Taryn Van Hemert

  What did you do in lab? What was the big question? - talked about the Before the Flood movie - talked about coupled inquiry - Phenology : timing of natural events - why is it important to help students learn how to read data?                     - because they will need to be able to read data and create data when they are older and for when they are wanting to learn about these things that are changing.  Create a brief lesson plan outline on how you could introduce the idea of “data” ad reading data in your future classroom?  What did you learn from the Pressbook? What is a greenhouse gas? Certain gases in Earth’s atmosphere are called greenhouse gases. Like a greenhouse, they let sunlight through to reach the surface of Earth and then trap its heat in the atmosphere. The most abundant greenhouse gases are: Carbon dioxide (CO 2) -Carbon dioxide is naturally released from decaying organisms and volcanic eruptio...

  What did you do in lab and what was the big question? - we looked at global climate change pictures from NASA.com  -  100% of scientists believe that climate change is human caused.  - what is the difference between weather and climate? Climate is a 30 year average of weather .  Ex : Weather decides what clothes you wear, climate decides what clothes you buy. If weather is my mood, climate is my personality.                                   City #1                                   City #2                              City #3 Avg. of first 5:  8 days                               ...

  What did you do in lab today? - Went over the sweater article  - Law of Superposition : the rocks that are further down are older.  - Intrusions are younger than every layer they go through.  - sand created through water is polished, smooth, and generally smaller in size. - sand created through glaciers is polished, smooth, and generally irregular in size.  - sand created through wind is opaque, frosted, pitted, and very fine grained.  #6 from lab we thought was sand created through wind because it is smaller/grainy in size.  #11- Oolitic sand- only found in three places on earth, Muscatine being one of them.  - rivers come in different “ages” that are not related to how “old” they are, but the energy they possess.  Young rivers carve down, have lots of energy, and tear apart the land, eroding all that it can due to energy from gravity. They can move material of any size and have similar characteristics: 1. Whitewater 2. Boulders 3. Fast...

  What did you do in lab today? - We reviewed our Activitymania homework in small group and whole group - talked about assessments and the letter grade increases - we worked on the curving for our exams What are the layers of the earth? - core (inner and outer) - mantle - Crust  How do plates moves? -  The movement of the plates is driven by convection currents in the mantle. Heat rises from the mantle and cools as it gets closer to the surface; from there, it sinks down where it is reheated and the cycle repeats. This creates a current that moves the plates. Although they are constantly moving, each plate moves very slowly–about 3 to 5 centimeters (1 to 2 inches) per year. What are the three types of tectonic plate boundaries? Transform boundary : plates sideswipe each other  Divergent boundary : plates pull apart from each other Convergent boundary: plates push into each other Rock Cycle: (examples with starbursts)  - sedimentary: cemented and compacted tog...

What did you do in lab today? - In lab we did a Kahoot as a review for our exam this week.  -  Hypothesis when you think these things first happened 1. Humans appeared  2. Dinosaurs ruled the earth  3. First land plants  4. First land animals 5. Moon was created Correct order: 1. Moon was created  2. First land animals  3. First land plants   4. Dinosaurs   5. Humans appeared  We used  https://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/earthviewer_web/earthviewer.html  and found earth events and made a timeline across our classroom and had to put different events on this timeline. The events we did are:  - Snowball Glaciations - geological event  - Rodinia - geological event 1 billion years ago - Acraman - impact events Majority of the earth’s events have happened in the last 500 millions years 2. What was the big question? - how presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline 3. What did you learn in Thurs...

  What did you do in lab today? - If it is the winter solstice in Iowa, how much sunlight is on the South Pole? About 24 hours of sunlight because we in Iowa have shorter daylight days, so the South Pole is getting all sunlight.  - what materials make up new stars? Hydrogen, Helium, and materials from stars that have died.  - we learned about black holes, galaxies, how stars are created, origin of the universe, origin of the earth, and space travel  - there is a black hole at the center of our galaxy that we are rotating around What was the big question? - Solar System AND Team Sharing  What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion? Questions: If you are standing on the Tropic of Cancer during the summer solstice for Iowa, what direction does your shadow point? You don’t have a shadow because the sun is directly above you. If you were in Iowa at that time, your shadow would be pointing north.  Geocentric: earth is in the center. Heliocentric: sun is in the ce...