Read:
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, Chapters 16 – 30
- Journeyman Packet Reading
Watch:
Understand the concepts and principles:
- Answer the following questions to demonstrate comprehension of the material. Bring you answers to class.
- What is the water cycle? Draw a simple diagram explaining it.
- What does endorheic mean? List some examples.
- How do the oceans and endorheic lakes become salty?
- What are ocean currents and what causes them?
- Do a word study on water. What principle do you think about when you do your word study?
Inspirements:
Choose from one of the following inspirements, or create your own with you parents approval.
Perform the following distillation experiment. Put several cups of water in a saucepan
and add several tablespoons of sugar. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Taste the water to
check its sweetness. Then heat your sugar water over a stove at medium high heat.
When the mixture is boiling, cover the pot with a lid. After a few minutes, remove the lid
and observe if any water has condensed on the bottom of the lid. Carefully collect the
water from the lid. Do not burn yourself! After it cools, taste the water. Is it sweet?
Where is the sugar? What happens if you boil off all the water from the solution? Take
pictures and write a page describing your experiment, what happened and why.
Design and perform a density experiment using the scientific method. See if adding salt
or other compounds to water changes its density. Take pictures and write a page
describing your experiment. E-mail your write-up and photos to Sis. Mapes before
Eureka class. Let her know if you plan to demonstrate the experiment in class.
Research other super salty bodies of water and create a report or presentation about what
you learned. Some places to start with are Lake Vanda, Lake Assal, Lagoon
Garabogazkol, the Don Juan Pond and Pyramid Lake. Please feel free to find you own
salty place is none of these float your boat. (Get it? Ha ha.)
Research an ocean species that lives in each section of the ocean floor (i.e. continental
shelf, abysmal plane, ocean trenches, etc.) Briefly describe in writing and pictures what
you learn about each species. Also please share what kind of sea creature you can
imagine being.
Create your own inspirement based on something you learned from your reading of
Journey to the Center of the Earth this month. You could research one of the scientific
concepts brought up in the book and see what we have learned since the book was
authored, or do a character study, or a graphic summary, or come up with your own idea.
Write a page long summary of your work.
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