The class is open to all 10-12th grade students. The class is also open to ninth grade students with a grade of B or better in 8th grade core subjects.
We were late in receiving new texts this year because the books needed to be hard bound. Students are therefore starting off in last year's text for the first three chapters. Since this is the transition year to the new texts, the schedule below is tentative.
"OLD TEXT": Modern Earth Science, 1989, Ramsey, William L., et al, Holt, Rinehart and Wilson.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Earth Science
Chapter 2: The Earth in Space
Chapter 3: Models of the Earth
Chapter 10: Rocks (note: this chapter will follow chapter two below. A full semester will be spent on this subject for those students who go on to take geology II (advanced geology)).
"NEW TEXT": Essentials of Geology, Seventh Edition, 2000, Lutgens, Frederick K. and Tarbuch, Edward J., Prentice Hall.
Chapter 2: Minerals: The Building Blocks of Rocks.
(note: the topics in the text from chapters 3-13 are covered in the second semester of Geology II (advanced Geology).
Chapter 15: Earthquakes and Earth's Interior.
Chapter 16: Plate Tectonics.
Chapter 17: Mountain Building.
Chapter 18: Geologic Time.
Chapter 19: Earth History: A Brief Summary.
Teacher: Bjarne Holm, Certified Professional Geologist, Amarican Institute of Professional Geologists
11-19-2000