Friday, December 29, 2017

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.  



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