Taryn Van Hemert

  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...

What did you do in lab today? - went over some 1st-7th grade standards.  - we created a scale model of the sun, our moon, and four inner planets. It was crazy to see how far away we had to put the planets away even though they were such tiny pieces of play dough.  What was the big question? How can we create a scale model of the solar system? What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion? https://pressbooks.uiowa.edu/methodsii/chapter/earth/ What did you learn? - rocky planets are smaller, gaseous planets are larger - Why isn’t Pluto a planet anymore? It was reclassified as a dwarf planet. It also doesn’t meet the third requirement of “clearing the neighborhood”. What was most helpful? Seeing this scale picture really put into perspective of how small Earth really is. Which is so mind blowing to me.  What do you need more information on? I don’t really understand the “clearing the neighborhood” requirement that they described. I feel like I need more information or for that...