Please check out the useful document (under Nerd Words section) to see categories for these examples (i.e. poem; drawing; short story).
While in Bar Harbor, Maine this summer, I saw some interesting rock formations, wildlife (harbor seals, bald eagles, a peregrine falcon), and sunsets. Please enjoy the pictures! Please also check out the video of Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park. (Thunder Hole is a small inlet, naturally carved out of the rocks, where the waves roll into. At the end of this inlet, down low, is a small cavern where, when the rush of the wave arrives, air and water is forced out like a clap of distant thunder. Water may spout as high as 40 feet with a thunderous roar! Hence the name: Thunder Hole.) While in Vermont this summer, I stumbled upon the "Goodsell Ridge Preserve" on the Isle La Motte (Land Champlain Land Trust). The Goodsell Ridge Preserve is a site of the ancient Chazy Reef, a fossil reef formed 480-450 million years ago during what geologists call the Ordovician Period. The Chazy Reef is known by scientists world-wide as the oldest multi-organism reef in the history of life on earth. Paleontologists believe the reef was formed almost half a billion years ago, when Lake Champlain was part of the shallow Iapetus Ocean, where Zimbabwe is today. A well-marked path leads through the field to outcroppings swirled with signs of life — swirled skeletal remains of cephalopods, gastropods, bryoaozs, sponges, crinoid stems and stromotoporoids. “Discovery Areas” are numbered and identified. Below (attached file) you can download my class syllabus. My syllabus explains about:
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Here are the North Carolina Essential Science Standards. We will follow this curriculum during the 2013-2014 school year.
We will learn about:
Essential Standards - Science http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/standards/new-standards/science/6-8.pdf 8th Grade Science Standards Unpacked http://scnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/file/view/Unpacked_Content_Grade8Science_RevisedSeptember2012.docx.pdf/368725266/Unpacked_Content_Grade8Science_RevisedSeptember2012.docx.pdf |