PTT:
1) Turn to p. 45 in your science notebook - Landforms Vocabulary
2) Finish drawing and labeling the landforms diagram
3) Color the diagram
Task 1:
1) Turn to p. 46 in your science notebook
2) Title the page: Layers of the Earth
3) Record the date
4) Record the essential question - Essential Question: What are the important characteristics of Earth's layers?
5) Copy down the diagram of Earth's layers - make it as accurate as possible
6) Label each layer
Task 2:
Record the notes about each layer and the fact box about "earthquake evidence"
Task 3:
1) Turn to p. 47
2) Record the date
3) Title the page: Comparing the Earth's Layers
4) Complete this comparison page to show your understanding of the characteristics of Earth's layers
Closure:
Talk to your seat partner about the important characteristic of each layer
Homework:
Review this information - there will be a quiz on Monday
Week 10, Day 2
PTT:
1) Turn to p. 48 in your science notebook
2) Title the page - Notes: Tectonic Plates
3) Record the date
4) Record the essential question - Essential Question: What happens at the plate boundaries when the plates shift and move?
5) Take a bag of earth's crust puzzle pieces - you and your partner should be able to quickly put them together
6) Discuss: what do these puzzle pieces represent? what happens to the earth if these pieces don't stay still?
Task 1:
1) Watch the "Lesson One: Plate Tectonics" video at this link: http://www.montereyinstitute.org/noaa/ -- it will review the layers of the earth and introduce you to some information about the earth's plates
2) If you finish before everyone else, take a look at the animation in the "plates and earthquakes" activity that is linked in the sidebar - what do you notice about where most earthquakes occur?
3) Get a tectonic plate map out of the G7 basket on the front counter Examine the picture of the tectonic plates - how many are there? what do you notice about where they are? 4) Tape this as a flip page onto p. 48 (you need to be able to lift it up and look underneath)
Current Map of Earth's Tectonic Plates
Task 2:
1) Set up p. 48 like Ms. Davis demonstrates
2) Watch plate boundary demo
3) Draw and label pictures of plate boundaries
4) Record notes about each type of boundary next to the picture you drew - your notes should include the information written below - use the resources included in this link to fill in the blanks: https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/nTm4WQdU_qZyOA/plate-tectonics Divergent boundary: where plates move apart Example: Iceland and the mid-Atlantic Ridge Effects: New land forms as plates move apart Land can eventually split in two Can get super-heated geysers
Convergent Boundary: Where plates collide and one plate slides under another (subduction) Example: Marianas Trench, the Himalayas, the Hawaiian Islands,the Sierra Madre mountains Effects: Often find mountains and volcanoes here 1) Ocean-Continent: earthquakes occur and mountains form 2) Ocean-Ocean: undersea volcanoes and trenches form 3) Continent-Continent: Mountains form
Transform (Fault) Boundary: plates slide past each other, heading in opposite directions Example: San Andreas Fault in California Effects: shallow earthquakes and tsunamis Crust cracked and broken, but none created or destroyed
Task 3:
Demonstrate the plate boundary types with an oreo to check your understanding
Closure:
Answer the essential question at the bottom of p. 48
Homework:
Study for the Earth's layers and plates quiz that we're having on Monday
Week 10, Day 3
PTT:
1) Turn to p. 49
2) Title the page - Plate Tectonics: Creating Mountains
3) Record the date
4) Record the essential question - Essential Question: How did the Sierra Madre Mountains form? 5) Look at the snapshot below (taken from Google Earth). What do you see? Do you notice any patterns about where the mountains are?
Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains, south of Monterrey
Task 1:
Read the information and watch the video clips about mountain folding (this is how the Sierra Madres formed)
This link includes ALL of the resources below (very easy to navigate - check it out and let me know if you like it better than me linking everything from the wiki so that you have to scroll up and down): http://blnds.co/H4XaEe
Task 3/Closure:
Use the questions below to help you write a paragraph about how our mountains (the Sierra Madre Orientals) formed (Turn this in for a grade at the end of class)
- Where are the Sierra Madres found?
- What do the Sierra Madres look like?
- How did the Sierra Madres form? (Be sure to use the word "folding" in your answer)
- What type of plate boundary did this happen at? What did the plates do at that boundary?
Homework:
Study for earth's layers and plates quiz
- Monday's Quiz (10/21):
What are the layers of the Earth (be able to name and label them)
Know:
which layer is the thickest?
Which layers are made of nickel and iron
Which layer is the hottest?
which layer is liquid?
what is the mantle's plasticity and how does that affect the tectonic plates?
how do scientists use earthquakes to learn about the inside of the earth?
why is the inner core solid when it is so hot?
what are the earth's plates?
what happens when the earth's plates move?
be able to label and explain the three types of boundaries (ex: you see a picture of a divergent boundary - be able to label it is divergent and explain that it is where plates move away from each other)
be able to explain how the sierra madras and other fold mountains form
Week 10, Day 1
Table of Contents
1) Turn to p. 45 in your science notebook - Landforms Vocabulary
2) Finish drawing and labeling the landforms diagram
3) Color the diagram
Task 1:
1) Turn to p. 46 in your science notebook
2) Title the page: Layers of the Earth
3) Record the date
4) Record the essential question - Essential Question: What are the important characteristics of Earth's layers?
