Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Jan 3rd to Jan. 19th

Wednesday- Period 2,4,and 9

Thursday Period 3,5, and 10

Friday - Google Day Everyone!!!!

Monday, Thursday Period 2,4,and 9

Wednesday ½ day - Science Everyone

Tuesday, Friday Period 3,5, and 10

Monday no school

Tuesday/ Thursday Period 2,4,and 9

Wednesday/ Friday Period 3,5, and 10

New Unit - Earth Systems - Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Day 1- (Wed/Thurs Jan 3rd,and 4th)

Skyward assignment pre test.  Pangaea interactivity (2). Phenomena demonstration with
water of different colors mixing and not mixing. Start notes on Plate tectonics using the
continental drift PowerPoint presentation with note sheet.  We will start this presentation and
finish next week.  The presentation and the notes can be found on my web page.  We will
stop with 10 minutes left and work through a winter experiment; Does hot water or cold
water freeze faster.  Students will set up a spreadsheet table to collect data.  The data table
will be due next week. Requirements will be a title, x and y axis labels, a key, and the
data correctly displayed. A homework worksheet on Earth’s internal structure will be
given and will be due on the first day students have class next week. Homework is
attached to skyward plus a paper copy will be given.  Students will need markers, crayons,
colored pencils or markers to complete homework.

Friday Jan. 5th - special Google VR presentation!!!

Day 1- (Mon/Tues Jan 8th and 9th)

Skyward assignment start and collect homework worksheet on Earth’s internal structure.
We will discuss our phenomena demonstration from last week.Continue our continental drift
presentation with notes. We will work on our winter experiment and complete our data
tables.  We will analyze our data and write conclusion statements. Students will turn in
notes from the continental drift presentation for a participation grade and the graph will be
given 5 point in the grade book. If we need more time we can continue next class.

½ day all classes  Jan 10th- Pie plate activity - all students will get a paper plate
and must create a model of the Earth’s internal structure.  If time allows students
can use class time to read and complete questions from our first article reading for
the quarter.

Day 2-  (Thurs/Fri Jan 11th and 12th)

Review or finish continental drift PowerPoint presentation with notes.  Students will be
partnered up in groups and we will again talk about our phenomena.  Students will be asked
to diagram and present what they understand is taking place in the phenomena.  Students
will be able to question one another on their diagrams and explanations.  Following all
explanations students will revise their work to turn in as a grade. Rubric will be given out in
class.  Homework is a convection current worksheet.

Day 1- (Tues/Wed Jan 16th and 17th) Turn in convection current worksheet. In class
work day on slide presentation of continental drift to plate tectonics. We will start our
second winter experiment - does the increase concentration of salt in water decrease the
freezing point in a linear pattern. Basically does putting out more salt reduce ice
development more?  Is there a point where more salt is not improving the ice melting?  
We will research - make a hypothesis - and develop an experiment to prove our
hypothesis.  Homework is to prepare our data table to collect record our data.  

Day 2- (Thurs/Fri Jan 18th and 19th)

We will put our data in our spreadsheets and graph our results from our 2nd winter
experiment.  Students will have to complete a skyward assignment identifying constants,
controls,and independent/dependent manipulated variables.  Students will have the
remaining time in class to complete the slide presentation of continental drift to plate
tectonics. The presentation is due no later than 8 pm on Saturday Jan 20th.  I am not
grading this projects for the rest of the quarter, No Late projects.  

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans 12-11 to 12-20

Monday Wednesday- period 2, 4, and 9

Tuesday Thursday 3, 5, and 10   

Friday - All classes

Monday - period 2, 4, and 9

Tuesday - period 3, 5, and  10

Monday/ Tuesday

Start with a skyward assignment (10 minutes). 20 minutes - practice mineral identification characterics. Time to ask questions about any of the tests.  20 minutes - identify an unknown minerals characteristics. 20 minutes - review safety skills and lighting burners.  We will review procedures for our flame test lab.  Students will have a safety skyward assignment to complete before they can participate in the lab. Students will be given alternate assignments if not prepared or there are any concerns with safety,  

Wednesday Thursday

Flame test in class.  Student will take notes on the colors of the flames for 20 minutes.  Students will have to match chemical names with the on a lab sheet.  Safety will be the number one focus of this class.  Any misbehavior or talk of misbehavior will not be tolerated.  Safety in the classroom will be the most important issue today.  Please dress with close toe shoes and refrain from excessively loose clothing.  Students will be required to wear safety goggles the entire class period.  Long hair must be tied up.  Please reduce the amount of perfumes or hairspray for the day.  Students not considered dressed safely for the class will be given an alternate assignment.  Again safety is our number one concern.

