Earth Science – Overview
Welcome to Earth Science, the how-to guide to our planet.
Over the course of the next 20 weeks, we will be investigating,
The course includes, lecture, self-guided investigations, geologic field study, movies, and web quests. The course ends in a final exam.
Each day, begins with a lecture and then there are materials given as a self-guided inquiry for the material. Homework is given in the form of an EdPuzzle.
Although there are many assignments given under the guise of a topic, the grades will be averaged and submitted to PowerSchool as one assignment as the topic lists.
Example: a lesson “Igneous Rocks” may include formation, classification, and identification of these rocks.
You will have vocabulary quizzes.
These are formative, which means each activity counts as 40% of the grade. They are given as a letter grade.
Laboratory Investigations (labs) and tests are considered summative. That means each lab counts as 60% of the grade. Labs reports, or clarifying questions, must be written in complete sentences.
Each student will receive an Earth Science Glossary and an Earth Science Reference Table (which is available in Creole, Russian and Spanish), a glossary and if need be, a one-to-one dictionary of science terms if you are learning English is a second language.
Grades are entered with notations. If you are absent, you might find a zero (0) on your grade but a note stating the student was absent. The student must come to make up the material. If you are legally absent, you have one week to make up work from an absence.
Once a grade is entered, it will not be overwritten as you wish “improve” your grade.
Welcome to Earth Science, the how-to guide to our planet.
Over the course of the next 20 weeks, we will be investigating,
- Finding Your Way Latitude, Longitude, and Maps
- Minerals and Rocks
- Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Fossils
The course includes, lecture, self-guided investigations, geologic field study, movies, and web quests. The course ends in a final exam.
Each day, begins with a lecture and then there are materials given as a self-guided inquiry for the material. Homework is given in the form of an EdPuzzle.
Although there are many assignments given under the guise of a topic, the grades will be averaged and submitted to PowerSchool as one assignment as the topic lists.
Example: a lesson “Igneous Rocks” may include formation, classification, and identification of these rocks.
You will have vocabulary quizzes.
These are formative, which means each activity counts as 40% of the grade. They are given as a letter grade.
Laboratory Investigations (labs) and tests are considered summative. That means each lab counts as 60% of the grade. Labs reports, or clarifying questions, must be written in complete sentences.
Each student will receive an Earth Science Glossary and an Earth Science Reference Table (which is available in Creole, Russian and Spanish), a glossary and if need be, a one-to-one dictionary of science terms if you are learning English is a second language.
Grades are entered with notations. If you are absent, you might find a zero (0) on your grade but a note stating the student was absent. The student must come to make up the material. If you are legally absent, you have one week to make up work from an absence.
Once a grade is entered, it will not be overwritten as you wish “improve” your grade.
Above is a sundog captured in Cortland, New York. It is also know as an "arc of 22 degrees". The rainbow on the far left of the image is actually a reflection of an upper atmosphere rainbow. Notice that red is closer to the sun than blue. Red, being a longer wavelength, should be on the outside of the bow. Sundogs, named for Apollo’s faithful hunting dog, as Apollo is the Roman sun god. The refraction is occurring in the ice crystals very high in the sky and usually indicate a warm front approaching.