Earth Sciences 11

In this course, we'll dive into various aspects of our planet, Earth. Learning about our home is the first step in understanding how our actions impact the environment and how we can safeguard it.

We'll explore geology, which includes topics like how rocks and minerals form, how mountains are created through plate tectonics, what causes volcanoes and earthquakes, and the processes of weathering and erosion. Additionally, we'll delve into subjects related to climate, water resources, oceans, weather systems, our solar system, and the stars beyond.


Extra Help: Please make an appointment to see me if you are having difficulty with a particular concept or if you are falling behind.  :)
March 3, 2024

Wednesday: 
Student Survey
When finished the survey, read this article: ​Article: Mineral Mines in BC


Activity: Mineral Mine Map of BC
Resources for activity:
​ ​Article: BC Mineral Resources
​ ​Mineral Mine Map of BC (also in Classroom)
​ ​Provincial Mineral Map
​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Monday: Double block 9:14 - 12:00
Final Project Criteria


Monday: Complete this activity to become more familiar with the motion of the stars and planets.
​Video: How to Use a Sky Chart
Activity: ​Interactive Star Chart
​Link to Interactive Star Chart
​

Tuesday:
​Video: Reasons for the seasons
​Notes: The sun and seasons 
​Video: Seasons
​Extra video: The equinox isn't what you think it is!
​Lab: Earth-Sun Relations (Page 2-7)
​Lab KEY: Earth - Sun Relations  ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Wednesday: Today students finished the solar radiation lab
​Video: What causes the seasons
​Lab KEY: (see Tuesday)
​Video: What causes the Northern Lights
​Video: Why Earth's Magnetic Shield Matters

Thursday:
​Video: How Ice Ages Happen - Milankovitch Cycles
​Activity: Using the information from the video, and your own research, create a poster that describes the three parts of the Milankovitch cycles and how they influence the climate on the earth.
Image: The Milankovitch Cycles​ ​
Reference: NASA info on Milankovitch cycles​ ​

Review: complete assignments and ​labs from the past 2 weeks. Use the keys posted here to quiz yourself and check your answers.​

Friday: Link to the space unit test

This test only covers material from January. Topics include:
- Life cycle of a star
- How we study stars (colour and luminosity - "spectroscopy")
- H R Diagram
- The Celestial Sphere (the ecliptic, motion of stars and planets, constellations)
- The sun and seasons (how earth's elliptical orbit, tilt, and latitude affect the amount and intensity of sunlight the surface receives)
- Milankovitch Cycles (how changes in earth's solar position and orientation create long term climate patterns)

Monday: Life cycle of a star
​Slides: Our Night Sky
​Notes: Life cycle of a star
​Assignment: life cycle of a star (explanations in class)

Tuesday: Today we finished the life cycle of a star assignment and began learning how we study stars using light.
​Video: stars 101
​Finish life cycle of a star project we started yesterday
​Video: Spectroscopy of Stars
​Do notes on backside of life cycle of a star notes
​​Video: Basics of H-R Diagram​​ ​

Wednesday:
​Video: How do we study the stars?
​Video: Stars and the H-R Diagram ​ ​
​Lab (and KEY): H-R Diagram

Thursday: Today students finished the H-R graph and answered the questions, and then we began learning about constellations.
​Video: The Celestial Sphere (and in class activity)
​Model: The Celestial Sphere
​Video: Why the Zodiac Still Matters to Astronomy
​Video: The Sun's Path Along The Ecliptic Through the Zodiac  ​ ​ ​

Friday: 
​KEY: Constellations activity
​Constellations activity
Website: constellations
​Video: how to find t​he North Star
​Discovering the Universe Through the Constellation Orion
​ ​ ​

Monday: 
Slides: retrograde motion
Activity: retrograde motion

​Activity: mars expeditions

Tuesday:
​Slides: the Earth's moon
​Activity: phases of the moon (in class)

Wednesday: Tides (see slides posted yesterday)

Thursday: 
​Video: NASA near space network
​Video: NASA deep space network
​Activity: tracking satellites with trilateration

Friday: Happy holidays :)

Monday:
Slides: scale of the solar system(up to slide 4)
​Planet information
Project: scale of the solar system
Video: The Solar System

Tuesday:
​Notes: the solar system
​Slides: the solar system (slides 24-71)
​Notes: the solar system (filled in) ​ ​ ​

Wednesday: Today we finished the scale model of the solar system and completed an in-class space travel consultant activity.

