Catastrophic Events –Earthquake Unit
Notebook – Individual Lesson Assessment
Pre-Assessment – Making Connections
 Web – What I Already Know About Earthquakes
 Web – What I Will Learn About Earthquakes
________/5 pts.
Inquiry 10.1 – Think About Earthquakes
 Cause and Effect Chart
 Reflection Questions p. 117
 Title of lesson
/6 pts
/5 pts.
/1 pt.
________ /12 pts.
Inquiry 11.1 – Testing the Motion of Waves
 Chart – title, sketch, trials, average
 #1 – A and B
 #2 – arrows on pictures in #1
 #3 – answer in complete sentences
 Reflection Questions
/6 pts.
/2 pts.
/2 pts.
/2 pts.
/4 pts.
________/16 pts.
Inquiry 11.2 – Designing and Building an Earthquake
Resistant House
 Design Plan
/4 pts.
 Drawing of Earthquake House
/6 pts.
 Reflection Questions
/5 pts.
________/15 pts.
Inquiry 12.1 – Recording Vibrations
 Focus Questions for each variable tested
 Hypotheses for each focus question
 Results from each variable:
Direction, Distance and Force
 Power Conclusion
/5 pts.
/6 pts.
________/20 pts.
/1 pts.
/5 pts.
________/6 pts.
Inquiry 12.2 – Reading a Seismogram
 Picture of seismogram
 Reflection Questions
/3 pts.
/6 pts.
Inquiry 12.3 – Locating the Epicenter of an Earthquake
 Earthquake Data Table
/3 pts.
 Map of cities/distance to epicenter
/3 pts.
 Epicenter-identified/labeled correctly
/2 pt.
________/8 pts.
Inquiry 13.1/14.1 – Plotting Earthquakes and Volcanoes
 All earthquakes plotted
/5 pts.
 All volcanoes plotted
/5 pts.
 Highlighted “Ring of Fire”
/2 pts.
 Key for map
/2 pts.
________/14 pts.
Inquiry 15.1 – Simple Model of Plate Movement
 Activity 1-7 pp. 172-173
 Diagram of Earth’s Interior
 Reflection questions p. 174 A-I
________/28 pts.
/14 pts.
/5 pts.
/9 pts.
Inquiry 15.3 – Investigating Faults: Recording and Analyzing Data
 Fault Data Table
/4 pts.
 Fault Graph
/4 pts.
 Reflection Questions p. 185 A-D
/4 pts.
________/12 pts
Inquiry 16.1 – Modeling Convection in the Mantle
 Part A – Diagram –arrows, labeled, colored /6 pts.
 Question under diagram
/2 pts.
 Reflection questions p. 193 A-B
/2 pts.
________/10 pts.
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