Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans 12-17- 12-21

              

Period 2,4, and 9 Monday and Wednesday

Period 3,5, and 10 Tuesday and Thursday

Friday is all day with Advisory both morning and after lunch

Earth’s Systems (Geology)

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
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales
Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes

We will conclude our unit on Geology.  We will review the above items and then go further in

depth on the idea of density.

Monday/ Tuesday

Look at our mineral crystals made on Friday.  Review the difference between Rocks and Minerals.  Students will be asked to complete a blank rock cycle chart with the correct names and processes.  Students will be asked to write the five characteristics of all minerals.
We will discuss density.  Students will be asked to calculate the density of many different items (10).  Students will explain with a model a density demonstration in the class.
We will review our unit on Geological History and geology with a skyward assignment.  It is 25 questions. We will go through the questions together and share ways that we remember the information and what it means to our students and the future of the world.
If time we will metamorphosing marshmallows, draw our results.   

Wednesday/ Thursday

Start with the metamorphosing marshmallows if we did not get it done in our last class. We will discuss how this is a model of the rock process.  Students will create their own models of our rock cycle with pictures and diagrams.
We will look at a different density model and verbally explain the model.
We will review our unit and take the end of the quarter skyward assignment, 25 multiple questions.
We will create our paper crystal patterns, our German bells, and make rock candy.
Students will be asked to review their thinkcerca lesson we completed earlier in the year.  We will discuss how what we did in science has transferred into American History class, English and now Math class.  

Earth Science with Mrs. Moore Dec 10th - 14th

We have gotten a little behind because of snow days and assemblies/ band and choir events.  But no worries we will continue on our quest to learn as much as we can in science.  

Earth Science lessons Dec 10th - 14th

Monday/ Tuesday
Skyward assignment.
Share any missing work with Mrs. Moore
Review our model of the cycling of the Earth’s material.  
Discuss ways to identify rocks/ minerals that we do not know?
Color
Streak
Hardness
HCl acid
Density
Volume - displacement method
Mass
Luster
Diaphaneity
Cleavage/Fracture
Magnetism
Tenacity
Flame - Chemical formula
Crystal pattern
Complete at least 6 rock/ mineral complete tests.  Rock and Mineral identification lab simulation. Students will complete numerous tests on our know rocks and minerals.  Students will evaluate the testing process looking for the best way to collect information about unknown substances and verifying then substance to the best of our ability..

Wednesday/ Thursday
Skyward assignment
Mystery mineral flame test day.  Students will complete several test taking notes on what they observe.  The students will then need to use their notes to complete the mystery mineral test using the flame test.  Safety is our number one priority today. Those not 100 percent listening and with the correct attitude will be asked to watch class from in the hallway.  Replacement assignment will given to those who cannot behave correctly and safely in class at all times.
Homework worksheet.

Friday - Rice Crispy rock cycle day - We will complete an online test about all of our material from Geological history to rocks and minerals.  Students can take it several times in class until they like their score. We will create models of the rock cycle with food too.

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Nov. 12th - Nov. 21st

              

Period 2,4, and 9 Wednesday and Friday

Period 3,5, and 10 Thursday and Friday

Earth’s Systems (Geology)

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
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales
Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes

We will continue with our unit on Geology.  Look at our Phenomena picture and ask questions

and hypothesise  the answer. What do we need to know to figure out the past? Why would be want

to know our past? Who would value the information and why?

Wednesday/ Thursday

Partner activity with geologic time. ( 5 minutes)
Review Geology lessons and our unit on Geologic History. Relative/absolute dating, historical geology principles, and geologic time.
Geology slide project. Project will be explained and time given in class to work.  Project due on Friday.

Friday - All Classes

Turn in our slide presentation. Share with each other and give our opinions of each others work.
Review mineral and rocks by name.  
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
Igneous rocks - cooling of magma/lava
Metamorphic rocks - heat and pressure
Sedimentary rocks
Homework is to research one of our rocks or minerals.  Students will need create an ad selling their chosen mineral as the best Christmas gift.  Paper advertisement is due on Monday. We will post these around the room. Extra credit commercials are an option. 

Monday/ Tuesday

Skyward assignment.
Share our rock mineral advertisements.
Review our model of the cycling of the Earth’s material.  
Discuss ways to identify rocks/ minerals that we do not know?

1. Color
2. Streak
3. Hardness
4. HCl acid
5. Density
6. Volume - displacement method
7. Mass
8. Luster
9. Diaphaneity
10. Cleavage/Fracture
11. Magnetism
12. Tenacity
13. Flame - Chemical formula
14. Crystal pattern

Wednesday/ Thursday

Skyward assignment
Rock and Mineral identification lab simulation.  Students will complete numerous tests on our know rocks and minerals.  Students will evaluate the testing process looking for the best way to collect information about unknown substances and verifying then substance to the best of our ability.
Homework worksheet.