Friday - Mystery minerals day.  We will try to identify rocks and minerals that we have not already talked about in class.  We will identify the rock/mineral and lean the many uses of the items.  

Monday/ Tuesday  Start with a skyward assignment.  Continue with an interactive on the computer https://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/   The interactive has an assessment that will be graded.  It can be taken more than once.  Students must screenshot the results or show me the screen for the score.  This will be our last score in the grade book for the quarter - 15 points.

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans 12-4 to 12-8

Monday- period 2, 4, and 9

Tuesday 3, 5, and 10  Mrs. Moore is gone!!

Wed. Thurs Friday - All classes

Monday/Tuesday  Start with a skyward assignment.  We will complete a walking demo of evolution on our planet earth (26 pieces). Students will work quietly and independently on a geologic history worksheet.  We will conclude with a few videos on human evolution past and future. Students will be asked to take notes on the videos and write questions they might have after watching the material. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEiYrYAu3Ec

Wednesday - Prepare for our mineral/rock id lab.  We will walk through the process of identification looking at color, mass, density, volume, HCl, magnetism, diaphaneity, tenacity, smell, luster, cleavage/fracture, hardness, crystal pattern, formula, streak, and the flame test. Students will complete one mineral/ rock id test.  Students will be asked to complete a homework worksheet, due at the beginning of class tomorrow. Students will not continue on the mineral/rock identification testing until the worksheet is completed.

Thursday Complete at least 7 mineral/rock identification tests. A homework rock cycle worksheet will be given, due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Friday-  Students will be asked to complete at least 5 more mineral/rock identification tests. Students will be instructed on our flame test. A demonstration of the flame test will be shown and students will need to complete a safety worksheet about the demonstration and return it on Monday to participate in the flame test lab.

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plan Nov. 27th to Dec. 1st

Monday/ Wednesday periods 2, 4, and 9

Tuesday/ Thursday periods 3, 5, 10

Friday all classes

Monday/Tuesday

Students will start with http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/index.html  We will continue on our evidence for evolution packet - our goal today will be to color comparative anatomy and look at the evidence it gives us for evolution.  We will complete a standing geologic time line.  Students will be given a short paper worksheet on geologic time divisions with organic and inorganic changes.  We will start our projects on creating a geologic time.  Students will be required to place 25 different items on the timeline correctly. Students will be placed in groups of 4 and 5 students to complete the project.  A paper listing the 25 dates must accompany the project and is required by each student. Due at the end of class on Friday.   

Wednesday/ Thursday

We will start with the standing geologic time line.  We will review relative/absolute dating, fossil types, and common Illinois fossils.  We will finish our evidence of evolution packet looking at DNA. Homework worksheet on geologic time divisions will be collected.  Remaining time will be used to complete geologic timeline project. Project is due at the end of class on Friday. What is completed at the end of class Friday will be graded. See scoring rubric.

Friday - Continue to work on Geologic timeline project- everyone must be done at the end of the class.  When finished students may use this web site to play games https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/paleontology#http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/fightingdinos/matchinggame/index.php

Short week of plans 11-20 to 11-23

Monday - Everyone will study for American History test!!  We will review the colonies and then play quizlet live.  Study!!!!!
Tuesday - Start with a skyward assignment.  Review mineral and rock identification.  We may take the final quiz!! Start a video on the mesozoic era!!
Wednesday - Finish any history test and or the rocks and minerals quiz. Coloring comparative anatomy sheet in class from our evidence of evolution packet. We will finish watching the Mesozoic era video and move to the Cenozoic video.  Students

