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Layers of the Earth and Plate tectonics will be the focus of this week. We will do an activity called “Model Earth” on Monday.

Tuesday will we will read about the “Restless Continents” and their meandering of the globe until they settled at their current locations…..or have they?

Wednesday we will either do a lab or an online activity looking at tectonic plates.

Thursday we will do an activity called “Broken Plates”.  HW packet #20 is due Thursday also!

Friday we will watch Bill Nye: Earth’s Crust!

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The breakdown of this week will look like this:

Monday-Bullying lesson

Tuesday-Volcano Lab OR Layers of the Earth

Wednesday-Video-Eruption of Pompeii

Thursday-MAKE-UP DAY

Friday-NO SCHOOL I will be here grading all day.    🙂

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We will have our test on Friday for ch. 9. There is a vocabulary sheet with a total of 10 extra credit points available as well.

We will go over the HW packet in class Thursday as part of the review.

NOTE: ALL MISSING WORK MUST BE TURNED IN BY NEXT WEDNESDAY 1/27-NO EXCEPTIONS!

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There are only two weeks left in this semester!!  We will finish our viscosity lab this week and finish up our unit on volcanoes towards the beginning of next week. We will look at the effects volcanoes have on earth this week also.

Many of you are aware of the catastrophic event that happened in Haiti last week. This is an example of the destructiveness of earthquakes and reminds us all of the need to be prepared when this type of event happens. ARE YOU READY? WHAT CAN YOU DO TO BE MORE PREPARED IF THIS HAPPENED HERE IN OREGON, OR EVEN HERE IN EUGENE?

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4th and 8th period HW packets are due on Thursday as usual!

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VOLCANOES and their causes will be the topic for this week. We will be doing a lab on viscosity tomorrow and finishing up on Thursday. We will continue our “keynote volcano” research as well. You will use the information you gathered about your volcano of choice! Details will be discussed during class!

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I want to welcome everyone back from our winter break. I hope you all had a chance to relax and spend time with family and friends. I took some time to visit one of our local museums over the break and had the pleasure of seeing some of our students work being exhibited, which was such a treat!  I was really excited to see art work from ATA students hanging on the walls of an accredited museum here in Eugene.

We will finish our unit on earthquakes with a plotting of earthquakes activity, then we we will delve deeper (pun intended) into plate tectonics and volcanoes!

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