Table of Contents
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Analysis and definitions should be in Lab Reports
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Classroom Rules: I CARE…
Information- Progress chart, Table of Contents, Learning Goals and Standards, Curriculum map,
Safety rules, Responsible use policy, binder organization sheet, purple passes
Warm Up
Lab Reports
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Notes and Glossary after Lab Reports
Lab Reports:
Activity 3 Observing Soil
Analysis 1,3,4
Notes: observation, inference, prediction, Qualitative, quantitative
Observation vs Inference worksheet
Activity 4 Soil Columns
Lab Observation Worksheet
Analysis 1-3
Definition: Composition, Group Jobs
Activity 5 Soil Composition
Lab report packet with definitions, charts, analysis 1-5
Notes: Soil concept map
Definition: Weathering, decomposing, organic matter
Activity 13 Diamond Dilemma
Lab report
Analysis 3
Definition: Opaque, translucent, transparent, luster, brilliant, glassy, dull, centimeter
Activity 15 Mineral Properties
Lab report
Analysis 3 and 5
Definition: Mineral, crystalline structure, property, Geologist, synthetic
Activity 16 Mineral Identification
Lab report
Analysis 3 worksheet and Analysis 4
Activity 18 Every Rock tells a Story
Lab report
Analysis 2 and 4
Definition: Rock
Activity 19 Rock Formation
Lab report, chart with types of rock
Analysis 1, 2, 5
Definition: Sediment, Sedimentary Rock, Magma, Igneous Rock, Metamorphic Rock
Activity 20 Identifying Rock Types
Lab report- Rock Data, Rocks chart (Day 3)
Notes: Concept map- Rocks
Analysis 1-4, observation of 8 rocks chart
Activity 21 Modeling Rock Types
Lab report
Analysis 1-4
Definition: Model
Activity 22 the Rock Cycle Game
Lab report
Rock Cycle Diagram
Definition: Erosion, Geological Time
Table of Contents - continued
Study Guide for midterm
Unit D- Plate Tectonics
Activity 36 Storing Waste
Lab Report
Analysis 1, Analysis 2 writing guide
Definition: Active, Dormant, Extinct Volcano, Nuclear Waste, Risk, Trade-off
Activity 37 Volcanic Landforms
Lab report
Definition: Volcano, Landform
Activity 38 Beneath the Earth’s Surface
Lab report
Definition: Crust, Core, Lava, Lithosphere, Mantle, Scale, Volcano
Inside the earth notes, diagram and chart
Volcano type chart
Analysis 1, 2, 4
Colored and Labeled Scale Model
Activity 39 Earth Time
Lab Report
Definition: Paleontologist, Geological time
Geologic time scale chart
Analysis 1-4
Activity 40 The Continent Puzzle
Lab Report
Continents labeled
Analysis 1,3,4 *chart of extinct organisms
Activity 41/42 Continental Drift and the Theory of Plate tectonics
Lab report
Definitions: continental drift, plates, plate tectonics, who is Alfred Wegener
Video notes
Analysis 1,2,3 Venn Diagram **Continental drift vs plate tectonics
Activity 44 Mapping Plates
Lab report
*Anticipation Guide
Colored and labeled map of plates
*Analysis 1-5
Activity 45 Understanding Plate Boundaries
Lab report
*Descriptions and chart: Transform, divergent, convergent boundaries (continental with ocean
vs continental with continental plate), Hot spot, thickness of ocean and continental crust
Definition: Subduction
Analysis 1-4
Quiz, Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Activity 46 Convection Currents
Lab report- picture/diagram/description of demonstration
Definition: convection current
Analysis 1-4
Activity 47 Spreading Plates
Lab report
Chart of changes over time of divergent boundaries
Analysis 1-4
Activity 48 Other types of Plate Motion
Lab report
Diagram of transform and convergent boundaries
*Analysis 1-4
Sea floor spreading worksheet and the theory of plate tectonics worksheet
Activity STEM day 1
Lab Report- research, identify the problem, engineering design process chart
Activity STEM day 2
Lab report- prebuild
Activity STEM Day 3 and 4
Lab report- possible solution, sketch, materials list, prototype construction, scale model
Activity STEM Day 5 and 6
Lab report- test and evaluate- measurements
Activity STEM Day 7
Lab report- Communicate the Solution
Final Exam Preparation
Activity STEM Day 8
Lab report- Redesign