Lesson 1
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Brainstorming
What ideas do you have?
What do you know or have you heard about volcanoes?
Where do you think volcanoes are usually found?
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Kilauea, Hawaii (Feb. 25, 2011)
Kilauea, Hawaii (March 7, 2011)
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Activity 1.2
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Brainstorming
What ideas do you have?
What do you know or have you heard about earthquakes?
Where do you think earthquakes typically occur?
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Synthesizing
What have we learned?
How do the patterns in earthquakes compare to the patterns in
volcanoes?
What do you think we see earthquakes and volcanoes in similar
locations?
Driving Question: How is the Earth Changing?
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Activity 1.3
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Procedure
□a. Your teacher will give you a world map showing the
elevation (height) of different areas of Earth. In general,
darker areas are lower elevation, and lighter areas are higher
elevation.
□b. First, look at the map for patterns in elevation.
□1. Where do you see particularly high or low areas in the
oceans?
□ 2. Where do you see particularly high or low areas on the
continents?
□c. Talk with your group about your observations.
Procedure
□d. Next, compare the elevation map with the volcanoes
and earthquakes maps. Look carefully at areas with a lot of
volcanic and earthquake activity. What is the elevation like
in those areas?
□ e. Talk with your group about the patterns that you
observe, as well as examples that do not seem to fit the
patterns.
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Procedure
f. I will give you one more world map.
g. Look at all four maps together.
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Brainstorming
What ideas do you have?
What do you think of when you hear the word plate?
Brainstorming
What ideas do you have?
What information or ideas can we add to the DQB related to
our Driving Question?
Synthesizing
What have we learned?
Scientific Principles
What is the Earth’s surface made of?
Synthesizing
What Have We Learned?
What evidence do you have that the Earth has changed?
Wrapping Up
• Earth has changed in the past, and it is still changing today.
• The Earth’s surface is made of large, flat pieces of varying
sizes called plates.
• The Earth is changing in relatively small ways due to the
activity of volcanoes and earthquakes that occur at the
boundaries of plates (large and flat pieces of the Earth’s
surface).
• There is some worldwide pattern of earthquakes and
volcanoes.
DQB
What items can you add to the DQB?
What questions have been answered?
What new questions do you have?
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Turn-and-talk,
work with a
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partners
Work with your
team, table/lab
group work
Whole group, sharing our
ideas/data/results/model
s, brainstorming
Do this with your
group
Turn to a partner now
Adding to an Idea
● I agree with that idea, and I also think…
● I agree with that idea, and I think you could add…
● I agree with that idea because...
Respectfully Disagreeing with an Idea
● I hear that idea, but my idea is really different …
● I disagree with that idea because…
● I think that sounds partly right, but I also think…
Clarifying
● What do you mean by…?
● What makes you think that? What is the evidence for that?
● Could you be more specific about … ?
Reflection
● My idea about ____ changed when someone else said _____
● I would add ____ to my ideas now because …
● I still have questions about … because …
● I think we need to investigate … because …