Unit 2
WHAT'S GOING ON!!!!!!!!!
Current Assignments:
Long Term Assignments:
Year-Long:
End of the Year Project
Study Resources:
Enrichment - Or what to do when you have nothing to do...
EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS - STEM opportunities for girls! --- Thursday, March 17, 2016 at the University of Maine, Orono. For a more in-depth description of the event , go to
http://wrc.umaine.edu/stem/eyh/
Please fill out this "application" if you are interested in attending.
1/11: Crystal Lab
- Students set-up crystal lab --> will check throughout the week
1/12: Rocks
1/13: Rocks
1/14: Rock Cycle
1/15: Rock Cycle Project
1/19: Rock Cycle Project
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS --- These are the important questions you will be able to answer by the end of the unit!
- Why do we have uneven distribution of minerals and rocks on Earth?
- How do rocks and minerals affect the average person in their everyday lives?
- Where do rocks come from and why are they all not the same?
- How can we use Earth changes to predict past and future events?
- How have geologic processes changed Earth’s surface?
- Both long-term and rapid changes
- What proof do we have of tectonic plate movement?
1/4: Introduction
- Pre-Test - Check Classroom
- Review Results
- Overview of the Unit
- Discuss essential questions
- Explain the assessments
- Introduce Personal Vocabulary Dictionary
- Read “History of the Planet” and complete the questions
COMMON AND OTHER ASSESSMENTS
- Check Classroom
1/5: Mineral Information
- NOTES
- Mineral Overview
- EXPLORE: What processes form rocks and minerals?
- Mineral Formation
- Link to textbook reading
- Mineral Groups Prezi
- Brainpop: Mineral Identification
- Properties/traits for your favorite mineral - Brainpop Activity - GO
1/6: Mineral Information - continued
- Personal Vocabulary Dictionary
- Crystal Formation Lab
- Mineral Use Mini-Project
- Rock Webquest
- Rock Alternative (RAFT)
- Rock and Rock Cycle Quiz
- Mass Extinction Essay
- Dating Rocks or Future Fossil Mini-Project
- Continental Drift Essay
- Plate Motion Mini-Project
- Tectonic Region Case Study
- Plate Tectonics Test
.
- Add Vocabulary to Dictionary- mineral, rock, crystallization, melting, deformation, magma, silicates
MINERALS - ROCKS
mineral rock crystallization supersaturation nucleation site melting deformation magma silicates igneous sedimentary metamorphic rock cycle extrusive intrusive basaltic granitic absolute dating relative dating index fossils intrusion Law of Superposition Law of Continuity Law of Horizontality radioactive dating half-life
MOVING EARTH
plate tectonics continental drift Pangaea evidence theory opposition plates seafloor spreading crust mantle core lithosphere asthenosphere convection current subduction convergent divergent transform earthquake supervolcano
GEOLOGY
bedrock marine coastal glacier
...
1/7: Crystal Formation
- Complete the mineral packet
1/8:
Crystal Lab Set-Up