8th Grade Earth Science Lesson Plans
November 9 - 13
Earthquakes
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
CONTENT
OBJECTIVE:
All students will
All students will
demonstrate
demonstrate analysis
knowledge of faults of faults and crustal
and crustal stress by stress by comparing
completing the
and contrasting
follow-up questions. them using a graphic
organizer.
All students will
demonstrate application of
wave motion by answering
the follow-up questions.
All students will
demonstrate analysis of
waves by predicting the
outcome for a situation
involving waves.
All students will
demonstrate analysis
of earthquakes by
sequencing what
occurs when an
earthquake occurs.
LANGUAGE
OBJECTIVE:
Students will read
and write to explain
stress and faults by
using a guided notetaking activity.
Students will orally explain
the results of the
experiment using sentence
starters.
Students will orally
explain the difference
between the waves using
structured conversations.
Students will write to
explain the process of
an earthquake using a
cloze paragraph.
VOCABULARY:
HSCE:
Tension,
Compression,
Shearing, stress,
fault, strike-slip,
normal, reverse,
anticline, syncline,
plateau
E3.2B
E3.3B
Students will orally
explain the
differences between
the crustal stress and
sentence starters.
Tension,
Compression,
Shearing, stress,
fault, strike-slip,
normal, reverse,
anticline, syncline,
plateau
E3.2B
E3.3B
P-Wave
S-Wave
Surface Wave
Seismic Waves
Epicenter
Focus
Fault
E3.2B
E3.2B
E3.2B
E3.3B