Class 79 Friday 6/7/2019 Warm-Up: 1. Name the three rock types and tell how they form. 2. Identify the parts in the water cycle and tell how they happen. 3. Why do we have seasons, and why is summer hotter than winter?
Today:
Homework: Prepare for the final exam |
Class 78 Wednesday 6/5/2019 Warm-Up: 1. Why is the weather getting warmer? 2. What is the most common wrong answer to "why is it hotter in the summer?"
Today:
Homework: Prepare for the final |
Class 77 Monday 6/3/2019 Warm-Up: When you inflate a balloon, what happens to its... 1. volume 2. mass 3. density 4. weight 5. In what situation can you gain weight without gaining mass? Today:
Homework: None |
Class 76 Thursday 5/29/2019 Warm-Up: 1. How many more B days do we have left? 2. How many days are there until the longest day of the year (in terms of daylight hours here in VT)? Today:
Homework: None |
Class 75 Tuesday 5/28/2019 Warm-Up: Is the ocean water colder in San Francisco, California or in Dover, Delaware? Why? Today:
Homework: Study for test |
Class 74 Wednesday 5/23/2019 Warm-Up: 1. How does a scroll saw work? 2. What are the dangers of a scroll saw? Today:
Homework: |
Class 73 Monday 5/19/2019 Warm-Up: No warm-up today.Today:
Homework: Climate Mapping Practice Test |
Class 72 Wednesday 5/15/2019 Warm-Up:
Today:
Homework: |
Class 71 Monday 5/13/2019 Warm-Up:
Today:
Homework: None |
Class 70 Wednesday 5/8/2019 Warm-Up: Have you ever used screencastify? Do you know what it does?Today:
Homework: None |
Class 69 Monday 5/6/2019 Warm-Up: No warm-up. Mr. Stapleton is goneToday:
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Class 68 Thursday 5/2/2019 Warm-Up: Why do clocks go clockwise? Why don't the numbers and hands of clocks move in the other direction?
Today:
Homework: None |
Class 67 Tuesday 4/30/2019 Warm-Up: We are going to have a quiz next class over the questions from the class # 64 warm-up, plus this one... When wind crosses a mountain range, which side of the mountain range has a rain shadow?
Today:
Homework: Quiz next class over the questions from the class 65 warm-up, plus those from today's warm up. |
Class 66 Friday 4/18/2019 Warm-Up: 1. Which location in the diagram probably gets the most rain and snow? 2. Which location in the diagram is probably the driest?
Today:
Homework: None |
Class 65 Wednesday 4/15/2019 Warm-Up: Things you should have memorized...
Today:
Homework: Practice for quiz. Quiz will require you to do this -- watch this video. |
Class 64 Monday 4/15/2019 Warm-Up: The picture on the right shows the direction of wind blowing over a mountain. Where, in the diagram, will there be the most precipitation? Where will there be the least? Today:
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Class 63 Thursday 4/11/2019 Warm-Up: 2nd link2. On a sheet of paper, sketch the following... A) The circulation pattern of Earth's atmosphere B) The Earth's pressure belts C) The Earth's prevailing winds Today:
Homework: Quiz next class, just like today's warm-up. |
Class 62 Tuesday 4/8/2019 Warm-Up: 1. Identify the high and low pressure areas on the right. 2. In which direction do winds curve in each hemisphere? Why do they curve? 3. Identify the areas of high precipitation (e.g. rainforests) and low precipitation (e.g. deserts). 4. Why are some arrows blue while others are red? Today:
Homework: None |
Warm-Up: The air that is in Vermont today came from somewhere else. 1. Where does our weather come from? If we want to know what the weather is going to look like over the next few days, whose current weather should we check? 2. Based on the direction that air is moving, where is the higher pressure, and where is the lower pressure? 3. In which direction does our wind usually blow? Does it always blow in that direction? Today:
This unit: Meteorology
Homework : Cloud formation quiz next class exactly like this practice quiz. |
Class 60 Wednesday 4/3/2019 Warm-Up: 1. What are conduction, convection, and radiation? 2. Give other examples of conduction, convection, and radiation. Today: Homework : Quiz next class, similar to the vocabulary practice in the back of Notes and Practice -- Structure of Matter Filled-In Notes |
Class 59 Monday 4/1/2019 Warm-Up:
1. What happens when you drip a drop or two of water on
wax paper, and then you poke at it with an eyedropper? Today: Homework : |
