Aim & Objectives:
Monday
Warm Up: Lab Hypothesis
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:
 Explore finding patterns in
coastlines of continents.
Instructional Strategies,
Activities, Labs and Process
Skills
The students will label the
coastlines of North America, South
America, Europe and Asia, Africa,
and Australia on a blank map.
They will cut out the land forms of
Earth. The students will use the
continent cutouts like pieces of a
jigsaw puzzle and find ways that
they can fit together.
Homework:
Periods 2,3,7,&9 – How Are the
Planets Arranged? Lab is due
tomorrow.
Applicable CPI
Resources, Materials, Web Sites:
Text Explore Activity page D5.
5.4.6.B.2
Examine Earth’s surface features
and identify those created on a
scale of human life or on a geologic
time scale.
Materials for lab:
Scissors
Blank map
5.4.6.D.1
Apply understanding of the motion
of lithospheric plates to explain why
the Pacific Rim is referred to as the
Ring of Fire.
http://www.classzone.com/books/ea
rth_science/terc/content/visualizatio
ns/es0806/es0806page01.cfm?chap
ter_no=visualization
Period 6 – How Are the Planets
Arranged? Lab is due on
Wednesday.
Tuesday
Warm Up: Hypothesize what Seafloor spreading is.
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:
 Explore finding patterns in
coastlines of continents.
 Evaluate continental drift and
sea-floor spreading.
The students will complete their lab
from Monday.
The students will watch an United
Streaming video about Continental
Drift. While they are watching the
video they will answer a series of
questions based on the information
learned.
Homework:
Complete Lab conclusions
5.4.6.B.2
Examine Earth’s surface features
and identify those created on a
scale of human life or on a geologic
time scale.
5.4.6.D.1
Apply understanding of the motion
of lithospheric plates to explain why
the Pacific Rim is referred to as the
Ring of Fire.
United Streaming video:
http://player.discoveryeducation.co
m/index.cfm?guidAssetId=5B6930F
D-13BC-45DE-971C718B0C1BD378&blnFromSearch=1
&productcode=US
Wednesday
Warm Up: What is a webquest
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:
 Use the laptop computers to find
information on plate tectonics.
 Explore how the motions below
Earth’s surface affect Earth’s
crust.
Thursday
Warm Up: What is one fact you
learned from your webquest
yesterday?
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:
 Use the laptop computers to find
information on plate tectonics.
 Explore how the motions below
Earth’s surface affect Earth’s
crust.
The students will use the laptop
computers to work with a partner
and complete a webquest based on
plate tectonics. The students will
perform a variety of mini-lessons
within the website to help their
understanding of plate tectonics and
how it affects the Earth.
5.4.6.B.2
Examine Earth’s surface features
and identify those created on a
scale of human life or on a geologic
time scale.
The students will use the laptop
computers to work with a partner
and complete a webquest based on
plate tectonics. The students will
perform a variety of mini-lessons
within the website to help their
understanding of plate tectonics and
how it affects the Earth.
5.4.6.B.2
Examine Earth’s surface features
and identify those created on a
scale of human life or on a geologic
time scale.
Webquest:
http://www.learner.org/interactive
s/dynamicearth/index.html
5.4.6.D.1
Apply understanding of the motion
of lithospheric plates to explain why
the Pacific Rim is referred to as the
Ring of Fire.
5.4.6.D.1
Apply understanding of the motion
of lithospheric plates to explain why
the Pacific Rim is referred to as the
Ring of Fire.
Webquest:
http://www.learner.org/interactive
s/dynamicearth/index.html
Friday
Warm Up: What is Pangea?
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:
 Describe how Earth’s land
masses have changed over time.
 Explore what happens below
Earth’s surface to affect changes
on Earth’s crust.
 Define plate tectonics and
continental drift.
 Discover who Alfred Wegner is
and his theories.
The students will have a discussion
based on Pangaea and how the
Earth has changed over time.
The students will watch a PPT and
take notes based on Plate tectonics
and continental Drift.
5.4.6.B.2
Examine Earth’s surface features
and identify those created on a
scale of human life or on a geologic
time scale.
5.4.6.D.1
Apply understanding of the motion
of lithospheric plates to explain why
the Pacific Rim is referred to as the
Ring of Fire.
Pangea:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultlin
e/activezone/slides/pangeaslide.html
Animation:
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/te
ctonics/pangea-animation.html
http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geograph
y/101/pananim.htm