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Name: Kathryn Jacobs

Subjects / Classes Taught: Earth and Space Science and Environmental Science

Degree(s): B.A. Geology from Franklin and Marshall College, M.Ed. Secondary Education ASU

Email: kjacobs1@phoenixunion.org

Welcome to Ms. Jacobs's Earth and Space Science class and Environmental Science class.   I have been teaching at Trevor Browne High School since 2000. I am the only Earth and Space Science teacher in the department. Feel free to email or stop by for help in my classes. I also can help on other Science classes as well.

I am found in Room # 7114

My Office Hours 7:00am - 8am and during advisory

The Earth Science Textbook is: Earth Science 14 edition by Tarbuck. It can be accessed by registered users through www.masteringgeology.com

Please note: All students in my class must have and maintain a composition book. All class work and homework is graded in this book.

Links for Electromagnetic Spectrum for Earth and Space Science:

Spectroscopy and Stellar Identification:

Moving Targets, Doppler Effect, and Redshift:

Plate Tectonics links

Brilliant woman mapped ocean floor

Helpful links for Planet Debate

Is Pluto a Planet? http://web.b.ebscohost.com/scirc/detail/detail?vid=22&sid=c8930da1-79ee-42cf-8a0f-eda92cdc845c%40sessionmgr107&hid=129&bdata=JnNpdGU9c2NpcmMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=2017588&db=sch

Why is Pluto not a Planet: http://www.universetoday.com/13573/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/

Pluto is a Planet, by John Stansberry: http://www.scienceclarified.com/dispute/Vol-1/Is-Pluto-a-planet.html

Is Pluto a giant comet? From the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/ICQPluto.html

Having Pups Over Pluto and the Planetary Misfits of the Kuipers, by Robert Sanders for SPACEDAILY: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/outerplanets-03e.html

Defining Ceres, Lowell Observatory: https://lowell.edu/sga/defining-ceres/

Pluto and Planethood Lowell Observatory: https://lowell.edu/pluto-at-85-pluto-and-planethood/

Solar System: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/

It May Be Small, But It’s Still A Planet, from Space Today Online: http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Pluto/PlutoPlanet.html

A Good Definition of the Word “Planet”: Mission Impossible, by Gibor Basri, for the Universe in the Classroom, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/59/planetdefine.html

The International Astronomical Union: http://www.iau.org/

Pluto and the Developing Landscape of Our Solar System: http://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/

The International Astronomical Union definition of planets focus on the resolutions about half way down the page:   http://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau0602/

‘New planet’ forces rethink, by Helen Briggs, BBC News Online: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3516952.stm

2004 NASA News Release: Most Distant Object in Solar System Discovered, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/85.cfm

Distant Object Could be ‘Tenth Planet’, by Maggie McKee for the New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4776

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/index.html#planets

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/

Electromagnetic spectrum Assignment: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/electromagnetic-spectrum.html

Galaxy on-line lesson: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/hdf/

life cycle of stars notes

Star Life Cycle Lesson: http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/Labs/StarLife/starlife_main.html

solar system formation notes
Birth of the solar system video clip

Link for Tides

•http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/tides/menu_tide.swf

Links for Geologic Time

Earth's Early Atmosphere

Geologic Time Scale:

Evolution of Life

Deep Time