Earth Science Labs

    During the course of the year we do many very important laboratory activities.  Laboratory activities are intended to reinforce classroom learning. A student's completed laboratory activity write up will be due on on the due date stamped on the lab by the teacher.  Students are expected to finish writing up the laboratory activity at home as homework. Completed laboratory activities will be viewed by the teacher.  A completed laboratory  assignment is then either accepted  or given back to the student to REDO.  Accepted laboratory assignments are then discussed as a group, corrections made, rechecked by the teacher, and then filed in student folders.  Students must have 1,200 minutes of hands on laboratory work on file before they can take the Regents Examination. 

    The following is a list of Laboratory Activates that are planned for this year.  I may add more labs to the list or eliminate some as the year progresses.

  1.             Lab P-1 Density

  2.             Lab P-2 Sunspot Analysis

  3.             Lab P-3 Graph Analysis

  4.             Lab 8-7 Spectral Analysis

  5.             Lab 8-8 Classification of Stars

  6.             Lab 8-5 The Solar System

  7.             Lab 8-3 Ellipses

  8.             Lab 1-1 Earth's Circumference

  9.             Lab 1-2 Earth's Shape

  10.             Roundness of the Planets

  11.             Lab 1-3 Latitude & Longitude

  12.             Locating Positions on the Earth Using Latitude & Longitude

  13.             Solar Motion

  14.             Lab 7-1 Angel of Insulation

  15.             Interpreting Weather Stations

  16.             Lab 6-4 Dewpoint  & Cloud Formation

  17.             Lab 6-5 Weather Patterns

  18.             Lab 6-6 Cyclonic Weather Patterns

  19.             The Blizzard of 1993

  20.             Hurricane Watch and Tracking

  21.             Global Warming

  22.             El Nino

  23.             Lab 7-7 Local Water Budgets

  24.             Lab 7-8 Climate Patterns

  25.             Lab 7-9 Glacial Budgets

  26.             Lab 7-10 Hawaiian Rainfall Patterns

  27.             Lab 3-8 Alpine and Continental Glaciers

  28.             Lab 1-5 Constructing a Contour Map

  29.             Contour Maps Using Foam Mountain

  30.             Hydrological Cross Section of Long Island

  31.             Lab 3-9 Landscapes of New York

  32.             Lab 4-4 Origin of the Hawaiian Islands

  33.             Lab 4-7 Continental Drift

  34.             Earthquakes and the Mercalli Scale

  35.             Lab 4-5 Finding Epicenters

  36.             Lab 5-2 Matching Rock Layers

  37.             Planet Earth in Cross Section

           

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