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Welcome to November!!!!

Cultural Service Experience - Dia de los Muertos Procession
...Starts at SES @ 6:30. Procession down Belmont St begins at 7:00 and ends at Holocene (on SE 13th and Morrison). Teachers are not chaperoning this event. Must have an adult present with you!

Term 1 ends this Thursday, November 3rd

HW due Wednesday:

1. Columbia River Gorge - Beacon Rock field study assignment

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.

HW due Thursday:

1. Term 1 Service Reflection - Resubmitted (with all drafts and green rubric attached)
...Update your reflection based off my feedback, improving your conventions and responding to my prompts/questions
...Using the specific prompts on the So What?! NOW WHAT?!?! part of the green service reflection rubric, go deeper and add one more detail in either of those two sections of your reflection.


2. All late work must be turned in by Thursday!!!