Earth Science Lesson Plans

April 29th - May 3rd

Monday, Wednesday Period 2,4,9

Tuesday Thursday Period 3,5,10

Unit - Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition

Monday/ Tuesday - Review Start, reducing erosion activity.  Students will build sand castles with

popsicle sticks, straws, and a bag.  The goal will be to build it as high as possible with building

techniques that will help it with stand  erosion of some sort. Students will fill out a sheet explaining

their processes. After the surprise erosion the students will have an opportunity to rebuild.  A

worksheet will be completed by a partnered group and is to be turned in when completed.

Wednesday / Thursday - Students will review all material from the year with the goal of seeing how it

all fits together and will culminate with our study of the Earth’s weather.  Students will graph the

layers of the atmosphere, map the world water currents and world wind patterns. We will again

discuss the convection currents (density differences) and how it is one of many interacting forces

that constantly underscores the motions on our planet.  Homework is to complete the slide

presentation with visuals from the lithosphere, atmosphere, and the hydrosphere. There will be a

slide on gravity too. Presentation should be completed next week.

*****  Friday we are going to Western Illinois University for a visit.  Please bring a lunch if you did not one from school. We will leave right at 8:15, please do not be late to school.   We will be back by2:15. Be ready to see what a real university looks like!

Earth Science Class

Mrs. Moore

Lesson Plans

March 18th -21st

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

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

Illinois State Science Test is Wednesday

Our lessons will focus on trying to solve the following question.  We will spend time researching,

modeling, and experimenting to figure out the answers.

“How do the materials in and on Earth’s crust change over time, How does the movement of tectonic

plates impact the surface of Earth, How does water influence weather, circulate in the oceans, and

shape Earth’s surface, What factors interact and influence weather, and How have living organisms changed the Earth and how have Earth’s changing conditions impacted living organisms?”  Taken

from the NGSS website.

Unit - Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition

Essential Questions:

• How does interaction between the Earth's lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere lead to the wide range of beautiful and complex landscapes we see today?
• How do climate and types of materials influence the landscapes we see in different regions on Earth?
• How does classification help us understand the great variety and complexity of Earth's materials?

Monday/ Tuesday - Start with a skyward assignment.  Students will create labs about weathering chalk.  Students will take a topic and create a hypothesis, write up the lab procedures, and perform the lab collecting data as well as graphing the data on a hapar basic lab sheet. The students will write a conclusion based on their data.  Students will add their data to the class data table and analyze the overall class results. We will discuss the constants and constrains of the experiments. We will examine the validity of the experiments by generating a list of possible flaws and a list of improvements to make the data more accurate and relevant to our hypothesis.  Homework is to complete the packet of practice questions for Wednesday.

Wednesday- review for Illinois Science Test.  We will go through our pack of practice questions and then work through several simulations on the chromebook.  https://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/practicetest.asp

Thursday - ISA Testing with your Period 3, 5 10 teacher

Friday - Meet with your 2-4-9 teacher - we will start our erosion testing with Running water. We work to complete slope, speed of water, and meander labs. We will conclude with self directed labs with the topic of wind erosion.   Day 1 will have class Friday, Monday - Thursday with Mrs. Moore. All labs must be completed by Thursday. Each lab sheet must have a hypothesis, experimental procedures, data collected and graphed, and a conclusion statement.  All this will be collected on the hapara program and students can turn them in as groups.