1. (Begin Video and Activity: Fearless Planet – Earth Story)
Tuesday November 6, 2012
(Begin Video and Activity: Fearless Planet – Earth Story)

2. The Launch Pad
Tuesday, 11/6/12
Make a flow chart to illustrate the relationships between the eight “spheres” of Earth.

3. The Launch Pad Tuesday, 11/6/12 air life solid water crust mobile ice
Earth’s “Spheres”
Geosphere
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Pedosphere
Hydrosphere
Cryosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
air
life
solid
water
crust
mobile
ice
soil

4. Announcements
Happy November!

5. Quiz 7 S2 10/12 11/7 Quiz 8 S3 10/19 Quiz 9 S4 10/26 11/9 Quiz 10 S5
Assignment Currently Open
Summative or Formative?
Date Issued
Date Due
Date Into GradeSpeed
Final Day
Quiz 7 S2
10/12
11/7
Quiz 8 S3
10/19
Quiz 9 S4
10/26
11/9
Quiz 10 S5
11/2
11/16
WS – The Birth of a Planet; Earth’s Spheres F7
11/5

6. Indeed, our solar system is not quite as special as once believed.
Recent Events in Science
Our Solar System Is Not Quite as Special as Once Believed, New Research Suggests
Read All About It!
An artist's interpretation of how the solar system is believed to have appeared shortly after its birth and prior to planetary formation. (Credit: NASAR illustration)
Some billion years ago, our solar system's planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun.
While similar processes are witnessed in younger solar systems throughout the Milky Way, the formative stages of our own solar system were believed to have taken twice as long to occur.
Now, new research lead by the Centre for Star and Planet Formation at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, suggests otherwise.
Indeed, our solar system is not quite as special as once believed.

7. Video and Activity: Fearless Planet
Earth Story (Part 1)

8. Video Apollo 13
Highlands