Class 58 Thursday 3/28/2019 Warm-Up: No warm-up. Test today. Then finish your slideshows. Today: Last B day of 3rd quarter
Homework : |
Class 57 Tuesday 3/26/2019 Warm-Up: The balloon on the right is losing two kinds of mass. What are they? Today:
Homework : Study. Test on Thursday. Questions will be similar to the test review. Here are the answers to the test review -- Filled-In Test Review Video explaining everything in the test review |
Class 56 Tuesday 3/19/2019 Warm-Up: 1. Why doesn't the Earth's atmosphere just float away? 2. What causes air pressure? 3. Describe a situation in which heating air increases air pressure. Describe a situation in which heating air decreases air pressure. Today:
Homework : Finish Physical Properties of Matter Test Review. Test next Thursday. |
Class 55 Thursday 3/19/2019 Warm-Up: 1. What's special about tomorrow? 2. Was this picture of an unopened chip bag taken at a high altitude or a low altitude? Today:
Homework : Complete parts 1 of the Physical Properties of Matter Test Review |
Class 54 Friday 3/15/2019 Warm-Up: 1. How do people fill up real hot air balloons without burning them? 2. How does a hot air balloon work? What changes in the early stages of balloon flight? Mass? Volume? Density? Classroom VideoToday:
Homework : The slideshow will be due before class next Thursday. On Tuesday, you will have work time for a practice test, but you can use that time to finish your slide show. |
Class 53 Wednesday 3/13/2019 Warm-Up: Should our balloons fly better on a hot day or on a cold day? Today:
Today: Coming soon -- test review over physical properties of matter. Homework : None |
Class 52 Monday 3/11/2019 Warm-Up: 1. The two balloons on the right are identical. Explain how you can tell. Consider the balloon on the right... 2. Is its density greater than, less than, or equal to the air around it? 3. If density = mass/volume, then mass = ??? 4. What is the overall mass of the balloon on the right (including the string and attached mass)? 5. What is the mass of the hot air inside the balloon on the right? 6. What is the density of the hot air in the balloon on the right? 7. What is the temperature of the air in the balloon on the right? Today:
Homework : None |
Class 51 Thursday 3/7/2019 Warm-Up: 1. How much weight is the balloon on the right able to lift? 2. How can we measure the volume of your balloon?
Today:
Homework : None |
Class 50 Tuesday 3/5/2019 Warm-Up: 1. When "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner made his record breaking parachute jump, he jumped from a helium balloon. Why did the balloon balloon look so underinflated at first? 2. What happens to helium balloons when they fly away? Today:
Homework : None |
Class 50 Wednesday 2/19/2019 Warm-Up: 1. Your balloon needs a platform to hold the fuel. Which of these designs looks better? Why? 2. What general rules should you follow as you create your hot air balloon? Today:
Homework : None |
Class 49 Wednesday 2/19/2019 Warm-Up: 1. Identify all of the windy places on the map to the right. 2. For each windy place, tell which way the wind is blowing. 3. For the places that are not windy, tell whether the air is rising or sinking. Today:
Homework : None |
Class 48 Monday 2/18/2019 Warm-Up: The glass jar on the far right is sealed shut. The other glass jar is open. 1. What will happen to the air pressure inside the two jars if you heat the jars? 2. What will happen to the air pressure in the two jars if you take the jars to a higher elevation? Today:
Homework : None |
Class 48 Thursday 2/14/2019 Warm-Up: 1. Does air move from areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure, or from high pressure to low pressure? Give some examples. 2. What causes air pressure in a sealed container? 3. What causes air prssure outside, in the open air 4. What happens to air pressure in a sealed container, when the container heats up or cools down? 5. What happens to air pressure in outside, in the open air, when the surrounding air heats up or cools down? Today:
Homework : Quiz (the real one that will count) over temperature and pressure |
Class 47 Tuesday 2/12/2019 Warm-Up: Look at the current weather forecast. 1. What do you notice about the relationship between air temperature (red) and air pressure (black)? 2. Can you explain that relationship? 3. Do you notice any other trends? Today:
Homework : None |
