May 1, 2008

Good evening parents and students!

I have wonderful news...Here is a link to the Earth Science textbook online. Students, you no longer have to bring your textbooks home if you have access to the Internet.

Classwork

Today the students had a choice of two assignments.  The first assignment was a drawing assignment where they were required to draw an underwater representation of the topography of the ocean floor.  The drawings needed to have 6 ocean floor features labeled and described.  These features are the mid-ocean ridge, deep-ocean trench, the continental slope, the continental shelf, abyssal plain, and sea mounts.  The drawings must be colored.  The second assignment was to do basically the same thing, but write a descriptive/creative narrative about a journey from one continent to another by walking along the ocean floor.  They must include the same 6 features and describe them just like in the drawings. 

Homework

Study notes and vocabulary for test Monday 5/5/08 and define ocean topography vocabulary in own words.  They also need to finish their ocean topography drawing/essay.

Thank you very much,

Mr. Mathews