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__**Important Announcement:**__
 * Welcome to 2nd semester of Earth Science. This is where you can find the daily agenda and any powerpoint presentations for this class.**
 * To find out what we are doing in class each day, click on the earth science notebook link below and scroll to the date you are interested in.**
 * Anyone who failed the first semester of earth science has an opportunity to receive your credits if you pass the second semester of earth science with a C or higher AND pass the semester final at the end of the year.**

We will use the link below every day in class. This is where you can find information about what is going on in class and what the homework assignments are for any day throughout the semester.

Assignments

Notes

Here is the link for the thunderstorm notes used in class on 5/1/2015. []

Please click on the document below for the updated directions for the hurricane webquest. The links to all websites are on the document.

Possible helpful links for El Nino newscast assignment. [] [|http://www.knmi.nl/research/glob] [|al_climate/enso/effects/]

Below is the PowerPoint for El Nino notes.
 * April Calendar**

|| 18 || || 1 || 2
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * 31 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 ||
 * 7 || 8 || 9 || 10 || 11 ||
 * 14 || 15 || 16 || 17
 * 21 [[file:AIR PRESSURE 2009.ppt]] || 22 [[file:surface air pressure patterns.pdf]] || 23 || 2[[file:reading the station model.pdf]]4 || 25 [[file:WS Forecasting weather map 1 5.pdf]] ||
 * 28 || 29 [[file:relative humidity.pdf]] || 30 [[file:clouds of the sky.pdf]]

|| [] [] [] || 4 || 5 || 5 || 7 || || 20 || 21 [] ||
 * March Calendar**
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * 3 Seasons Webquest Links are below
 * 10 || 11 TCAP || 12 TCAP || 13 TCAP || 14 ||
 * 17 || 18 || 19[[file:The Nature of Oceans.ppt]]
 * 24[[file:Surface Circulation.ppt]] || 25 || 26[[file:Deep Circulation.ppt]] || 27 || 28 ||

|| 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || || 13 P. E29-E30 in book || No School || 17 No School || 18 || 19 || 20 || || 24 || 25 || 26 || 27 ||
 * February Calendar**
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * 2[]
 * 9 || 10 || 11 || 12[[file:orbits and effects.pdf]]
 * 16
 * 23[[file:construction of eclipses.pdf]]


 * January Calendar**

[] || 21 Flame test lab || 22 || 23 Astronomy Test Part 1 || || 29 [] || 30 [] ||
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * 5 No School || 6[[file:Interactive Notebook Set-Up January 2012.ppt]] ||  || 8 || 9 ||
 * 12 || 13 || 14 || 15 || 16 ||
 * 19 No School || 20 Spectra Lab
 * 26 || 27 || 28

=**Oceanography Unit Links and Information**=

Here is the Coriolis effect video clip

Here are the definitions having to do with thermohaline circulation and deep ocean currents. Here are the PowerPoint presentations for both deep ocean circulation and surface circulation.

Here is information about el Nino and the ocean.

=**Weather Links**= Use the website below for the Hurricane Webquest that we are completing in class on Monday May 13th. [|www.nhc.noaa.gov/]


 * Here is information on air pressure patterns that we used at the beginning of the weather unit.**

We used this PowerPoint on air masses April 17 and 18.

We used this powerpoint on clouds on April 19.

Here is the link for Aprill 22, 2013. []

If you would like additional information on thunderstorms, this is a good link.

Here are the notes for the 4 ways air rises. You need the drawings for the notebook check.

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__Oceanography Webquest__ Use the links below to complete the oceanography webquest. We will be doing this webquest in class on 3/12/12. [] [] [] http://www.whoi.edu/interactives/ []

We will be using the air pressure PowerPoint on Thursday April 12, 2012

We will be using the weather maps PowerPoint on Friday April 13, 2012 We will use the PowerPoint below on Thursday April 19, 2012.

We will use the PowerPoint below on Friday April 20, 2012.

We will use the Thunderstorms PowerPoint below on Monday April 23, 2012.

We will use the PowerPoint below on Thursday April 26, 2012.

We will use the Tornado PowerPoint below on Friday May 4, 2012.

h[|ttp://weather.noaa.gov/radar/] **__Earth Science- Winter/Spring 2011 Weekly Schedule*__ **

** January 5 – January 7 ** Course expectations, set up interactive notebooks, introduction to astronomy ** January 10 – January 14 ** Timeline of the universe, solar system formation, dimensions of the solar system ** January 17 – January 21 ** Earth-Moon-Sun: tides, lunar phases, seasons, day and night ** January 24 – January 28 ** Orbits and ellipses: planets, comets and asteroids + **ASTRONOMY SKILLS QUIZ** ** January 31 – February 4 ** The sun, layers of the sun, nuclear fusion, sunspots, solar flares, eclipses ** February 7 – February 11 ** The electromagnetic spectrum, spectra lab, emission and absorption spectrum, telescopes, galaxies and the expanding universe + **OPEN NOTE QUIZ** ** February 14 – February 18 ** Constellations, brightness vs. distance of stars ** February 21 – February 25 ** The lifecycle of a star, Hertzsprung Russell Diagram + **ASTRONOMY FINAL QUIZ** ** February 28 – March 4 ** -CSAP- ** March 7 – March 11 ** The nature of oceans, ocean currents, the Coriolis effect, movement of air (convection) ** March 14 – March 18 ** Ocean currents: deep and surface circulation ** March 21 – March 25 ** El Nino, sea surface temperature, weather anomalies, + **OCEANS TEST** ** April 5 – April 8 ** Earth’s atmosphere: layers of the atmosphere, weather, energy from the sun, and movement of air ** April 11 – April 15 ** Air pressure, air masses, surface pressure patterns, weather maps, cold fronts/warm fronts ** April 18 – April 22 ** Relative humidity, types of clouds, thunderstorms, flash floods, ** April 25 – April 29 ** Lightning, thunder, severe winds, tornadoes, mid-latitude cyclones ** May 2 – May 6 ** Tornadoes & hurricanes ** May 9 – May 13 ** Hurricanes, weather unit conversions, + **OPEN NOTE WEATHER TEST** ** May 16 – May 20 ** Energy resources + final exam review ** May 23 – May 26 ** ** Final Exam: DPS Course Assessment- Earth Science **

*Schedule is likely to change but this is a general outline for what we will be doing during the second semester of earth science.