Student Projects (check out the Google Docs notes students took):

Please leave comments giving feedback to the projects students created. Please leave your first name, a link back to your blog, and please write which period and which team's project you are writing about.

Thank you!

Mr. G

7th and 8th graders, earlier you answered the following questions:  How are volcanoes formed? How do earthquakes and volcanoes shape the Earth? What else besides volcanoes and earthquakes helps shape our Earth? How?

Share some of your responses by leaving a comment to this blog. Remember to use your first name and last initial when leaving me (or anyone) a comment.

Mr. G

Sixth graders, now that you are done with lessons 2, 3, and 4 and reading about batteries answer the following question for your next blog:

How does energy change from one form to another? Give examples of charging a battery and using a battery.

Much is in the news lately about earthquakes because of current activity that has affected people so hard. The Haiti earthquake has brought the world together and now Chile has been devastated by an 8.8 Magnitude quake. The quake also sent a tsunami to Hawaii! Since we're learning about plate tectonics let's read what has happened in Haiti, Chile and Hawaii. Let's put together what we're learning with what is happening and write about it. Begin blogging and sharing some of the many resources out there.

Check out these pictures of the destruction in Chile from the Boston Globe.

Chile quake Interactive (check it out)

New York Times article on Chile's earthquake.

Chile quake shortened our days??

Tsunami travel times graphic. 

Mashable article on how to track tsunamis.

Here's a good NPR article on the Chile earthquake.

Here's a youtube video on the Chile earthquake.

Here's a video taken from the International Space Station (ISS) by Astronaut Soichi.

And here's a picture taken from the ISS by Astronaut Soichi.

USGS Current Worldwide Earthquakes website.



Check out this site that tracks current earthquakes, it's cooler than the USGS site!

Haiti's 7.0M quake wikipedia site.

Photographs of Haiti (You've got to see these!)

Haiti Map

Taiwan had a 6.4M earthquake!

And yet another earthquake makes the news, Turkey gets hit by a 5.9M quake.

Are all these earthquakes connected?

Haiti Earthquake	Chile Earthquake	Taiwan Earthquake	Turkey Earthquake
7.0M at 13Km depth on January 12, 2010	8.8M at 59.4Km depth on February 27, 2010	6.4M at 35Km depth on March 4, 2010	5.9 M at 10Km depth on March 8, 2010
Over 230,000 died.	Over 800 died.	11 injured, none dead.	At least 5 dead.
From a Transform Fault.	From a Subduction Zone.	In between a transform fault and a subduction zone!	Subduction Zone Earthquake

Feel free to comment and tell me what you think.

Mr. G

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