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Updated 06/16/2020

* * * NEW CONTENT * * *

Tomorrow starting at 3pm

Join us on Wednesday June 17th at 3:00pm for the teacher / student parade

Find a spot along the route, look for your teacher, we'll see you along the way!  We miss you!!

8th graders, wave me (Mr. Skadl) down. I'll be handing out nifty little surprise packs for our 8th graders who are "Moving Up!". Look for the blue minivan with the flashing yellow light on top, and Elmo in the passenger seat.

CLICK HERE for a MAP of the PARADE ROUTE!

 

* * * Monday 06/15/2020 through TUESDAY 06/16/2020

Well, THIS IS IT! For those of you who have completed everything, GREAT FOR YOU! you have no additional work this week.

For those of you who still owe 4th quarter assignments, TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!!  You have only until TONIGHT - TUESDAY (6/16) at 10PM to get your work done! Some of you have skipped very many assignments. If you do not complete enough of these PAST DUE assignments, then you will not pass the 4th quarter. This will have a negative effect on your overall course average.  

THINGS TO CONSIDER - The Regents was cancelled this year. Your Regents exam is waived, IF AN ONLY IF you pass the course this year! If you do not pass the course for the year, then you will be required to repeat the course, all of the labs, and take the regents exam next year. You will not remain in Honors.

So How can you salvage your grade? Simple, just look at the list of assignments below. Go back and do the assignments you haven't completed yet. Submit them by Tuesday at 10pm. GET TO WORK!!!

By the way, the Science Fair Project deal is still on until Tonight at 10pm. See last week's post for details

 

* * * Older Content * * * Please check below for past content and assignments * * *

* * * Monday 06/08/2020 through Friday 06/12/2020 (Final Assignment of the School Year)

All assignments for this week are due by Friday 6/12 by 5pm

Hello everyone. It sure has been an unusual ending to the school year. I am posting here your last and final science content and assignments for the school year. Make sure you read the whole thing before getting started.

This week is part two of Plate Tectonics. We will be taking a look at the Plate Boundaries and what happens there, such as Volcanoes and Earthquakes. We will begin in the traditional way with this week's notes slides. The notes are available as a PDF file and also as a video with narration and pointers.  To view the slides as a PDF you will have to log into TEAMS and get the PDF there.  The file is too big for this Schoolnotes Site.  Here is the LINK to the Notes Slides Video with Narration and pointers.

Our next assignment for the week is a lovely Newsela Article. The article is titled "Plate Tectonics and the types of Earthquake Faults." Please read the article. Then click the "Activities" tab. then complete the SCIENCE Writing Prompt. Here is the link to log into Newsela.

This next content-assignment has you viewing a few professionally produced videos about Plate Boundaries, Volcanic activity, and Earthquakes.  The following link will bring you to an eFORM. Click the link and read the directions on the eFORM. The links to the videos are listed in the directions on the eFORM. Click here for the LINK to the eFORM.

To wrap up this week, we once again turn to Castle Learning. This weeks review assignment is titled "Plate Boundaries." Here is the link to log into Castle Learning.

OK, so remember how I said to read the whole thing before doing anything. Here is where following directions may pay off for you. So remember the Science Fair Projects. Some of you did the Project. If so, I will accept your project and count it as a week's worth of work. So for those of you who have done everything so far, and have your science project ready to go, all you have to do is send me a picture of your project, and then you are done for the year. Now if you have missed some of the work from past weeks, but you did your project, you can do this week's work, and send me a picture of your project to make up for a past week's work.  If you didn't do the science fair project, no worries, just do the work for this week and make up any work from previous weeks, and you will be good to go.

How to send me your project. A few of you brought in your projects before school closed down. I have already reached out to you. You are good to go. For the rest of you that did projects, but didn't bring them in, take a digital picture, and send me the picture of your project through REMIND or through TEAMS, OR eMail it to me. Please either have your face in the picture with your project, or make sure your name is prominently displayed on the project to prove that it is yours, and not some random project downloaded from the internet.  I will only award credit for projects with your face or name in the photo.  Alternatively, if you completed the project, but didn't mount it to a display board, send me a picture of what you have printed out, or send me the files of what you put together. I will award partial credit or full credit depending upon how complete your project appears to be.

