Week
December 1, 2014
Subject: Earth Processes
Jennings Junior High Lesson Plan Template
Monday
Key Concepts -Learning I will be able to
Targets /Daily Objective
Describe the methods used to
estimate
geologic time and the age of the
Earth (e.g.,
techniques used to date rocks and
rock layers,
presence of fossils)
Grade Level: 7
Wednesday
Instructor(s): Jefferson
Thursday
I will be able to:
I will be able to:
I will be able to:
I will be able to:
Describe the methods used to
estimate
geologic time and the age of
the Earth (e.g.,
techniques used to date rocks
and rock layers,
presence of fossils)
Describe the methods used
to estimate
geologic time and the age of
the Earth (e.g.,
techniques used to date
rocks and rock layers,
presence of fossils)
Describe the methods used to
estimate
geologic time and the age of
the Earth (e.g.,
techniques used to date rocks
and rock layers,
presence of fossils)
Describe the methods used to estimate
geologic time and the age of the Earth
(e.g.,
techniques used to date rocks and rock
layers,
presence of fossils)
Tuesday
Friday
Essential Question(s) How do you think scientists use fossils to determine the age of rock layers?
What are the different types of fossils and how are they formed?
What is the relationship between fossils and fossil fuels?
How old is the Earth? What method is used by scientists to determine the age of Earth and important events? Why is this method used?
Common Core
Standards
DOK Level(s)
Vocabulary
W.6.1.B, R.1.6.1, S.L.6.4
2/3
Atom
Element
Radioactive Decay
Half-Life
Class Procedures/Lesson Do Now: (3-5 minutes)
Design
Review Worksheet: Using
radioactive decay to determine
the age of rocks and fossils.
2/3
Atom
Element
Radioactive Decay
Half-Life
2/3
Geological Time Scale
Era
Period
Paleozoic
Precambrian
Cenozoic
Mesozoic
Do Now: (3-5
Do Now: (3-5 minutes)
minutes)
Create a graph of the It’ in the Cards Vocabulary
half-lives of the
Geological Time
elements on page 125
figure 12. Write a
2/3
2/3
Geological Time Scale
Era
Period
Paleozoic
Precambrian
Cenozoic
Mesozoic
Relative Dating
Absolute Dating
Radioactive Decay
Geological Time Scale
Era
Period
Do Now: (3-5 minutes)
Do Now: (3-5 minutes)
It’s in the Cards Vocabulary It’s in the Cards Vocabulary
Geological Time
Geological Time
Students complete the first
three independently. The class
will complete the remaining
questions together.
conclusion for the
data. Record graph
and conclusion in
your notebooks page
40.
Whole Group Lesson
Anticipatory Set/Objective,
including strategies (12-15
minutes)
Video: Techniques for Dating
Rock Layers
Whole Group Lesson
Anticipatory
Set/Objective,
including strategies
(12 – 15 minutes)
Discovery Activity:
page 127
This is Your Life:
Make a timeline of
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/si important life events.
mulation/radioactive-datingDivide the timeline
game
into divisions based
on major life periods.
Find items in the classroom that
can be dated through
radioactive dating.
Complete Review Worksheet:
radioactive dating
Whole Group Instruction/
Modeling and Checking for
Understanding, including
strategies: (20 Minutes)
Whole Group
Instruction/
Modeling and
Checking for
Understanding,
including strategies:
(20 Minutes)
Whole Group Lesson
Anticipatory Set/Objective,
including strategies
(12 – 15 minutes)
Whole Group Lesson Anticipatory
Whole Group Lesson
Set/Objective, including strategies
Anticipatory Set/Objective, (12 – 15 minutes)
including strategies
(12 – 15 minutes
Discussion Questions:
Geological Time Scale
Study Guide Earth Science for Posttest
How old is the Earth?
Hoops
How is the Earth’s time divided? http://sciencereviewgames.
What is the oldest era?
com/srg/games/hs.php?id=2
What is the youngest era?
5
Discuss scaling time in a line
each cm being an era of time.
Whole Group Instruction/
Modeling and Checking for
Understanding, including
strategies: (20 Minutes)
Whole Group Instruction/ Whole Group Instruction/ Modeling
Modeling and Checking for and Checking for Understanding,
Understanding, including
including strategies: (20 Minutes)
strategies: (20 Minutes)
Tier 1
PowerPoint/Two-Column
Ask students where they would Geological Time Scale Web
Jeopardy Review
Notes: Radioactive Dating page
be on this time line right now. Quest
39 science notebooks
Students
make
predictions.