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Nov. 12th - Nov. 21st

Phenomena picture

Period 2,4, and 9 Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Tuesday

Period 3,5, and 10 Tuesday, Thursday, Monday, Wednesday

Earth’s Systems (Geology)

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
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales
Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes

We will continue with our unit on Geology.  Look at our Phenomena picture and ask questions

and hypothesise  the answer. What do we need to know to figure out the past? Why would be want

to know our past? Who would value the information and why?

Monday/ Tuesday

Student will look at our petrified cotton balls. We will discuss what what they tell us about the past. We will revisit a phenomena picture and ask questions from above.
Short skyward assignment. Walk around the room and look at rocks and minerals.
5 ½ minute video on Earth’s History.
Mrs. Moore will demonstrate/ give notes on Historical Geology from 4.6 BIllion years to today.  Time will be divided into four eras, with three of the eras divided into periods.
Students will manipulate sheets of paper with geological events on them in order to create a timeline of Earth’s History. Participation points will be given.
Students will read quietly the Geological TImeline Project - next week Tues/Wed.  Worth 25 points. Class time will be given to work on the project. Those not focussed on the project will have to complete the work outside of class.  Students will choose to work in groups of 1 or 2.
If we have time we will use our geo timeline cards to line up in the back of the room.  Can we get it correct? Rewards for the classes that can complete this in a timely manner.

Wednesday/ Thursday

Start with a short skyward assignment. (5 minutes)
Group activity using our geo timeline cards. (7 minutes)
Re read our Geological TImeline Project quietly to ourselves.  Students will have 30 minutes to work on the project in class. A class participation grade will be given.
As a class work through the Evidence of Evolution packet - Fossils, embryology, comparative anatomy, and molecular biology. Packet will be  collected and graded. Students are required to complete all work on the packet by following along in class.

Friday/ Monday

Play it by ear, we will see how far we get in the week and move on from that point. If we need

to slow down and repeat our material we will.  IF not the following will be completed.

Start with a quiet  worksheet on Geologic history.
Read an article about Climate Change.  We will discuss the claim of the article and the evidence if it is valid or not.
Students will be asked to agree or disagree with statements and support their reasoning.
We will end with a video on the evolution of animals in the ocean, ocean to land animals, and dinosaur to birds.

Tuesday/ Wednesday

Depending on how we have progressed we may or may not accomplish the following.

Show and share our geo timelines and display them in the classroom.
Start looking at the rock cycle - what does it tell us about the past?  What is the cycling process and how can that give us clues about the past and the future?  
We will reconstruct geo history from numerous examples.
No homework!!!

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans Nov. 5th - Nov. 9th

               Phenomena picture

Period 2,4, and 9 Monday and Wednesday

Period 3,5, and 10 Tuesday and Thursday

All Classes Friday will go to Knox College.

Earth’s Systems (Geology)NGSS

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.
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.
Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes

Monday/ Tuesday

Student will start with dipping their cotton balls in the salt water to continue our petrification process. (3 minutes)
We will dig out our molds and create our casts of the pennies in class. 10 minutes
Skyward assignment on relative, absolute dating, fossils, and minerals. 8 minutes
Visible Geology activity with relative dating.  Students will be asked to create a history with 5 layers that have an angular unconformity, a fault, and an intrusion. Students will create a problem to solve.  We will exchange computers and try to construct an explanation of the geo history of the area. Score will be participation. 15 minutes
Students will walk around looking at minerals and rocks starting to learn them by sight. We will make a list of physical properties that we observe  in our minerals and our rocks. Students will complete paper listing one physical characteristics for each rock and mineral. They will be asked to write a short paragraph about the claim on the back of the sheet as homework. 15 minutes
We will watch a short video on geologic time. 5  minutes
Students will start our geo timeline activity by graphing our Eras( Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic)  on a spreadsheet. 15 minutes ALL GOOD Graphs get candy!

Wednesday/ Thursday
Student will start with dipping their cotton balls in the salt water to continue our petrification process.
We will have a practice quiz of the names of the rocks, minerals, and common Illinois fossils.  This will not be graded but used to guide further studies.
Students will organize 26 events into chronological order in an activity.  We will use this information to create a visual timeline in class.
As a group we will subdivide our timelines into the four eras. Students will work in groups of two or one by their own choice.  We will add five more geological events as a group and then the students will have to finish the rest. The students’ work will be to add 20 more events to the timeline to show Earth’s development to today.  A list of events will be shared with the student to guide their choices.

Friday - We have our second College trip to Knox College, Galesburg Illinois  All students are going!!!

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans October 29th - Nov 2nd

Period 2,4, and 9 Monday and Wednesday

Period 3,5, and 10 Tuesday and Thursday

All Classes Friday

Earth’s Systems (Geology)

1. 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
2. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process
3. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales
4. Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions
5. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes

Phenomena Pictures -  See above

Monday/ Tuesday -  Passback homework and collect missing work!

