EarthCache Assessment

For your assessment, you will create an EarthCache for one of the sites you visit on our field trip.

To get started understanding this assignment, you need to know what an earth cache is.  In short, it is a geologic point of interest, created by members of the geocaching community, which is designed to provide an educational field experience.  

Your tasks for today are to...

Pick a partner you would like to work on this assessment with.  You can earn an achievement badge by choosing someone you have NEVER worked with on a project before.

Visit EarthCache.org to find out what Earch Caches are,

Find examples of great Earth Caches (try searching for sites in Colorado, or the Grand Canyon, or other sites all over the world)

find out the criteria for making your own earth cache.

Make a plan for tomorrow.  Will you take pictures?  Record audio of the tour guides?  Come with really great questions to ask your tour guides?  Bring a GPS?  Take detailed notes?  Who will do which jobs?

Pangaea Virtual Lab

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES11/ES11.html

Fossil Dig Virtual Lab

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES12/ES12.html

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_17/BL_17.html

Dinosaur Extensions for September 10

If you have passed your metric system test, you get to do an Exploration today.  Explorations are short studies within a topic of your choosing, and include a report of your learning.

Your launch point today is:   http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world.html  You may explore anything you want, related to the topics on this page (geology, prehistoric life, fossils, dinosaurs, etc.).  Your studies may take you away from this website, but please keep your study within the realm of geology and paleontology.

Your report can be either of the two following ideas:

1.  On the left side of a sheet of paper, record the questions you want to find answers to, and on the right, record the activities or websites you visit, and the information you find.  For example, you might wish to find out what kinds of plants lived during the time of the dinosaurs.  Write this question on the left, and on the right, record what you learned, or where your questioning took you.

2.  In paragraph form, summarize your activities and learning.

Getting Started With Prezi - Geologic Time Line

Do not leave this page without reading all of the directions listed below.

1. Click the "new tab" button so that you can have this window open, as well as a second window, at the same time. Click back and forth between the two windows so you can see how easily this is done.

2. In your new tab, enter the address: Prezi.com

3. You will be starting a new account with Prezi, EVEN IF you already have another account with Prezi.

 Click where is says "Sign Up Now." On the next page, choose "Start Now" under the $0 column.

4. You need to write this down in your AN. Are you ready? You have to do this exactly correctly.

Your First Name is STUDENT

Your Last Name is [your last name] 

So, for example, my name would be STUDENT Norton

Your email address is nortonsclass.fms+[yourlastnamefirstinitial]@gmail.com

For example, my email address is nortonsclass.fms+nortont@gmail.com 

Your password is mustang3000

5. Now you have a prezi account.

 Please go through the tutorial or play around on your own. Your job is to be able to do the following tasks...


Start a new presentation
Pick a template
Delete an object
Add text
Move a piece of text
Move pictures around
Make objects larger and smaller
Draw objects, like lines, circles, and flow chart elements
Change the colors of text, lines, or drawings
Change the name of a presentation
View the presentation

6.  When you are comfortable doing all of these tasks, you must check with me before moving on.

Make a copy of this template, RENAME IT, [yourlastname] geologic time line

Follow the directions on the template.

Preview - Earth Science Chapter 13