Science Lesson Plans
Essential Question:
GPS:
Activation:
Activities: HOLIDAY!!
Evaluation:
Monday
Summary: Use the questions in your lab notebook to summarize
today’s lesson. Show the teacher.
Project: Design Cycle – Investigation – Rock Formation and
Classification
Homework: Study lab notebook; terms, and notes for test on
Wednesday.
Essential Question: How can one kind of rock change into
another? (S6E5b)
GPS: S6E5: Students will investigate the scientific view of how
the earth’s surface is formed. (b. Investigate the contribution of
minerals to rock composition.)
Activation: Examine the Mohs hardness scale – Explain the how
you would use the numbers in examining a mineral?
Tuesday
Activities: Minerals and Rocks
1. Review for test - Rock, Mineral, Cleavage plane, Mohs
hardness scale, Rock Cycle, Igneous rock, Sedimentary rock,
Sediment, Metamorphic rock, Fracture, Hardness, Luster,
Streak, Metallic, Fine, Coarse
2. Lab 13A Mineral Identification – Record data on chart.
Summary: Use the questions in your lab notebook to summarize
today’s lesson. Share with your partner.
Evaluation: Lab report sheet and summary of lab
Project: Design Cycle – Investigation – Mineral Data
Homework: Study lab notebook; terms, and notes for test on
Wednesday.
Essential Question: How do minerals contribute to rock
composition? (S6E5d)
GPS: S6E5 Students will investigate the scientific view of how the
earth’s surface is formed. (b. Investigate the contribution of
minerals to rock composition.)
Activation: Why is ice considered a mineral?
Wednesday
Activities:
1. Review
2. Test
3. Vocabulary – Rock cycle, igneous rock, sedimentary rock,
sediment, metamorphic rock, organic, Inorganic, compaction,
cementation, crystallization, basalt, granite, obsidian,
extrusive, Intrusive, conglomerate, fossil, metamorphism,
weathering, deposition
Summary: Use the questions in your lab notebook to summarize
today’s lesson. Share with another person.
Evaluation: Formal – Test, Informal - Teacher observation of the
creation of vocabulary cards
Project: Design Cycle – Investigation – Rock Formation and
Classification
Homework: Read pages 307 – 319
Write down 10 facts from your reading.
Essential Question: How do I describe the processes that
change rocks and the surface of the earth? (S6E5d)
GPS: S6E5: Students will investigate the scientific view of how
the earth’s surface is formed. (5.d: Describe processes that
change rocks and the surface of the Earth)
Thursday
Activation: Explain why rocks are not all similar to each other.
Activities: Topics – Rocks and the Rock Cycle
1. Complete activation activity.
2. PowerPoint - Minerals
3. Interactive Rock Cycle http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/sitemap.html
4. Summarize
Summary: Use the questions in your lab notebook to summarize
today’s lesson. Share with your partner.
Evaluation: Lab notebook - Teacher observation
Project: Design Cycle – Investigation – Rock Formation and
Classification
Homework: Read pages 307 – 319 Page 313 1 - 4
Essential Question: How do I describe the processes that
change rocks and the surface of the earth? (S6E5d)
GPS: S6E5: Students will investigate the scientific view of how
the earth’s surface is formed. (5.d: Describe processes that
change rocks and the surface of the Earth )
Activation: Describe how compacting and cementing help form
sedimentary rocks.
Friday
Activities: Topics – Rocks and the Rock Cycle
1. Complete activation activity.
2. PowerPoint - Minerals
3. Interactive Rock Cycle http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/sitemap.html
4. Summarize
Summary: Use the questions in your lab notebook to summarize
today’s lesson. Share with another person.
Evaluation:
Project: Design Cycle – Investigation – Rock Formation and
Classification
Homework: Study lab notebook; terms, and notes
Notebook - Class papers correctly organized
Notebook paper (white lined paper)
Supplies
Composition notebook to use for science lab
2 sharpened pencils and colored pencils
Agenda
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