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Nov. 13th to Nov. 22nd

Monday/ Thursday  Period 2 4, and 9

Tuesday - Everyone goes to Knox College

Wednesday/Friday Period 3, 5, 10

Monday/Wednesday

Students will be given time to review rocks and minerals around the room.  Review quiz on relative dating/ absolute dating, fossil question, and a few minerals to identify.  Students will watch two short videos one on evolution and one on natural selection. As a group we will start a new packet on evidence of evolution. We will complete a geologic timeline activity with toilet paper.  Students will work on a quizlet using geologic time vocabulary, The packet will be due on Friday. Please no late work.

Thursday/ Friday

Start with an article on the Sue Dinosaur.  Review our rocks and mineral names with a non graded practice quiz,  Continue on our evidence of evolution worksheet packet. We will watch a short video on the history of our Earth.  We will start our partner geological time line project. A rubric will be given. Project will be due November 22.  

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Nov. 6th - Nov. 10th

11-6 Monday Period 2,4,9

11-7 Tuesday - Period 3,5, 10

Wednesday early out 11:20

11-9 Thursday - Period 2,4,9

11-10 Friday Period 3,5, 10

Monday/Tuesday - Start with review skyward assignment. Continue our second crystal lab.  

Period 2 - If we change the solution from borax/water to alum/water  we can create  a different crystal pattern.

Period 3 -  If we change the solution from borax/water to epsom/water  we can create  a different crystal pattern.

Period 4 - Using more borax (1:1) will make more crystals than using the 2:1 solution.

Period 5 - Hypothesis– By adding food color to the water we will be able to change the color of the borax crystals.

Period 9 -  By adding food color to the water we will be able to change the color of the borax crystals.

Period 10– The borax crystals will grow larger in vinegar borax solution compared to water borax solution.

We will have a categorizing activity with the principles of geology, fossil types, common Illinois fossils, and new this week rocks and mineral names.  We will take notes on the difference between rocks and minerals, how minerals form, and the rock cycle.  Students will be expected to memorize the 15 minerals and 15 rocks by sight by November 22. We will start our practice in class today.  Homework is to read a packet on historical geology and answer the question skyward.  The assignment  will be open until Friday, Nov. 10th at 4:00.  A paper copy will be available.

Thursday/ Friday -  Review our rocks and minerals by sight.  We will take a practice test, not graded, of the rocks and minerals!!  We will create a model of the two ways minerals are formed. We will have rock cycle races both on the chalkboard and on paper.    We will partner group an activity on rock/ mineral uses.  We will construct and then deconstruct geology on a program called Visible Geology.  Homework is finished packet given earlier this week.  To end class we will collect our data from our crystal lab.  We will use the spreadsheet program and graph our results.

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Oct. 30th - Nov 3rd

Monday Period 2,4,9

Tuesday - Period 3,5, 10

Wednesday - Period 2,4,9

Thursday - Period 3,5,10

Friday ?

Monday/Tuesday - Start with a skyward review of relative and absolute dating questions. Turn in any missing homework and or ask any questions. We will dip our sponges again, and discuss the six types of fossil types as well as the 8 common Illinois fossils.  We will go over the 7 historical geological principles. Notes will be given on fossils and the 8 common Illinois fossils.  We will then turn our attention to our experiment on crystals.  Together we will create a lab write up for our experiment with crystal growth.  If time we will start the experiment.  No  homework.

Wednesday/ Thursday - Skyward assignment on relative/absolute dating, fossil types, and the 8 common Illinois fossils.  We will finish our crystal experiment with an analysis of the data and correctly writing a conclusion sentences.  We will start our work with a spreadsheet and data analysis, we will attempt to make an absolute dating chart.  We will make a model of mold/ cast fossils with pennies. To end with we will watch a powerpoint presentation on the 8 common Illinois fossils. Homework is a worksheet packet on fossil succession to support evolution, Packet will be due early next week. You will need colored pencils or markers to complete.

