Continental Drift: Notes
CW/HW: Complete paragraph summary; margin questions, highlights, and foldy-thing handout (with notes, labels and color).
DN: Take note handout and make Foldy-Thing.
EQ: What evidence supports that the continents have moved?
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CW/HW: Complete paragraph summary; margin questions, highlights, and foldy-thing handout (with notes, labels and color).
DN: Take note handout and make Foldy-Thing.
EQ: What evidence supports that the continents have moved?
Resources
Lesson Outline
5min Students complete the Do Now.
25min Continental Drift Notes with Foldy-Thing (notes on p47 and fold-thing p46).
10min Complete paragraph summaries, margin questions, etc. Share with class.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Continental Drift: Fossil Puzzle
CW: [1] Correctly assembled Fossil Puzzle glued onto separate sheet of paper with a touch of color. [2] Finish Continental Drift Island Match Slideshow and turn in via schoology.
DN: What is Pangea?
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CW: [1] Correctly assembled Fossil Puzzle glued onto separate sheet of paper with a touch of color. [2] Finish Continental Drift Island Match Slideshow and turn in via schoology.
DN: What is Pangea?
RESOURCES
Fossil Evidence Continent Puzzle
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
10-15min Plate Tectonics Quiz.
15-20min Fossil Evidence Continent Puzzle. Students cut out pieces. Students use the fossil evidence to arrange the puzzle pieces. Glue, colour, and title.
10min [Finish from yesterday.] Continental Drift Island Match Slideshow. Students use the evidence they collected to figure out how the islands fitted together in the past. (The edges don’t have to fit perfectly. Mountains must line up.)
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Continental Drift: The Game
CW/HW: [1] Complete the Continental Drift Island Match Handout [2] Finish Continental Drift Island Match Slideshow and turn in via Google Classroom
DN: When is your midterm? And what will it cover?
Reminder: Turn in late Projects by Monday. If you do the extra credit, you’ll break even.
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CW/HW: [1] Complete the Continental Drift Island Match Handout [2] Finish Continental Drift Island Match Slideshow and turn in via Google Classroom
DN: When is your midterm? And what will it cover?
Reminder: Turn in late Projects by Monday. If you do the extra credit, you’ll break even.
Resources
Continental Drift Game Direct Link
Continental Drift Island Match Handout
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now by answering the question.
5min Teacher outlines how to play the Continental Drift game and fill out the Continental Drift Island Match handout by recording information about the evidence found at each site, marking the locations of mountains, finding the age and composition of the mountains, and recording the layers of core samples, and locations of glacial till.
15-20min Students play the game and complete the worksheet.
10min Continental Drift Island Match Slideshow. Students use the evidence they collected to figure out how the islands fitted together in the past. (The edges don’t have to fit perfectly. Mountains must line up.)
5min Clean up. Wrap up.
Plate Tectonics: StopMotion Animation
HW: Review for quiz.
CW: Plate Tectonics StopMotion Animation turned in via schoology.
DN: Which way is convection? (Tectonic plate is going right.)
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HW: Review for quiz.
CW: Plate Tectonics StopMotion Animation turned in via schoology.
DN: Which way is convection? (Tectonic plate is going right.)
RESOURCES
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now by describing the particles of a solid and a gas.
5min Teacher organizes students into pairs for access to technology.
10-15min Plate Tectonics StopMotion Animation. Working in pairs or groups of three, students complete animate two tectonic plates (made from Play-Doh) above the mantle (orange construction paper) and two convection currents (paper circles with arrows) underneath in the mantle.
Animation Sequence:
Title (5pics) - ‘Plate Tectonics’ with all names underneath.
Convergent w/o Subduction (20pics) - Show large mountain formation. Don’t tilt the plates have them smoosh together to make mountains.
Convergent with Subduction (20pics) - Show small mountain and trench formation. The plate on top will form a mountain as the other goes under.
Divergent (10pics) - Don’t forget to change the direction of the convection.
Turn in via schoology.
5min Review videos.
5min Clean up. Wrap up.
Plate Tectonics: Plate Boundary Cheers
CW/HW: Complete handout. (Only have to do one haiku.)
DN: Draw the layers of the earth.
Reminder: Chuck-Ken Trap Video Project due Monday. Video turned in via Schoology and design in class. To avoid building a Low Grade design have the door swing up to shut and don’t connect the bait directly to the door.
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CW/HW: Complete handout. (Only have to do one haiku.)
DN: Draw the layers of the earth.
Reminder: Chuck-Ken Trap Video Project due Monday. Video turned in via Schoology and design in class. To avoid building a Low Grade design have the door swing up to shut and don’t connect the bait directly to the door.
Resources
Plate Tectonics Review Handout
Chuck-Ken Trap Video Project Rubric
Chuck-Ken Trap (Low Grade) Design Example
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
5min Assign students (groups of four or more) a plate boundary.
10min Cheer Practice. Students create and perform cheers that demonstrate how the plates move in convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries because of convection. And demonstrate at least one feature of that plate boundary.
10min Cheer Presentations. Students perform their convergent, divergent, or transform boundary cheers.
10min Students continue completing the handout.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.