Students are first going to explore the three types of plate boundaries using milky way candy bars as models! Thank you to the parents that sent in donations to support our learning! After creating the models, students are going to create a foldable and picture sort to again distinguish the difference between the three types of boundaries.
In science, we also try to develop reading skills. Students will complete a reading and answer questions requiring that they use textual evidence as support. This skill is helpful in all content areas! After exploring boundaries, students will begin looking at landforms and identifying the names of common landforms (ex: deltas, plateaus, plains, etc). Finally, students will look at streams for evidence of weathering and erosion. They will further investigate these next week! Homework
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Students will begin by graphing earthquake locations on a map and correlating them to plate boundaries. This will help them to understand the natural processes that occur where plates meet! After exploring transform boundaries that cause earthquakes, students will explore seafloor spreading, an example of a divergent boundary where two plates are moving away from each other. We will also pause this week to self reflect on our engagement in class. Each student will ask themselves and reflect upon the following...Am I participating in class? Am I zoning out? Am I giving 110%? What could I do better? Homework:
Students are going to further their study of Pangaea and continental drift by exploring other sources of evidence (fossils, mountains, etc). Students will then explain that convection within the Earth is the force that moves the tectonic plates. Students will have a quiz on Friday over the Geosciences unit so far. As always, they'll have a study guide!
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Special note: My 6th period class will be taking the proficiency on Monday due to Friday's walkathon. It is imperative that they study the extended response and multiple choice review sheet sent home. They have the tools to be successful - they need to use them!
Monday, students are going to create a poster with facts about each planet. That concludes our astronomy unit! Tuesday, students will begin geosciences. This unit explores the earth, plate movement, landforms, rocks, etc. To start, students will explore the interior of the earth (the layers) and will explore how continents have moved over time (as shown below). Friday, we will pause the geosciences unit to get our first proficiencies back! We will analyze our results to improve our test taking skills. Homework
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