. If you are absent when your group presents, you must sign out a book when you return and write a 2 paragraph essay about one of the topics in this unit.	Homework for tonight! Read about the Smog of Donora, Pennsylvania and respond. If you need a copy of the reading and the questions, you can see them here. If you want to answer the questions online, here is a link.
Thursday 3/11	Your next lab. Your job will be to test various materials for an acid rain proof statue. Here is a copy of the worksheet! Today your team will design the experiment. Tomorrow you will start soaking your materials in acid.	Be prepared for the lab. As always, look over your notes. What story am I telling you? Tell it to your
Friday 3/12	Today you set up your acid rain lab. If you are absent, remember to get the procedure from your partners....	Homework for tonight! Get started on your lab report! You should be able to type up your introduction, hypothesis, and as much of the procedure as you have completed so far. MUCH better than staying up all night the day before it is due and turning in an inferior report! As always, look over your notes. Teach your goldfish!
Sunday 3.14 PI day!	Happy Birthday Albert Einstein! On March 14 in 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. Einstein showed no brilliance as a child; in fact, he was suspected of being retarded because it took him so long to learn to speak. If he could do it, YOU can do it!	As always, look over your notes. Understand them? Able to explain them to your goldfish or gerbil? Great! Don't understand something? Make a note and ask me tomorrow!
Monday 3/15	The Ides of March! Not a good day to be Julius Caesar. We will see a movie about several bad days to be in Donora, Pennsylvania.	As always, look over your notes. Teach your elephant!
Tuesday 3/16	What is the connection between burning coal and acid rain? Get out your colored pencils and find out! If you are not in class today, don't fall behind. Print out this worksheet and do it tonight!	Homework for tonight! Bring in 1 short answer question that could be used on a quiz about air pollution, and the answer!. The question must begin with Why, How, Describe, or Explain. No ragged paper! Feel free to email it to me. As always, look over your notes. Teach your elephant!