Week 1 - Aug 26 - Aug 30

Bookmark new agenda
and remove your old bookmark

Monday (Aug 26)

1 - Welcome activities and introductions

2 - Make note card with your name and what you like

3 - On white boards: What is science?  What is Earth Science?

Tuesday (Aug 27)

1. Teamwork activity (yarn shapes)

2. Class norms, teacher and student expectations

3. What prevents us from doing our best?

4. Web quest (using the class website) This will be done ON PAPER in class. Put into your notebook when complete

5. Log into Quizlet
   Period 3, Period 5

6. Go over important parts of syllabus

7. Get notebooks and add your name to the front with a SHARPIE

8. The nature of science activity 

HOMEWORK
1 - Read through the class syllabus 
2 - Fill out THIS form (your parents need to fill some out as well)

Thursday (Aug 29)

1. Team activity

2. Review our class norms 

3. Mystery box activity (Next week)

HOMEWORK
1 - Read through the class syllabus 
2 - Fill out THIS form (your parents need to fill some out as well)

Week 2 - Sept 3-6

Tues (Sept 3)

1. Mystery box activity

2. Outside observation activity

3. Inside to look at our questions

Thursday (Sept 5)

1. Warm-up 2 -  Where would you want to travel?

2. Read THIS about Mt. Everest
   IN YOUR NOTEBOOK:
       Notice and wonderings from the reading (notebook page  8)
       Students create a drawing to help explain (page 9)
       Explain your drawing (page 10)

3. Slides

4. Work on a class consenses model

HOMEWORK

Week 3 - Sept 9 - 13

Mon (Sept 9)

1. Warm-up 3 - Do vitamins make you more healthy? How would we know?

2. Review class model

3. Create tabel of information we could use Notebook page 11)

4. Students read about other mountains and fill out table

5. Members of each group share what they learned and add it to their "Patterns of change" sheet

6. Groups share out to whole class

Tues (Sept 10)

1. Warm-up - What do we hope to learn in school?

2. Time do look over our Mountain Case Site Data
   Is your mountain growing or shinking?
   Groups exchange information

3. As a class, share out data from each mountain and add to our Patterns of change sheet
   
   

4. Create model of shrinking mountain in notebook and explain

5. Make a consenses model on the board for a shrinking model

6. Related phenomena (Notebook page 12)

7. Review our ideas and come up with questions for our driving question board
   Students add questions to our model

Thursday (Sept 12)

1. What do we think causes mountains to grow/shrink
   Make chart on board using our ideas from last class

2. What are earthquakes like and what do they do?
   Make notice and wondering chart on the next page of your notebook
   Write something for each slide and video
       Watch this Mt Everest video
       Watch slides H to O (Slides)
       Watch Ridgecrest earthquake video

3. Use the Sesmic-explorer to to find the depth and magnatude of earthquakes
   Each student will collect data on one mountain (depth of EQ and Magnatude)
       Work with a partner
       Record your information on your in notebook map

4. Add data to class map

5. Notebook check - Check to see if you have all of these in your notebook

HOMEWORK

Week 4 - Sept 16 - 20

Mon (Sept 16)

1. Start new warm-up page
   Warm-up 1 - Can you name any kinds of rocks?
                           What might rocks tell us about mountains?

2. Rock observations (Notes A)
   (If you missed this and need to do this at home use THESE pictures)

3. Review how to use a textbook to get information (HERE is a video if you miss class)
   We will do Notes B togehter

4. This weeks slides

Tue (Sept 17)
  Warm-up 2 - Do you ever have a hard time getting to sleep? What have you tried that helps?

Learn about the different kinds of rocks

1 - Watch the video for that kind of rock (igneous,  sedimentary,   metamorphic)

2 - Use this reading to help you fill out your note page

3 - Review each rock type  (IGNEOUS,  SEDIMENTARY,   METAMORPHIC)
              by watching the presentation slides (green circle)
              and by doing the pratice quizzes  TEST YOURSELF (blue button)

4. HONORS - When you are finished use your notes to do the Rock ID activity (ask for it)

IF time

6 - As a class, Review the 3 kinds of rocks (presentation)

7 - With a partner, make Rock Cycle Game using THESE directions

HOMEWORK:
Finish notes A, B, C and D (Take your notebook home and use THESE instructions)

Thu (Sep19)

Warm-up 3 - What kind of rock is this?

1. As a class, Review the 3 kinds of rocks (presentation)

2. Watch this video about rock recycling

3. Complete NOTES E together as a class
         Use THESE directions if you are at home

4. Spend 15 minutes answering THESE QUESTIONS

5. With a partner, make Rock Cycle Game using THESE directions
     Make game board
     Create list of moves

HOMEWORK:

Week 5 - Sept 23 - 27

Mon (Sept 23)

1. Warm-up 4 - What might a rock tell us about a mountain's history?

2. Finish making Rock cycle game if you didn't have time to on Thursday

3. Play game/record movements

4. Take practice rock cycle quiz

5. HONORS - Rock ID activity (ask for it)

6. STANDARD - Concept map

Wed (Sep 25)
Warm-up - We are having a test on Monday. What will it be on? Be specific!

