• Learning Target:
• I am learning how rocks were formed .
The purpose of this is to be able to
interpret and analyze evidence to
determine a sequence of geological
events that explains the history of life
on Earth.
• CW: Rocks and their journey
• HW: Complete quick write
P.O.C.E.R.
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P: Predict
0: Observe
C: Claim
E: Evidence
R: Reason
Meaning
A statement about the
way things will happen
in the future.
Word
Predict
Observe
A use of both
quantitative and
qualitative date to
describe an event
A statement that
answers the
question/problem.
Scientific data that
supports the claim.
A justification to
connect evidence to the
claim.
Claim
Evidence
Reasoning
Answers according to P.O.C.E.R. picture ____
Snowstorm, Finland
Photograph by George Mobley, National
Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage
National Geographic Photographs
A sudden snowstorm buffets May Day revelers
during a stroll through Helsinki’s Kaivopuisto
Park in 1967.
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Observations
Predictions
Evidence/Fact
Claim
Reasoning
Infer
Cause and Effect
Opinion
• Rock Analysis
• You will have 7 minutes per rock type to
complete your rock observations and
data sheet.
• Rock Journey re-enactment….(
8minutes)
• Quick Write
What is the law of conservation
of matter?
Law of conservation of matter states that
matter cannot be created or destroyed.
• The changes that take place in the rock
cycle never destroy or create matter.
• The elements are just redistributed in other
forms.
Quick Write-
Language Goal: Matter,
Rock cycle, Igneous Rock,
Magma, Other forms, Cooling,
Melting, Weathering,
Erosion, Sediments,
Sedimentary Rock, Heat,
Pressure, Millions of Years
Metamorphic Rock, Created,
Destroyed, Elements
• Clearly describe the rock cycle
and explain how this cycle
supports the Law of
Conservation of Matter.
• Learning Target:
• I am learning the vocabulary to help me
describe how Earth’s has a direct effect on
life as it evolves over time. The purpose of
this is to be able to use scientific
vocabulary while interpreting and
analyzing evidence to determine a
sequence of geological events that explains
the history of life on Earth.
• CW: Geological Events Vocabulary
• HW:
Meaning
A statement about the
way things will happen
in the future.
Word
Predict
Observe
A use of both
quantitative and
qualitative date to
describe an event
A statement that
answers the
question/problem.
Scientific data that
supports the claim.
A justification to
connect evidence to the
claim.
Claim
Evidence
Reasoning
Answers according to P.O.C.E.R. picture ____
Parrandas Festival, Cuba
Photograph by Paolo Pellegrin, National
Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: National
Geographic Magazine Features
A plume of fireworks surrounds a reveler at the
Parrandas, a December festival in the colonial
town of Remedios, near Cuba's north coast.
Two barrios compete to stage the most
impressive display.
Observations
Predictions
Fact
Opinion
Cause and Effect
Infer
Vocabulary
• First, do your monitoring aid.
Why is vocabulary important?
• Next, go through you vocabulary cards and
put a pile to the left of words you think you
know and to the right put a pile of word you
are not sure of…
• In the word you know how do they connect
the to the last unit of Plate Tectonics
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Absolute Dating
Adapt
Cause and Effect
Deposition
Direct
Environmental Factors
Erosion
Evidence
Evolution
Extrusion
Fault
Fossil Record
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Fossil
Geological Time
Igneous Rock
Index Fossils
Indirect
Intrusion
Law of Superposition
Lithosphere
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Mass Extinction
Metamorphic Rock
Models
Organisms
Radioactive Dating
Relative Dating
Sedimentary Rock
Sedimentation
Sediments
Simulation
Species
Theory
Time Scale
Weathering
• Learning Target:
• I am learning how the movement of the
Earth’s has a direct effect on how life
evolves over time. The purpose of this is
to be able to interpret and analyze
evidence to determine a sequence of
geological events that explains the history
of life on Earth.
• CW: Ancient Denver
• HW: none
Lake Garda, Italy
Photograph by Joseph J. Scherschel,
National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage
National Geographic Photographs
Twin siblings playing in Italy’s Lake Garda
drift by Castello Scaligero in this
Kodachrome picture that appeared with a
1968 National Geographic profile on the
country's "Land of Lakes." The castle's
crenelated battlements date to the 13th
century.
Observations
Predictions
Evidence/Fact
Claim
Cause and Effect
Reasoning
Opinion
What is a time line
• Is this a time line? Support your answer?
What
does
this
time
line
show?
What
does
this
time
line
show?
What
does
this
time
line
show?
Ancient Denver Layers
• What do you know about the Earth and
sedimentation?
• How do layers of sediment help use
understand the past?
• What kind of layers do you thing is
underneath Denver?
• How does a layer of earth reveal the past?
• What kind of rock is able (Igneous,
Does Denver have a time line?
• Justify your answer…. What evidence would
you need to scientifically prove or disprove
your answer.?
• What would Denver’s environments need to
capture evidence
Ancient Denver Layers
• What do you know about the Earth and
sedimentation?
• How do layers of sediment help use
understand the past?
• What kind of layers do you think is
underneath Denver?
• How does a layer of earth reveal the past?
• What kind of rock is able (Igneous,
Ancient Denver Layers
• Use all your cards to create the geological
layers under the 21 century Denver.
• Start by taping your timeline
• Next look at the pictures… what one do you
think is the oldest? why
• As we go through ancient Denver you are to
collect evidence to prove each environment
actually existed.
Whale Shark, Yucatán Peninsula
Photograph by Brian Skerry, National
Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day:
National Geographic Magazine
Features
A whale shark, biggest of fishes,
hangs out with small fry off the
northern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Observations
Predictions
Evidence/Fact
Claim
Cause and Effect
Reasoning
Estimate Number of Fish
Salt Water or Fresh Water
Redwood Tree, California
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National
Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day:
Adventure and Exploration Photos
Partway up a 350-foot tree, botanist
Marie Antoine (at right) passes a slender
core sample of its wood—750 years of
redwood biography—to canopy ecologist
Giacomo Renzullo. Research now shows
that the older such trees get, the more
wood they put on.
Observations
Predictions
Fact
Opinion
Cause and Effect
Infer
• CAS 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
• CAS 2.5 Multiple lines of evidence
show the evolution of organisms over
geologic time
Canyon, Zion National Park
Photograph by Peter Scifres, Your
Shot
This Month in Photo of the Day:
Nature and Weather Photos
Inside Zion National Park's famous
Subway slot canyon, my hiking and
photography friend, Suzanne,
ponders the way ahead.
Observations
Predictions
Evidence/Fact
Claim
Reasoning
Infer