Finally, a message for the few of you who have been falling behind on your work.  This is the last FULL week of school.  Next week's assignment will be nothing but Catch-Up or Make-Up. SERIOUSLY, some of you are VERY behind in your work. Some of you are in serious danger of failing the 4th quarter. YOU MUST GET PAST WORK DONE in order to pass 4th quarter. It would be awful to fail for the year because you didn't complete the 4th quarter work. You will end up having to repeat Earth Science. And I assure you, by next June the Coronavirus will be gone, and you will have to take the regents exam. Imagine sitting through Earth Science all over again, and doing all the same labs all over again, and having to deal with the Regents, while your friends have moved on to Life Science. Don't let yourself get left behind. GET YOUR MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENTS DONE! You have until June 16th!

On a happier note, It was a great year up until school closed. You were such a nice group of young people to work with. We were having such a great year, and then it all suddenly came to an end. Our time together got cut short. I'm absolutely sure that you guys would have made me very proud with your regents results. 

I wish all of you the best of luck in the Freshman Center, and in High School, and beyond. You have proven that you are very smart, and capable people. Continue to be as awesome as you were this year, and you will have very happy teachers. I know I was very happy to be your teacher.

 

* * * Monday 06/01/2020 through Friday 06/05/2020 (Updated Tuesday 06/02/2020)

This week we are taking a look at Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics.

As usual we will begin with our Notes Slides.  The notes are available as a PDF file and also as a video with narration and pointers.  To view the slides as a PDF you will have to log into TEAMS and get the PDF there.  The file is too big for this Schoolnotes Site.  Here is the LINK to the Notes Slides Video with Narration and pointers.

Our next assignment for the week is a lovely Newsela Article. The article is titled "Plate Tectonics: Earth's Continents are not stuck in place." Please read the article. Then click the "Activities" tab. YOUR CHOICE - Complete the SCIENCE Quiz or the SCIENCE Writing Prompt. Here is the link to log into Newsela.

This next content-assignment has you viewing a few professionally produced videos about Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics.  The follwing link will bring you to an eFORM. Click the link and read the directions on the eFORM. The links to the videos are listed in the directions on the eFORM. Click here for the LINK to the eFORM.

To wrap up this week, we once again turn to Castle Learning. This weeks review assignment is titled "Continental Drift." Here is the link to log into Castle Learning.

That's it for this week. All work for this week is due by Friday at 5pm.  If you have any questions, issues, or anything, please contact me ASAP through Teams or Remind.

 

* * * Tuesday 05/26/2020 through Friday 05/29/2020

ALL CONTENT FOR THIS WEEK IS POSTED HERE AND READY TO GO FOR YOU!

Last week we learned about Rivers and Streams, water moving across Earth's Surface. But what if that water is frozen and in massive quantities? This week we are looking at glaciers. This topic is very important when studying the geology of New York State. Our Home, Long Island, was formed as the result of glacial activity. If it weren't for the glacier, we wouldn't be here.

We will start out this week in the usual way, with Notes Slides. I did the notes the same way I did them last week, so you have the option of viewing the slides as a PDF, or as a youtube video with narration. To view the slides as a PDF you will have to log into TEAMS and get the PDF there.  The file is too big for this Schoolnotes Site.  Here is the LINK to the Notes Slides Video with Narration.

The notes slides will provide us with vocabulary terms which identify different post glacial geographic formations. The second video I am presenting here takes us on a Google Maps tour of Glacial formations in New York State. We will look at some of the glacial features of Long Island as well as some glacial features upstate. Click here for the link to the second video.

Do you like the Glacial videos? This next content-assignment has you viewing a few professionally produced videos that discuss various topics related to glaciers.  The follwing link will bring you to an eFORM. Click the link and read the directions on the eFORM. The links to the videos are listed in the directions on the eFORM. Click here for the LINK to the eFORM.

Next up, we have our weekly article in NEWSELA. Log into NEWSELA and read the article about Glaciers. Once you have read the article, click the "Activities" tab. Then please write thoughtful responses to the questions in the ELA writing prompt.

Your last assignment for the week will be Castle Learning.  Log into Castle LEarning and complete the questions in the "Glaciers" assignment.

Thats it for this week. If you have any questions, issues, or anything, please contact me ASAP through Teams, or Remind.

