A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER'S TAKE ON TURTLE CONSERVATION IN COSTA RICA

This is an old post that never made it to my travel blog. My daughter and I went to Costa Rica in 2017 and stayed in a really gorgeous though remote part of Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean side, working with a turtle conservation group. The location was in Playa Junquillal and the organization was Asociacion Vida Verdiazul. We wanted to do a volunteer project somewhere (no particular destination in mind) and decided to go through a company called International Volunteer Headquarters - IVHQ. We had a great time and did some good work. This is a post I wrote for IVHQ.

Here’s what to expect on a Turtle Conservation volunteer project with International Volunteer HQ: Meg Stewart and her daughter Tillie recently joined us in Costa Rica and they’ve decided to share their experience…

My daughter and I wanted to do an international volunteer project together this summer. I am a teacher and I have summers off and my daughter is 16 years-old so couldn’t go on one of these volunteer programs alone. She is fluent in Spanish so I was set on going to a Spanish-speaking country. We looked at all sorts of volunteer organizations and kept coming back to IVHQ, with the primary reason being a wealth of well-made videos showing what projects are available and what we might want to do. We decided on turtle conservation in Costa Rica.

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HW - Classification of Stars

This video is a great over view of how we classify stars. It will help you with the quiz and exam. Watch the video and answer the questions in your science notebook.

HW - Life Cycle of a Star

For weekend homework, read the text, view the images and watch all videos on the Stellar Life Cycle page below. We will investigate the life cycle of a star and this site gives a preview of what is to come.

The Life Cycle of Stars

In your science notebook, 1) explain what fusion is and what the reaction looks like written out; 2) draw the Life Cycle of a Star; and 3) think about red shift and blue shift from last week--draw the visible light range from the Electromagnetic Spectrum (ESRT p. 14) and put arrows where you will see blue shift and red shift.

HW - What is the Big Bang?

For tomorrow's class and the next two to three days, we will investigate the Big Bang theory. In the link below, you will find information explaining the Big Bang. Read all the text, review all images or graphics and watch all videos.  Also, this page will be useful for studying for the unit test.

Information on the Big Bang

In your science notebook, use a Facts-Questions-Response (FQR) table to 1) identify ideas that you learned about on the page above (facts), 2) wonderings that you now have because of what you've read or seen (questions), and 3) reflect on your new knowledge based on the page of Big Bang information (response). Jot down the vocabulary words and a definition from the text. Be prepared to discuss aspects of the page in class tomorrow.

Welcome to Earth Science class!

Dear Earth Science student,

Intro
Stop here for HW. All homework will be posted here. And these homework assignments will be useful for review purposes when it comes time for tests or quizzes.
I will post videos that I show in class here, so if you're absent or you want to review, you will be able to catch up on what you missed.
If absent, you'll find links here to the work.

Ms. Stewart