5) Copy down the diagram of Earth's layers - make it as accurate as possible
6) Label each layer
Task 2:
Record the notes about each layer and the fact box about "earthquake evidence"
Task 3:
1) Turn to p. 47
2) Record the date
3) Title the page: Comparing the Earth's Layers
4) Complete this comparison page to show your understanding of the characteristics of Earth's layers
Closure:
Talk to your seat partner about the important characteristic of each layer
Homework:
Review this information - there will be a quiz on Monday
Week 10, Day 2
PTT:
1) Turn to p. 48 in your science notebook
2) Title the page - Notes: Tectonic Plates
3) Record the date
4) Record the essential question - Essential Question: What happens at the plate boundaries when the plates shift and move?
5) Take a bag of earth's crust puzzle pieces - you and your partner should be able to quickly put them together
6) Discuss: what do these puzzle pieces represent? what happens to the earth if these pieces don't stay still?
Task 1:
1) Watch the "Lesson One: Plate Tectonics" video at this link: http://www.montereyinstitute.org/noaa/ -- it will review the layers of the earth and introduce you to some information about the earth's plates
2) If you finish before everyone else, take a look at the animation in the "plates and earthquakes" activity that is linked in the sidebar - what do you notice about where most earthquakes occur?
3) Get a tectonic plate map out of the G7 basket on the front counter
Examine the picture of the tectonic plates - how many are there? what do you notice about where they are?
4) Tape this as a flip page onto p. 48 (you need to be able to lift it up and look underneath)
Task 2:
1) Set up p. 48 like Ms. Davis demonstrates
2) Watch plate boundary demo
3) Draw and label pictures of plate boundaries
4) Record notes about each type of boundary next to the picture you drew - your notes should include the information written below - use the resources included in this link to fill in the blanks: https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/nTm4WQdU_qZyOA/plate-tectonics
Divergent boundary: where plates move apart
Example: Iceland and the mid-Atlantic Ridge
Effects: New land forms as plates move apart
Land can eventually split in two
Can get super-heated geysers
Convergent Boundary: Where plates collide and one plate slides under another (subduction)
Example: Marianas Trench, the Himalayas, the Hawaiian Islands, the Sierra Madre mountains
Effects: Often find mountains and volcanoes here
1) Ocean-Continent: earthquakes occur and mountains form
2) Ocean-Ocean: undersea volcanoes and trenches form
3) Continent-Continent: Mountains form
Transform (Fault) Boundary: plates slide past each other, heading in opposite directions
Example: San Andreas Fault in California
Effects: shallow earthquakes and tsunamis
Crust cracked and broken, but none created or destroyed
Task 3:
Demonstrate the plate boundary types with an oreo to check your understanding
Closure:
Answer the essential question at the bottom of p. 48
Homework:
Study for the Earth's layers and plates quiz that we're having on Monday
Week 10, Day 3
PTT:
1) Turn to p. 49
2) Title the page - Plate Tectonics: Creating Mountains
3) Record the date
4) Record the essential question - Essential Question: How did the Sierra Madre Mountains form?
5) Look at the snapshot below (taken from Google Earth). What do you see? Do you notice any patterns about where the mountains are?
Task 1:
Read the information and watch the video clips about mountain folding (this is how the Sierra Madres formed)
This link includes ALL of the resources below (very easy to navigate - check it out and let me know if you like it better than me linking everything from the wiki so that you have to scroll up and down): http://blnds.co/H4XaEe
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/fold-mountain/?ar_a=1
http://www.mountainprofessor.com/mountain-formation.html
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/geography/tectonics/revise-it/fold-mountains
Two minute overview:
If you would like a more detailed overview, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDIpz9cp4Ko
If you like to learn from songs/music:
Task 2:
1) Follow the directions to create a folded mountain using plasticine
http://science-mattersblog.blogspot.mx/2011/03/plate-tectonics-look-inside-folds-and.html
2) Record observations about how your folded mountain forms - what happened as the plates collided?
3) Draw and label a diagram of your folded mountain on p. 49
Task 3/Closure:
Use the questions below to help you write a paragraph about how our mountains (the Sierra Madre Orientals) formed (Turn this in for a grade at the end of class)
- Where are the Sierra Madres found?
- What do the Sierra Madres look like?
- How did the Sierra Madres form? (Be sure to use the word "folding" in your answer)
- What type of plate boundary did this happen at? What did the plates do at that boundary?
Homework:
Study for earth's layers and plates quiz
- Monday's Quiz (10/21):
What are the layers of the Earth (be able to name and label them)
Know:
which layer is the thickest?
Which layers are made of nickel and iron
Which layer is the hottest?
which layer is liquid?
what is the mantle's plasticity and how does that affect the tectonic plates?
how do scientists use earthquakes to learn about the inside of the earth?
why is the inner core solid when it is so hot?
what are the earth's plates?
what happens when the earth's plates move?
be able to label and explain the three types of boundaries (ex: you see a picture of a divergent boundary - be able to label it is divergent and explain that it is where plates move away from each other)
be able to explain how the sierra madras and other fold mountains form