 

* * * Wednesday 05/20/2020

Yesterday you got the notes on rivers and streams. Today I would like to share with you a few more YouTube videos about streams. (These are much shorter)  The first video simply sums up what we covered yesterday. 

Click HERE for Stream Video #1

The second video looks at the sediment on the bottom af an actual real stream. The video shows how the stream velocity affects the size of the particles that make up the sediment on the stream bed.

Click HERE for Stream Video #2

Your assignments for this week begin with Castle Learning. Please complete the assignment named "Streams."  If you have not completed last week's Castle Learning assignment you can still do that. Last week's assignment was named "Ground Water Hydrology."

This week's assignments conclude with Newsela. Read the article about rivers. Then please respond to the SCIENCE writing prompt. You must complete the SCIENCE writing prompt to receive full credit. If for some reason you havent already jouned our class in Newsela, then YOU MUST contact me for the Join Code. While you are there, feel free to complete any articles from previous weeks that you may have missed.

So that's it for this week. Take advantage of the fact that its a holiday weekend to get caught up on any Earth Science work that you may have missed in previous weeks.  Some of you have been great about getting everything completed on time. Some of you have a lot of catching up to do. Remember, your 4th quarter grade and your overall course grade depend on it. If you have any questions, please contact me ASAP! I will be checking into TEAMS, REMIND and eMail throughout the weekend.

 

* * * Tuesday 05/19/2020

Last week we focused on ground water, so this week we will start to look at surface water.

Today, take a look at the notes on Streams. Please take notes on the stream vocabulary as you view the notes. You have two options to view the notes slides for this topic.

Option 1: View the slides on YouTube video with narration and pointers. Click HERE for YouTube video of the notes. 

Option 2: View the slides as a PDF file (the way I have been posting them all along). To view the slides as a PDF you will have to log into TEAMS and get the PDF there.  The file is too big for this Schoolnotes Site.

Of course, you can always view the slides both ways.

Check back tomorrow (Wednesday) for more Stream content and your assignments for Streams.

 

* * * Wednesday 05/13/2020

Hello Earth Science. Here is today's update.

We started looking at the amazing world of water beneath our feet this week. Today we take a closer look at how water moves through the ground. Here is the link to today's notes slides about Ground Water Hydrogeology.

When you finish the notes slides, check out this informational fact sheet about ground water and the hydrologic cycle. Click here for the fact sheet.

Do you like the video clips. Here is one of a simple demonstration of how water moves underground, the water table, and surface water. Click here for the video.

Last assignment for this week are a few brief review questions on Castle Learning. The name of the assignment is Ground Water Hydrology. Click here for link to Castle Learning.

All of this weeks assignments (from today and Monday) are due by 5pm Friday. There will not be any new assignments for Friday. Even though this Friday has been designated as a non-instruction day, you may still message me with any questions or comments. Use Friday as a catch-up day.

Going forward I will do my best to get you the content and assignments early-on in the week. This shift will allow more flexibility for you to complete your Earth Science work for the week.

So till next week, take care, be well, and stay safe.

 

* * * Monday 05/11/2020

Hello Earth Science. I hope you all had a nice weekend.

This week we are going to move on to an entirely new topic; Ground Water Hydrology!

We will begin with a video that briefly reviews the water cycle. Click here for the water cycle review video.

Next up, lets see what you know about ground water. Your next assignment is to check out this eFORM about Aquifers. An Aquifer is a large region of porous rock or soil underground that is saturated with water. Our Public water supply on Long Island is pumped up from the Aquifers beneath us. Click here for the Ground Water eFORM.

Today's notes slides deal with properties of the soil that allow water to be there. These properties are called Porosity, Permeability, and Capillarity. As you view the slides, please make sure you write the vocabulary terms in your Earth Science notebook. Here is the link to the notes slides on porosity, permeability, and capillarity.

When you are finished with the notes slides, check out this video that explains porosity, permeability and capillary action. Here is the link to the video.

Finally for today, one more eFORM. This one has several questions for you to evaluate what you have learned about porosity, permeability, and capillary action. Here is the link to the eFORM about P. P. and C.

Check back tomorrow for more content.

Till then, stay safe, and be well.

 

* * * Thursday 05/07/2020

Hi Everyone. I hope you are all doing well.

Today wraps up Weather and Climate. Next week we start looking at the actual GeoScience topics!

