This week we finished up our study on Earthquakes. Next week we will look at volcanoes. The ALL SCHOOL SCIENCE FAIR is next Wednesday -- I hope to see everyone there!

We have begun our chapter on volcanoes and earthquakes. We began by looking at earthquakes and will continue with this topic all week. We are also working on finishing our science fair projects. At this time, students may bring in their tri-fold boards whenever they...

We started off the week reviewing for our chapter 8 test. We took our test on Tuesday and grades have been uploaded on RenWeb. We will review expectations for the science fair project on Thursday and we will begin our next chapter on earthquakes and volcanoes next...

This week we finished our lesson on continent building and focused on landforms in the interior of the continents. Earlier, we focused more on the coastlines. We will be working on our EC/Review assignment on Thursday and will review for our test on Monday. Our...

We are continuing to study the unique landforms that are created by different forms of stress and different types of boundaries. We have learned that each boundary has its own type of stress: compression occurs at convergent boundaries, tension occurs at divergent...

This week we began our study of Earth's Dynamics. This will take the information that we learned about last chapter on plate tectonics and plate boundaries and tie this into the landforms that we have. We will be exploring mountain building. This week, we specifically...