August / September
Earth Systems
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Science Standards
Science Standards
ESS1.C.1 Earth's Place in the Universe (The History of Planet Earth)
LS4.A.1 Biological Evolution; Unity and Diversity (Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity)
ESS2.A.1, 2 Earth's Systems (Earth's Materials and Systems)
ESS2.B.1 Earth's Systems (Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale Systems)
ESS3.A.1 Earth and Human Activity (Natural Resources)
ESS3.C.1, 2 Earth and Human Activity (Human Impacts on Earth's Systems)
ESS3.B.1 Earth and Human Activity (Natural Hazards)
ETS1.A.1 Engineering Design (Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems)
ETS1.B.1, 2, 3 Engineering Design (Developing Possible Solutions)
Student Interactive Notebooks are a great resource to use in Science!!
Students used the strategy of CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) to create scientific answers to questions. The students' favorite CER activites were:
scanning QR codes and providing evidence for which song from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and 2000's was the best
which candy (chocolate, sweet, sour) was the best
Students created sedimentary rocks out of 3 different types of Jolly Ranchers. They broke the Jolly Ranchers into smaller pieces, layered the pieces in a cup, applied pressure to the cups, and let it sit overnight. The next day they took their sedimentary rocks out of the cups to observe the three layers. They were tasty too!!
Students modeled rock layers with clay and used beads to represent fossils found in the layers. Students then chose an event (intrusion, lava flow, or earthquake) to represent the shift in the Earth's layers. After the models were complete we discussed the relative age of each layer.
We created a timeline of events that have happened in our lives using both relative and absolute dating.
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rotation 1
Rotation 2
Rotation 2
Rotation 3
Rotation 3
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rotation 4
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