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Shiny... Powerpoint resource ... School Calendar ... Lunch Menu Calendar ... Video Links Book link Earth Revealed Video Series ... ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 12/2/2015 Complete todays assignment by clicking on each of the following links and turning in the assignment via Google Classroom. I will no longer accept papers that are shared. Hand them in via goggle classroom. Weathering 1 Weathering 2 **************************************** **************************************** Assignment for 11/18/2015 Finish the assignment from last time if you have not already done so and turn it in; then continue with today's exercise. Complete the following review pages, and pay attention - SOME questions are taken directly from the test. For the one page that is not interactive - in other words, you cannot mark answers and check them immediately - then write your answers or type them; you can check them at the page end. Rocks and Mineral Quiz Rock Cycle Quiz Igneous Rock Quiz BBC Rock Quiz Rocks Practice Test Rocks Quiz ******************************** ******************************** Assignment for 11/5/2015 No quiz today. Finish the assignment from yesterday and turn it in, then continue with today's exercise. Rock Cycle ******************************** ******************************** Assignment for 11/4/2015 Click on the following link for today's exercise, answer the questions, and turn in the assignment by the end of class then click the second link - it has notes for Igneous rocks. You will have a quiz over the notes tomorrow. Igneous Rocks Igneous Rocks notes When finished with the exercise above, click on the following link and complete the Igneous Rocks lab. Igneous Rocks Lab ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 10/28/2015 Click on the following link for today's exercise, answer the questions, and turn in the assignment by the end of class: Sedimentary Rocks ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 10/28/2015 Click on the following link for today's exercise, answer the questions, and turn in the assignment by the end of class: Crystallography ******************************** ******************************** Assignment for 10/7/2015 Click on the following link, and complete the exercise there. Energy Problems ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 10/1/2015 Click on the following link for today's exercise: Interactive Lab Click on • Mineral Physical Properties and Mineral Identification, and then complete the exercise - MAKE SURE YOU put all of the results from the lab into a data sheet to be handed in! Use the following link to see an example of what you are to hand in. Interactive Lab Data Sheet ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 9/30/2015 Click on the following link for today's exercise: Mineral Report ********************************* ********************************* ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 9/23/2015 Click on the following link for today's exercise: Mineral Properties 2 ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 9/22/2015 Click on the following link for today's exercise: Mineral Properties 2 ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 9/16/2015 If you have not yet used Google classroom, do the following: 1: Search for google classroom. 2. Click on the first entry. 3. Enter your BNL Student e-mail 4. Enter your BNL Student password 5. Click on the + sign to join the class. 6. Enter the code for YOUR class period written on the board. 7. Once you have joined, continue here for further instructions. 8: Click on the following link for today's exercise: Mineral Properties ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 9/9/2015 Know these and follow the guidelines: https://lsbailey.tripod.com/leafproject.html (A) Read the instructions and follow them. IF you do not finish with this today you must make other arrangements in order to do so. Today is the only day in the computer lab for this exercise, and it is likely you will not finish the exercise today if you want it to be quality work. Go to the following website for an explanation of correlation and how it is used. Answer the questions which follow by reading the material found on the link. Correlation explained... Turn in your assignment by midnight Friday. 1. What is correlation? 2. What is the purpose of a correlation? 3. What is a positive correlation? 4. What is a negative correlation? 5. Positive correlations will be reported as what? 6. Negative correlations will be reported as what? 7. In the following sequence, which number has the strongest results? .3; -.6; .6; .8; -.9 8. What are the advantages of the correlation method? 9. What are the disadvantages of the correlation method? Click on the link at the page bottom - "Read a correlation sample." Read through the two samples. 10. Of the two samples, which had the stronger correlation? To find out how the number is calculated, click here: Correlation calculation explained... (B) Use the link below to go to the following website: Footprint calculator Read the material, then find your carbon footprint by using the footprint calculator. 