• Outcomes for Week #2
• Tasks for Week #2
• Submitting Your Lab Assignment Answers
• Taking Your Weekly Quiz
• Making Timely and Substantial Contributions to Discussion Threads
• Assigned Discussion Threads for Week 2

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Welcome to the second week in Pacific Northwest Geology online. The goals for this first week are to discuss recent geology of the Pacific Northwest; to analyze how glaciers, rivers, volcanoes and earthquakes have recently shaped the land; and to investigate through Virtual Field Sites the effects of glaciation, glacial outburst flooding, and volcanic mudflows.

Outcomes for Week #2

Now let us take a look at what is happening this week. At the end of the second week, you should be able to:

• find the instructions and course content you need to perform the assigned tasks
• post your own discussion items and email to the appropriate places in the online classroom
• describe the current level of earthquake hazards in your neighborhood
• describe the current volcanic hazards to your neighborhood
• recognize and distinguish avalanches, glacial till, stream sediments and lahars
• recognize moraines as indicators of previous glacial advances
• analyze another unconformity, this time a real one
• gain a sense of the similarities and differences between the Holocene and Pleistocene geologic activity in the Pacific Northwest

Tasks for Week #2

• Read Lecture #2 and the course content Web pages to which it is linked
• Make timely and substantial contributions to the assigned discussion threads (see below)
• Complete the written answers to Lab Assignment #2 by filling in the blanks in the Lab Answer form (it's like a quiz, only it's being used as a form to enter your lab answers).
• Mail by US Post (or in digital form as an email attachment) the Virtual Field Site photos you printed and labeled for Lab Assignment #2 and send it to the Instructor at
  Ralph Dawes PNW
  Wenatchee Valley College
  1300 Fifth Street
  Wenatchee, WA 98801
  This is true for all hard copies in all the assignments, as mentioned in th syllabus--mail them to the instructor by the due date.
• Take the weekly Pacific Northwest Geology quiz online.
• Write your weekly summary on the last day of the week and post it to the classroom discussion area by the end of that day (see below).

Submitting Your Lab Assignment Answers

Write your answers to the lab assignment questions in your own word-processing document. When you have written all your answers and are ready to submit them, open the Lab 2 Answer Submission Form in the online classroom under Assignments/Labs. Cut and paste your answers into the appropriate, numbered boxes in the form. When you are done, click Finish and it will be submitted to the instrutor.

Taking Your Weekly Quiz

Take the weekly quiz, PNW Quiz 2, early in the week. You can take it again a second time after seeing what you missed the first time. If you open the quiz to take it a second time, the old score will be completely deleted. If you take the quiz a second time, then only the score from the second time you take it will be retained.

Making Timely and Substantial Contributions to Discussion Threads

Each week you are assigned one (or several) discussion threads. You are expected, at minimum, to submit a comment of your own, and at least one response to another student's comment, as your contribution to a weekly discussion. You are also expected to provide substance to at least one of your postings. Substance means such things as descriptions of real geological examples that you have encountered, or references (with your own comments) to things you have read about, or references (with your own comments) to other Web pages that are relevant to the discussion thread.

You are also welcome to, and encouraged to, start your own discussion threads and respond to other students' discussion threads.

Assigned Discussion Thread for Week 2

Here is a listing of the second week's assigned discussion thread.

1. Glaciers leave glacial erratics. Glacial Lake Missoula floods left boulders strewn at several places in the Pacific Northwest. What would you look for to determine if some boulders of rock from elsewhere were glacial erratics or flood deposits?

Your Weekly Summary

Your weekly summary is important. It is to be completed on the last day of the online week. It is to be sent to the Weekly Summary discussion thread. (I may change that procedure in the future. If so, I will let you know.)

Writing a summary helps you solidify in your mind what you learned that week. A high-quality summary clearly describes the main ideas you learned, with some specific examples. Demonstrate what you have learned and discuss your experience in learning it, in your own words.

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