November 15 -- November 19

Monday, November 15

How can people locate a volcano that will look and behave in a particular way?

-Good Things

-Warmup

-Anchor Video

-Uncover Videos

-UC Scenario

Tuesday, November 16

How can volcanoes be classified?

-Volcano Brainstorm

-Volcano Cardsort

Wednesday, November 17

How can volcanoes be classified?

-Gallery Walk/Discussion of Volcano Cardsort Classifications

-Definitions

-Summary Table

Thursday, November 18

How can volcanoes be classified?

-Volcano CYP

What causes volcanoes to form on Earth's surface?

-Volcano Drawings

-Volcano Model

Friday, November 19

What causes volcanoes to form on Earth's surface?

-Volcano Models

-Summary Tables

NGSS Standards

Developing and Using Models

• Develop a model to describe unobservable mechanisms. (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 the natural world operate today as they did in the past and will continue to do so in the future. (MS-ESS2-2)

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

• Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for phenomena. (MS-ESS2-3)

Connections to Nature of Science

Scientific Knowledge is Open to Revision in Light of New Evidence

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

ESS1.C: The History of the Planet Earth

• Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old sea floor at trenches. (HS.ESS1.C GBE, (secondary). (MS-ESS2-3)

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 the 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 millions billions of years. These interactions have shaped Earth’s history and will determine its future. (MS-ESS2-2)

ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions

• Maps of ancient land and water patterns, based on investigations of rocks and fossils, make clear how Earth’s plates have moved great distances, collided, and spread apart. (MS-ESS2-3)

Stability and Change

• Explanations of stability and change in natural or designed systems can be constructed by examining the changes over time and processes at different scales, including the atomic scale. (MS-ESS2-1)

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)

Patterns

• Patterns in rates of change and other numerical relationships can provide information about natural systems. (MS-ESS2-3)