1. Notebook check

2. Open "Building Pangea" and answer the first 2 questions

3. Watch THIS short movie about Wegener

4. Review this new vocabulary in groups using white boards

5. Building Pangea GIZMO

(Today's slides)

HOMEWORK:

Week 6 - Sept 30 - Oct 4

Mon (Sep 30)

Warm-up - Name a specific kind of rock.  What kind of rock is it?

1. Kahoot review

2. TEST on rocks

3. Time to finish Building Pangea GIZMO

4. NOTES A - Use the book (page 248 in the text) or read them HERE

Wed (Oct 2)
Warm-up -  What is your favorite season and why? Support your ideas!

1. Paired reading to complete notes A
   Time to finish Gizmo activity if you finish the notes (HW if not finished)
   HONORS Students - Do the magnetite activity

2. Review the evidence of continental drift

3. Discuss the ocean floor and take NOTES B (Sea floor spreading)

4. Build a model of Seafloor Spreading

5. Today's slides

HOMEWORK:
Finish Building Pangea GIZMO
HONORS - Finish maganetite activity

Week 7 - oct 7 - Oct 11

Mon (Oct 7)

Warm-up - Looking at our new note pages, what do you think we will be studying next? What questions do you have?

1. NOTES C

2. NOTES D (if you were absent, check out the notes in CANVAS)

3. Build a model of the Earth (do the math)

Tue (Oct 8)
Warm-up - Check your grade in powerschool. What do you need to do?

1. Go over how test corrections work

2. Build a model of Earth's interior
   HONORS students must work on the other side and add to the model
   HERE is a website to get information

3. Time to make up any other work you need to complete

4. HONORS students - Time to work on the Magnetite activity
   STANDARD Students time to complete the Pangea GIZMO

5. All finished?  Do you need to do test corrections?

Thu (Oct 10)
Warm-up 4 - What is about to happen in THIS picture? Why?

1. Convection lab observations (Notes E)

2. Convection lab questions (handout)

3. Convection in the mantle animation

4. Convection demonstration (HERE is a video)

5. Apply convection to Earth's surface (Notes F)

6. Review convection in the mantle using THIS CANVA

HOMEWORK:

Week 8 - oct 14 - Oct 18

Oct14 (Mon)

Warm-up - What do you want to be sure you do sometime in your life?

1. Review convection (Slides 71-83)

2. Complete this CANVA about HOW continents move

3. NOTES G - 2 kinds of crust

4. Subduction animation

5. Complete this CANVA about subduction

HOMEWORK:

Oct15 (Tue)

1. Warm-up 6 - What BIG quesiton do you have about LIFE?

2. Review subduction

3. Subduction animation

4. Complete this CANVA about subduction

5. Presentation #1 intro to surface featrues

6. NOTES H - Surface features associated with plate boundaries

7. Introduce our Plate Tectonics Lab  (Honors / Standard)

Oct17 (Thu)

Warm-up 7 - What is something that you a lot about? What is something you want to learn about?

1. Use THESE maps of earthquakes and surface features for the plate tectonic lab
   (These links are on the assignment as well)

2. Work on your plate tectonics lab and answer questions

3. HONORS students should do the notes below
       NOTES I about faults
      NOTES J and K about hotspots

4. IF time
   Start your model of plate tectonics This is where we put it all together!

Week 9 - oct 21 - Oct 25

Oct 21 (Mon)

Warm-up - Draw a simple diagram of a divegent boundary and a convergent boundary

1. Review subduction

2. Time to work on your model of plate tectonics

3. Honors students - Be sure you have done the three extra note pages!

HOMEWORK:

Oct 24 (Thu)

1. Warm-up - 

2. Review plate tectonics by doing THIS CANVA

3. Finish your model of plate tectonics

4. Study for our test on plate tectonics. Check out the quizlet in Monday's agenda)

5. TEST - Plate Tectonics! next Wednesday

Week 10 - oct 28 - Oct 31

Oct 28 (Mon)

Warm-up - Draw a simple diagram of a divegent boundary and a convergent boundary

1. Please take THIS survey

2. Turn in Model of Plate Tectonics if you haven't already

3. Study guide

4. Work on any missed asignments

5. QUIZET practice:  Period 3,   Period 5

HOMEWORK:

Oct 30 (WED)

1. Warm-up - Sample test question

2. Blooket review

3. TEST on Plate tectonics

4. Time to make up missing work, fix your model (if lower than 80%)