December 16 -- December 20

Monday, December 16

Why are there patterns of volcanoes on Earth’s surface?

-Good Things

-Warmup

-Rock Samples

-Modeling

Tuesday, December 17

Why are there patterns of volcanoes on Earth’s surface?

-Warmup

-Whiteboard Model

-Gallery Walk

-Class Consensus

Wednesday, December 18

Why are there patterns of volcanoes on Earth’s surface?

-Warmup

-Summary Table

-Definitions

-Unit Challenge Models

Thursday, December 19

Why are there patterns of volcanoes on Earth’s surface?

-Warmup

-Unit Challenge Models

-Check Your Progress

-Mid-Unit Review

Friday, December 20

-Warmup

-Food/Game Day

-Bill Nye Volcanoes

NGSS Standards

Science and Engineering Practices

Developing and Using Models

• Develop and use a model to describe phenomena. (MS-ESS2-1)

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

• Construct a scientific explanation based on valid and reliable evidence obtained from sources (including the students’ own experiments) and the assumption that theories and laws that describe nature operate today as they did in the past and will continue to do so in the future.      (MS-ESS2-2)

Connections to Nature of Science

• Science findings are frequently revised and/or reinterpreted based on new evidence. (MS-ESS2-3)

Disciplinary Core Ideas

ESS2.A: Earth’s Materials and Systems

• All Earth processes are the result of energy flowing and matter cycling within and among the planet’s systems. This energy is derived from the sun and Earth’s hot interior. The energy that flows and matter that cycles produce chemical and physical changes in Earth’s materials and living organisms. (MS-ESS2-1)

• The planet’s systems interact over scales that range from microscopic to global in size, and they operate over fractions of a second to billions of years. These interactions have shaped Earth’s history and will determine its future. (MS-ESS2-2)

ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth

• Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old sea floor at trenches.    (MS-ESS2-3)

Crosscutting Concepts

Scale Proportion and Quantity

• Time, space, and energy phenomena can be observed at various scales using models to study systems that are too large or too small.             (MS-ESS2-2)