Lesson Plan – Earth Science
Dates
Nov 9-13 , 2015
Nov 9, 2015
Monday
Nov 10, 2015
Tuesday
Nov 11, 2015
Wednesday
Nov 12, 2015
Thursday
Nov 13, 2015
Friday
Standard
SES4 Students will
understand how rock
relationships and fossils
are used to reconstruct
the Earth’s past.
SES4 Students will
understand how rock
relationships and fossils
are used to reconstruct
the Earth’s past.
SES4 Students will
understand how rock
relationships and fossils
are used to reconstruct
the Earth’s past.
SES4 Students will
understand how rock
relationships and fossils
are used to reconstruct
the Earth’s past.
SES4 Students will
understand how rock
relationships and fossils
are used to reconstruct
the Earth’s past.
Essential Question
How do we tie it all
together?
How do rocks and
minerals help us
understand the Earth’s
past?
How do rocks and
minerals help us
understand the Earth’s
past?
How do rocks and
minerals help us
understand the Earth’s
past?
How do rocks and
minerals help us
understand the Earth’s
past?
Activator
How do we tie it all
together?
What is luster as a
property of minerals?
What is cleavage as a
property of minerals?
What is a fracture as a
property of minerals?
What is density as a
property of minerals?
Teaching Strategies:
Test
Students will watch a
short YouTube video on
minerals and then
complete a vocabulary
graphic organizer to
create a flow chart of the
properties of minerals.
Students will complete
the flow chart of
minerals and take a
short quiz over the
properties of minerals.
Notes/Discussion:
Students will take a quiz
Students will learn about over mineral formation
mineral formation and
and resources.
resources.
Notes/Discussion:
Students will complete
Students will learn
an activity/graphic
about the rock cycle.
organizer identifying
Students will watch a
how minerals are
YouTube video on the
formed and the
process of the rock
processes of those
cycle.
formations.
Summarizer
Open
Discussion/Questions
Key Idea – List 2-3
Open
Discussion/Questions
Whip Around - Ques
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