Class 46 Friday 2/8/2019 Warm-Up: Why would anyone get the tattoo shown on the right? Today:
Homework : Study for quiz next class, like the Temperature and pressure practice quiz |
Class 45 Wednesday 2/6/2019 Warm-Up: 1. What will happen if I put a balloon over a flask of water and heat up the water? 2. What will happen if I put the flask on ice? 3. What if I take the balloon off of the flask between steps 1 and 2, above? 4. What are the particles in the balloon doing during the steps above? Today:
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Class 44 Monday 2/4/2019 Warm-Up:
1. How does the barometer work? Today: Homework : Study for quiz next class over air pressure |
Class 43 Thursday 1/31/2019 Warm-Up:
1. How do suction cups work? Today:
Homework : None |
Class 42 Tuesday 1/29/2019 Warm-Up: An iceberg is floating in a lake. What will happen to the water level if the iceberg suddenly melts? Why? Today:
Homework: Study for quiz next class ov er physical properties of matter
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Class 41 Wednesday 1/23/2019 Warm-Up: Someone fills a styrofoam cup with water and places it in a freezer. What happens to the water's mass, volume, density, and weight as it freezes? How do you know? Today:
Homework: Finish the practice quiz, if you didn't finish it in class.
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Class 41 Wednesday 1/23/2019 Warm-Up: This bottle on the right contains a "cartesian diver." The
diver dives when the bottle is squeezed, and the diver rises
when the bottle is released. Today:
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Class 40 Monday 1/14/2019 Warm-Up: What do all of these words and phrases have in common?
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Class 39 Friday 1/11/2019 Warm-Up: 1. A rock sample has 37 radioactive parent atoms and 111 daughter atoms. What percentage of the atoms are parent atoms? 2. If the half-life of the atoms is 3million years, how old is the rock sample? Today:
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Class 38 Monday 1/7/2019 Warm-Up: 1. For each feature in the picture below, name a real place in our world where that feature exists. 2. Do you notice any differences between the features in the diagram, and those in the diagrams we drew in class?
Today:
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Class 37 Thursday 1/3/2019 Warm-Up: What special Earth Science moment occurred on the last day of school before break? Today:
Coming Up:
Homework: Prepare for quiz next class Plate tectonics quiz 2 practice |
Class 36 Friday 12/20/2018 Warm-Up: The picture on the right was taken in the deepest part of the ocean. 1. Is the material that you can see on the ocean floor mafic or felsic? Today:
Homework: None |
Class 35 Wednesday 12/19/2018 Warm-Up:1. What's the next letter in this sequence? M A M J J A S O N 2. What figure comes next in this sequence? Today:
Homework: Study -- quiz over first part of the practice test, on Friday. |
Class 34 Monday 12/17/2018 Warm-Up:1. What type of plate boundary feature is shown on the right? 2. On what continent is it located? Today:
Homework: None |
Class 33 Thursday 12/12/2018 Warm-Up:1. What type of plate boundary is this? 2. Where in the diagram is the crust the oldest? 3. Is this plate boundary caused by a rising mantle current or a sinking mantle current? 4. What else does this diagram show? Today:
Homework: Rock type practice quiz |
Class 32 Tuesday 12/11/2018 Warm-Up:1. Which of the rocks on the right is granite? Which one is basalt? 2. Can you guess which one contains more iron? 3. Can you guess which one contains a lot of feldspar and silica, major components of glass? 4. If you melt iron, and you melt glass, which substance is stickier, and which one flows more freely? Today:
Homework: Rock type practice quiz |
Warm-Up:
1. How does a candle work? 2. Why won't a candle work as well on a space station? 3. What does this have to do with plate tectonics? Today:
Homework: None |
Class 30 p:1. What five letter word does everyone pronounce wrong? 2. A four foot long ladder hangs over the side of a boat. The top of the ladder is two feet above the water line. When the tide rises three feet, where will the top of the ladder be? 3. A child throws a stick across a river. A dog retrieves the stick without getting wet. How?
