Unit Question - What evidence do we have to describe the history of the Earth?
Highlight past tense words during the unit - keep out highlighters.
Unit Skill - Identify and use past tense vocabulary.
Lesson 1 - Formation of the Earth - Feb 18 (switch with lesson 2 if needed)
Lesson 2 - History of the Earth - Impact Crater Lab - Feb 19
Lesson 3 - Events from the Past - Feb 20
Lesson 4 - Formation of the Moon - Feb 21 (may need to record in next class)
Lesson 5 - Timelines - Feb 24
Lesson 6 - Parts of an animal - Feb 25
Lesson 7 - Living Things - Feb 27
Lesson 8 - Protista Compared to Animals - Feb 28 (Get Microscopes and Water Samples)
Lesson 9 - Fossils show history on Earth - Mar 3
Lesson 10 - Dinosaurs - Mar 4
- Final Exam Review - Mar 4
Lesson 11 - Be a paleontologist - Mar 5
Final Exam - Mar 6
Lesson 12 - Density experiment - layers of Earth - salt water mystery. - Mar 6
Extra Lessons
idea: http://www.earthsciweek.org/forteachers/2009/FossilFormation_Sept_cont.html
Lesson 10 - What is a fossil? - Dec 8
Purpose - Outline the process of making a fossil.
Observe - Hand out dinosaur bones again. Name that dinosaur part.
Write - Make a fossil. Draw out the steps.
Create - Now make a fossil of one animal.
Write - Answer questions about fossils.
Ideas
- What is a fossil? Why do we use fossils?
- Compare fossils - teeth
- Order the age of fossil pictures - compare to the real thing - shark tooth, gastropod (snail like), pelecypod (mollusk), dinosaur, petrified wood, fern, ammonite, brachiopod, bryozoa (like coral)
What should this unit look like - based on slowing down and focusing on student talk each day. - Think about the ACCESS Test and the new online approach in daily lessons...along with talking testing.
- weekly - a google form quiz
- daily - some typing? Discussion?
How does this still hit standards, but incorporate history of Earth - how can this parallel student interest? - Use parallel questions - like. How old are you? I am ______ years old. How old is the earth? The earth is _____ years old.