Lesson Example Science

Refer to this site for help if needed:

http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/whatisafossil.htm

Small Group Instruction /Independent Practice:

1. Read TE p. 116-117 How fossils form

Create comic to explain how a fossil forms.

Comic templates:

http://donnayoung.org/art/comics.htm

2. Create a popplet to show the sequence of how fossils are formed**

3. Cooperative webquest

http://welchsclassscience.blogspot.com/

Close:

Share comics

Extra ideas/Links:

http://www.mysciencebox.org/files/fossil_adventure_pages.doc

Lesson #2

EQ:

What will happen to our world if pollution continues?

What can you do to protect our environment from pollution?

What is pollution?

How can I help conserve our natural resources?

Hook:

Review water pollution.

http://youtu.be/VHR06lIPUFc

http://www.brainpop.com/science/populationsresourcesandenvironment/waterpollution/preview.weml

WGI:

Review Vocabulary:

• Pollution

• Natural resources

• Renewable resource

• Nonrenewable resource

• Conservation

• Environment

• Littering

• Acid rain

• Recycle

• Reduce

• Reuse

http://pbskids.org/eekoworld/index.html?load=air_water

SGI:

Read Harcourt Science pp 308 - 353

Air pollution lab

Supplies:

Petroleum jelly

Three white index cards numbered 1, 2 and 3

One clip board

Plastic knife

Directions: Spread petroleum jelly on each index card with a plastic knife. Attach one card to the clipboard and place outside. Place one card in the classroom under the teacher's desk. Place one card near an air vent in the classroom. After a day or two, compare the cards to see how much pollution has been trapped in the petroleum jelly in the different locations (cards 1, 2 and 3).

Cooperative groups:

Look up air quality-

http://www.airnow.gov/

Refer back to class discussion about air pollution Show Air portion of the PBS Kids Eeko World: Air and Water interactive.

Have student groups answer the following questions:

What are the most common sources of the major air pollutants?

How does air pollution affect people and the environment? List at least two effects.

Can air pollutants still harm you if you cannot see or smell them?

How do you think you might be able to protect yourself from harmful air pollutants?

Which pollutants are directly released into the air?

Which pollutants are not usually directly released into the air?

Use AIRNow website and have them select the appropriate state and area from "Local Forecasts and Conditions" at the top of the page to find the closest monitoring station. Answer the following questions:

Which major air pollutant at this time is considered the "Primary Pollutant?"

What is the AQI color and what is the Cautionary Statement that goes with that color?

How do you think you might be able to use the real-time data to help protect yourself from harmful air pollutants?

Close:

Edmodo journal:

Describe how air pollution affects the environment and the plants and animals that live in it. Use reflection rubric here:

http://www-tc.pbs.org/teachers/includes/content/media/pdf/ecoinvestigators/Rubrics.pdf