TEACHER NAME: Buck
Standards Alignment
Historical data and
M observations, such as fossil
distribution,
O
paleomagnetism,
N
continental drift, and seaD
floor spreading contributed
A
to the theory of plate
Y
tectonics. The rigid
tectonic plates move with
the molten rock and
magma beneath them.
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ROOM: 110
WEEK BEGINNING October 7th
Materials/Resources
Activities
Relevance Connection
-lab book/pencil
STRESS:
How and why scientists
-colored pencils
ZONE FOSSILS
know Pangaea existed
-scissors
INDEX FOSSILS
-glue sticks
FAUNAL
-construction paper
SUCCESSION
-index cards
Entrance Ticket 0n
-handouts
Reading #!
Fossil Safari-pgs. 97105 in the lab book
Grades on projects
-color code
dinosaurs/glue onto
map
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Teacher’s Domain:
Earthquake! When
Plates Collide
Earthquake Prediction
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To understand how the
mantle is a solid, but has
properties of a fluid.
Lab book grades on
pg.117
Continue from
Monday
-add evidence that
scientists know that
Pangaea existed
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Formative Assessment
Lab book gradesanswers to questions on
pgs. 98-99
Teacher’s Domain:
The Geology of Coal
Continue from
Tuesday
Answer questions on
pgs 98-99
Convection currents in the
crust and upper part of the
mantle cause movement of
the plates. The energy that
forms convection currents
come from deep within
Earth.
-lab book/pencil
-silly putty
-cornstarch/water
-hammer/board
Lab book pgs. 110112, 117-120
Follow lab procedures
on these pages
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To continue to find
scientific evidence to prove
the theory of pangaea
-computers
-lab book/pencil
periods 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10library
period 5 rm. 108
HOMEWORK-finish
lab questions on
pg.117, 1-7 if not done
-finish/grade Building
Pangaea-lab book
pgs.337-340
-begin Effect of
Environment on New
Life Form-pgs. 368370
Review on the scientific
method
Explorelearning gradespgs. 337-340, 368-370
WEEKLY LESSON PLANS