WEEKLY+BREAKDOWN

WEEK 1 Introduction/WEATHER

DAY 1 Introduction, about me, slideshow THE RED HELMET: Rules, procedures Weather (insert weather clips) Begin Interactive Reader Chapter 22, Sections 2 and 3

DAY 2 Activity INTERPRET A WEATHER MAP Review Interactive Reader

DAY 3 Activity PREDICTING THE WEATHER Begin LONG TERM WEATHER OBSERVATIONS

DAY 4 Activity TRACK A TROPICAL CYCLONE Hurricane Katrina Clips

DAY 5 Activity NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TWISTER TRACKING Tornado Clips

WEEK 2 OCEANS AND CLIMATE

DAY 1 Activity OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURES Activity CLASSIFYING CLIMATES Climate/Biome Clips THE UNIVERSE Spaceship Earth []

 DAY 2 Activity GLOBAL SOILS AND CLIMATE ALASKA IMAX/Accompanying Questions (Five factors that affect climate, Five factors affecting soils)

DAY 3 RAINFOREST /Accompanying Questions (Five factors that affect climate, Five factors affecting soils)

DAY 4 Activity DESERTIFICATION Desert Clips

DAY 5 Activity CHANGES IN SEA LEVEL

WEEK 3 ENVIRONMENT

DAY 1 AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH view/discuss

DAY 2 Conclude AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH Research Activity EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT/GLOBAL WARMING

DAY 3 Research Activity Conclusion Discuss Findings

DAY 4 THE GREATEST PLACES http://www.hulu.com/the-greatest-places?c=Food-and-Leisure/Travel Internet Activity Students will choose a place and write a defense and plan to conserve place.

DAY 5 CHANGE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD http://www.hulu.com/watch/82015/explore-change-at-the-top-of-the-world EARTH UNIVERSITY http://www.hulu.com/watch/89737/explore-earth-university STRIP MINING ON STEROIDS http://www.linktv.org/video/2902/episode-13-strip-mining-on-steroids Activity Write and Action Plan for Fayette County, Identify Threats, write a plan of conservation

WEEK 4 PLATE TECTONICS

DAY 1 RING OF FIRE [] Activity EARTH'S TECTONIC PLATES, TYPES OF PLATES BOUNDARIES Begin INTERACTIVE READER Chapter 21, Sections 1-4

DAY 2 Activity PLATE TECTONICS OF NORTH AMERICA

DAY 3 NOVA IN THE PATH OF A KILLER VOLCANO Questions

DAY 4 Activity THE DYNAMIC EARTH

DAY 5 NOVA TSUNAMI THE WAVE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD Questions

WEEK 5 GEOLOGIC TIME/DINOSAURS

DAY 1 Activity SOLVE DINOSAUR FOSSIL PUZZLES NEW BLOOD

DAY 2 TIME OF THE TITANS, CRUEL SEAS

DAY 3 GIANT OF THE SKIES, SPIRITS OF THE ICE FOREST

DAY 4 DEATH OF A DYNASTY Activity WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS

DAY 5 Conclude WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS

WEEK 6 DINOSAURS/EVOLUTION

DAY 1 NOVA Four Winged Dinosaur []

DAY 2 NEW DAWN, WHALE KILLER

DAY 3 Activity THE ICE AGE

DAY 4 Conclude THE ICE AGE

DAY 5 LAND OF GIANTS, NEXT OF KIN

WEEK 7

DAY 1 Activity WHERE DID HUMANS COME FROM

DAY 2 Conclude WHERE DID HUMANS COME FROM

DAY 3 SABRE-TOOTH, MAMMOTH JOURNEY

DAY 4 GENOGRAPHIC: MAPPING THE HUMAN JOURNEY

DAY 5 Conclude GENOGRAPHIC: MAPPING THE HUMAN JOURNEY

WEEK 8 SPACE

DAY 1 Space Introduction, Hubble Images jpl.nasa.gov Chapter 20 INTERACTIVE READER sections 1 and 3

DAY 2 Review Interactive Reader

DAY 3 THE UNIVERSE Life and Death of a Star []  DAY 4 BLACK HOLES The Other Side of Infinity []  DAY 5 Activity HR DIAGRAM

WEEK 9 SPACE/MID-TERM/FINAL

DAY 1 Activity RADIO ASTRONOMY

DAY 2 EVEREST IMAX/Questions, Make-up Work

DAY 3 MID-TERM/FINAL Review

DAY 4 MID-TERM/FINAL

DAY 5 MID-TERM/FINAL Make-up