Go to Week 4 Writing Homework

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ELEMENTARY

​ELEMENTARY HOMEWORK

1. Field Journal (Draw and write about something you learned this week.) Length:  1st grade just a few words; 2nd grade 1-2 sentences; 3rd grade and up 3-5 sentences.
2. Lab:  there is a lab sheet in your child's backpack and a baggie with blue food coloring to learn more about the water cycle.(If you need more help to understand it, the basic concept is in this Video)

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IN CLASS RESOURCES

• Video: Where Does Water Come From? | Ecology for Kids
• Video: Sink or Float? SciShow Kids

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HIGH SCHOOL

 IN CLASS TOPICS

• QUIZ:  Cold Warm Occluded Stationary-Types of Weather Fronts (Moo Moo Math and Science)
  
• Water - Liquid Awesome: Crash Course Biology #2 (skip Cavendish) (approx. 9 min)
  
• The water (hydrologic) cycle (2:15)
• Hard vs. Soft Water: What's The Difference? (stop at 2:38)
  
• Buoyancy: What Makes Something Float or Sink? (3:28)
• How do ocean currents work? - Jennifer Verduin (4:33)
• Ocean Zones | Nautilus Live (1:14)
• How are waves formed? - Behind the News (0:40)
• Where Does Your Sewage Go? | I Didn't Know That (2:54)
  

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HIGH SCHOOL HOMEWORK

• 2 Entries about this week's learning in your field journal with a drawing for each or paste in an image/picture for each.
  
• Next week's assigned research (see Week 5 questions below)
• Study for Quiz. Week 4 "Water" Google Doc (also found in your google drive under "Shared with Me")
• ​Allison Homework:  1 field journal from what you learned this week & Complete the Lab Sheet "Create a Mini Water Cycle"
  

HIGH SCHOOL ASSIGNED RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Add your notes to the Google Doc Week 5: Earth Science (by Tuesday at 6pm)

Week 5 Earth Science:

1. List the layers of the earth and a little about each.
2. How does the earth rotate?
3. What is plate tectonics? 
4. What is the difference between magma and lava?
5. How are mountains formed?
6.  What is an aquifer? How does water get there?  Does water flow underground?
7.  How are caves formed?  What are the formations found within caves?
8.  What is a biosphere?
9. (#9-12) Research the ocean floor.  List some features of each of these parts:  

• the ocean floor itself:
• abyssal plain:
• continental shelf:
• mid-ocean ridge:
• submarine canyon:
• trench: