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Supervolcano Video Essay

Supervolcano Video Essay

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Science

10th - 12th Grade

Hard

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Angela Archer

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Finishing Rock Unit

  • Take Visual Rock Test During Video

  • Rock Cycle Poster SUMMATIVE assessment has been reopened until midnight, February 15​

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Tectonic Features Unit:

  • Volcanoes​, Earthquakes, and the features they create on Earth's Surface

  • Last day to turn in assignments

    • March 9

  • ​100 MC Unit Test

    • March 10 & 11

    • The Test will go on Quarter 4

  • Quarter 3 ends

    • ​March 11

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"A True story of global disaster . . . it just hasn't happened yet."

- Supervolcano

BBC ONE - 2005

 

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  1. Write a 5 paragraph essay addressing the following points

    • Describe the Yellowstone Caldera

    • Describe the "VEI" scale: what it measures, how it works, and how it applies to yellowstone

    • Describe how social pressures (the media, politicians, etc) affected the actions of the scientist in this movie

    • Describe how the eruption of Yellowstone would look like (as portrayed by this movie)

    • Describe how the eruption of Yellowstone would affect the world (as portrayed by this movie)

  2. Essay Requirements

    • Each paragraph must be at least 5 sentences 

    • Essay must be typed into canvas directly

      • You may work on your essay in google docs, but you must copy and paste text into canvas

 

​Essay Assignment (Summative)

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