Get to know your plate boundaries.
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- HW: Turn In Stop Motion Video TONIGHT (via Google Classroom).
- CW: Paragraph Summary + Margin Questions
- EQ: What are the characteristics of convergent and divergent boundaries?
RESOURCES
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zae2pQ4wDFY&w=854&h=480]
Plate Tectonics Stop Motion Animation (Day 2 of 2)
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- HW: Finish Stop Motion Due Tomorrow (via Google Classroom)
- CW: Work on Stop Motion
- EQ: What are the characteristics of convergent and divergent boundaries?
RESOURCES
Plate Tectonics Stop Motion Animation (Day 1 of 2)
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- HW: Bring Your Own Technology Tomorrow (Stop Motion Studio & iMovie apps)
- CW: Create parts for stop motion animation.
- DN: What is the driving force for plate tectonics?
- EQ: What are the characteristics of convergent and divergent boundaries?
- Super Awesome Special: A Lego.
RESOURCES
Beginning of Plate Tectonics
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- CW: Paragraph Summary + Margin Questions
- DN: How do erosion and weathering differ?
- EQ: How can rocks change and reform to make new rocks with new properties?
- Note: Turn in missing storyboards (from video project) by Friday.
- Super Awesome Special: Refrigerator Magnet
RESOURCES
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swnjn9aqfqI&w=854&h=480]
Rock Recollection: Every Rock Has A Story
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- CW/HW: Mini-Book Story about an Igneous Rock and their voyage through the rock cycle. (Start as an igneous rock and end as an igneous rock. 3 Illustrations + Key Vocabulary. Bonus point if it rhymes.)
- CW: 7 Word crossword puzzles + Clues
- DN: Place 7 words in crossword format from the Rock Cycle?
- EQ: How can rocks change and reform to make new rocks with new properties?
- Note: Turn in missing storyboards (from video project) by Friday.
- Super Awesome Special: Two Nickels + Two Dimes + Five Pennies
RESOURCES
LESSON OUTLINE
5min< Students complete the Do Now and attendance is taken. Collect Xtra Credit Projects.
10min< Students complete crossword puzzles by writing clues and erasing answers.
5min Demonstration: How to make a mini-book.
5min Student work on scripts (follow storyboard) for First Video Project.
5min Outline details for Mini-Book Story of Rock. (First or Third Person + 3 Illustrations + Key Vocabulary + Title + Rock Themed Name + Bonus for Rhyming)
10min< Students work on Mini-Book Story
5min> Clean up. Wrap up.
AIM: Students will create a story around a rock as it goes through the rock cycle that includes key vocabulary terms and illustrations.
NGSS: MS-ESS2-1
Rock Cycle Haiku Pop-up Book
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- HW: Finish Haiku Pages
- CW: Haiku Page = Title + Haiku + Pop-up Visual
- DN: Define the following in simple simple super simple terms: Magma, Sediments, Igneous Rock, Sedimentary Rock, Metamorphic Rock, Weathering/Erosion, and Heat & Pressure.
RESOURCES
Let's Rock & Mine-roll. Get it? Mineral. (Cricket sounds)
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- HW: Complete observations for Google classroom assignment.
- CW: Questions & Observations (Google Classroom)
- DN: What are your family plans and preparations for an earthquake?
RESOURCES
Check Google Classroom
Let's Rock!
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- HW: Find out what earthquake preparations if any are in place at your home.
- CW: Rock Haiku (Picture + Haiku for each rock type). Turn in via Google classroom today.
- DN: In what decade was the last big earthquake in the LA area?
RESOURCES
Check Google Classroom
Other States of Matter & Phase Changes
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- CW: Paragraph summaries and margin questions.
- DN: Draw two containers. Draw the particles of a solid in one and of a liquid in the other.
- EQ: How do other states of matter and phase changes differ from the ones we know?
RESOURCES
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYxuB26aCM&w=854&h=480]