January 2014

Apprentice

GEOMETRY

1. Read chapter 4 of The Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe (you do not have to read the whole thing.)
2. Email me what you learned, your findings, pictures, ideas, thoughts, any new concepts from your reading.
3. Bring a square item or drawing to share with the class.

In class we will draw and learn a few spiritual principles of the perfect square so bring your compasses.

OCEANOGRAPHY/METEOROLOGY

1.Read the book, “Carry On, Mr. Bowditch” come prepared for a discussion, specifically on how he navigated the ships and how he taught others to do the same. Think about this while reading: “How does Mr. Bowditch learn from his mistakes?” and “How does this apply to me?”
2. Email me  your answers.
3.Bring the book to class and have the pages or paragraphs marked of the answers. Or of things that impressed or touched you.


Journeyman

GEOMETRY

1. Find examples of the square or four in Nature, Architecture or Art and take a photo of them or draw them out or find them on the internet.
2. Study about how the square (4) fits into the Creation (1), Fall (2), Atonement (3) sequence.    Bring a written paragraph or list to class about your findings (you’ll turn this in to me).

OCEANOGRAPHY / METEOROLOGY

1. Read, PhysicalOceanography/ Meteorology Branch, pg. 20 and/or any other book on meteorology on the ocean.
2. Study about how the atmosphere and the ocean work separately and together.
3. Email me what you learned, your findings, pictures, ideas, thoughts, any new concepts from your study.

Master

 GEOMETRY

Write a report answering the following questions:  How does God use squares and/or the number four in the scriptures and in creation?  Why are squares (4) important to life?  to YOU?  You’ll give this report in class.

OCEANOGRAPHY / METEOROLOGY

Answer: How does God use opposites in the scriptures?  What are some examples of opposites in the scriptures? In life? In the commandments?  

Examples of opposites in the ocean:  Ocean (water below) and Atmosphere (water above).   Horizontal and vertical movements within the ocean water.

Examples of opposites in scripture:  “Man is nothing” and “We are of infinite worth”. 

November 2013 Inspirements

Eureka!

November 2013

APPRENTICE (Knowledge)

GEOMETRY

Find two new concepts (you do not have to read the whole thing) from Chapter 3 of The Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe. Email me your findings (pictures, ideas, thoughts, etc.)

In class we will draw and learn a few principles of the equilateral triangle

OCEANOGRAPHY

Read, Physical Oceanography/ Biological Branch, pg. 25 - 28.  Study animals within one of the zones and choose a marine animal to do a report on. Use picture books or the internet or ask me, I have several books I’m willing to loan out.

In class we will go over last months experiments and review the zones

JOURNEYMAN (Understanding)

GEOMETRY

Find examples of the triangle in Nature, Architecture or Art and take a photo of them or draw them out or find them on the internet and email them to me.

OCEANOGRAPHY 

Write and prepare a report on the animal you chose.  You may hand write or type it and it may be as long or short as you want.    Include in your report:  the animal, unique characteristics, what vertical zone and horizontal zone he lives (see reading assignment), what he eats, why you chose this specific marine animal and what is God’s purpose for this creature?  You may use any visual aids you want.  You may present it any way you desire (lecture, interactive, demonstration, etc.) you will have 5 minutes only.  You will turn in your report to me.

MASTER (Intelligence)

GEOMETRY

Answer:  How does God use triangles and/or the number three in the scriptures and in creation?  Why are triangles important to life? To YOU?  Bring the answers with you, include scripture examples.

Read about a Mathematician to share.

OCEANOGRAPHY 

Answer: How does God use water in the scriptures?  What are some example of water animals in the scriptures or words of the prophets?  Name two analogies with marine/ocean animals used in the scriptures or words of the prophets.  If you were a marine animal what would you be and why?  Bring the answers with you. :)

Read about an Oceanographer, Mathew Fountain for example to share.