1. Student will start with dipping their cotton balls in the salt water to continue our petrification process. Students will have time to look at common Illinois fossils, minerals, and rock samples.
2. Common Illinois Fossils will be shown and a slide presentation will follow with a note sheet.
3. Review our Seven Geological Principles and practice relative dating. A review packet is available to any who want it.  We will touch on the four unconformities - Para, Non, disconformity, angular.
4. Absolute dating with pennies and graphing. Graphing will include correct title, x and y axis, key, and overall presentation of material.
5. Homework is the absolute sheet we did not get to last week.  A paper copy will be in class but it is also clipped to skyward program.

Wednesday/ Thursday

1. Student will start with dipping their cotton balls in the salt water to continue our petrification process.
2. Continue with a review of relative dating and absolute dating. Followed by a short skyward assignment. If we have time we will again discuss unconformities in nature.
3. Students will walk around the room looking at the 15 common mineral samples, common Illinois fossils, and rocks samples.  We will discuss what they tell us about the past and weather we can relatively date the items or can we absolutely date the samples.  
4. We will create molds of pennies in class.
5. We will graph the division of time on a spreadsheet - New terms; Precambrian Era, Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, Cenozoic Era.
6. Homework is a sheet with the mineral names that need to be matched with a common use. Paper copy in class.

Friday - ALL classes

1. Student will start with dipping their cotton balls in the salt water to continue our petrification process.
2. We will dig out our molds and create our casts of the pennies in class
3. Students will play a review game with the 6 mineral types, 7 geologic principles, and 8 common Illinois fossils.
4. If we have time we will color sheets that diagram unconformities.

Earth Science Class Mrs. Moore Lesson Plans October 22-25th

Period 2,4, and 9 Monday and Wednesday

Period 3,5, and 10 Tuesday and Thursday

Earth’s Systems (Geology)

1. 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
2. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process
3. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales
4. Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions
5. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes

Phenomena Pictures -  See above

Monday/ Tuesday - Start with a review of our thinkcerca lesson.  Less than 20 minutes of time in class
will be spent.  Submit work before Friday - but only submit when you have quality work.

* Review your work -you are allowed to put it on a document and have me review it before you submit it.

** Follow the form correctly - Intro- connect, summary, claim. Body paragraphs - reason, evidence,
reasoning. Conclusion- sum up with up without repeating verbatim.

We will continue on our new unit Geology.  Look at our Phenomena picture and ask questions and
hypothesize  the answer. What do we need to know to figure out the past? Why would be want to know
our past? Who would value the information and why?
We will start with a relative dating moon activity. This activity will be with partners and students will
have to explain their decisions and justify to those who disagree.
We will guess our way through the examples of rock strata on the front board trying to figure out the
history from oldest to youngest.   Students will be given notes on the 7 Principles of Historical
Geology. The notes will be on the chromebook.  We will search for images that show the principle and
then write our own definition for the geological principle. Homework will be given.  The worksheet is
at file:///home/chronos/u-7a340433fdd79e2e928d6d8387d2d03358c909ef/Downloads/relative_dating
_homework%20(1).pdf  A paper copy will be given in class, a copy will be attached in skyward too.

Wednesday/ Thursday

Start with a skyward review assignment.  I will collect homework worksheets. Students will start a
petrification activity with sponges.  Students will work in groups trying relative dating problems. We
will turn our attention to absolute dating with an activity to demonstrate the concept.  We will use our
spreadsheet program on the computer to complete simple absolute dating problems.

Students will have time to look at the index fossil in the room plus the 15 common minerals that are on
display.  Homework is a simple worksheet on absolute decay. A paper copy will be given and a copy
will be attached to skyward.  

Fun Information we will cover is below!

1. Uniformitarianism - What happens in the past will happen again geologically.
2. Two types of dating rocks - relative and absolute (radioactive decay)
3. Types of Rocks - Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
4. Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere
5. Unique characteristics of all minerals
1. Solid
2. Made by nature
3. Crystal pattern
4. Organic
5. Unique formula

6.  Types of Fossils

1. Petrified
2. Molds and casts
3. Index
4. Carbonaceous
5. Original remains
6. Trace

7.   Fundamental Principles of Geology

1. Law of Superposition -
2. Principle of original horizontality  -
3. Principle of original lateral continuity -
4. Principle of intrusive relationships -
5. Principle of  cross-cutting relationships
6. Unconformities -para, non, dsc, angular
7. Fossil succession -

8. Common Minerals of Illinois

1. Brachiopods
2. Cephalopods
3. Crinoids
4. Sponges
5. Gastropods
6. Blastoids
7. Corals
8. Trilobites

Minerals we will id by sight Rocks we will id by sight

Pyrite Mica Slate Shale Pumice

Rose quartz Halite Granite Scoria Limestone

Crystalline quartz Basalt Coquina Gneiss

Hematite Copper Schists Sandstone Obsidian

Sulfur Fluorite Marble Coal Conglomerate

Talc Kaolin

Gypsum Galena

Calcite Graphite

Identification Testing  

Name	Feel	Streak	Smell	Luster	Magnetic	Chemical Test (HCl)
Hardness	Mass	Volume	Density	Crystal Pattern		Cleavage or Fracture
Fluorescent	Tenacity	Diaphaneity	Flame		Color	Formula