Today:
Homework: None |
Class 29 Monday 12/3/2018 Warm-Up:Can you identify any of these locations on Earth? Do you know how they formed? Today:
Homework: None |
Class 28 Thursday 11/29/2018 Warm-Up:These are the ages of the magma tubes in the diagram on the right: J = 8my K = 5my L = 10my M = 12my N = 14my 1. How old is layer G? 2. How old is the Fish fossil? 3. How old is the earthquake fault? Today:
Homework: None |
Class 27 Tuesday 11/27/2018 Warm-Up:The diagrams on the right show some rock layers in two different parts of the world. 1. What do the buried fish, snail, plant, bug, and human represent? 2. Which layer is probably older, Layer S (in diagram A) or layer H (in diagram B)? 3. Which layer is probably the oldest of all? Why? 4. Which layer is probably the youngest of all? Why? Today:
Homework: None |
Class 26 Wednesday 11/13/2018 Warm-Up:The object on the right is a piece of rock. The big dots represent parent atoms in the rock, and the small dots represent daughter atoms. The half-life of the parent element is 2 million years. 1. What is the age of the rock sample, in half-lives? 2. What is the age of the rock sample, in years? Today:
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Class 25 Monday 11/12/2018 Warm-Up:Trick questions: 1. How much dirt is in a hole that is 2feet wide, 2 feet long, and 1 foot deep? 2. Daddy bull weighs 1,000 pounds. Baby bull weighs 100 pounds. How much does mama bull weigh? 3. How many 3 cent stamps are there in a dozen? 4. How many eggs can a grown woman eat on an empty stomach? Today:
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Class 24 Thursday 11/8/2018 Warm-Up:Today:
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Class 23 Tuesday 11/2/2018 Warm-Up:1. What is a sonic boom? 2. In the picture on the right, would you guess that the cloud has been created by rapidly warming air or rapidly cooling air? Explain. 3. What is a wave? Today:
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Class 22 Friday 11/2/2018 Warm-Up:The diagram on the right shows a cross forming two line segments of coins. The vertical segment has 5 coins and the horizontal segment has 4 coins. How can you form two segments of 5 by moving just one coin? Today:
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Class 21 Wednesday 10/31/2018 Warm-Up:If you're standing next to a race track, what do you hear as the cars pass you? a. Their pitch changes from high to low. b. Their pitch changes from low to high. c. There is no change in pitch. Today:
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Class 20 Monday 10/29/2018 Warm-Up:1. How did Earth's moon form? 2. What are some similarities and differences between comets and meteors? 3. How old is the Earth? 4. What keeps the Earth in its orbit? 5. Why isn't the Earth a gas giant? 6. What's the closest galaxy to the Milky Way? 7. Before our solar system was a solar system, what was it? What was it like?
Today:
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Class 19 Thursday 10/25/2018 Warm-Up:The figure on
the right is a graph with two axes, a Y axis and an X axis. 1.