Hydrosphere Terms

Please review these hydrosphere terms:

1. Hydrosphere - the water contained on the Earth
1. Oceanic Waters - Water found in the ocean
1. Ocean - One of the four large bodies of salt water on the earth.
2. Sea - a large area of salt water, smaller than an ocean, that is partly or completely enclosed by land (Mediterranean Sea)
3. Wave - a moving ridge or swell on the surface of a body of water
4. Current - a stream of water moving in a definite direction through the ocean; some are warm, some are cold
5. Tides - the rise and fall of sea-level which usually occurs twice a day because of the attraction of the sun and moon. Spring Tide - high tides when the sun and moon pull together; Neap Tide - low tide when the sun and moon pull against each other.
6. Bay - part of a body of water which reaches into the land, generally with a wide opening; smaller than a gulf
7. Gulf - extension of an ocean or a sea into the land (Gulf of Mexico)
8. Strait - a narrow waterway connecting two large bodies of water
9. Sound - a body of water separating one or more islands from the mainland
10. Harbor - a bay or inlet of water deep enough for anchoring a ship which provides protection from winds, waves, and currents
11. Iceberg - a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier
12. Coral Reef - a ridge of rock or sand at or near the surface of water
13. Ocean floor - the bottom of the ocean, consisting of mountain, valleys, plains and trenches.
14. Continental Shelf - a shallow underwater plain forming a border around a continent, usually ending with a steep slope to the deep ocean floor
15. Continental Slope - the deep drop off after the continental shelf
16. Trench - a long, steep-sided, narrow depression in the ocean floor
17. Basin - a circular depression of the earth's surface; on the ocean floor
18. Mountain - a natural elevation of the Earth’s surface; rising from the ocean floor
19. Guyot - a raised plateau under the ocean, named after Arnold Guyot
2. Continental Waters - waters found on the continent
1. River / Stream - a large stream of water flowing through land
2. Source - the place where a river begins, usually in highlands
3. Up Stream - the direction from which a river flows
4. Down Stream - the direction toward which a river flows
5. Mouth - the place where a river flows into a larger body of water
6. Tributary - a river or stream that flows into a larger river
7. Delta - land deposited at the mouth of a river
8. Lakes - an inland a body of water, smaller than a sea; fresh water lake (with both inlet and outlet)or salt water lake (water entering with no outlet)
9. Reservoir - a lake where water is stored for future use; sometimes formed by a dam
10. Channel - a deep, narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water; the deeper part of a waterway
11. Canal - a man-made ditch for transportation or irrigation
12. Glacier - a large body of slowly moving ice
13. Ice Sheet - a glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center
14. Ground Water - the water found beneath the surface of the ground; the source of water in springs and wells
3. Water Vegetation
4. Water Animals
5. Water Cycle
6. Oceanographer - one who studies the ocean

October Inspirements

Eureka!

October 2013

APPRENTICE - Knowledge

• Find two new concepts f(you do not have to read the whole thing)rom Chapter 2 of The Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe and write them down or draw them in your Reflection Journal.  Email me a copy or outline.

• Read, History of Oceans and Hydrosphere, pg. 6 - 9.  Record 2 -4 things that you learned new or found interesting and why.  Email them to me.

Choose one or more from each of the following groups:

GEOMETRY

1 - Add a page to your Plan of Happiness Book

2 - Make tabs for Geometry.  See the recommended tabs or come up with your own.

3 - Create an art work using the Vesica Pisces. 

4 - Come up with 5 questions concerning the Vesica Pisces (can be questions you have answers for or questions you want the answers to.)

In class we will draw the Vesica pisces and learn about it

OCEANOGRAPHY

1 - Add a page to your The Creation Book

2 - Make tabs for  Oceanography.  See the recommended tabs or come up with your own.

3 - Draw anything to do with the ocean (sunset, ocean animals, coral reef, etc.)

4 - Come up with 5 questions concerning Oceanography  (can be questions you have answers for or questions you want the answers to.)

In class we will do experiments:  The Miracle of Water

JOURNEYMAN - Understanding

• Find two examples of the Vesica Pisces in Nature, Architecture or Art other than the ones in the book and send me a picture or drawing or links.

• Read, Physical Oceanography, pg. 12 - 16.  Record 2 -4 things that you learned new or found interesting and why.  Email them to me.

Choose one or more from each of the following groups:

GEOMETRY

1 - Write down 2 characteristics of Christ revealed in the Vesica Pisces and/or the Line.

2 - Write or draw principles of Vesica Pisces and / or Line. (The Plan, doorway, place of creation)

3 - Do a word study of “opposition” or “The Fall” and give examples of opposites.

4 - Find four scriptural examples of opposite and/or opposite commands. (example:  “Be still” and “be anxiously engaged” or “man is nothing” and “man is of infinite worth”)

OCEANOGRAPHY 

1  - Write down 2 characteristics and/or names of Christ revealed in water.

