Regents Earth Science- Overview of Class Agenda and Goals
Week 16-20
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Week 16: 12/16-12/20
Monday
-Go Over HW
-Finish Video
-Finish Seafloor Spreading Lab
Tuesday
Wednesday
Snow Day
-Practice and Review
-Unit Test: Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and
Volcanoes
-Start Interpreting Earth’s History
-Alternative Energy Honors Presentations
Thursday
Friday
Lab: Origin of the Hawaiian Islands
EXPLAIN how sea floor spreading
and plate tectonics have shaped
the ocean floor
SUMMARIZE how civilians have
been affected by volcanoes
DESCRIBE how volcanoes form
Snow Day
OUTLINE the rules used to
determine what happened in the
geologic past
RESEARCH information about the
geologic past using the ESRT
CHART the location of the
Hawaiian Islands
PREDICT where the next
Hawaiian Island will form
Week 17: 1/2/2014-1/3/2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Winter Break
Winter Break
Happy New Year
Snow Day
Snow Day
Week 18: 1/6/2014-1/10/2014
Monday
Tuesday
-Check off/Go over Packet
-Packet Quiz
-Finish Alternative Energy Honors Presentations
Lab: Origin of the Hawaiian Islands
CHART the location of the
Hawaiian Islands
PREDICT where the next
Hawaiian Island will form
Wednesday
-Finish Interpreting Earth’s History
-ESRT Practice
Thursday
Sequence of Events practice
Correlation Notes
ESRT Practice
Friday
-Absolute Dating
-Half-Lifes
OUTLINE the rules used to
determine what happened in the
geologic past
RESEARCH information about the
geologic past using the ESRT
DETERMINE the sequence of
events of rock strata using
standard rules
MATCH rock layers using certain
characteristics
CALCULATE the half-life of a
substance
DETERMINE the absolute age of
an object given radioactive
decay amounts
Week 19: 1/13/2014-1/17/2014
Monday
-Continue practice with half-lifes
Tuesday
-Notes: Mass Extinctions
Wednesday
-Sequence of Events Lab
Thursday
-RRB practice
-Matching Rock Layers Lab
Friday
-Quiz: Geologic History and Geologic Dating
-Begin Review for Mid Term
Week 20: 1/20/2014-1/24/2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
MLK Day
Review for practical section of the midterm
-Practical section of the midterm
-Review: Density, equations and mapping
Review: Minerals and Rocks
Review: Geologic History
CALCULATE the half-life of a
substance
DETERMINE the absolute age of
an object given radioactive
decay amounts
DESCRIBE how events from the
past are used to predict events
of the future
CREATE a sequence of events
using rules commonly used in
the field
CORRELATE rock layers using the
rules outlined in class
DETERMINE the relative and
absolute age of rock layers using
the rules of interpreting geologic
history and correlation