Thursday: Go Golds! Cash only concession. Come to class for attendance. Sadly, the game was postponed :(

Friday:
​Slides: meteoroid impacts
​Lab: meteor impact simulation

Monday:
​Slides: Coriolis effect
​Notes: Coriolis effect
Notes (filled in): Coriolis effect
Activity: Coriolis balloon activity​ ​​ ​

Tuesday:
​Video: local winds (Land & Sea, Mountain & Valley)
​Video: global winds
​Notes: winds
​Notes: winds (KEY) 
​Slides: winds ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​​

Wednesday: After learning about air masses and fronts, the class completed a test review for tomorrow.
​Slides: wind and air masses
​Notes & Practice: air masses and fronts

Thursday: Atmosphere & Weather Test Today
​Test: atmosphere & weather

Friday:
​El nino and la nina
​

Monday:
Complete cloud chart (use pg 506-508 in textbook)
Name that cloud​

Tuesday: Today we finished clouds with a quiz and answering some questions. We also made barometers to measure air pressure and compare daily weather readings.
​Name that cloud quiz
​Measuring air pressure & Daily Weather

Wednesday: Today students learned about air pressure (see notes) and we did some really cool pressure demonstrations with a vacuum pump and made a cloud in a bottle
​Air pressure notes
​KEY: Air pressure notes
Video: Factors that affect air pressure​​​​

Thursday: Today we learned how to use the station model to read weather maps.
​Video: station model
​Weather Symbols
​Notes and practice: Reading weather symbols (KEY)
​Assignment: reading weather maps

Friday: Many students were away today, so we finished the reading weather maps assignment and watched a documentary about extreme weather.​

Monday: Today we began out weather and atmosphere unit
​Slides: Atmosphere (up to slide 17)
​Notes: Atmosphere
​Graphing Activity

Tuesday: Today students learned about earth's energy budget and the greenhouse gas effect (up to slide 26). They completed the layers of the atmosphere graph and answered the questions.

Wednesday:
​Relative Humidity Activity
​Slides: Humidity​
​​Notes: Humidity and precipitation ​​pg. 1
​Notes (filled in): Humidity and clouds

Thursday: Today we completed the notes from yesterday about clouds and began making a cloud chart.
​Slides: clouds
​Notes: Humidity and clouds pg. 2
​Notes (filled in): Humidity and clouds 
​Cloud Chart Template ​(complete using textbook pages 506-507)​

Monday: Today students completed part c of the Shuswap Watershed Map project and started answering questions

Tuesday: Finish Watershed Map and introduction to glaciers
​Slides: Glaciers
​Notes: Glaciers

Wednesday: Today we finished glaciers notes and completed the pre-lab questions.
​Pre-lab Questions (page 1 and 2)​

Thursday: Today students created glacial landscapes
​LAB: Glacial Landscapes

Friday:
​Finish post-lab questions
​Glaciers quiz

Monday: 
​Finished rivers lab write up (in groups)
​Slides: Lakes
​Notes: Lakes

Tuesday:
​Lakes assignment
​Reading for lakes assignment

Wednesday:
Shuswap Watershed Map
​ ​Shuswap Watershed Assignment

Thursday:

Monday: Today we used created a watershed and began making a map for it.

Tuesday: Today we finished making the map of our watershed and studied how water and pollution flow through it.

Wednesday:
​Slides: Rivers
​Notes: Rivers

Thursday: 
​Consulting project

Friday: Rivers lab

Monday:
​Slides: weathering and erosion 
​Video: weathering
​Notes: weathering and erosion
​Weathering Activity

​Surface processes portfolio

Tuesday:
​Slides: erosion and mass movements
Notes: same package as yesterday​
​Video: erosion 
​
​Weathering and erosion assignment

Wednesday: Today we learned about caves and created a cave model to add to our portfolio.
​Slides: caves​

Thursday: This class turned into a work block for people to figure out how to make their portfolio. Students finished:
Weathering activity
Weathering and erosion assignment 

Friday: 
​Avalanche activity  
​Video: ​Throttle Decisions - Snowpack 

 Monday:
​10 Dangerous Volcanoes
​Claim, evidence, reasoning
​Work block for volcanoes project (due Wednesday)

Tuesday:
​Finished volcanoes project
​Slides: volcano hazards

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Tuesday: Introduction to earthquakes.
​Notes: earthquakes
The big one
​P, S, and L waves
Finding the distance to the epicenter​

Wednesday: Earthquake Lab (due Fri, Oct 13)
​1.   Watch Earthquake Epicentre Location (we watched this together)
​2.   Watch these instructions - follow them step by step!

Earthquake Lab​
​ Triangulation: Website for Lab 
​ Liquefaction & Vancouver – who’s at risk?!

Thursday: 
​Slides: earthquake hazards
​Notes: earthquake hazards

Friday:
​Slides: volcanoes
​Notes: volcanoes 
​
​Volcanoes Research Project (due Wed, Oct 18)

​ Helpful Links:
​ ​3 Types of Volcanoes
​ ​List of Volcanic Eruptions

Tuesday: Today we finished notes on evidence for plate tectonics, did a cool convection cell demo, and started notes on plate boundary types. 
​If you missed class, watch these videos and write down the main points from each (short notes and diagrams):
​ ​Convection cells
​ ​Plate Boundaries
​ ​Plate tectonics

Wednesday: Today we finished the notes about plate boundaries and began working on the local plate tectonics assignment (handed out in class).

