Upcoming events

Congrats on making your "Plate Tectonic Musical." You did an awesome job, I loved the results, you obviously loved them from today's reaction, and it is something I would definitely like to revisit at least before the end of the year is out. Have your minds set to possibly do a "Cell Musical" and Museum when we hit that subject in the fourth nine weeks.

And now for the up and comings:

- Notebook Check on next Wednesday, December 10. This will be our last one for this nine weeks.

- Performance Assessment next Friday: In other words, it will be a test but not like the regular pen and paper at your desk type of test...

- Here's the line-up for next week:

12-8: Notes and discussion on sedimentation and types, effects, and benefits of weathering and erosion

12-9:(Happy Birthday, Mom!) Rock'n Roll Lab Activity--We see what a jar full of rocks will look like after being shaken, rattled, and rolled all day long.

12-10: Notes and discussion on Superposition plus a coring activity

12-11: Differentiated Instruction Centers---there will be some new ones, the rock cycle card game will likely be one.

12-12: Performance Based Assessment:
Here's some things you may want to be prepped for:
- Identifying the different boundaries by sight
- Arranging the types of rocks into the rock cycle
- know your glossary...by now it should contain the terms from chapters 6, 8, and 9.
- Be able to describe what occurs during an earthquake from start to finish using the following terms/concepts: transform boundary, strike-slip fault, epicenter, P-wave, S-wave
- Know the difference between a P-wave and an S-wave and be able to demonstrate an example of each.

Well that's it for upcoming attractions for now. Please remember that extra opportunities are due by December 18. And here are a few more:

*If you went to the CSI Science night, write about your experience-- 8 pts.
*If you went to the "Walking With Dinosaurs" show at the Veteran's Memorial Arena, write about your experience --8 pts, try for a page in length.
*Make your own sedimentary imprint or fossil by simulating the sedimentation process(i.e. wet sand, plaster of paris, an imprint in clay, etc.) . Any imprint will do, be it hand print, footprint, shoe impression, coin, leaf, pet's paw print, etc. Explain in writing how this is like the actual sedimentation process and how scientists or other people might use this in everyday life.