Your first task for today is Castle Learning. The assignment is titled "Climate." (Link to CASTLE LEARNING)

Your next task will be Newsela. Read the article titled "North America's 12 Climates." Once you have finished reading the article, please click the "ACTIVITIES" tab. Answer the five questions in the ELA writing prompt. (YES, the ELA writing prompt.) Remember to hit the "SUBMIT RESPONSE" button when you are finished.

Stay Home, Stay Safe, and Be Well.

 

* * * Tuesday 05/05/2020

Today we will look at weather over the long term, which is known as climate.

Lets start out with our Notes Slides on Climate.  CLICK HERE for the Notes Slides.  As you view the notes slides, remember to write these notes in your Earth Science Notebook.

Next up is a selection of four videos that help us learn about climate. Rather than just listing the links here, we are going to do something a little different. The links to the climate videos are listed on an eFORM. When you go to the eFORM, you will click the link to the video. Then you view the video. then go back to the eFORM and answer the multiple choice questions on the form. When you get to the last question, hit the "NEXT" button. This will bring you to the next video and the next set of questions. When you get to the last question for the last video, make sure you hit "Submit."

Here is the LINK to the eFORM video assignment.

Just in case you need the video links to go back and review them, here they are:

Video one: Climatic Conditions

Video two: Effect of Oceans and Mountains on Climate

Video three: The Role of Ocean Currents in Climate

Video four: Weather and Climate

 

* * * Friday 05/01/2020

Today is Catch-up day. Make sure your work for the past two weeks is up to date and completed.

 

* * * Wednesday 04/29/2020

Hi Earth Science Everyone. Here is today's content.

How about some videos.

From PBS, we get "Severe Storms"

From National Geographic's YouTube Channel we get three videos.

Tornadoes

Hurricanes

Thunderstorms

Your written assignment for today is NEWSELA.  Read the article about weather data and forecasting. Then click the activities tab, and complete the Science Quiz and the Science Writing Prompt.

Take Care. Please stay healthy and safe.

 

* * * Monday 04/27/2020

Hello Novice Meteorologists. You have two assignments for today.

First up is Castle Learning. Your first castle learning assignment for the 4th quarter is "Weather Fronts."

Next up is our final set of Notes Slides for the Weather Unit. Today's notes deal with Storms and Severe Weather. You can find the notes file in the DOWNLOADS section or simply just CLICK HERE for the notes. Make sure you enter today's notes into your Earth Science notebook.

 

* * * Thursday 04/23/2020

Hello Earth Science Students. I hope you are having a good day.

What did you think of that wild storm system that came through the area on Tuesday. Thunder, Lightning, Heavy Winds, and Hail. All of these are characteristics of a Cold Front. In case you missed it, here is a link to video of the crazy hail storm we had on Tuesday. https://youtu.be/Cm9tIjz-YLQ

Interesting timing as today's topic is Fronts and Weather Systems.

Let's begin with some notes.  Here is the link to the notes slides about Fronts and Weather Systems. Please add these notes to your Earth Science Notebook.

Next up a trio of videos that explain what you just took notes on.

First video: Air Masses and Fronts. This video talks about air masses and the four kinds of fronts. It starts out a bit slow, but picks up as you watch. The lady narrating gets kind of weird and funny toward the end. I found it kind of amusing.

Second Video: Weather Fronts. I really like the animation at the beginning that shows how the winds circulate counterclockwise around the low pressure center. This video does a good job showing the profile view of what happens as the fronts move along the ground. This guy also gets a little weird with his sound effects towards the end of the video.

Third Video: Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts. This video has good animations of Cold Fronts and warm fronts. It is a fairly short video. Not as long as the first two. This guy doesn't get all weird either.

 

* * * Tuesday 04/21/2020

Today starts the 4th quarter marking period for science class.  As we move along into the 4th quarter, I would like to know how you are doing with the online work.

I have created a survey that I would like you to fill out.  Please fill it our to the best of your ability. It will greatly help me going forward to provide you with meaningful science learning experiences. This will count toward your 4th quarter classwork grade. Please enter your real name so you can receive classwork credit.  Here is the link to the survey.

Next up, since tomorrow is Earth Day (Weds 4/22) I thought I would aim some of our learning for the day towards an Earth friendly article.

I have assigned you an article in NEWSELA.  The article is "Advocate for Earth from home." This article gets you to think about what you can do personally to help our planet.  Please read the article. Then please click the white "Activities" tab. Please complete the writing prompt found in the activities tab.