Thursday: Today we will finish the local plate tectonics assignment. Indigenous oral histories of plate tectonics.

Friday: Plate tectonics quiz moved to Tuesday. 
​The Scientist Who Mapped the Seafloor: Marie Tharp 
​The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think. We Need Better Maps 
​Ocean floor mapping activity

Monday: Today we began the earth materials project. You will be allowed to use this during the unit test on Thursday. Use your notes, the textbook, and resources from previous weeks to complete this.
Earth Materials Project - Due Wednesday by the end of class
Examples - Earth Materials Project

Useful Videos!
​-Minerals
​-Igneous Rocks
​-Sedimentary Rocks
​-Metamorphic Rocks
​-Rock Cycle

Tuesday: Today we are working on the Earth Materials Project.

Wednesday: Today we are finishing the Earth Materials Project and doing a review for the Unit Test tomorrow.

If you finish your project early, do these activities:
​Rocks and Minerals Quiz (read the solutions, even if you got the answer correct!)
​Challenge #2
Watch: What type of rock is this?
​Challenge: Rock ID challenge 
​Watch: Copper mountain mine 
​Watch: Sedimentary Rocks​

Thursday: Earth Materials Unit Test. Introduction to Restless Earth

​After you finish the test, take a 5 min break and then do these activities:
​ ​1. Complete this survey
​ ​2. Do this activity


Don't worry about this. These are just cool links I'm saving for later.
​Earthquake Compilation
​Fault line break in Turkey  
​​Drone footage of faultline in Turkey  

​Swim under a tectonic plate??? 
​

Friday: Today we introduced plate tectonics. If you missed class, complete these activities:
​1. Complete this student survey ( <5 min)
​2. Do this activity (~20 min)
​3. Play this plate tectonic game (~10 min)
​4. Go for a 30 min walk

PPT Notes: Plate tectonics
Slides: Introduction to plate tectonics


If you missed class Tuesday and Wednesday, watch this video (sedimentary rocks) and on a piece of paper make a 'cheat sheet' listing the three types of sedimentary rocks, the different types of rock in each category (for example siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, etc. under clastic; limestone etc. under organic). Basically, create something you would love to have during a test that lists everything possible about sedimentary rocks! Also, if able go outside and find different types of sedimentary rocks.

Tuesday: Today we completed up to question 4 in the Sedimentary Rocks Assignment. 

Wednesday: Today we finished the Sedimentary Rocks Assignment. We did a microscope lab where we broke open the clastic rocks we made and observed them under a microscope.

If you missed class Thursday, watch these videos (intro to metamorphic rocks and metamorphic rocks) and make a 'cheat sheet' like I've stated above for sedimentary rocks. Also, go outside (if possible) and find different types of metamorphic rocks.

Thursday: Today we began learning about metamorphic rocks. We started the Metamorphic Rocks Assignment. Here is a pdf of the lab manual pages 36-40 for doing the assignment.

Friday: Today we finished the Metamorphic Rocks Assignment. If you didn't quite finish, there will be time during class on Monday to wrap it up. We also brought all of our learning about rocks together by completing this rock cycle diagram. 

If you missed class Friday: watch this video (The Rock Cycle). Then, draw your own rock cycle diagram on a sheet of paper by following this example. It is important that you understand how the different rock types change into other types.

Tuesday: 
 ​Today we had our minerals quiz. If you missed it, please contact me to schedule a time to make it up.

​We began learning about Igneous rocks! We went through the slides about igneous rocks. This week, we will be working ​through the igneous rocks assignment. Today we completed up to question 6.

​Slides: Igneous Rocks
 ​Notes guide: Rocks (we will use this for all rock types over the next few weeks)
​Igneous Rocks Assignment

​Textbook Scans (to answer assignment questions):
 ​Textbook Ques: pg. 68 – 3bc, 4, 5
​Reading for ques 3
​Reading for ques 4
​Reading for ques 5 pg 1
​Reading for ques 5 pg 2

​Useful videos:
Igneous Rocks
 Pumice


Wednesday:
​Today we finished the Igneous Rocks assignment/lab activity.

Thursday: 
Today we reviewed the igneous rock assignment and created our own igneous landform virtual tour. Share your virtual tour with me: mtulak@sd83.bc.ca

Igneous Landform Virtual Tour

Identification Chart: Igneous Rocks (for easy reference)

Friday: 
Today we began learning about sedimentary rocks. We made our own sedimentary rocks in the lab. We also finished creating our Igneous Landform Virtual Tour.

Slides: Sedimentary Rocks (to slide 11)
Sedimentary rock lab (page 1)

Useful Video:
​Sedimentary Rocks (watch up to 5:14 for now)