Week of 5/28 – 6/3

            Reading Assignment

                        Prelude – And Just What is Geology?

Appendix A – Scientific Background:  Matter and Energy Appendix B – Flow Charts for Identifying Minerals

6/3 On Campus Meeting – Introduction, Maps Lab 

Week of 6/4 – 6/10

            Reading Assignment

Chapter 1 – Cosmology and the Birth of Earth

                        Chapter 2 – Journey to the Center of the Earth

Chapter 5 – Patterns in Nature: Minerals

            Homework Assignment # 1 (due 6/17)

                        Ch. 1 Review Questions 2, 9, 10, 12, 15

                        Ch. 2 Review Questions 5, 6, 7, 8, 11

            Video Assignment

1.      Down To Earth

2.      The Restless Planet

3.      Earth’s Interior

12. Minerals:  The Materials of Earth

Week of 6/11 – 6/17

Reading Assignment

                        Chapter 3 – Drifting Continents and Spreading Seas

                        Chapter 4 – The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics

Interlude B – The Rock Cycle

            Video Assignment

4.      The Sea Floor

5.      The Birth of a Theory

6.      Plate Dynamics

6/17 On Campus Meeting – HW#1 due, Minerals Lab

Week of 6/18 – 6/24

            Reading Assignment

                        Chapter 6 – Up from the Inferno: Magma and Igneous Rocks

                        Chapter 7 – Surface Veneer: Sediments and Sedimentary

Rocks 

Chapter 8 – Change in the Solid State: Metamorphic Rocks

Homework Assignment#2 (due 6/24)

                        Ch. 6 Review Questions 1, 5, 6, 11

Ch. 7 Review Questions 2, 3, 9

Ch. 8 Review Questions 1, 2, 5

            Video Assignment

14. Intrusive Igneous Rocks

8.      Earth’s Structures

17.    Sedimentary Rocks:  The Key to Past Environments

18.    Metamorphic Rocks         

            6/24 On Campus Meeting – LECTURE EXAM #1 (Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5),             

                                                            HW#2 due, Rocks Lab

Week of 6/25 – 7/1

Reading Assignment

                        Chapter 9 – The Wrath of Vulcan:  Volcanic Eruptions

Chapter 10 – A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes

Interlude D:  Memories of Past Life:  Fossils and Evolution

Chapter 12 – Deep Time: How Old is Old?

Homework Assignment #3 (due 7/8)

Ch. 9 Review Questions 1, 2, 5, 7, 11

Ch. 12 Review Questions 1, 3, 6, 9, 10

            Video Assignment

13. Volcanism

9.      Earthquakes

25. Living with Earth, Part I

10. Geologic Time

11. Evolution Through Time

Week of 7/2 – 7/8

Reading Assignment

Interlude E: Ever-Changing Landscapes and the Hydrologic

         Cycle

                        Chapter 17 – Streams and Floods: The Geology of Running

                         Water

Video Assignment

11. Running Water I: Rivers, Erosion and Deposition

12. Running Water II: Landform Evolution

7/8 On Campus Meeting – LECTURE EXAM #2 (Ch. 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10),

                                               HW#3 due, Radioactive Half Life Lab

Week of 7/9 – 7/15

            Reading Assignment

                        Chapter 18 – Restless Realm: Oceans and Coasts

Chapter 19 – A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater

Chapter 22 – Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages

            Homework Assignment #4 (due 7/15)

                        Ch. 18 Review Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6

                        Ch. 19 Review Questions 1, 3, 6, 11, 12

Video Assignment

21. Groundwater

22. Glaciers

24. Waves, Beaches and Coasts

7/15 On Campus Meeting – LECTURE EXAM #3 (Ch. 12, 17,18, 19 &

22), LAB EXAM, HW#4 due