Continental Drift Quiz
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DN: Who was the first person to notice that the continent shapes fit together? (Trick Question)
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
10min Self-Guided Review.
5min Teacher distributes quiz materials and provides clarifications.
15min Continental Drift Quiz
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Continental Drift: Seafloor Spreading Modeling
HW: Review for your quiz.
DN: What is a computer?
Resources: Continental Drift Video
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HW: Review for your quiz.
DN: What is a computer?
RESOURCES
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
10min Timeline Recap. Teacher outlines the schedule for the midterm and projects. Brief Q & A session.
10min Practice Quiz. Students trade practice quizzes, then return them once completed for scoring.
15min Seafloor Spreading Model. Students mark the exposed part of two sheets of paper, alternating the colors as new paper is exposed so that the two sheets have mirrored patterns. Students then label each band of color and then identify which bands of color are identical in age.
5min Students apply their new skills to seafloor patterns.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Continental Drift: Finding Gold
CW/HW: [1] Make Your Own Quiz Handout. [2] Finish finding the countries and the nearest cities where you can find gold. (Turn in via Schoology.)
DN: When is your quiz?
Reminder: Quiz on Wednesday.
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CW/HW: [1] Make Your Own Quiz Handout. [2] Finish finding the countries and the nearest cities where you can find gold. (Turn in via Schoology.)
DN: When is your quiz?
Reminder: Quiz on Wednesday.
RESOURCES
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
10min Make Your Own Quiz. Students write multiple-choice questions that could show up on the quiz.
10min Teacher demonstrates how to use the maps of South America and Africa to find gold. First mark all the locations where gold was found in South America with a dot. Then group the dots and the South America map. Then move and rotate to line up South America with Africa. (Note: You will have to rotate the map multiple times to get the best fit because the world is 3D and our maps are 2D, so if you line up the top then the bottom won’t line up and vice versa.) Then they will identify which country and city is closest to each dot, using Google maps for reference.
15min Finding Gold. Students use their knowledge of continental drift to locate more probable locations for gold. Don’t forget to rotate and adjust the map for each location.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
MiniLab: Chopsticks Skills
HW: Study for your quiz.
CW: Complete the Chopsticks Skill MiniLab write up. (Chart/Trendline, Identify the variables & constants, Analysis, Prediction for 11min, and Hypothesis.)
DN: What evidence do we have for continental drift?
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HW: Study for your quiz.
CW: Complete the Chopsticks Skill MiniLab write up. (Chart/Trendline, Identify the variables & constants, Analysis, Prediction for 11min, and Hypothesis.)
DN: What evidence do we have for continental drift?
RESOURCES
Example Data for Chopsticks Skills MiniLab
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
5min Teacher outlines the procedures for the MiniLab and randomly selects participants.
5min Class identifies variables and develops hypothesis
10-15min Trials 1-4 are carried on while students record data. (While waiting, students should start labeling chart and entering numbers into a spreadsheet to determine averages.)
5min Students plot the data and add a trendline. Students make a prediction for 11min.
5min Students complete the MiniLab report.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
AIM: Students perform an experiment to collect, analyze, and interpret the data.
Plate Tectonics: Ancient Earthquakes
CW: Complete Ancient Earthquakes 365 Handout.
DN: Take handout and read text from Roman historian Ammianus Macellinus.
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CW: Complete Ancient Earthquakes 365 Handout.
DN: Take handout and read text from Roman historian Ammianus Macellinus.
RESOURCES
Ancient Earthquakes 365 Handout
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
5min Review the events of the 365 earthquake based on historic accounts from people in Alexandria.
5min Brief explanation of earthquake waves.
10min> Determining Distance from Epicenter. Demonstration on using time gap between earthquake waves to determine distance. Students determine distances for other cities.
10min> Triangulation. Demonstration on how to use map key, a pen, and ruler/paper/compass/string to mark distances away from each city. The epicenter is where all the marks for every city intersect.
10min> Students finish answering questions on the handout.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.