Course Material References Minerals and Rocks
The Elements Song:
Periodic Table Haikus:
Where do the Elements come from?
Notes on Chemistry (In Orange Handouts booklet pg 4-6)
Notes Rock Types and Cycle
Identify rocks around the room as Ig, Sed, Meta and why
Finish Workbook #1-22
(Put up Minerals of Canada poster)
NaCl Love song:
Mineral Notes (Handouts book pages 7-18)
Mineral Lab (using large samples, one at a time)
Mineral Lab
Click here: Quiz hints for quiz next class
Chemistry and Minerals Quiz /15
Finish Mineral Lab
go over lab
Follow-up: pg 19-21 in Handouts booklet
Practice for Quiz:
Finish White Workbook up to #47 – good mineral review (esp #23 to 47) 🙂
Quizlet – search for Mineral Identification quizzes
Etc
Quiz – pass the mineral pictures
Start Igneous Rocks notes
bring winter gloves tomorrow
Meet in Room 203 (science wing)
Combining Minerals Lab – bring winter gloves
Ch 3 notes, to end of section B
Workbook #51, 53, 56
Ch 3 notes up to end of E Pg 24-26
Igneous Lab pg 28-29
Ig Lab Summary Qs pg 29
Review for quiz (next class)
Rock Cycle & Bowen’s Quiz /10
Finish/go over Igneous lab,
Summary Qs pg 29
Finish Ch 3 notes Pg 26-27
Assign White Workbook pg 19 #48 – 57 and 59
Igneous rock id activity
Extra review:
Create a mind map of all the Igneous material (Ch3) for use on the quiz tomorrow. You will also be given a pink data booklet to use.
Volcanoes
Viscosity Demo
Video (3.5 min): Felsic vs Mafic
T-chart of mafic vs felsic
Pillow Lava:
Pahoehoe vs aa: type “pahoehoe vs aa” into google images
Columnar Joints: type “columnar joints” into google images
Create a song mafic vs felsic: Create a Song (due next class)
Ch 3 (pg 22 to 29 in Orange booklet) Quiz /18
Sing songs (for bonus) and hand in
Go Over: Types of Volcanoes and Types of Magma (orange booklet pg30-31 Sections A & B)
Types of Volcanoes powerpoint
Types of Hazards (pg 32)
Discuss Volcanoes and Tectonics (pg 32-35 orange booklet)
Handouts booklet: do as many Qs as you can from pg 36 to 42
White workbook: pg 13 #58 & 60
Notes: volcano predictors, sills vs lava flows, lava vs magma (fill in white workbook # 61, 63, 64)
Intrusive Features video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KKA0yOi6xQ
Test Overview
Finish orange handouts booklet (pages 36-44)
Finish workbook (pages 1-16, all questions)
Test Ch 1-4 Minerals, Igneous, Volcanoes
White Workbook is also due
Weathering and Erosion
Notes W and E
Purple Handouts booklet pg 1-2 (using notes and internet)
White Workbook #1-3, 6-14
Go over W&E worksheets
Mass Wasting
Purple Handouts pg 4-7
Good explanation (5 min)
Good visuals (3 min)
Good video (1 min):
Go over Mass Wasting worksheets
Weathering on Quizizz.com (Ms. Della will host a live game…)
White Workbook: all questions pages 1-4
W&E & Mass Wasting Quiz /10
Demo sand in water on overhead…
Streams notes (to saltation)
White Workbook pg 5 # 1, 5-8, 10-14, 17, 18
Lion’s Park
Meet in classroom – we’ll walk over together, if the weather allows.
