10/31

HW due Tuesday:

***Enjoy Halloween. Spread kindness and positivity amidst all the Halloween shenanigans and costumes.

Though you have nothing due Tuesday, you would be wise to spend 15-30 minutes working on your Columbia River Gorge Beacon Rock field study assignment this afternoon. We also worked on this for 20 minutes in class today. This is going to be due Wednesday at the start of class. You will have other homework due Wednesday as well. Set yourself up for success Tuesday night tonight.

HW due Wednesday:
1. Columbia River Gorge Beacon Rock field study assignment
2. Term 1 Service Reflection - Resubmit (based off the feedback I give you Tuesdsay)

THURSDAY
Thursday we are going to an Earthquake lab at OMSI
Thursday is the last day of term 1

Columbia River Gorge   Beacon Rock

Essential Question:

1. How did two very different floods—one a molten lava flow and the other raging floodwaters—sculpt this landscape around you? How does Beacon Rock connect to both? Give specific evidence from what you learned and observed today on this field study

Student Brainstorm Examples

1. From the top of the rock → seeing the layers of the basalt in the gorge (evidence of the molten lava flows from 16 million years ago)
2. Nature Journal → seeing the hills and layers of the columbia river gorge
3. noticing how flat the area between the hills because of the floods ripping floods
4. nature journal → the odd shaped grooves of beacon rock showed how it had been worn down by the flood
5. From the top of the rock → edges
6. From the Missoula Floods info sign at the bottom and top of Beacon Rock → How high and powerful the Missoula Floods were
7. Noticing the rock formations all around me made out of Basalt from the lava flows
8. The story Michael told from the top of Rocky Butte, an extinct Boring Lava Volcano, about the Missoula Floods coming through the Gorge into Portland

Assignment Questions:  

• Essential Question answered thoughtfully and thoroughly.
• Beacon Rock worksheet + nature journal complete

2. How can land formations and rock layers/arrangements/patterns/type tell geologists the story of a place?
3. What was the most awesome geological experience/thought you had today?
4. Describe one awesome interaction you had today with a classmate that you don’t normally hang out with that much.