Tuesday/ Wednesday - Review skyward assignment. Research the deepest hole ever dug
in the crust. We will make a list of engineering/ environmental difficulties that have slowed the
mission to the center of the Earth. We will discuss other issues that cause science invitation/
exploration to increase quickly or be stifled. Students will learn three locations of where attempts to
drill to the center of the Earth. Students will research on the chromebook for pictures, statistical
data, and counter arguments about the history of drilling into the crust of the Earth. We will start our
next Thinkcerca on Where no one has gone before. Students will be given an outline form to fill in to
turn in with their writing paper. Due March 1st. Students will end class with an engineering problem.
What are the structural keys to building a building that will withstand an earthquake longer than other
buildings? Students will be given toothpick, marshmallows, rubberband, straws, and paperclips to
create a structure at least 10 cm tall and at least 4 cm wide. The building must withstand shaking on
our classroom shake table. Students will be allow as many redo projects as necessary to
understand the keys to designing a seismically safer structure. Homework is to work on thinkcerca
paper.
Thursday/ Friday- TIme to work on thinkcerca. All students must have outline completed by
the time they leave class. (20 minutes) TIme to build our seismic safe structures. We will go over
terms; variable, constants, controls, independent manipulated variable, and dependent variable. We
will as a group write a hypothesis to answer the question - what building criteria is the most
important to building a structure that can withstand an earthquake longer.
Monday/ Tuesday Start with data from our building activity on Thursday/ Friday. Students
need to make a graph to represent our data. Students will answer questions about the graph on
skyward in class. Students will get raw data from usgs.gov to create a graph in order to identify the
type of plate boundary found in a certain area. Both graphs need to be sent to
smoore2@galesburg205.org. Homework will be to create a slides presentation with 10 famous
volcanoes, 3 types of volcanoes, and the many types of eruptions. Slide presentation is due at our
next meeting. A template will be given to anyone who would like it.
Wednesday/ Thursday- 30 minutes to work on thinkcerca. This is due March 1st - use the
outline to help organize the material. The second half of our lesson will focus on volcanoes.
Students will be asked to write three things they would like to know about volcanoes. We will
organize the questions and try to solve as many as we can. We will try to research answers and
create a clear hypothesis to test our answers. Our goal will be to create experiments that give us
information that can be related to our questions about volcanoes. Can we add valuable data
knowledge about volcanoes?
Friday - ? TIme to complete experiments Remember to turn in your thinkcerca paper.
