Swine Flu

Today we are learning about Swine Flu and creating a comic or presentation so we can inform others about it.  The best comic and presentation will be posted on the school website.


1. What is the total count of Human Cases of Swine Flu in the US?  How about California?

2. What does the word Flu stand for?

3. Why do they call it Swine Flu? (look in Key Facts)

4. List at least 4 things you can do to stay healthy


5. List the symptoms of Swine Flu

6. How is Flu spread?

7. What should you do if you get sick?

8. What medicines are there to treat Swine Flu?

9. The current Swine Flu epidemic is being called a Pandemic.  What is a Pandemic? (just google it)

Make a 10 square comic or presentation.  The first square or slide should be a title square or slide.  The best comic and presentation will be posted on the slhs.net website as an information source for people.

Turn it in to the Swine Flu folder.

The Carbon Cycle

Go Here, Watch the Carbon Cycle Movie and answer the following questions:

1. Where is carbon found?
2. Carbon in the atmosphere is found in a gas called?
3. Carbon is stored in the ground as?
4. Carbon is dissolved in?
5. What uses carbon dioxide to grow?
6. Plants release carbon to the atmosphere through __________
7. When plants die, become part of the soil, and are compacted they are transformed into what?
8. How does carbon move between water and the atmosphere?
9. Sea Creatures and plants can ______________ carbon from the oceans.
10. How do humans influence the carbon cycle?
11. The addition of carbon to the atmosphere contributes to ____________________

Put 10 of the questions into a comic book and find images for each square that relate to the question.  Post the comic to your blog or put it in the Carbon Cycle folder on the server if it doesn't work


The Rock Cycle Presentation

Today you will make a presentation on the Rock Cycle using the following website:


Slide 1: What are Rocks?
Slide 2: What are the 3 types of rock?
Slide 3: Where do Igneous rocks come from?
Slide 4: What minerals are in igneous rocks?
Slide 5: What are three types of extrusive igneous rocks?
Slide 6: What are three types of intrusive igneous rocks?
Slide 7: What are sedimentary rocks?
Slide 8: What are clastic sedimentary rocks
Slide 9: What are three types of clastic sedimentary rocks?
Slide 10: What are nonclastic sedimentary rocks?
Slide 11: What are two types of nonclastic sedimentary rocks?
Slide 12: What are metamorphic rocks?
Slide 13: What are foliated metamorphic rocks and name a few
Slide 14: What are nonfoliated metamorphic rocks and name a few.

Turn your presentation in to the server in the Rock Cycle Presentation folder.

Rock Cycle Comic

Create a ten square comic using yesterday's questions.  Make sure you find a picture that has to do with the question.  Example, if it's talking about limestone, find a picture of limestone!

Post the image on your blog or drop the comic in the Rocks folder on the 10.12.1.9 server.

Remember, to make the image for your blog, File > Export to Image and make sure its format is jpeg.

The Rock Cycle

Go here and watch the Rocks podcast.  Answer the following questions while watching:

1. Earth's crust began as ________________
2. In the beginning, all rocks were _______________
3. Volcanoes deliver igneous rocks to the ________________
4. Rock that forms underground is called ___________________
5. Rock that forms from from igneous rock fragments (sediments) are called _____________
6. Sand that is formed into rock is called _____________________
7. Layers of coal are formed from ________________________
8. Limestone is formed from _______________________
9. Rocks that have been changed since they first formed are called _____________________
10. Limestone under great pressure turns to _______________
11. When metamorphic rock reaches the surface, it weathers and becomes _______________

Post the questions to your blog or put them in the Rocks folder on the server.

Deepest Place Comic

Create a 6 square comic using six of the questions from the Deepest Place video questions.

Post the comic on your blog.