Period 2,4, and 9 meet Monday and Thursday.
Period 3,5, and 10 meet Tuesday and Thursday.
Day 1. - Start with a review of the data from our attempt at a quiz over relative and absolute dating of rocks. We will discuss what we see and what it means, and what should be the next step. We will talk about the validity and reliability of the data. Students will make suggestions as to what would improve accuracy of results as well as improvement of results. We will then take another quiz on skyward and analyze the data. We will continue with a penny lab to demonstrate absolute dating of rocks. We will impute our data in a spreadsheet and make a prediction/hypothesis as to what the results will show. We will concluded with two short videos on the Geology web page. Homework is to read the article on how diamonds are formed and be prepared to discuss the material on Thursday. Yes there will be required questions. http://geology.com/articles/diamonds-from-coal/
Day 2. - Discuss article from geology.com on the formation of diamonds. We will continue with an activity where the students will be given visible geology diagrams and asked to both relative date and absolute date the materials
There will be an addition of using fossil knowledge (plus help from the chromebook) to make more in depth descriptions of geologic history of an area. Homework will only be assigned if students do not finish work in class!
Next Generations Science Standards
MS-ESS1-4. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth's 4.6-billion-year-old history.
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