Ocean Science and Math co-op class--more Lat and Long!

Please post a set of coordinates on the blog--remember NOT to post the answers! Those you can email to Theresa at roryjasper@yahoo.com (she is also mailing you and you can either reply to her or post your coordinates as a comment to this blog entry.

Plate Tectonic action

Can you find examples of the processes we talked about last Tuesday?  Post your comments!

Tectonic Plates

The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean.

To the north the easterly side is a divergent boundary with the Explorer Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Gorda Plate forming respectively the Explorer Ridge, the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Gorda Ridge. In the middle the easterly side is a transform boundary with the North American Plate along the San Andreas Fault and a boundary with the Cocos Plate. To the south the easterly side is a divergent boundary with the Nazca Plate forming the East Pacific Rise.

The southerly side is a divergent boundary with the Antarctic Plate forming the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge.

The westerly side is a convergent boundary subducting under the Eurasian Plate to the north and the Philippine Plate in the middle forming the Mariana Trench. In the south, the Pacific Plate has a complex but generally convergent boundary with the Indo-Australian Plate, subducting under it north of New Zealand forming the Tonga Trench and the Kermadec Trench. The Alpine Fault marks a transform boundary between the two plates, and further south the Indo-Australian Plate subducts under the Pacific Plate forming the Puysegur Trench. The part of Zealandia to the east of this boundary is the plate's largest block of continental crust.

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Most of information derived from Wikipedia

Ocean Science and Math co-op class

Hi all--

Last week, we played with globes and tried to estimate the ratio (amounts) of water to land on Earth--what did you find out??  Please comment on this entry!

NEET Teen night Jan 20!

Pot luck at 5pm, Ben's house then on to the pool until 8, parents pick up at the pool around 8:15.

Teen night

   We don't have any pictures of the last teen gathering, so here's some pics of the one before last. Enjoy!

Privacy

Hello
I would like to remind you of one thing:
This blog is the online face of our co-op, and some of the comments and posts here may misrepresent our organization.
Say a parent thinking of homeschooling comes to our site. What do they see?
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An Exploding Monkey said...
bla bla bla bla!

i said...
Turtle

etc.
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this could possibly discourage them from joining our group.

Some of you seem to have a misconception of the blog.
I will include a quote from "an exploding monkey"

"You can use this page of the blog as a sort of private chat space if you want." (speaking to a suspicious stranger called Jaxyn who was asking us our names interests and genders.)

You see, this blog is PUBLIC. Anyone can look at it.
It might be a good idea to
1) find a new place for goofy comments/chatting and make this into a serious website. For example, we could move our goofy comments to here.
2) Continue being goofy but only allow real Gorge Home Learners co-op members to visit this blog. We could all still access it but it would block strangers.

One other issue with the blog is that there is no anonymity, and some of the kids might not know about internet privacy. If they choose to disregard those privacy guidelines that is alright. However, they do not currently refrain from mentioning other users' full names. This issue would be solved by limiting the blog's audience.

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AMBUSH!

TEEN night

First teen gathering launched last night!

We pretty much just played loud music and danced or sat in a corner, we ate pizza and drank wildly colored vitamin water with jelly people.  Mom and Lynn made fruit kabobs.

There were seven teens loose in the Underwood Gym with a lava light...