2 - Do a word study on water, oceans, or seas.

3 - Write a paper describing the difference between waves, currents and tides.

4 - Find four scriptural examples of waves, currents and/or tides; or on the temperature, salinity and density of the ocean.

MASTER - Intelligence/Becoming “How”

Write a three paragraph paper on one of the questions below (one from each subject).  Paragraphs:  1 - describing the subject 2 - describing you 3 - how it all fits together and applies to your life.

GEOMETRY 

1 - Answer the question, “How does the Vesica Pisces apply to my life?” or “How does the principles of the Line apply to my life?”

OCEANOGRAPHY

1  - Answer the question, “How does the principles within water/oceans apply to me?” or “How does the percentage of water and salt apply to my life?” or “How does the waves or currents apply to my life?”

Here is an example of how the 7 R's of Retaining relate to Math and Science:

Clarification on The Great Plan of Happiness Notebook

I want to clarify the requirement of creating your Great Plan of Happiness Notebook:

This is an on going project throughout the year and throughout your life.  Below is the exact invitation from President Boyd K. Packer.  This does not need to be a huge project.  It can be as simple as drawing out The Plan or collecting some articles or listing doctrines found in The Plan or comparing God's Plan of Happiness to Satan's Plan of Misery and then placing them in a folder.  How you create it is completely up to you.  I just want you to really understand the importance and the great privilege we have of knowing The Plan.  We will be referring to it throughout the year, if not every class.  Keep adding to it.

Excited to spend Friday with you.

In 1993 Elder Boyd K. Packer, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, told teachers in the Church Educational System that along with a brief overview of the subject to be studied they should give an overview of the plan of salvation at the beginning of every school year:

“A brief overview of the ‘plan of happiness’ (which is my choice, my favorite title, in talking of the plan), if given at the very beginning and revisited occasionally, will be of immense value to your students.

“I have an assignment for you. … You are assigned to prepare a brief synopsis or overview of the plan of happiness—the plan of salvation. Design it as a framework on which your students can organize the truths you will share with them.

“At first you may think that a simple assignment. I assure you, it is not. Brevity and simplicity are remarkably difficult to achieve. At first you will be tempted to include too much. The plan in its fulness encompasses every gospel truth. …

“This may be the most difficult, and surely the most rewarding, assignment of your teaching career.

“Your overview of the plan of happiness should be but a sweeping glance across the unfolded scroll of scriptural truths. Your students can thereafter locate themselves in respect to the plan. …

“I will give you the barest outline of the plan as a beginning, but you must assemble your framework yourself.

“The essential components of the great plan of happiness, of redemption, of salvation, are these:

“Premortal existence
Spiritual creation
Agency
War in heaven
Physical creation
The Fall and mortality
Principles and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ (first principles: faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, …)
The Atonement
Life beyond the grave
Spirit world
Judgment
Resurrection” (The Great Plan of Happiness, 2–3).

Math Supplies

Here are a few school supplies we will be using for Eureka!  

• math compass, 
• straight edge, 
• plain paper - to go in their notebook, 
• pencils, 
• colored pencils,
• pencil sharpener, 
• erasers, 
• old magazines with ocean pictures and water animals to cut out, or you can print them out.

Book Titles for Recommended Reading

Most if not all of them can be found at the library.

Pagoo by Holling C. Holling ($10) The ocean and tide pool from the view point of a crab - see Queen Homeschool for a study guide with this book.

Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling ($10)

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson ($15)

Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson ($12)

The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson ($12)

The Desert Beneath the Sea by Ann McGovern ($4)

An Octopus is Amazing (Let's Read and Find Out Science)

Elephant Seal Island (A Science I Can Read Book)

Red Tag Comes Back (A Science I Can Read Book)

Seahorse (A Science I Can Read Book)

Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea (Gail Gibbons)

Life in a Tidal Pool (Silverstein)

Any Gail Gibbon books or Let’s Read and Find Out Science books

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh  about life messages from sea shells

There are several articles about sea creatures in the Friend and a talk given in General Conference by Gordon B. Hinckley we will be using also.  Those links will be given at the month we will be studying them.

Eureka!

2013-2014

September

APPRENTICE - Doctrine - The “Why”

• Read “The Great Plan of Happiness” or the seminary version: Great Plan of Happiness by President Boyd K. Packer and begin creating a Plan of Happiness binder as Packer describes.
• Make a title page for Math and one for Science - be creative and include your name.
• Review the Creation found in Genesis and Moses.  

