Lesson Plans
Week of 12-3-2012
Lesson Component
Standard(s)
Number of Standard
Kid Friendly Language
Essential Question to Unit
Varied, high quality, big
overarching question –
connecting to real life.
Objective
Teacher Centered
Using action Verbs
Bloom’s, Hess, Bell, and
Marzano
Learning Target:
Student “I Can…” statement
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3.2 Geologic time, history,
and changing life forms are
indicated by fossils and
successive sedimentation,
folding, faulting, and uplifting
of layers of sedimentary rock
How can we interpret data
from layers of rock?
3.2 Geologic time, history,
and changing life forms are
indicated by fossils and
successive sedimentation,
folding, faulting, and uplifting
of layers of sedimentary rock
How can we interpret data
from layers of rock?
3.2 Geologic time, history,
and changing life forms are
indicated by fossils and
successive sedimentation,
folding, faulting, and uplifting
of layers of sedimentary rock
How can we interpret data
from layers of rock?
3.2 Geologic time, history,
and changing life forms are
indicated by fossils and
successive sedimentation,
folding, faulting, and uplifting
of layers of sedimentary rock
How can we interpret data
from layers of rock?
3.2 Geologic time, history,
and changing life forms are
indicated by fossils and
successive sedimentation,
folding, faulting, and uplifting
of layers of sedimentary rock
How can we interpret data
from layers of rock?
What is geologic time?
Define: fossil, index fossils,
mold, replacement,
petrification, carbonization
What is geologic time?
Infer that fossils can indicate
the age of a sedimentary rock
layer and that fossils provide
evidence supporting the law
of fossil succession: the kinds
of animals and plants found
as fossils change over
geological time.
I can tell the age of a rock
layer by knowing the age of
the fossils found in it.
What is geologic time?
Define corals, bivalves,
brachiopods, gastropods,
cephalopods, trilobites,
crinoids, plant fossils
What is geologic time?
Infer that fossils can indicate
the age of a sedimentary rock
layer and that fossils provide
evidence supporting the law
of fossil succession: the kinds
of animals and plants found
as fossils change over
geological time.
I can tell how plants and
animals change over time by
looking at index fossils found
in sedimentary rock
What is geologic time?
Visual and audio
demonstration of geologic
time
Geo Era research and
PowerPoint presentations
Geo Era research and
presentations
FOSS 7.1
Extension day
Do Now:
I DO: Model written
summary
WE DO: Lab
YOU DO: written summary
Do Now:
I DO: Model definitions
WE DO: write definitions in
science journal
YOU DO: rough draft of
PowerPoint presentation of
era presentation
I can learn the meaning of
fossil, index fossils, mold,
replacement, petrification,
carbonization
Leif 2nd Period TAP strategy
observation
I can learn the meaning of
corals, bivalves, brachiopods,
gastropods, cephalopods,
trilobites, crinoids, plant
fossils
Questions
Varied, high quality, DOK 2,3
that will be used
Written prior to lesson
Strategies/Activities:
Hook to prior learning or
Anticipatory Set:
Modeling
I Do, We Do, You Do
Frequent check for progress
toward Mastery
Do Now:
I DO: Model definitions
WE DO: write definitions in
science journal
YOU DO: final draft of
PowerPoint presentation of
era presentation
Do Now:
I DO: Model index fossil key
WE DO: identify and record
index fossils
YOU DO: correlate rock
sample ages at three different
fossil containing sedimentary
rock formations
Do Now:
I DO:
WE DO:
YOU DO:
Closure/Student Reflection
Assessments/Check for
Mastery:
Frequent Formative
How will you know they
know?
What will you do if they do or
don’t demonstrate mastery?
Varied Learning Abilities
What are you doing to
address the unique needs of
students
Advanced and Proficient
Extension
Key Vocabulary Terms
Heterogeneous grouping
Extended time
Heterogeneous grouping
Extended time
Heterogeneous grouping
Extended time
Heterogeneous grouping
Extended time
Heterogeneous grouping
Extended time
Alternative Media for
presentation like slide rocket,
movie maker or Photo Story
Geologic time, eon, era,
period, mass extinction,
geographic isolation, inland
sea, coal swamp, dinosaurs,
ice age, mega-mammal
Alternative Media for
presentation like slide rocket,
movie maker or Photo Story
Geologic time, eon, era,
period, mass extinction,
geographic isolation, inland
sea, coal swamp, dinosaurs,
ice age, mega-mammal
Alternative Media for
presentation like slide rocket,
movie maker or Photo Story
Geologic time, eon, era,
period, mass extinction,
geographic isolation, inland
sea, coal swamp, dinosaurs,
ice age, mega-mammal
Alternative Media for
presentation like slide rocket,
movie maker or Photo Story
Geologic time, eon, era,
period, mass extinction,
geographic isolation, inland
sea, coal swamp, dinosaurs,
ice age, mega-mammal
Alternative Media for
presentation like slide rocket,
movie maker or Photo Story
Geologic time, eon, era,
period, mass extinction,
geographic isolation, inland
sea, coal swamp, dinosaurs,
ice age, mega-mammal