Walking Scavenger Hunt – if you are absent, please do this assignment
Start Ground Water notes
Porosity/Permeability demo (shale, sandstone, water, scale)
Finish Ground Water notes
Purple pg 12-17
Go over Purple pages 16, 17
Video:
White workbook: jump ahead and do pg 14-18
Streams and Ground Water Quiz /10 (open notes)
Glaciers: pg 18 Notes to end of Moraines
White: pg 9 #1 erosional part, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18
Purple: pg 22 # 1-5, 8-10, pg 23 # 1-14, 17-22
Glaciers: Notes to end of pg 20
Purple: pg 22 to 28 – complete any not finished yet
Go over pg 28 (crossword) in purple booklet
Glaciers Quiz /10
Start Sed notes Pg 29 in purple handouts
Sedimentary Lab
Finish lab
Finish Sedimentary Rocks Notes
Review
Test overview
Sedimentary Rocks worksheet in handouts booklet (pg 33-34)
White workbook
Go over pg 33-34 purple booklet
Review videos:
Check key for white workbook from beginning of unit in right column
Surface Processes Review in handouts booklet (pg 35)
Group review activity
Ensure your white workbooks are completed for handing in tomorrow
Surface Processes test /65
Hand in White Workbook
Geologic Time
Relative Dating Notes
Green Handouts Book Pg 1-4,
Notes: Buried Lava Flow vs Sill
White Workbook pg 1-4 (hand out today) (See KEY on first day of this unit)
Relative Dating Quiz /16
Pre-read radioactive dating website:
Pre-read radioactive dating (in-class text):
“Earth Past and Present” pg 337 – 346
Radiometric Dating notes and lab (pg 7-9 green)
Question: How do you think scientists find out the absolute age of a sedimentary layer?
Go over lab (pg 7-9 green)
Finish notes
More practice questions (pg 8 & 10 green)
Relative time and Absolute Time WS (pg 11-12 green)
Practice Macaroni Quiz (pg 13 green)
Macaroni quiz /5
Geologic timescale
Notes on rest of chapter (pg 14-15 green)
White workbook pg 5-8
Timeline on a String
Geologic Timescale Activity (adding machine tape) (green pg 16)
Fossils
Put events into pink data booklet pg 4
Notes: Relative dating with fossils
Work on White Workbook (do what you can from pg 1-16)
demo Mold & Cast
Do IEH Lab Activity to learn fossils (find all phyla names, we’ll go over these before you proceed)
Go over IEH Lab Activity
Put phyla names, etc onto pg 5 pink data booklet
Look at pg 3 in pink data booklet
Practice Quiz (quiz in couple days)
Real Fossils Activity (pg 25 green workbook, in class activity using real fossils, no answer key available)
Practice Quiz (fossils and read out events)
Time to work on workbooks – can do white pages 1-16 (see key at beginning of unit)
(omit for now pg 10 #7, pg 11 #5, pg 12 #9 10, pg 13 #14)
Review for quiz
Faunal Succession/Correlation Exercise (green pg26-28)
Sed environments/which way is up worksheet (green pg 30)
Review
Review page (on OneNote)
Fossils (PP) and Fossil ID Review Activity (PP)
TGT
Review on own or with a partner
Internal Processes
Try This: Calculate the rate of plate motion, in cm/y, if a plate has moved 300 km in 10 million years. (Show work, answer is 3 cm/y)
Continue Ch 9 notes (Part B, including subduction zone)
Practice:
Orange Handouts booklet pg 1-6 (mostly multiple choice)
White workbook rest of questions from pg 1-8
Finish Ch 9 notes (Part C)
Movie: Where Terranes Collide (25 min; orange booklet pg 9-10)
Homework: Local Plate Tectonics (pg 11 orange booklet)
Questions on Local Plate Tectonics? Finish and hand in
Go over Orange booklet pg 1-6
Discuss Geology of BC (Orange pg 7-8, referring to video yesterday)
Make a mind map of Plate Tectonics as a way to study for the quiz next class (includes subduction zone and rate calculation, plus other…)
Review Video (12:43 min)
Finish off pages 1-8 in White Workbook
Quiz on Plate Tectonics /10
Ch 10 notes: Earthquakes (pg 12-13 orange (inc Surface Waves))
Start pages 9-14 in White Workbook #1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 26, 30
Chapter 10 notes (finish): Earthquakes (orange pg 13-15)
Earthquakes word search with clues (orange pg 20)
Continue White Workbook pg 9-14
Go over homework
Detailed description of how to locate an earthquake
Epicentre Home Assignment (Orange pg 16-19)
Work on White Workbook (finish pages 1-14)
Quick Quiz on Earthquakes /5
Layers of the Earth Diagram (pg 23)
Walk to the Centre of the Earth!
