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April 2008
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Monday (4/28)
- Learning target: How are volcanoes different?
- Daily Assignment
Why do different volcanoes have different shapes?
Investigate: Volcanic Landforms
- Read Digging Deeper (G17 - G21)
List the Geowords and definitions - Include pictures for the types of volcanoes/Take the definitons from the reading!... Do not take use definitions from the columns.
Answer Check Your Understanding questions 1-6. Be sure to use examples as support.
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Tuesday (4/29)
Leanring Target: Why do different volcanoes have different shapes?
- Investigate: Volcanic Landforms
Carefully read all the directions
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Wednesday (4/30)
- Digging Deeper: Topography of Volcanic Regions
G17 - G21
Answer "Checking your Understanding" 1 -6 (G21)
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Thursday (5/1)
- EQ Quiz: Why do different volcanoes have different shapes? (support with examples)
Learning Target: What factors control lava, pyroclastic, and lava flows?
- Investigate: Volcanic Hazard: Flow
Partner Task!
G24 - G25 - Carefully, follow all directions
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Friday (5/2)
- Review EQ Quiz from Thursday - discuss answer
Learning Target: What factors control lava, pyroclastic, and lava flows?
- Investigate: Volcanic Hazard: Flow
Partner Task!
G24 - G25 - Carefully, follow all directions
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Monday (4/21)
- AM Science WASL
- Naked Science: Colliding Continents
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Tuesday (4/22)
- AM Science WASL
- Planet Earth: Mountains
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Wednesday (4/23)
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Thursday (4/24)
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Friday (4/25)
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Monday (4/14)
Learning Target: What does the internal structure of the Earth look like?
Partner Task
Using the resources in the classroom create a poster representing the Earth’s structure
Your poster should include the follwoing information:
- Drawing/sketch of the Earth’s layers
- Description of each layer
- Composition of each layer
- Depth of each layer
- Physical properties of each layer (solid/liquid/semisolid)
- Describe the type of motion occurring in each layer (also include a label diagram with in your drawing)
- What percent of mass compared to earth does each layer contain.
- Due at the end of the period!
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Tuesday (4/15)
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Wednesday (4/16)
- What Drives the Plates Investigation Part B & C
- 3rd period homework - Complete the crossword using the earthcomm and holt text books. Clues can be identified through the reading. Answers cannot be found in the glossary!
Holt textbook - pgs 164 - 180
EarthComm - pgs G68 - G72
- Due Wednesday 4/23
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Thursday (4/17)
- AM Math WASL (Click to view testing schedule)
- Observation charts
- What I know... Questions I have?
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Friday (4/18)
- AM Math WASL (Click to view testing schedule)
- EQ:How has the position of the continents changed over time?
Team Task - What type of evidence would can you use to support your reasoning?
> How would you know if all the papers of a newspaper were from the same page?
> How could you convince someone the pieces were all from the same page?
As a team start putting together the newspaper in the envolope.
- Daily Assignment (Due Monday 4/21)
Investigate: The changing geography of your community
> Follow all the directions for the investigate (Pgs. 106 - 109)
make the following changes to the following questions: 1b-ecological region is
actually the climate region, for #2 use yellow paper to glue your continents to, #3
use green, and #4 use blue.
- Continent Template (you need four of these)
- Due Monday 4/21
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Monday (3/31)
- Geologic Time Scale
Partner Task #2
Create a geologic timeline
~ follow all directions
~ After you have followed all 10 steps, gather additional information from the Holt textbook (pgs 152 - 155) to your timeline .
The additional information should include:
~ Eons, Periods, and Epochs
~ Important information
~ Pictures, color, and decoration that respresents the the timeline
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Tuesday (4/1)
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Wednesday (4/2)
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Thursday (4/3)
- Finish Fossil reading
- 1/2 day
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Friday (4/4)
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