Geologic Time Websites

Understanding Geologic Time: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/index.html

BrainPop Natural Selection - http://www.brainpop.com/science/ecologyandbehavior/naturalselection/

BrainPop DNA -http://www.brainpop.com/science/cellularlifeandgenetics/dna/

BrainPop Heredity -http://www.brainpop.com/science/cellularlifeandgenetics/heredity/



Enchanted Learning - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/Geologictime.html

Geologic and Biological Timeline of the Earth - http://www.scientificpsychic.com/etc/timeline/timeline.html

UC Berkeley's Geologic Time Line - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.php

1/30 - 2/2

Monday's homework: Read Chapter 8,4 and do the corresponding workbook pages. Also make flashcards for: Pangea, Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift, Geologic Time, and Alfred Weneger ALL DUE FRIDAY!!!

Wednesday is Challenge day so there will not be additional homework.

Friday: We begin our geologic time projects. Homework will be to study flashcards and complete the Alfred Wegener Biography worksheet.

1/24-1/26

Tuesday: Finding Clues in Rock Layers Lab - students need to finish for homework.
Turned in: Natural Selection Cartoon & Nature at Work (Brown/ white mice lab)

Thursday: homework- make flashcards for all highlighted terms IN YOUR NOTES- for evolution
(Students were given time in class to write down all of the terms in their planner/ agenda.)

Grades are posted on AERIES.

Notebooks will be collected on Thursday. Notebooks have all been graded. If you don't have grades in AERIES it's because I didn't get your notebook!

Test next Friday.

Evolution Webquest

Please visit the following websites IN ORDER. Answer the questions on the worksheet provided.
Part 2:http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html
Part 3: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa_pre_2011/evolution/evolutionact.shtml
Part 4:
http://www.biologyinmotion.com/evol/index.html
Part 5: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/edexcel/environment/evolutionrev1.shtml

Part 6:http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIE1bStratigraphy.shtml
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/similarity_hs_02
Part 7:http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIE2cHumanevo.shtml
Part 8: http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.evo.howhappens/
Part 9: http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078757134/383939/BL_12.html
Part 10: Evolution Rocks Song http://www.overman.info/evolutionrocks.html

January - 2nd Semester

Hello All,

It's great to be back and feeling normal. I've appreciated all of the kind words and thoughts.

Homework:

1/9: Darwin worksheet and questions on back

1/11: read Chapter 7, 1 and workbook pages 111-114

1/13: Peppered Moth Internet Activity & Worksheet http://www.techapps.net/interactives/pepperMoths.swf

Please note there will be a QUIZ on VOCABULARY and CONCEPTS next FRIDAY!!! (Unless I can reserve the computer lab.)