Ch 11 Notes
Ch 11 Fill in the Blank (pg 25-26)
Beginning Activity: List 5 ways we have learned details about the centre of the Earth
Alternate way to organized layers of Earth in a diagram
Start “The Core” (pg 21-22 orange booklet)
Finish “The Core”
White workbook (finish pages 1-14 and 18-20)
Finish The Core
Go over: Orange pg 21-22 (The Core WS), pg 25-26 (Earth’s Interior WS)
Study for 5 mark quiz on Earth’s Interior
Quiz in last 5-10 minutes of class.
Beginning Activity: Draw and label a rift and subduction zone area
Strike Dip Notes and Activity
Notes on Faults
Work on Workbook (start pg 21 #1-17, omit 5 for now)
Notes: Folds, Isostacy
Playdough activity (orange pg 30-31)
White Workbook (pg 15-17 Isostacy, and pg 21 to 33)
Go over Pladough activity, with playdough
Picture Mix-up! (orange pg 32)
Structural Geology 3-D Block Diagrams
Practice block diagram
For each model, complete cross-sections, draw strike/dip etc on map, as directed, and answer the following questions on the back of said model:
Model 1: # 1
Model 2: # 3
Model 3: # 6, 7
Model 4: # 10
Model 5: # 14
Model 6: # 16, 17, 18, 19
Note: simple rules on pg 212 of pdf
Remember:
Strike is always parallel to the lines on the map
Dip points in the direction the layers are tilting underground
Practice block diagram
Continue Structural Geology lab
Practice block diagram
Finish Structural Geology Lab
Do worksheet (orange pg 35-36)
Work on white workbook
Start a REFERENCE SHEET for the test
Put your name on it in ink!
Must be hand written (not typed), by you.
8.5 by 11 paper, one side only
Start Review
Test overview
Processes and plate boundaries (pg 37)
Plate movement calculation (pg 38)
Volcano review day (video, OneNote, questions in review)
Review Package (key on back of Orange booklet and here –>)
Continue Review Package
Continue one-sided, 8.5×11, reference sheet
Teams Games Tournament
Bonus Quiz /5
White Workbook due
Ch 4, 9-12 test /65
FINAL EXAM REVIEW DAY :
Old provincial exams are an excellent way to review
Create a REFERENCE SHEET:
1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
Hand written by you
Your name on it in ink
Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
Metamorphic Rocks, Resources, Planetology METAMORPHIC ROCKS
Quick review of limits, characteristics of meta rocks
Minerals in meta rocks
Meta lab – name together, then write a history of each rock in set (parent rock, processes underwent in what location…)
Workbook pg 38-42 (Crossword, fill-in-blank, texture matching)
Cans Activity (review of Min, Ig, Sed, Meta rocks)
Review Minerals and all three rock types (3 more crosswords)
Work on Reference Sheet for final exam
1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
Hand written by you
Your name on it in ink
Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
RESOURCES
Notes: geology of BC, important BC resources, types of deposits
Video (3 min): Formation of Ore Deposits
Workbook section F pg 1-8 at least #1-4, 9-16, and beyond if you can, if we’ve covered it.
Notes: Fossil Fuels
Videos:
Workbook page 1-8 (finish off)
PLANETOLOGY
Compare planets of Solar System to Earth
in 5 groups
use internet to find information (see pg 8a) about your assigned planets (Use NASA sites!)
record on chart paper for presentation to class tomorrow
Presentations to class
Discuss, create T-chart of inner vs outer planets
Solar System PP
Nebular Model
Inner Planets chart
Workbook Pg 9-14
Tectonic Analysis of Planet X143B-M Exercise
Planet X143B-M Exercise due
Meta/Resources/Planetology Test /30 (OPEN NOTES, all multiple choice)
Review (see practice exams to the right)
Classroom structure activity (~45 minutes)
Work on Reference Sheet for final exam
1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
Hand written by you
Your name on it in ink
Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
Review: Old provincial exams are an excellent way to study!!
See two practice exams (linked above, 2 days ago.)
Games
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Plate Tect, Equakes, Volcanoes: 9530 1899
E’s layers, Plate Tect: 9935 6663
Ig rocks: 6960 3142
Sed rocks: 7240 2860
Weathering: 7462 3326
Work on Reference sheet