Choose one or more of the following MATH activities and be ready to share in class:

1 - Review the Plan of Happiness, how many different ways can you draw out the Plan?  See Teaching our Children the Plan in the September 2001 Ensign for ideas.

2 - Name 4 characteristics of Christ revealed in math (example Unchangeable).  Write them down in your Reflections Journal and explain why & how.

3 -  Create an art work of the Plan of Happiness using paint, pencil, torn paper, etc. and share it with the class.

4 - Construct the Plan of Happiness in geometrical shapes that tell a story.

5 - Come up with 5 questions concerning the Plan of Happiness (can be questions you have answers for or questions you want the answers to.)

Choose one or more of the following SCIENCE activities and be ready to share in class:

1 - Review the Creation.  What happened each day?  What sciences are manifest in each day of Creation.  Write it out in your Reflections Journal.  Watch The Creation video by Elder Russell M. Nelson.

2- Write a poem or story about the creation using the sciences - Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Botany, Zoology, Humanology.

3 - How many different ways can you draw out the Creation?  Draw them out and share them with the class.

4 - Where and How does the Creation fit into the Plan of Happiness?  Write the answer in your Reflection Journal and share it.

5 - Come up with 5 questions concerning the Creation and/or Water. (can be questions you have answers for or questions you want the answers to.)

JOURNEYMAN - Principles - The “What” 

• Read chapter 1 in The Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe by Michael Schieder. Write down your aha’s and questions in your Reflections Journal and bring them to class to discuss. 

• Learn the definitions of Hydrosphere, Lithosphere and Atmosphere and know their relationship to each other.  What common ingredient can be found in each sphere?

Choose one or more of the following GEOMETRY activities and be ready to share in class:

1 - Write out 10 ways and/or science principles found in the Plan of Happiness (Omniscient, endless, creation, organization, etc.).

2 - Write or draw the principles of a circle and find examples of each.  Find 3 of the 12 names of Christ found in the principles of a circle.

3 - Find 3 songs, hymns or poems that contain circle (math) words, analogies or numbers and share them and why you chose them.

4 - Do a word study of circle include 1828 dictionary definitions, scriptures, prophets words, quotations and your own definition.

5 - Write the history of mathematics, when was it created, did it have a beginning?  What is God’s purpose for mathematics?  Why should I study mathematics?  What can I learn about God from studying mathematics?

Choose one or more of the following OCEANOGRAPHY activities and be ready to share in class:

1  - Find and write in your Reflections Journal 6 principles of water (example:  baptism water symbolizes: cleansing, burial, rebirth, etc.).

2 - Diagram the Water Cycle using your own drawings, paintings, collage, 3D model or a working model.

3 - Find 4 songs, hymns or poems that contain oceans or water analogies and share them.

4 - Do a word study on oceans or large bodies of water, include 1828 dictionary definitions, scriptures, prophets words, quotations and your own definition.

5 - Write the history of oceans, when were they created? Are they getting bigger or deeper? How salty are they? What is God’s purpose for oceans?  Share an analogy using oceans.

MASTER - Application - The “How”

• Read anything about Archimedes and come prepared to share and discuss his life and discoveries.  Search your library or the internet or your home.   Write your discoveries in your Reflections Journal.
• Ready any non-fiction book/s about oceanography

Choose one or more of the following GEOMETRY activities and be ready to share in class:

1 - Read the history of Geometry.  Where did it begin?  Why was the knowledge of Geometry so powerful and sought after?

2 - Find geometry examples in the scriptures.  Keep your minds open and be creative, there is geometry in all things.

3 - Create a geometric art piece using only the math compass and straight edge.

4 - Write a report about geometry use your own charts and drawings to enhance the report.

Choose one or more of the following OCEANOGRAPHY activities and be ready to share in class:

1  - Act out the creation using hydrosphere as your focus.

2 - Write a report about the history of oceanography.  Who first began to study the ocean?

3 - Read a non-fiction book about oceanography and share your discoveries

4 -  Write a report on the oceans in the scriptures use your own charts and drawings to enhance the report.

5 - Share an activity with water that will teach the class principles of the gospel and share it.

6 - Create your own activity (get permission from your parents or Sister Neil, first)

Classes begin in September!