Friday -  What does this all mean?  We will make visual models of what we are trying to understand in class with relative/absolute dating, fossils, and evolution.  We will start to look at the rock cycle and see how this functions and helps us tell about the past.  Bring markers or colored pencils to class

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Oct. 23-26

Monday Period 2,4,9

Tuesday - Period 3,5, 10

Wednesday - Period 2,4,9

Thursday - Period 3,5,10

Monday / Tuesday  Turn in homework. Start with a review skyward assignment.  We will start with our geology phenomena pictures and practice our relative dating skills.  We will take a break in the middle to discuss fossils/rocks/mineral and how we might relatively date them.  Students will be instructed on how a borax crystal is formed.  Students will be asked to contribute to a shared document by posing a hypothesis on age dating crystals.  Students will make a petrified sponge for next week. Homework is a packet of relative dating problems. The worksheet is on the web page and also attached to skyward.

Wednesday/ Thursday - Turn in homework. Start with two relative dating problems on skyward. We will dip our sponges and then continue to work on our crystal experiment.  Our goal is to write the experiment to prove our hypothesis.  Students will complete a simple absolute dating demonstration with pennies and m&m’s.   We will graph results on a spreadsheet and learn how to write a simple formula for spreadsheet. Homework is 3 absolute dating problems. The worksheet is on the web page and also attached to skyward.

Earth Science Lesson Plans Mrs. Moore Oct 16th - 19th

Monday - all classes

Tuesday - periods 2, 4, and 9

Wednesday - out early - Dr. Sundberg will visit

Thursday periods 3 and 5

Period 10 on Thursday will be taught by Knox College students.

Monday - New seating chart. Check grades, turn in any last minute work.   Phenomena day! We will look at a slide presentation of 12 different landforms.  Students will be asked to generate questions that they want answered so that they can explain how the landform was created.  We will organize our questions and look for a pattern and possible an essential question.  Homework is a simple worksheet, due in the next class.

Tuesday / Thursday  - Turn in homework. Look at our organization of all the questions asked on Monday.  We will make sure our organization of the questions is OK with each class.  Each class will then attempt to reconstruct geologic history on practice problems using the seven historical geologic principles.  Homework is a two sided worksheet on the first four principles, due Monday, Oct 23rd.

Both Homework assignments can be found on my web page for Earth Systems.

Earth Science Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Oct. 10-13th

Tuesday - All classes

Wednesday - 2,4, and 9

Thursday 3,5, and 10

Friday is a crazy day - I am waiting for the schedule.

Tuesday - Kahoot 15 questions. Individual practice test.  Students will cover test preparation skills, organization for learning, destressors for taking a test.

Test will be Wednesday and Thursday. The test is open notes. There are two parts to the test. Part 1 is a repeat of the astronomy pretest, part 2 is the NGSS version of the astronomy test, and part 3 is an extra credit extended response question.

Wednesday/ Thursday  Test on astronomy.  Followed by rocket to the ceiling activity if time.

Friday?  Geology Principles - sequencing the order of rock layers from oldest to youngest. We will clean up the room from astronomy displays to geology information.

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Oct. 2nd - 6th

Period 2,4, and 9  Mon., Wed.,

Period 3,5, and 10 Tues., Thurs.

Friday - working on field trip to Carl Sandburg College

Monday/Tuesday- Review material completed from last week. Students will start with looking at their grades and turning in any missing work.  Those all caught up can play the game of the week.  Second we will review the concepts of scale and proportion. We will relook at making a scale of the 8 planets in our solar system. Students will take notes that will be collected.  The remaining time will be to complete our project on our solar system to scale.

Wednesday/ Thursday - Start with a skyward short review quiz. Make a star finder. Student will choose a month to create a map of the stars in the night sky.  We will discuss why there are different charts and what causes the changes in the night sky. Plus we will look at telescope technology both refractors and reflectors.

Friday - planning on going to Carl Sandburg College for a college visit. We will learn about the programs they offer and what it takes to make it in college.

