Today in integrated science, students prepared and debated the answers to the Free Body Diagram Worksheet. Tomorrow, we’ll be starting a lab that covers Newton’s 2nd Law of motion.

Science 8 students today began the Depositional Environments Lab (Depositional Environments Lab Stations).  The purpose of this lab is to teach students how to use evidence in the geologic record to interpret past conditions. Students began with a short video about the Cargill Salt Mine, and then they were asked to make a claim about the past environment for that area. Cleveland (and most of Ohio) used to be under an ocean. The salt layer was evidence for this claim because salt is created when ocean water evaporates, depositing the salt in layers at the bottom.  This lab helps give students some information about common or important features to be aware of when interpreting rocks to determine past environments. We’ll be continuing this next week.

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