If you have not yet signed into NEWSELA for THIS CLASS, then YOU MUST CONTACT ME to get the sign-in code or link!

Back on the topic of Weather, we learned last week about Weather Station map symbols. Let's see how well you learned about station models.  I have another assignment for you where you will be reading and decoding the information on the weather stations symbols. Use your ESRTs to decode the information on these weather map stations. If you don't have your ESRTs, then here is a link to the ESRTs.

Here is the link to your Weather Station Assignment. DON'T FORGET to CLICK SUBMIT at the bottom of the form when you are all finished!

Have a very nice day.

Please stay healthy and safe.

 

* * * Friday 04/17/2020

Hello Earth Science Students. Here we are at another Friday.

Just a final reminder, TODAY is the LAST DAY of the THIRD QUARTER MARKING PERIOD. I will be double checking your online assignments over the weekend to make sure you are up to date.  Please make sure you have all of your online assignments up to date by the time the weekend is over.

And Now, for today's content...

We are almost ready to start looking at weather maps. Did you enjoy checking out the animated wind maps in the links I posted on Wednesday? Anyhow, before we can start reading weather maps, we need to learn about weather station map symbols. This is what we will be looking at today.

Let's start with a few videos from YouTube.

This first video looks at the Temperature and Air Pressure conversion charts on Page 13 of the ESRTs. Here is the link to the first video.

The second video gives us an orientation to the weather station map symbols found on the lower half of page 13 of the ESRT. Here is the link to the second video.

The third video attempts to demonstrate how to convert an air pressure reading in millibars (mb) to the three digit number printed on the weather station map symbol. It also demonstrates how to convert from the three digit code back to an actual air pressure value in millibars.  Here is the link to the third video.

Next up is our notes slides. These slides are the notes you should put in your notebook for weather station map symbols. Get the slides from this link, or get them from the downloads section further down the bottom of the page.

Here is another video which is a good summary of everything we have done today. Here is the link to the summary video.

Here is one last video. This also goes over everything. This video is a bit longer than the rest. It is 22 minutes long. If you feel that you have a good strong understanding of today's topic you can skip this last video.  If you still need some more enrichment, then give it a view. Here is the link to this last thorough video.

I hope you all have a very nice weekend.

Stay health and safe.

 

* * * Wednesday 04/15/2020

Hello Earth Science Students.

Can you believe school has been closed now for an entire month?  Just to make you aware, Friday is the last day of the Third Quarter Marking Period. Yes, that is this coming friday, April 17th. 

Today I have assigned you a new and somewhat amusing article in NEWSELA. The article is "What causes windy weather?"  Read the article, then click the Activities tab on the right side of your screen. Please answer the quiz questions and also complete the writing prompts.

If you have not yet done your NEWSELA work for Science yet, you must sign in and connect to our class.  For instructions, please see the post from Friday 4/3. If you can't figure it out, you must contact me.

Once you are done with NEWSELA, you can check out these nifty links. These links bring you to three different pages that give you a live look at how the wind is blowing in different locations.

Link#1 is a live wind map of the continental United States.

Link#2 is a live wind map of the entire World Map.

Link#3 is a live wind map of the entire Earth as a globe.

Check out these three links and play around with the controls.  Explore how the wind blows in different areas.  All three maps allow you to zoom in and out.  Notice how the wind blows straight in some places, but in other places it swirls around.  In some places the winds will blow clockwise. In other places they blow counterclockwise.  Think about what we have learned about wind patterns. See if you can identify which swirls are the High Pressure Systems and which are the Low Pressure Systems.

Since the marking period is ending make sure you review all of the past posts. Check if you missed any assignments. Your report card grade is counting on you!

Please stay healthy and safe.

 

* * * Monday 04/13/2020

Hello Everyone.  I hope you all had a nice Hoiday.

Last week We began looking into the Air Pressure and Wind.  We took some notes and viewed some YouTube Videos dealing with the subject.

Today we will start off with some more videos.  This time we will be viewing videos by Discovery Education.  You can find the link to Discovery Education on the Brentwood website at the following address bufsd.org/apps or you can simply just click on the logo below to log in.

