Lecture Outline

The following is the sequence of topics to be covered.  The appropriate chapters should be read, the videos should be reviewed and all of the homework questions should be completed prior to the assigned class meeting date.

Date Topics Text Chapters Videos Laboratory Assignment
02/17 Introduction and Minerals 1 & 3 1, 2, & 12
  • We will begin minerals
03/03 Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics 2, 12, 13 & 14 3, 5 &  6
  • We will review the minerals
  • Introduction to Rocks (lab manual chapters 5, 6 & 7)
03/17 Igneous, Metamorphic & Sedimentary Rocks 4, 7 & 8 14, 17 & 18
  • Mineral Test
03/31 Mountains, Earth Structures and Earthquakes 9, 10, 11 & 14 7, 8 & 9
  • Rock review
  • Lab Manual Chapter 8, questions 1-11 are due
04/21 Volcanoes, Mass Wasting & Weathering 5, 6 & 15 15, 16 & 13
  • Introduction to maps
  • Rock Test
  • Assign Earthquake & Groundwater Projects
05/05 Groundwater, Glaciers and Shorelines 17, 18 & 20 21, 23 & 24
  • Groundwater & Earthquake projects are due. 
  • Lab Manual Chapter 9, questions 1,4,10,11,13-17 are due
TBA Living with the Earth   25 & 26
  • Map Test

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