11) How many planets does it take to support YOUR lifestyle if everyone on Earth consumed as much as you? I hope this opened your eyes to a few environmental problems which we face. One person makes choices which can affect everyone. Think about what you do before you act. ********************************** ********************************** Assignment for 9/2/2015 Answer the questions found on the following link in an e-mail to me at BaileyL@nlcs.k12.in.us Include YOUR NAME, Date, and Class Period. Topographic Maps lab High/Low/Oblique photo examples ********************************* ********************************* Assignment for 8/26/2015 Use your school e-mail to send me the answers to the questions on the exercises below. Click on the following link for today's exercise: Topographic Maps Continue reading the material on the following link: Map Projections ******************************** ******************************** Assignment for 8/19/2015 Read through the rules for the following contest and start researching about the topic to get background for ideas to use in creating YOUR poster. You are NOT to use the logo for the contest, and material must be original work. (Originality is a plus - the more different your poster while addressing the topic, the better!) Posterboard will be supplied, and the poster handed in by early November; I would like a rough draft (on notebook paper is fine) of what you will be making by Friday, September 4th. 2016 Poster Contest Pay attention to the links near the page bottom.("Other Useful Tools and Information for participants to design their posters.) Read through the links for tips about how to draw your poster. The following assignment is due Friday morning by the start of period 1 (DO NOT GO TO ANY Site like Miniclips and play games. That may get you banned from the computer labs.) Today's lab will be career research. Pick a career having to do with any of the branches of the Earth Sciences, and write a 1 page report on the career. Name, Date, and Class period in the upper right corner; Title centered; 1" Margins, double spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font. Pictures are ok, but cannot take up more than 20% of the page (that will be a 20% deduction in points.)Name, title, and pictures should be no more than 30% of the page, unless there are multiple pages. Include schooling/training, job conditions and expectations, salary, benefits, etc. Basically anything you would like to know if you were searching for a particular job. Include a bibliography for the website(s) you used to find the information included in your report. The links which follow are starting points for ideas. You may search the following topics - Geoscience careers, meteorology careers, astronomy careers, oceanography careers, environmental careers. You may also search for specific careers in the Earth Sciences which you know, or have seen references to on the pages which follow too. LINKS IUPUI info and links... AGIWeb AGIWeb employer index - make sure you try the links from this one. AGI Careers page Earth magazine classified ads USGS Employment NESTA Geoscience careers page AMS careers page Sky-fire tv careers page Weather channel kids careers page . Don't let this one fool you - try the links. SUNYFolk careers page Meteorology careers.com careers page A.P.College Board find a college page Environmental Scientists careers page . Make sure you look at the related majors and related careers links. Agricultural and Food Scientists careers page NRCS careers page PSSAT Soil Scientists careers page NSCSS Consulting Soil Scientists careers page Geospatial careers page GIS ESRI careers page GIS Jobs Clearinghouse page GIS Jobs and careers page Geocommunity career center page GeoSearch.com Foresters and Forestry technicians careers page Park Rangers careers page Environmental Inspectors careers page Oceanography careers links Office of Naval Research careers page Sea Grant Marine careers page Sea Grant All careers page Hopkins Marine Station careers page Cornell University Astronomy careers page AAS Astronomy careers page Astronomy Cafe careers page NOAO careers FAQ page Hopefully you get the idea. Use the links from the above pages to find further information. Once you finish, click on the following links and read through the websites. Spaceweather.com SERC NAGT activities Here are events taking place this month. You may have to copy and paste the links into the toolbar. To see what celestial events are in store for this month, check out Hal Kibbey's Star Trak column at Hal Kibbey's Star Trak ******************************* The Stonebelt Stargazers meet on the third Monday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Morrow Observatory on the Bedford North Lawrence High School Campus, Bedford, Indiana. For further information, see Stonebelt Stargazers |
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This section has the "Quote-a-tron" set up by C. Bailey; I'll modify it with more quotes later. A different quote comes up every time you reload the page. Quotable Quotes Quote of the moment: (Reload this page for a new quote)"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." --Josh Billings[Sorry. Only this one quote for non-Java browsers] If you'd like to suggest a quote, send e-mail. |
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