Thursday, December 2, 2010

Thursday, 2 and Friday, 3 December, 2010


This is HL 8. Do both on the same sheet of loose leaf paper.

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

The do now on Thursday was an FCAT transparency.
The do now on Friday was a quiz on Plate Tectonics.

Students submitted and reviewed home learning 7. Home learning 8 can be found at the top of this blog.

Students used Discovery Education sites to learn about Continental Drift theory. To access the site, visit Dr. Gayden's Science Zone for today's date (Tuesday, 30 November, 2010). Click the link to enter the Discovery Site. Your user name is :
miami_youridnumber
The password is:
idnumber_miamai.

Click the third tab, assessment resources to find the activity Prove They Move. Complete the handout using the online exploration. If you complete this activity, begin the Dance of the Plates activity on the same site.

Those classes that finished began the vocabulary search lesson.