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Sept. 25th-29th

Period 2,4, and 9  Mon., Wed., Thursday

Period 3,5, and 10 Tues.,Wed.,  Friday

Monday/ Tuesday

Review our location in the universe, the origins of our universe, life cycle of a star, gravity, and moon cycles with a short skyward assignment. Our lesson today will focus on the scale of our planets in our solar system.  We will practice a few math scale problems.  Students will be given a solar system to scale art project.  Rubric is as followed. Total 10 points

Scale is accurate and created by student- scale is present on project	5 points	Group worked well together and product is easy to understand
Scale is accurate using scale on the board or not quite accurate using scale created by students -scale is present on project	4 points	Group worked together and the product is understandable
Scale is not accurate using scale on the board	3 points	Group did not work together and the product is understandable
No scale is present that can be understood	2	Group did not work together and the product is not understandable.

** Project - Solar system to scale.

Students must represent the 8 planets in our solar system on one sheet of paper( I have large paper.) or computer image to scale with each other.  This must be a student created project. You cannot find pictures on the Internet and copy and paste.  This must be a partner project.  Students can choose their own partners.  Choose wisely!!  Students need to research and find the different data points that they could use to create this scale project, diameter, density, mass, etc. Students that have difficulty are allowed use the scale done by Mrs. Moore on the chalkboard.  Note the rubric and the score if you use my scale.

Timeline - class time will be given Monday or Tuesday and Wednesday. The project should be done by Monday Oct. 2nd.  Projects will be hung on the wall in the classroom and in the hallway.

Wed- continue work on our solar system to scale project. We will stop 20 minutes before the bell and discuss our work for the rest of the week.  Students will see a hapara assignment  that reviews all our astronomy’s main points.  Students will review behavior expectation with a substitute.

Mrs.Moore will be gone. Higher Expectations for behavior is expected!

Thurs/Friday  Students will start with a short skyward assignment, no redos. Students will work on the skyward assignment in class.  When finished students will fill in information on a slide presentation; both pictures and facts. This should be completed before the end of the class and the student needs to turn it in through the program.  When complete students can work on finishing up their  solar system to scale project. If that is completed then the student is to work on the game of the week.  If that is complete there will be extra credit material on the front counter that students are to work on in class.  

Next Generation Science Standards

MS-ESS1-1 Earth’s Place in the Universe - Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun -moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.

MS-ESS1-2 Earth’s Place in the Universe - Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system.

MS-ESS1-3 Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system

Earth Science Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Sept. 18th - Sept. 22th

Period 2,4, and 9  Mon., Wed.

Period 3,5, and 10 Tues., Thurs.

Monday/ Tuesday

Collect worksheet homework.  Review life cycle of a star chart.  Rework several gravity problems. Continue our work on understanding patterns of the apparent motion of the sun, the Earth the moon, and stars in the sky.  We will describe, predict, and explain moon cycles with models.  We will use clay models first, followed by a class demonstration.  We will watch four different videos in between our modeling and discussions. Homework is to look at the night sky to see where we are in our moon cycle. Be prepared to answer questions about what you see when you return to class on Wed., Thurs.

Wed/ Thurs

Collect homework moon cycle sheets.  Review questions on Skyward. Work through a moon cycle simulation followed by a moon cycle game.

https://www.fossweb.com/delegate/ssi-foss-ucm/Contribution%20Folders/FOSS/multimedia/Planetary_Science/binders/moon/moon_motions/phases_of_the_moon_simulation_1.html#

Students will create models using oreo cookies. A picture of the finished product must be sent to Mrs. Moore - stallman@galesburg205.org- before it is consumed.  We will again model solar and lunar eclipses. We will conclude the lesson with questions about how this moon cycle affect humans on Earth; tides, weather patterns, crime ect.  

***During this week's lessons I will point out the tilt of the Earth and how it is fixed.  I will reinforce knowledge of seasons as a result of Earth’s location in its revolution around the Sun and the angle at which the Sun’s rays hit the circular planet Earth.

Friday/Monday -

Calculate gravity pull for all 8 planets and create a scale of  distance in our solar system to perform the walking solar system simulation. Start planets to scale project.

Next Generation Science Standards

MS-ESS1-1 Earth’s Place in the Universe - Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun -moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.

MS-ESS1-2 Earth’s Place in the Universe - Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system.

MS-ESS1-3 Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system