Rock Cycle: Card Game
HW: Start working on your projects. (Pair due Monday, 12/2. Solo due Monday, 12/9.)
DN: Take out instruction cards from the deck. Read. Shuffle deck. Start playing.
Reminder: Last day to sign up as pair is Thursday (11/18). Notebook check this week.
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HW: Work on Chuck-Ken Trap Project. Chuck-Ken Trap due dates: Pairs - Friday, 11/14 & Solo -Friday, 11/21.
DN: What are the requirements for a Chuck-Ken Trap.
Reminder: A Chuck-Ken having to keep pulling a string to close the door is not a working trap. It doesn’t matter how the string loops around.
Resources
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now .
10min Teacher overviews the Rock Cycle Card Game, outlining how to win, how to start, and how to play the game.
15-20min Rock Cycle Card Game. Students model the steps and processes of the rock cycle by playing the card game and trying to get rid of the picture cards (lava, sediments, igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock). Teacher monitors and assists groups that have questions.
5min Random Rock Cycle
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Rock Cycle: Crystal Structures
HW: Start working on your projects. (Pair due Monday, 12/2. Solo due Monday, 12/9.) Look up Rube Goldberg machines for inspiration.
CW: Crystals Mini-Book with Cooled Fast, Cooled Slow, Basic Cube, Body Centered Cube, and Face Centered Cube
DN: Take a blank sheet of paper and make a mini-book. Draw a crystal on the cover and add title.
Reminders: [1] Pairs that miss the due date will have to turn in Solo projects. Additionally, Low Grade Designs will not be accepted. [2] To avoid building a Low Grade design have the the door swing up to shut and don’t connect the bait directly to the door.
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HW:
CW: Crystals Mini-Book with Cooled Fast, Cooled Slow, Basic Cube, Body Centered Cube, and Face Centered Cube
DN: Take a blank sheet of paper and make a mini-book. Draw a crystal on the cover and add title.
Resources
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now by making mini-book with ‘Crystals’ as title and cover art.
5min Teacher distributes marshmallows and toothpicks.
20min Crystal Structures. Students build models for the basic, body-centered, and face-centered cubes (cubic structures). Examples are added to mineral book.
10min Little Crystals vs Big Crystals. Students model fast vs slow cooling by only being given a short amount of time to connect marshmallows to each other with toothpicks. Examples are added to mineral mini-book.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Rock Cycle: Notes
HW: [1] Rock Cycle Game Monster Book with all monsters named and at least one spell listed for each monster that can slay it. Due Wednesday, 11/12. [2] Work on Chuck-Ken Trap Project.
CW: Complete note’s paragraph summary (p41), margin questions (p39), and add color to diagrams and notes.
DN: What is a rock?
Reminder: [1] Optional - Screenshot of winning the game (must show the student’s name) turned in via schoology (Tuesday, 11/11). [2] Chuck-Ken Trap due dates: Pairs - Friday, 11/14 & Solo -Friday, 11/21.
EQ: How can rocks change and reform to make new rocks with new properties?
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HW: [1] Rock Cycle Game Monster Book with all monsters named and at least one spell listed for each monster that can slay it. Due Wednesday, 11/12. [2] Work on Chuck-Ken Trap Project.
CW: Complete note’s paragraph summary (p41), margin questions (p39), and add color to diagrams and notes.
DN: What is a rock?
Reminder: [1] Optional - Screenshot of winning the game (must show the student’s name) turned in via schoology (Tuesday, 11/11). [2] Chuck-Ken Trap due dates: Pairs - Friday, 11/14 & Solo -Friday, 11/21.
EQ: How can rocks change and reform to make new rocks with new properties?
RESOURCES
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now by answering question.
5min Distribute note handouts. Glue notes onto p39 and diagrams onto p38.
20min Students complete notes.
10min Students write paragraph summary (p41), margin questions, and add color.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Final Review: Day 4 (INGO INGO INGO)
HW: Review for the final.
CW: INGO.
DN: Make an INGO sheet.
Reminders: Final is on Monday (6/9) and Notebook Check (6/10) - if you will not be here you must make arrangements beforehand or receive no credit.
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HW: Review for the final.
CW: INGO.
DN: Make an INGO sheet.
Reminders: Final is on Monday (6/9) and Notebook Check (6/10) - if you will not be here you must make arrangements beforehand or receive no credit.
RESOURCES
Check previous posts for videos and worksheets.
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
15min INGO. Vocabulary words on the front, definitions and illustrations on the back. (energy, predator/prey, competitive, commensal, parasitic, mutual, symbiotic, rock, minerals, lava, magma, sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic, melting, vaporization, freezing, condensation, solid, gas, liquid). Students select words of their choice.
15min More INGO.
10min Last INGO.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Biodiversity: Ketchup Day
CW: Completed CER & Biodiversity Calculations
DN: What kind of biodiversity does this classroom have?
Reminders: Quiz on Wednesday
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CW: Completed CER & Biodiversity Calculations
DN: What kind of biodiversity does this classroom have?
Reminders: Quiz on Wednesday.
RESOURCES
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now by answering the question.
10min FINISH Level Up Presentations (Last Day)
5min Add paper cutouts to trays.
15min Biodiversity Calculations. Students calculate the biodiversity of two trays and record their findings on the handout. Students can also use Easy Biodiversity Calculations spreadsheet (via Schoology) to check their findings.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.