Latitude & Longitude

Here's a site that overexplains Latitude, Longitude & Coordinate Systems

How well do you klnw Latitude & longitude?
Take the Lat & Long quiz!

Visit the Maps & Globes Home for more

Our next project will be to demonstrate how well we know Latitude & Longitude by tracking hurricanes.

Layers of the Earth explained

Spaceship Earth is a good resource that illustrates and explains the layers of the Earth:

| Structure
| The Core
| The Mantle
| The Crust
| The Atmosphere
| The Influence of the Sun and Moon
| Plate Tectonics
| Earthquakes
| Volcanoes

The Big Bang - Lets get this party started

Scientists tell us that our Universe began with an event known as the Big Bang.

All About Science has an excellent webpage that does a great job of explaining the Big Bang Theory.

The Solar Nebula Hypothesis

Here's a simple explanation of the formation of the solar system

Are you dense? Take a quiz and find out...

Did you read the assigned pages explaining density?

You will have questions about density (definitions and problem-solving) on the next couple of quizzes

Take a density quiz - print out the page, write in your answers (don't foget to put your name on it) and bring it in and you will get 10% extra credit on one of the quizzes with density questions.

Class Supplies shopping list for 2009-2010 Earth Science

2009-2010 Earth Science with Mr. Barkan

Supplies Needed every Day (Required):

3 "Quad-Ruled" or graph composition books - this will be your Earth Science journals & lab book.

Please leave the first three full pages blank.

Scientific or Graphing Calculator - bring the calculator you need for your math class.

Bring a sharpened Pencil, a working Pen and a highlighter every day.

Small Metric ruler (6", acrylic), and you can print an additional ruler from here

Earth Science Reference Table booklet (Mr. Barkan will provide this)

Supplies Needed at home for homework, lab reports and projects:

• Double-sided tape for attaching handouts to science journal (stapling handouts into notebooks is not recommended)
• Protractor, and you can print an additional protractor from here
• Compass
• A set of color pencils, pens or markers
• Glue Sticks
• Scissors

Additional Notes on Notebooks:

• Loose-leaf, spiral bound or other notebooks are not acceptable.
• Notebooks will be checked on a regular basis - keeping a current notebook in the required format is a percentage of their grade.
• Students will have a place to store lab notebooks in the classrooom, and are required to have them in class every day.
• All handouts should be attached into the notebooks via double-sided tape. Handouts should never be stapled into a notebook.
  

Fred

The school year is about to begin and we have already had one hurricane and a handful of tropical storms pass by.

The latest is Tropical Storm (TS) Fred, somewhere out in the South Atlantic Ocean. Fred is expected to become a hurricane over the next few days but

Updates about Fred and any other storms in the Atlantic can be found at The National Hurricane Center.

We will use TS Fred and other storms past and present to help us understand latitude and longitude.

How can you find your latitude and longitude?