Unit 8: Groundwater, Surface Water, Glaciers, Ice Ages

Important: If you missed school you should read (or watch) everything listed for that day.

RESOURCES

March 31: Groundwater Cartoon (3:44)
March 31: Water Cycle Tutorial
April 1: Sludge Truck REVIEW
April 1: Article about Helena's Wastewater (sewage) Treatment Plant.
April 1: Giant Springs at Great Falls REVIEW
April 2-3: Berkeley Pit in Butte REVIEW
April 2-3: CBS News: Keystone Pipeline (May 2014)
April 2-3: Septic Tank near Montana City REVIEW
April 2-3: November 2010 Article about arsenic plume beneath East Helena
April 2-3: Ogallala Aquifer
April 2-3: Map Activity USA Drainage Basins PowerPoint (get the handout from Benson) REVIEW
April 4: Make-Up Assignment for April 4
April 4: Montana's Rivers REVIEW
April 4: Montana Rivers Mapped PowerPoint - WATCH IT IF YOU WERE GONE! REVIEW
April 4: Watershed of the Yellowstone River REVIEW
April 4: Milltown Dam
April 4: Triple Divide Peak
April 7-11: Oxbow Lakes
April 7-11: Oxbow Lake Formation Animation
April 7-11: The Great Falls of the Missouri
April 7-11: SNOTEL Sites
April 9-11: Handout for Watershed Project (pdf file)
April 9-11: Island Watershed Project
April 15-17: Lake Helena Watershed REVIEW
April 15-17: Helena Watershed Video
April 15-17: Make-Up Assignment for Map Activity: Helena Area Watersheds
April 16-17: What is "hard water"? REVIEW
April 17-18: Comet Impact Hypothesis (related to the video: The Last Extinction)
April 17-18: Ice Age Mammals of the Labrea Tar Pits
April 17-18: Wooly Mammoth Discovery in Great Falls short KXLH News video
April 15-17: Mammoth Fossil Site in South Dakota
April 18-22: Time Lapse Video Beneath a Glacier (:48)
April 18-22: Examples of Glacial Landforms
April 22-23: Snowball Earth Video (43 min) REVIEW
Extra Credit for Periods 1, 3, 4 (R)
April 24-25: Graph Shows Timing and Extent of Ice Ages (www.snowballearth.org) REVIEW
April 23-24: Snowball Earth (Gone? - Read pages 1 and 2) REVIEW
April 24-25: Milankovitch Cycles (tutorial)
April 25: Formation of Flathead Lake REVIEW
April 25: Ice Age Moves the Missouri River REVIEW
April 25: Glacial Lake Missoula Floods REVIEW
April 25: Snake Butte in North-Central Montana REVIEW
Review Sheet for Test REVIEW

Email: rbenson@helena.k12.mt.us