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Forget your book? This site has chapter summaries, interactive quizes, and virtual field trips to take. Tarbuck and Lutgens Book

Geology Astronomy involves field trips and night time observing.  Last year year we took a field trip to Bonneville Dam and Mt. Hood Community College Planetarium.  We observed and identified constellations from the night sky on the Milwaukie High School campus.

View links to Rock Identification Project

Click this link to print out your very own Sky Wheel

Got to Haggart Observatory, get them to stamp the handouts you get, and get extra credit. Haggart Observatory is at Clackamas Community College. Get directions here. The observatory is open every clear Saturday night, call 503-657-6958 x 5665 ("LOOK") to see if they'll be open.

Mrs. Mills' Geology Astronomy Site

Students, this page is set up to help you finish homework, find resources, and find some great links to fun stuff.



Geology Astronomy Curriculum

INTRODUCTION

  • Earth As a System
  • People and the Environment
  • Nature of Inquiry
GEOLOGY

  • Periodic Table
  • Minerals: Composition and Resources
  • Rock Cycle
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Igneous Activity
  • Mountain Fromation and Topography
  • Geologic Time (fossil sequences)
    THE ATMOSPHERE

    • Composition and Structure
    • Earth-Sun-Relationship
    • Seasons
    • Global Warming
    • Ozone Depletion
    • Extreme Weather
    ASTRONOMY

    • Ancient Astronomy
    • Kepler, Newton, Eratosthenes
    • Constellations and Stars
    • Motions of the Earth and Moon
    • Planets and the Solar System
    • Telescopes and Light
    • Birth and Death of Stars
    • Galaxies
    • Extraterrestrials