Extra+Credit

While extra credit is not assigned to individual students, there are some opportunities for all students to earn some extra credit. This extra credit will usually be entered as homework points (unless a student asks for different).

__**Virtual Earthquake**__ We've gone through the steps in class as to how seismologists recording and study earthquakes. Now you can do the same process on your own. Go to the website (http://www.laep.org/target/technology/secondary/earthquakes/) and follow the steps on the worksheet. Once your done, you can print out a certificate of completion and attach the answers to the questions on the worksheet for extra credit.

__**Go Live Science**__ To understand science you need to have gone out and explored it - lived it. We all experience science related things in our lives. In this assignment students are challenged to find one of those experience (visiting a zoo, aquarium, science center or a park with interpretive signs, building a motor, growing a garden, even caring for animals) and explore a system. The system could be living (like an animal or ecosystem/habitat) or an earth system (for example a volcano, watershed or river) or a physical system (like an engine or appliance). As long as it has multiple different parts, requires energy to be added, and makes a change in some way - its probably a science system that can be studied. (Ask Mr. Smith if you have one you aren't sure is a system.) Each student can turn in ONE Go Live Science extra credit each quarter. Use (and print out) the Go Live Science document provided to work through the assignment.