August 26

Today in Integrated science, students took a short 3-question quiz over relative motion. Students then began making observations for their new lab: THE BUGGY LAB! Students will continue researching whether their buggies move at a constant speed or a changing speed. This weekend, students need to read the article Wandering Plumes and answer the following questions.
Question 1: If you don’t know what a hot spot it, please do some research to find a diagram of it so you get an idea of what it means. In your own words, in your journal, explain how this article relates to the idea of relative motion.
Question 2: Does this new finding mean it’s easier or more difficult to determine where an island formed? Explain.

Students in science 8 created investigations to determine what factors affect erosion, deposition, and weathering. Students had their questions, hypotheses, and procedures checked over by Mr. Ross, and then had time to test them on the stream table. We will continue investigations on Monday to learn more about this topic. Over the weekend, students in Science 8 will also read Researchers Flood Colorado River in attempt to reverse erosion and answer the questions in their notebooks:
Question 1:What process do the scientists want to promote?    a) Weathering    b) erosion     c) Deposition
Question 2: List one natural feature that the scientists are trying to create or build up again.
Question 3: Why was the water clear when it was released from the dam?
Question 4: The water is reddish-brown by the time it gets farther down the river. This was due to the river water a) Being more calm than normal and picking up sediments    b) being faster than normal and picking up more sediments  c) depositing sediments the whole way down

HOMEWORK: Integrated= Wandering Plumes  reading and questions
Science 8= Researchers Flood Colorado River in attempt to reverse erosion and questions