December 9 -- December 13

Monday, December 9

Where are there volcanoes on Earth's surface? How can regions of change and stability help us identify volcanoes on Earth's surface?

-Warmup

-Summary Tables

-Unit Challenge Volcanoes

-Check Your Progress

-Ring of Fire Reading

Tuesday, December 10

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

-Good Things

-Chocolate Milk Demo

-Discussion

-Earth Plates Model

Wednesday, December 11

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

-Warmup

-Earth Plates Model

-Ring of Fire/Rocks

-Plate Tectonics Model

Thursday, December 12

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

-Warmup

-Ring of Fire/Rocks

-Plate Tectonics Model

-Summary Tables

Friday, December 13

***Early Release***

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

-Warmup

-Uncover 2--New Plate Material

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)