Netlicious

You all did GREAT work today and were relentless in your focus!!! YEAH. Thank you for being so responsible for your actions and learning. Tomorrow, you will have an additional 45 minutes to work on projects. We will do presentations on Monday.

Tonight, for HW, please draw a NET for a rectangular prism that would be proportional to one with a length of 42 km, width of 21 km, and height of 7 km. That's one HUGE rectangular prism.

Nets!!!!

Study the net sheet that was given out in class today. In your Earth Journal, draw one of the nets at a different scale. Make sure it is to SCALE though.

CHECK OUT ALL THE NETS!

Solar System Trends Research and E Day

Tonight, please make sure to complete your data table if you have not already done so.
NASA is a great place to start your search.
Also, EXPAND the following vocabulary:
celsius
fahrenheit
planet
moon
satellite
solid figure
net (geometry)

Extra Credit Opportunity:
Research and present to the class- What is the difference between a planet, dwarf planet and plutoid?

Jekyll Jeopardy

We hope you enjoyed the game! Congrats Ms. Waldman's advisory. Do you know all these words?
Beach Ecology

Accretion - building up of land by physical forces
Barrier island - long, narrow island lying parallel to the mainland and separated from it by bay, lagoon, or marsh
Bivalve - Mollusks having two shells (like clams, oysters, and mussels)
Continental Shelf - remaining submerged portion of the coastal plain
Continental Slope - the actual edge of the continent whose slope rapidly falls to a deep plateau and eventually into the ocean depths
Erosion - process of being gradually worn away
Georgia bight (South Atlantic bight) - inward-curving shape of the coast line stretching from Cape Hatteras, NC to Miami, FL
Longshore current - current that runs parallel to the shore within the surf zones
Sandbar - submerged or exposed line of sand accumulated by wave action
Sand dunes - a hill of sand piled up by the wind
Sea oats - a tall grass (Uniola panicolata) that grows on the coast of the southern U.S. and helps hold the sand dunes together
Tides - periodic changes in the height of the ocean caused by the gravitational forces of the moon and the sun
Univalve - Mollusks having only one shell (like snails, whelks, conchs)
Wrack - debris washed up along the high tide line of a beach

Marsh Ecology

Anaerobic - without oxygen, as in anaerobic mud
Barrier island - long, narrow island lying parallel to the mainland and separated from it by bay, lagoon, or marsh
Detritus - particles of dead organic matter and the decomposers that live on it
Estuary - body of water partially surrounded by land where fresh water from rivers mixes with ocean water, creating an area of remarkable biological productivity
Hammock - areas of higher elevation in the salt marsh which support shrubs and trees
Salt marsh - a grassy area that extends along the shores of estuaries and sheltered coasts in temperate regions
Salt pan - an undrained area in a salt marsh in which water gathers and leaves a deposit of salt on evaporation
Spartina alterniflora - a tall perennial, plant which dominates the salt marshes of coastal Georgia
Tides - periodic changes in the height of the ocean caused by the gravitational forces of the moon and the sun

Maritine Forest Ecology

Canopy - the uppermost branchy layer of a forest
Climax community - a stable, long-established community of self-perpetuating organisms that tends not to change with time
Community - populations of all species that occupy a particular habitat and interact within that habitat
Dune ridge - upland ridges originally formed from sand dunes on relic beaches
Epiphyte - a plant that lives on another plant
Maritime forest - the forests by the sea that are characterized by live oaks, palms, and palmettos
Microclimate - the essentially uniform local climate of a small habitat
Pioneer plants - plants capable of establishing themselves in a bare area and initiating an ecological cycle
Salt-shearing - pruning of tree limbs, buds, and leaves the salt carried in the sea breezes
Slough - freshwater areas ranging from temporary ponds to permanent swamps and freshwater marshes, those on barrier islands are typically formed in swales where the surface of the ground is close to the water table
Succession - the changes in species composition that lead to a climax community
Swale - low area between dune ridges
Understory - the plants of a forest that grow low to the ground

Moon Papers Due TOMORROW

Final drafts of Moon Papers are due tomorrow. Also, make sure you practice your math!!!

Catch Up Week!

This week we are catching up on the moon papers and math practice with ratio, proportion, conversions and measurement.
Tonight, you need to finish your moon paper revisions to be turned in to me for a final review prior to final drafts which are due on Friday.

Off to Jekyll

We celebrated the moon today, and all students received their moon papers back. We still have significant work to do on these papers, so students will be working on them until Friday, February 19th when they will turn in a Final Draft. They received a rubric to use in correcting/revising their current draft. If students have any questions, I encourage them to see me to address them. I want to be sure that students understand what they are writing.

For now though, it is off to Jekyll. YEAH!!!

DEAR MOON- How we love thee!

We are closing out our unit on the Earth, Moon and Sun System. I am looking forward to reading all of your papers. As I told you in class today, we will have a quiz on the moon tomorrow. If you want to review or just want to learn more, check out these links:
NASA: The Moon
Google Moon
Moon at Enchanted Learning

Final Draft Due Tomorrow

Be ready to turn it in first thing :)
Then, we will work on math concepts that you need to review.

Argument Paper

Please make sure to complete your rough draft for at least 2 of the 4 body paragraphs.

Moon Paper Concept Map

Tonight, you need to complete your moon paper concept map that we started in class. We will begin writing our Argument Papers tomorrow. You should have three pieces of evidence or facts to support your reasoning in each paragraph.

Main Idea: The moon looks different over time because...
Paragraph 1: We see the phases of the moon in the order that we do because...
Paragraph 2: We only see eclipses once in a while because...
Paragraph 3: We only see one side of the moon because...
Paragraph 4: The moon rises and sets at different times each day because...

Some vocabulary and/or facts that you might include in your concept map:
- period of rotation (Earth- approx 24 hours; moon- approx 28 days)
- period of revolution (Earth- approx 365 days; moon- approx 28 days)
- angle of inclination (There is a 5 degree angle of inclination between the Earth and the moon when the moon is in the full (5 degrees above the bisecting line) and new (5 degrees below the bisecting line) moon phases)
- bisecting line, equatorial line
- node
- perspective (as in "From our perspective on Earth, we see... )
- eclipse
- phase (new, full, first quarter, third quarter)
- rotational direction (counter clockwise or clockwise as viewed from the North pole of the Earth)
- orbital direction (counter clockwise or clockwise as viewed from the North pole of the Earth)