September 18 -- September 22

Monday, September 18

How can we capture and transform energy from the world around us to help meet our needs?

-Good Things

-Warmup

-MiStar Unit 7: Creating an Energy Plan

-Introduction to "The Grid"

-Unit Challenge

Tuesday, September 19

What scientific knowledge and evidence do we need to explain where and how electricity can be generated?

-Warmup

-Exploring Energy Generation Methods

-MEECS Energy Cards

Wednesday, September 20

What scientific knowledge and evidence do we need to explain where and how electricity can be generated?

-Warmup

-Finish up MEECS Energy Cards

-Which Energy is most viable? Argument

Thursday, September 21

What scientific knowledge and evidence do we need to explain where and how electricity can be generated?

-Warmup

-Which Energy is most viable? Argument

-CER Practice

-Checking for Understanding 

HW: Finish Energy Checking for Understanding

Friday, September 22

How can electrical energy be generated? What are the necessary parts of an electrical generation system?

-Warmup

-Reading Routines Practice

-Questions

NGSS Connections 

All of the three dimensional primary subcomponents of the unit may be formatively assessed in this lesson; however, students’ knowledge will not be summatively assessed. Those subcomponents listed below are the focus of formative assessment in this lesson:

Semester Unifying CCC: Energy and Matter

Science and Engineering Practices

Disciplinary Core Ideas

Crosscutting Concepts

Asking Questions and Defining Problems

• Ask questions that can be investigated within the scope of the classroom, outdoor environment, and museums and other public facilities with available resources and, when appropriate, frame a hypothesis based on observations and scientific principles. (MS-PS2-3)

No Disciplinary Core Ideas are included in this lesson.

Energy and Matter

• Energy may take different forms (e.g. energy in fields, thermal energy, energy of motion).