 Discovery Education

Once you are logged in, you will find the ASSIGNMENTS tab. Click the assignments tab to find your assingned videos.  I have selected for you to watch three fairly short videos about Wind. 

For each video, Once you have watched the whole thing, please click the "MARK COMPLETE" button.  You must do this for each of the videos in order to get classwork credit. If you don't click "MARK COMPLETE" you won't get credit for watching the videos.

The three videos are:  Wind, Science in Progress (Global Wind Systems), and Science in Progress (Jet Streams).  

Once you are finished with the three videos, go to page 14 of the ESRT.  Here is the Link to the ESRT if you don't have your printed copy.

Look at the chart in the middle of page 14 titled "Planetary Wind and Moisture Belts in the Troposphere." You will see that the chart on the outer edge shows the Hadley Cells and Polar Cells that were discussed in the videos.  The outer part of the diagram also shows the locations of the Polar Jet streams and Subtropical Jet streams.

The inner circle of the diagram shows Earth's general surface winds.  The wind belts on the north side and south side of the equator are labled "N.E. Winds and S.E. Winds."  The videos called these the "Trade Winds."

When you look at the wind belt between 30 degrees North and 60 Degrees North, it is called the "S.W. Winds" on the chart. We call this wind belt the Westerlies.  New York State and All of the Continental U.S. is located within this wind belt.  This is why our prevailing winds generally blow from west to east.  These prevailing winds will cause the weather systems and storms where we live to also move from west to east.  Want to know what the weather here in New York is going to be tomorrow? Just look to the west and see what its doing in Chicago and St. Louis today!

CASTLE LEARNING is where you should go now.  Your most current Castle Learning assignment is named "Air Pressure and Wind." You will need your ESRTs for some of the questions.  Use the temperature and air pressure conversion charts on page 13.

As usual, if you have any questions please contact me.

Please stay safe and be well.

 

* * * Thursday 04/09/2020

Hello Earth Science Students. I hope you are having a good day.

For today's content we will begin with a video.  This YouTube video goes along with Temperature and humidity, but also bridges us into our next weather topic, Air Pressure. Here is the link to the Video: If Heat Rises, why do higher altitudes have lower temperatures?

Next up, here is a slideshow that deals with the topic of Air Pressure and wind. Please take notes in your notebook as we have been doing. Remember you can also find the file for today's slide show in the DOWNLOADS section here on our schoolnotes website, as well as the file section in Microsoft TEAMS.

Once you are finished with the notes, I have three more YouTube videos for you.

The first is simply titled Wind and Air Pressure

Next up: Pressure and Weather. Why is high pressure associated with fair, clear skies while low pressure systems are associated with clouds and rain

Last video: "Weather Wise" High Pressure vs. Low Pressure.

Stay safe and enjoy your holidays.

 

* * * Tuesday 04/07/2020

Greetings Earth Science Investigators!  I hope you are having a good day.

Today's assignment is back to our good old friend Castle Learning.  We have spent a fair amount of time learning about Temperature and Humidity, so now its time to check your knowledge and skills.

You are going to need to use your reference tables to do this assignment.  You will need to use the Dew Point and Relative Humidity charts on page 12, as well as the temperature conversion chart on page 13. Remember you can get the Reference Tables online here. LINK TO ESRTs

Take your time with the questions in this assignment.  Some of them are straightforward.  Some will require you to go back and check your notes.  Some of them you will certainly need to think and problem solve.  I think it will take most of you a fair amount of time to think your way through. 

Have a good day. Please do everything you can to stay healthy and safe.

 

* * * Friday 04/03/2020

Hello Earth Science Enthusiasts! I hope you are doing well today.

For today's assignments you will be doing a worksheet and NEWSELA.

Let's get started with NEWSELA.  Many of you are already familiar with Newsela.  If that is the case, please click the link below to log in and join the class.  If you have never used Newsela before, then please find the special instructions further down in this post.

5th Period, please click this link:  https://newsela.com/quickjoin/#/3DX8GJ  5th Period join Code is 3DX8GJ

7th Period, please click this link:  https://newsela.com/quickjoin/#/VGFCHB  7th Period Join Code is VGFCHB

Please read the article titled "Dew Defined." Once you have finished reading the article, please click the ACTIVITIES button on the right side of the page. Then complete the Quiz questions and the Writing Prompt.

If you have never used NEWSELA before, then please click the "How-To" link for YOUR class period.