The
https://www.teaching
http://msascienceonline.we Interactive Review: Earth Science
teacher
reveals
the
final
timeline
channel.org/videos/te
ebly.com/geologic-timeTier 2
to check students’ predictions. scale.html
aching-geologicalPresent Radioactive Dating
Students/teacher make a human
time
PowerPoint presentations
timeline (hallway or outside) for
Earth’s time. 1 meter is equal to
Paired
100 million years. Teacher
Tier 2 Group
Reading/Organizer
provides markers for every
EQ: What methods do scientist Page 127-129
billion years, a marker for today
use to determine the age of
134-139
and a marker for the beginning
rock layers when they are not
able to use relative dating?
of Earth. Table partners figure
out where important events fit
on the timeline (eras).
Tier Two will present their
PowerPoint/Two
PowerPoint presentations to
Column Notes
the class. Pages 123-129
Geological Time Scale
1. What are atoms,
elements, and
radioactive decay?
2. How do scientists use
radioactive decay to
determine the age of
rock layers?
3. What is a half-life?
4. What happens to
unstable atoms in
rocks?
5. How do scientists
determine absolute
age? With PotassiumArgon Dating and with
Carbon-14 Dating?
6. Why is it difficult to
date sedimentary rock
through absolute age?
What other method is
used instead?
Practice/Independent/Small
Group Instruction, including
strategies: (20 Minutes)
Guided
Practice/Independen
t/Small Group
Instruction, including
strategies: (20
Minutes
Guided
Practice/Independent/Small
Group Instruction, including
strategies: (20 Minutes)
Acuity Questions/Mastery
Connect Practice
Fossil Games and
Students go back to the
Rock layer review
timeline created in the
games
hallway/outside and locate
https://www.teaching places on the line where each
channel.org/videos/te event occurred.
aching-geologicaltime
Guided
Guided Practice/Independent/Small
Practice/Independent/Smal Group Instruction, including
l Group Instruction,
strategies: (20 Minutes
including strategies: (20
Minutes
http://www.fossilpark.org.za/pdfs/wor
ksheets/senior/Senior-Grade7-9Design your own Geological Geological_time_scale.pdf
Time Scale
Students will make a
timeline for Earth’s
important events on adding
machine paper.
One inch= 100 million years
old
MAP Released Item:
Practice and Review
Released item: Rock Layers
Highly Tested GLEs:
(MAP Time) Devoted to
MAP Skill/Reinforces
(20 Minutes)
Daily Formative
Assessment
(5-10 Minutes)
Exit Slip: Multiple-choice
questions
MAP Released Item: MAP Released Item:
Practice and Review Practice and Review
MAP Released Item:
Practice and Review
MAP Released Item:
Practice and Review
Released item:
Inquiry
Released items: Convection
Currents
Released item:
Movement of Plates
Released item:
Movement of Plates
Exit Slip: Multiplechoice questions
Exit Slip: Multiple-choice
questions
Exit Slip: Multiple-choice
questions
Exit Slip: Multiple-choice questions
Summative Assessment CFA on Thursday
Posttest Earth Science on Monday
Materials and Resources Inside Earth (Prentice Hall)
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.fossiltype/types-of-fossils/
http://drscavanaugh.org/dino/fossils_and_fossil_types.htm
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/rocks-layers.html
http://www.madsci.org/experiments/archive/1117652897.Es.html
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIEAddingtime.shtml
http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/causes-of-tectonic-plate-movement.html
http://kenston.k12.oh.us/kms/mrtimmons/myweb/earthscience/plate_tectonics/plate_tectonics.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/scale.html
http://pdesas.org/module/content/resources/14004/view.ashx
http://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/learning-from-the-polar-past/learning-about-fossils-through-hands-on-science-and-literacy
http://edquestscience.com/pdf/ES-PE-4notes.pdf
http://www.science-teachers.com/fossil_worksheets.htm
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=rock+layers+relative+dating
http://www.gynzy.com/en/#!/items/science
http://mjksciteachingideas.com/pdf/BlogFossilLab.pdf
http://mjksciteachingideas.com/pdf/RulesGameFactSheet.pdf
http://rh.rock-hill.k12.sc.us/UserFiles/rockhill_h/Documents/cmack/The%20Fossil%20Record%20and%2...
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/sci_probe/product_information/pdfs/p2-275-276.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/McKinney.html
Unit Planner and
Special Notes