Where's the Y axis? Where's the X? 2. What
variable is changing along the X axis? 3. What
variable is changing along the Y axis? 4. What are the diagonal lines? Today:
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Class 18 Tuesday 10/23/2018 Warm-Up: NoneToday:
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Class 17 Wednesday 10/17/2018 Warm-Up:The picture on the right shows a simple dehumidifier. Refrigerant moves through the pipes. At one point, the refrigerant passes through a compressor and gets compressed. At another point, the refrigerant passes through an expansion valve and expands. 1. What happens to the temperature of the refrigerant when it passes through the compressor? 2. What happens to the temperature of the refrigeratnt when it passes through the expansion valve? 3. As the air blows across the pipes, water comes out of the air and drips to the bottom. Where does the water drip, position A or position B? Today:
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Class 16 Monday 10/15/2018 Warm-Up:1. What is in the air? 2. Does air have mass? What about weight? 3. Does helium have mass and/or weight? 4. Can we prove any of these answers? Today:
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Class 15 Thursday 10/11/2018 Warm-Up:This solar oven has several features that helps it create a high temperature environment using solar energy. One of those features exploits the Greenhouse Effect. 1. What part of the solar oven targets the Greenhouse Effect? 2. How does the Greenhouse Effect work? 3. What can be done to limit the effects of the Greenhouse Effect? 4. What is the ultimate source of the energy that heats a solar oven and the Earth? Today:
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Warm-Up:
1. Do you know the name of the constellation on the right? 2. How big is our solar system, in comparison with the rest of the Universe? scale of universe video Today:
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Class 13 Thursday 10/4/2018 Warm-Up:1. The first diagram on the right shows four hydrogen atoms that combine to make one helium atom. What looks wrong? 2. E = mc2 is a famous equation. What do each of the letters in the equation represent? 3. Why does the sun shine? Why does it really shine? Today:
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Class 12 Tuesday 10/2/2018 Warm-Up:
1. Look at the diagram on the right. What will
happen if I grab the pvc pipe and swing the ball around, as
shown? Today:
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Class 11 Friday 9/27/2018 Warm-Up:1. Which object appears bigger in our sky, our Moon or our Sun? 2. Do our Moon, Sun, and Solar System have names? If so, what are they? Today:
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Class 10 Wednesday 9/26/2018 Warm-Up:No warm-up today. Today:
Homework: Nothing new
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Class 9 Monday 9/24/2018 Warm-Up:1. Do this: hold a tennis ball on top of a basketball and drop them to the floor together? See what happens. 2. Guess why it happens. 3. Watch this video to find the answers and to see how this relates to supernovas. Today:
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Class 8 Thursday 9/20/2018 Warm-Up:The picture on the right is misleading in a few ways. How many problems can you find with the picture? Today:
Handouts/Links: Mr. Stapleton's copy of Objects in Space notes Homework:
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Class 7 Tuesday 9/18/2018 1. Why is the sky blue? 2. Why are sunsets red? 3. What does the sky look like from our moon? Today:
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Class 6 Friday 9/14/2018 1. What's the current moon phase? Full? Quarter? Crescent? 2. Suppose you hold an object at arm's length and use it to cover up the moon. How large does the object need to be to perfectly cover up the moon? Quarter sized? Dime sized? Something else? Today:
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Class 5 Wednesday 9/12/2018 Sometimes you can "see your breath." 1. Why can't you see it right now? 2. I know a way to make my breath visible right now. Can you guess how I do it? 3. Can you guess how this concept relates to objects in our solar system and the universe in general?
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Class 4 Monday 9/10/2018
1. What is gravity? 2. What role does gravity play in the diagram on the right? 3. Are clouds affected by gravity? 4. Is there gravity on the International Space Station? 5. Can you think of something that is not affected by gravity? 6. If you were to locate the Earth's current position on the diagram to the right, where would it be? 7. What is special about each of the dates in the diagram?
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Class 3 Thursday 9/6/2018
The center star, on the right, is Polaris. 1. What is the common name for polaris? 3. Do you know how a quadrant is used in astronomy? Today:
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Class 2
Tuesday
9/4/2018
Warm-Up:
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Class 1
Thursday 8/30/2016
Warm-Up:
1. What would happen if you made a hole through the center of the Earth, and you jumped in? 2. If you made it all of the way through, where would you come out? (antipodes map) Today:
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Class 0
Tuesday 8/28/2018 (15 minute class)
12:50-1:05 Warm-Up: 1. Use the seating chart to find your seat. 2. Can you point to the North Pole? How can you find it? Today:
Homework: None |