12/4

Awesome job with your work on your Writing For Justice personal narratives and preparing our class for the Riparian Festival today.

Within all the work, I forgot to talk about tonight's homework... You can probably guess what it will be.

KEEP WORKING ON YOUR How Does Our Earth Work - Individual Interactive Project. 

Tonight spend 20 minutes continuing your work on your project. 

This is going to be due Friday. You should try to have much of the interactive part of the project done by Thursday. We will spend time in class Thursday working on our projects and everyone will get enough teaching and time to do the write-up and connections web in class Thursday. 

12/3

HW due Tuesday:

1. How Does Our Earth Work - Individual Interactive Project - work on this tonight for 26 minutes.

a. Complete Step 2: Planning + Research Organizer... You can fill this page of your green sheet out, write it down elsewhere, including a GoogleDoc. The important thing is that you know your response to these questions:
-What is my geology concept?
-What is my research question?
-How can I share my learning in an interactive way?
-What materials do I need?

If you have completed that, then move and get started with  making your interactive project! Again, we will do the write-up and connections web at school. Focus on the creating at home during your 26 minutes tonight if you get beyond step 2.

Weekend HW - Riparian Festival Project

I am sorry to say but this is one of the very few times where you will actually have real life weekend homework from me this year...

Weekend HW due Monday:

1. How Does Our Earth Work - Individual interactive Project
a. Spend 31 minutes total this weekend working on this project that we will celebrate and share next Friday at the Riparian Festival  (though you are welcome to spend more time on it if you get into it and have the space/energy to do so).

You don't need to write anything down from your work this weekend unless you want to. My goal is that you can come into class on Monday able to answer the following questions:

-What is my geology concept? 
-What is my research question?
-How can I share my learning and response to my research question in an interactive way?
-What materials do I need to make this happen?

A reminder that we will do the project write-up and connections web in class, meaning you only need to focus your energy on the questions and work above.

The project will be due Friday, December 7th, though you should be pretty be much done with everything but the project write-up and connections web by the start of the school day Thursday.

How Does Our Earth Work - Individual interactive Project

HW due Friday:

1. How Does Our Earth Work - Individual interactive Project
a. Spend 22 minutes continuing your work from this afternoon on your How Our Earth Works - Individual Interactive Project... All you need to do tonight is spend 22 minutes continuing to think about which geologic concept you are most interested in further exploring through this project. You don't need to write anything down unless you want to. My hope is that you come to class tomorrow with an idea of which geologic concept you want to focus on and what your research question could be. We will spend more time in class tomorrow thinking about how you could create an interactive project showing your learning around that research question. 

Geology - Volcano - Online Exploration

Geology - Volcano - Online Exploration

a. Read through the main volcanoes website

b. Click on any of the links you want, but you need to click on the links for volcano types (composite, shield, cinder cone)

c. Find other great resource to explore

d. Play a geology rock cycle game!!!

Please keep your volume low or off (definitely off in the game!)

11/28

HW due Thursday:

We are not travelling tomorrow. We will be working on writing and geology and awesomeness throughout the day.

1. Writing for Justice - Narrative Leads (HOOKS)
a. We spent time in class reading On Cracking White City and discussing and defining the terms Perpetrator, Target, Upstander, and Bystander. Using the Narrative Leads - Writing a Hook handout as your guide, write 3 different hooks (each hook only has to be 2- 5 sentences long... these are just the VERY beginning of the story you could tell) for a story or multiple stories that you put down on your Writing For Justice Graphic Organizer this afternoon. Don't spend more than 26 minutes on this.

2. Post Conferences Student Reflection - If you need more time to complete this, just let me know.

EXTRA CREDIT: 
Find an awesome or cheesy video that is less than 5 minutes that we could share with the class related to VOLCANOES

11/28

HW due Wednesday:

1. Geology - orange Dynamic Earth Textbook - VOLCANOES
...With the orange textbook that you took home today read pages 88-91 and and respond to questions 1-3 on p. 91. Read pages 93-102 and respond to questions 1-3 on p. 102. This is a continuation from our work this morning in class.