5th Per NEWSELA How-To instructions

7th Per NEWSELA How-To instructions

On Wednesday you took notes on the Slide Show dealing with finding Relative Humidity and Dew Point using the ESRT Page 12 charts.  Here is a brief YouTube video that reviews this process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mipaX-2oxwA

Now you get to try your skills.  Download the two worksheets and find the Wet Bulb Depression, Relative Humidity, and Dew Point Temperature. If you can print the worksheet, that is good.  If you can't print, that is OK. Just put the answers on a fresh sheet of paper in your notes.  Put the question number, then list the wet bulb depression, then list the relative humidity, then list the dew point.

For Example

1. 3 degrees, 74%, 15 degrees (you can write the symbol for degrees instead of writing degrees)

There is some way to turn the work in electronically, but I don't know how to do that yet.  I'll get back to you how we will go about submitting work.

So here are the worksheets

Humidity & Dew Point Worksheet 01A

Humidity & Dew Point Worksheet 01B

The second worksheet has you reading a graph of Air Temperature, Dew Point, and Relative Humidity. Once again if you can print the worksheet, that is good.  If you can't print the worksheet, that is fine, just put your answers on a clean sheet in your notebook.

That's all for now. Have a healthy and safe weekend.

 

* * * Wednesday 04/01/2020

Greetings Earth Science Learners!

In addition to this website, we are now also on TEAMS! more info in the blog post in the blog section below...or click this link.

Today we expand upon our understanding of Relative Humidity and Dew Point.

Let's begin with a few video segments.  Please follow these links.

Video One: The Making of a Cloud

Video Two: "Feels Like" Temperature

Video Three: Finding the Dew Point

Now for today's notes.  Today we look at the task of finding Relative Humidity and Dew Point Temperature.  To do this you will need your ESRTs (Earth Science Reference Tables).  If you don't have your ESRTs at home with you, remember you can download them. I'll even give you a link. LINK TO ESRTs

Here is the link to today's slide show.  Please take notes in your notebook as we have been doing. Remember you can also find the file for today's slide show in the files section here on our schoolnotes website, as well as the file section in Microsoft TEAMS.

OK. One last video. This one demonstrates how to use the Sling Psychrometer. Follow the link to the video: Using a Sling Psychrometer

 

* * * Monday 03/30/2020

Hello Earth Science Crew! Today we continue our journey into the realm of Weather.

If you havent had a chance to look at the slides for Temperature and humidity from Friday, please look at them first.  Link to Friday's notes (Temp & Humidity)

Now you are ready to look at a new concept called Dew Point. As you view the slide show, please take notes on the vocabulary tems listed on each of the slides. Please transcribe the information from each slide into your notes (Unless the slide says you don't need to.)

Link to notes on Dew Point

Lastly for today, here is a youtube video that deals with Temperature, Relative Humidity and Dew Point.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EbDKEAy5tw  Please compare the information in the video to the notes you have just taken.

 

* * * Friday 03/27/2020

Hello Earth Science! Hopefully by now you have had a chance to review the Energy Unit videos, work on the Energy Unit Review on Castle Learning, and also complete the Energy Unit Quiz on Castle Learning.

Before I continue, just a quick word about the Red Review Book.  Quite a few of you have contacted me because your Red Book is still at school. DONT WORRY! We will work around the Red Book for now.  I am looking into alternatives. I appreciate your patience as I continue to search for digital online content and learn how to use it.

Now we are ready to Move Forward to Topic 7: Weather!

The Weather Unit will be broken up into four subtopics:

1. Temperature, Humidity, Dewpoint, & Cloud Formation

2. Air Pressure, Wind, and Station Models

3. Weather Systems, Air Masses, & Fronts

4. Severe Weather and Storms.

We are going to get started with Temperature and Humidity. You already know what Temperature is. I have modified my powerpoint slide show for you to view online. It is in PDF format because it seemed easiest to navigate. Please look for the Temperature and Humidity Notes in the Files section lower down on this page. I will eventually load it into Microsoft 360 Teams once I figure out how to do it.

Link to our First set of Weather Notes

As you view the slide show, please take notes on the vocabulary tems listed on each of the slides.  If you left your Earth Science Notebook in school, you should start a new one.  Please transcribe the information from each slide into your notes (Unless the slide says you don't need to.)

 

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