8th Grade Science
Emily Young and Amy Hixon
Week of Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2011
Blue Highlighting = Formative Grade; Yellow Highlighting = Summative Grade
Pre AP
On Level
Objective: Recognize that the Sun provides
Objective: Recognize that the Sun provides the
the energy that drives convection within the energy that drives convection within the
atmosphere and ocean, producing winds and atmosphere and ocean, producing winds and
ocean currents.
ocean currents.
Guiding Question: What are convection
Guiding Question: What are convection
currents, what cause them to form, and
currents, what cause them to form, and where
where can they be found?
can they be found?
Activity: Sun’s Energy Notes and vocab
Activity: Sun’s Energy Notes and vocab
Assessment: Knowledge Check online quiz
Assessment: Knowledge Check online quiz
Homework: Review for upcoming test.
Homework: Review for upcoming test.
Tuesday/
Objective: Recognize that the Sun
Objective: Recognize that the Sun provides the
Wednesday
provides the energy that drives convection
energy that drives convection within the
within the atmosphere and ocean, producing atmosphere and ocean, producing winds and
winds and ocean currents.
ocean currents.
Guiding Question: What are convection
Guiding Question: What are convection
currents, what cause them to form, and
currents, what cause them to form, and where
where can they be found?
can they be found?
Activity: Online scavenger hunt, Coastal
Activity: Online scavenger hunt, Coastal Wind
Wind online lab
online lab
Assessment: Review and reteach as needed. Assessment: Review and reteach as needed.
Homework: Review for upcoming test.
Homework: Review for upcoming test.
Thursday
Objective: Interpret topographic maps and
Objective: Interpret topographic maps and
satellite views to identify land and erosional satellite views to identify land and erosional
features and predict how these features may features and predict how these features may be
be reshaped by weathering.
reshaped by weathering.
Guiding Question: What can you tell about
Guiding Question: What can you tell about an
an area’s topography by looking at a
area’s topography by looking at a topographic
topographic map?
map?
Activity: Topographic Map online Lab
Activity: Topographic Map online Lab
Assessment: Coastal wind and topographic
Assessment: Coastal wind and topographic map
map labs
labs
Homework: Review for quiz.
Homework: Review for quiz.
Friday
Objective: Recognize that the Sun provides
Objective: Recognize that the Sun provides the
the energy that drives convection within the energy that drives convection within the
atmosphere and ocean, producing winds and atmosphere and ocean, producing winds and
ocean currents; interpret topographic maps ocean currents; interpret topographic maps and
and satellite views to identify land and
satellite views to identify land and erosional
erosional features and predict how these
features and predict how these features may be
features may be reshaped by weathering.
reshaped by weathering.
Guiding Question: Did I study well?
Guiding Question: Did I study well?
Activity: Finish map gizmo and Earth Quiz #2 Activity: Finish map gizmo and Earth Quiz #2
Assessment: Quiz
Assessment: Quiz
Homework: Review for upcoming test.
Homework: Review for upcoming test.
Key Concepts/Vocab:
Asthenosphere/Continental drift/convection currents/lithosphere/pangea/continental plate/oceanic plate/plate
tectonics/seafloor spreading/ radiation/weathering/erosion/ deposition/subduction/convergent/ divergent/
transform/rift valley/trench/mid-ocean ridge/plate boundary/fault line/Ring of Fire
Monday