Mr. Mathews

Edheads

Click on the link below to begin your activity.

Edheads - Weather

If you finish answering all the questions on the Lab sheet with time remaining, you can continue to work through the online activity.

COLLEGE PREP IV. A, B, and C

Below are the three COLLEGE PREPS you will be assessed over tomorrow in Science class.  Click on the link and you will be able to download and print off each COLLEGE PREP.

Download January 6, 2012 COLLEGE PREP Properties of Air

Download January 9, 2012 COLLEGE PREP Composition of the Atmosphere

Download January 10, 2012 COLLEGE PREP Layers of the Atmosphere

 

Online Flashcards

This is a fantastic website called Quizlet you can use to create online flashcards.  Here are a few links to flashcards you can use to review important vocabulary terms.

http://quizlet.com/_2tc84 - Minerals

http://quizlet.com/_24kp4 - Rocks and Minerals

http://quizlet.com/_aun3 - Rocks and Minerals

http://quizlet.com/_16ef7 - Weathering and Soil

http://quizlet.com/_12b82 - Layers of the Earth

http://quizlet.com/_1d33u - Plate Tectonics

http://quizlet.com/_1124y - Water Cycle

http://quizlet.com/_1ktmf - World Oceans

Geology Review

Below you will find two links to help you review some of the key pieces of information from our Geology unit.  Please feel free to choose any link to review.  Think about which might be most beneficial for you and choose based on that.  Follow the directions on the website.

Rocks and the Rock Cycle 

Plate Tectonics and Layers of the Earth

 

 

 

Water Cycle Websites

Use the links below to complete the computer assignments on your paper.

Bill Nye on The Water Cycle

Study Jams: The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

Thurston’s Word Scramble Game

 

Natural Resources Cornell Notes

Below you will find a link to download the Natural Resources Cornell Notes to be used for the quiz on Tuesday, 5/17/11. 

Download Natural Resources Cornell Notes

Astronomy Cornell Notes

Below you will find the links to all the Cornell Notes on Astronomy.  Use them to review for the CRCT.

Download Astronomy Cornell Notes 

Download Comets, Asteroids, & Meteoroids Cornell Notes

Download Phases of the Moon Cornell Notes

Download Solar System Cornell Notes

 

Open Study Is Working!

Hopefully some of you will check the blog this break and find that OpenStudy is back up and running.  you must access it from http://retro.openstudy.com/.  If you type openstudy.com in the address bar you will NOT! find our study groups.  Be sure to use http://retro.openstudy.com/ to access the old site.  Your username and password will be the same.  Hope you all are able to login and post some quesitons for me and your classmates!  Sorry for the late notice, but I just found out during 6th period today.  Hope to see you all on http://retro.openstudy.com/ this break!

Open Study

You are about to register for a website called Open Study that will allow us as a class to study together for the CRCT at home!  It will allow you to ask questions that can be answered by both me and your classmates.  Go to http://openstudy.com/ and click on "Sign Up.  It's Free!" in orange.  We will use this as a resource to ask and answer questions that you all might have in order to better prepare for the CRCT.  Once you have registered, don't forget to write your username and password down in a safe place so you won't forget it.  See you on Open Study!

Black Hole video from class 3/8/11

Many of you have expressed an interest in watching the rest of the Black Hole video we watched a clip from on Tuesday in class.  Below are segments of the whole video.  Each segment is approx. 4 to 6 minutes long.  Please post a comment on what you think about the video, questions you have about the video, or problems you have with viewing them.  Enjoy!

All videos downloaded from UnitedStreaming.com and used for educational purposes only. 

Download What_Is_a_Black_Hole_ - 1st segment

Download Destructive_Power_of_Black_Holes - 2nd segment

Download Black_Hole_Formation_and_Gamma_Ray_Bursts - 3rd segment

Download Inside_a_Black_Hole - 4th segment

Download Supermassive_Black_Hole - 5th segment

Download Quasars - 6th segment

Download Images_of_an_Event_Horizon - 7th segment

Download Time_Travel__Black_Holes__and_the_Big_Bang -8th segment