UNIT: The Restless Earth
Aim & Objectives:
Monday February 4, 2013
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:


Discover that the Earth’s
History is divided into eras
that were determined by
studying the relative and
absolute ages of rocks.
Determine the relative age of
rocks.
Instructional Strategies
and Activities
Warm Up: Read the activity
directions
Lesson:
The students will complete an
activity that represents how Earth’s
rock layers form and determine the
relative age of rocks based on
where they are found in Earth’s
crust.
Closure:
Homework: D80 Flashcards
Applicable CPI
5.4.6.B.2 Examine Earth’s surface
features and identify those created
on a scale of human life or on a
geologic time scale.
Resources, Materials, Web
Sites:
Text Page: D79 activity “Card Drop”
Mineral Virtual Lab
http://www.glencoe.com/sites/com
mon_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES
03/ES03.html
Geology for Kids
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geologyfor-kids/0030-geologic-time.php
Interactive time line MSNBC
Earth’s timeline
http://www.bobainsworth.com/fossil
/Earths_timeline_dw%5B1%5D.swf
Explore fossils and the Geological
time line
http://museumvictoria.com.au/melb
ournemuseum/discoverycentre/600million-years/
UNIT: The Restless Earth
Aim & Objectives:
Instructional Strategies
and Activities
Applicable CPI
Resources, Materials, Web
Sites:
Tuesday February 5, 2013
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:
 Explore ways to determine
relative age.
 Describe what a rocks position
and fossil content can reveal.
 Define: superposition, relative
age, geologic column, fossil,
index fossil, absolute age and
era.
Warm Up:
Post it question: How do scientists
know about Earth’s past?
Lesson:
The students will watch a video
from United Streaming about the
earth’s history timeline. Included
will be the geologic time scale
focusing on fossils, rocks, and
prehistoric animals.
Closure:
5.4.6.B.1 Interpret a representation
of a rock layer sequence to establish
oldest and youngest layers, geologic
events, and changing life forms.
5.4.6.B.2 Examine Earth’s surface
features and identify those created
on a scale of human life or on a
geologic time scale.
Text pages D80-D91
United Streaming:
http://app.discoveryeducation.com
/search?Ntt=geologic+time+scale#
selItemsPerPage=20&intCurrentPa
ge=0&No=0&N=18341&Ne=18339
&Ntt=geologic%2Btime%2Bscale&
Ns=&Nr=&browseFilter=&indexVer
sion=&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode%252B
matchallpartial
Post it question: How do scientists
know about Earth’s past?
Geology for Kids
Homework:
None
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geologyfor-kids/0030-geologic-time.php
Interactive time line MSNBC
Earth’s timeline
http://www.bobainsworth.com/fossil
/Earths_timeline_dw%5B1%5D.swf
Explore fossils and the Geological
time line
http://museumvictoria.com.au/melb
ournemuseum/discoverycentre/600million-years/
Wednesday
UNIT: The Restless Earth
February 6 , 2013
Aim & Objectives:
Wednesday February 6, 2013
Thursday February 7, 2013
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:
 Compare and contrast the four
geological eras.
 Define: superposition, relative age,
geologic column, fossil, index
fossil, absolute age and era.
Instructional Strategies
and Activities
Warm up:
Read the directions for the lab
Lesson development:
The students will make a classroom
time line of Earth’s past. They will
include the different climate and
organisms that have been present
throughout time.
Applicable CPI
5.4.6.B.1 Interpret a representation
of a rock layer sequence to establish
oldest and youngest layers, geologic
events, and changing life forms.
5.4.6.B.2 Examine Earth’s surface
features and identify those created
on a scale of human life or on a
geologic time scale.
Homework: None
Resources, Materials, Web
Sites:
Text pages D80-D91
Geology for Kids
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geologyfor-kids/0030-geologic-time.php
Interactive time line MSNBC
Earth’s timeline
http://www.bobainsworth.com/fossil
/Earths_timeline_dw%5B1%5D.swf
 Identify organisms that have lived in
each time period.
Explore fossils and the Geological
time line
 Identify climates that have been
present in each time period.
http://museumvictoria.com.au/melb
ournemuseum/discoverycentre/600million-years/
Thursday
UNIT: The Restless Earth
Aim & Objectives:
February 7 , 2013
Instructional Strategies
and Activities
Applicable CPI
Resources, Materials, Web
Sites:
Friday February 8, 2013
Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to:

Explore what half-life is.
Lesson development:
The students will work on a lab that
explains what half-life is. They will
use pennies to be a model for how
half-life works in nature.
Homework:
Lab Conclusion
5.4.6.B.1 Interpret a representation
of a rock layer sequence to establish
oldest and youngest layers, geologic
events, and changing life forms.
5.4.6.B.2 Examine Earth’s surface
features and identify those created
on a scale of human life or on a
geologic time scale.
Text pages D80-D91
Inquiry Skill Builder Page D87
“What is Half-Life?”
Geology for Kids
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geologyfor-kids/0030-geologic-time.php
Interactive time line MSNBC
Earth’s timeline
http://www.bobainsworth.com/fossil
/Earths_timeline_dw%5B1%5D.swf
Explore fossils and the Geological
time line
http://museumvictoria.com.au/melb
ournemuseum/discoverycentre/600million-years/