PTT:
Click on the link for the appropriate class period. You are going to create a post-it to answer each of the 4 prompts. Please make sure to write your name at the bottom of each post-it
Task 1: How Big Can Mountains Get? While walking through La Huasteca last week, I remember some students commenting on the fact that the mountains look fake, as if they were a prop from a movie or TV set. However, we know these massive stuctures are not fake and are very much the 'real deal'. Did you ever wonder how high mountains can be? Here is a short video explaining how high a mountain can get.
Task2: The Rock Cycle
After watching the Brainpop video on the rock cycle you will do the following activity:
Activity:
1. As a group, collect the necessary 'rock cycle' papers from your teacher
2. Arrange the rock types and processes in the correct layout.
3. Have your teacher check to see you have everything in the correct layout.
4. Copy down your rock cycle onto p. 50 in your science notebook (title the page "Rock Cycle" and record the essential question "Essential Question: How are rocks made?")
4. As a group, copy and complete the Journey Through the Rock Cycle paper on p. 51 (everyone in your group should have the same answers)
Closure:
Create a summary statement at the bottom of p. 51. Use this sentence starter: I learned that the rock cycle...
Week 12, Day 2
PTT:
1) Tape the rock cycle vocabulary onto p. 52 in your science notebook
2) Record the date
3) Title the page: Rock Cycle Vocabulary
4) Record the goal question - Essential Question: How do rocks change from one type to another type?
5) Read through each vocabulary term and highlight the word in one color and highlight key words from the definition in another color (we will have a quick vocabulary quiz on Monday, so be studying these every night)
6) Watch this video:
Task 1: Graded assignment!!!
1) Get a worksheet for the Rock Cycle Interactive Lesson and tape this to page 53
2) Go through each part of the lesson - read very carefully, watch all video clips, complete all interactive activities - and complete the notes as you go
Lesson link here: http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html
3) When you are done, take a screenshot of your final score - email this to me so I can record your score (otherwise you get a 0!)
It should look like this (first and last name please!)
Task 2: Graded assignment - due November 5th
1) Go back to your Rock Cycle Diagram on p. 50 - read through your rock cycle and make sure that the diagram is complete - add an image to each picture that represents what it is (examples: weathering and erosion could include an image of rain falling on a rock; sediments could include a picture of broken bits of rock)
2) Go to your Journey through the Rock Cycle assignment on p. 51 - read this over
3) You will create a rock cycle comic strip on a piece of paper or online (alternative options: video, prezi with pictures) that represents your journey through the rock cycle. It must include: Rubric
1. There must be text and colored illustrations at least 5 colors in every box AND every slide must be numbered.
2. Must use rock characteristics of Crystals, Fossils, Gas Bubbles, Ribbon-like layers, Glassy Surfaces, sand or pebbles in your rock cartoon. Use a legend to accurately label the characteristics in your cartoon.
3. Identify whether your rock is sedimentary, metamorphic, origneous in your storyline. Use your legend to outline the cartoon box the color of your rock.
4. Underline the 5 process of rocks changing in your cartoon story; compacting & cementing, cooling, melting, weathering & erosion, and heat & pressure
5. Synthesis: a creative title of your cartoon that incorporates the story, cartoon and rock cycle.
Student Examples:
Homework:
1) Study rock cycle vocabulary
2) Rock Cycle Comic Strip due November 5th
Week 12, Day 3
PTT:
1) Self-check: did you finish the interactive rock cycle lesson and send me a screenshot of your final quiz score? (P.S. It MUST have your name in the screenshot or I am not counting the grade.)
2) Look at the examples of the comic strips in yesterday's lesson. Read them over. What does this represent? Could the comic have gone in a different order?
Task 1:
Discussion about the connection between layers/plates and the rock cycle - how can we connect these pieces of content? how are they related?
Specifically: What role do the plate movements have in the rock cycle? What role does magma have in the rock cycle (how is it made)? What layers are affected by the rock cycle?
Task 2: GRADED ASSIGNMENT (due Tuesday, November 5)
1) Take a look at these animations for review (if needed - you might want to look at them while writing your comic) Interactive Rock Cycle Animation Metamorphic Rock Formation Deposition Clastic Sedimentary Rock Formation Igneous Rock Formation (see the first video)
2) Turn to p. 51 - "Journey through the Rock Cycle" - is this done?
3)
OPTION 1:
- If you don't have your "Journey through the Rock Cycle" paper done, come meet with me at station 1 to discuss how to complete this part of the assignment
OPTION 2:
- If it's done, then start making the comic strip (you can use the comic strip outline paper or make your own)
You will create a rock cycle comic strip on a piece of paper or online (alternative options: video, prezi with pictures) that represents your journey through the rock cycle. It must include: Rubric (Comic)
a. There must be text and colored illustrations at least 5 colors in every box AND every slide must be numbered.
b. Must use rock characteristics of Crystals, Fossils, Gas Bubbles, Ribbon-like layers, Glassy Surfaces, sand or pebbles in your rock cartoon. Use a legend to accurately label the characteristics in your cartoon.
c. Identify whether your rock is sedimentary, metamorphic, origneous in your storyline. Use your legend to outline the cartoon box the color of your rock.
d. Underline the 5 process of rocks changing in your cartoon story; compacting & cementing, cooling, melting, weathering & erosion, and heat & pressure
e. Synthesis: a creative title of your cartoon that incorporates the story, cartoon and rock cycle.
Rubric (iMovie)
1. There must be narration, sound effects and music included in your iMovie.
2. Must use rock characteristics of Crystals, Fossils, Gas Bubbles, Ribbon-like layers, Glassy Surfaces, sand or pebbles in your rock iMovie.
3. Identify whether your rock is sedimentary, metamorphic, origneous in your storyline. Use your legend to outline the cartoon box the color of your rock.
4. Include the various processes using some form of pictures, sound effects, drawings or simple explaination; compacting & cementing, cooling, melting, weathering & erosion, and heat & pressure
5. Synthesis: a creative title of your cartoon that incorporates the story, cartoon and rock cycle.
Student Models:
Closure:
Reflect on what you got done today. Do you feel like your understand the rock cycle and how it works? Are you ready to complete and turn in an awesome rock cycle comic strip?
Homework:
- Rock Cycle Vocabulary Quiz on Monday!
- Rock Cycle Comic Strip due Tuesday
Table of Contents
PTT:
Click on the link for the appropriate class period. You are going to create a post-it to answer each of the 4 prompts. Please make sure to write your name at the bottom of each post-it
P3:
P3 Reflection
P5:
P5 reflection
P6:
P6 Reflection
Task 1: How Big Can Mountains Get?
While walking through La Huasteca last week, I remember some students commenting on the fact that the mountains look fake, as if they were a prop from a movie or TV set. However, we know these massive stuctures are not fake and are very much the 'real deal'. Did you ever wonder how high mountains can be? Here is a short video explaining how high a mountain can get.
Task 2: The Rock Cycle
After watching the Brainpop video on the rock cycle you will do the following activity:
Activity:
1. As a group, collect the necessary 'rock cycle' papers from your teacher
2. Arrange the rock types and processes in the correct layout.
3. Have your teacher check to see you have everything in the correct layout.
4. Copy down your rock cycle onto p. 50 in your science notebook (title the page "Rock Cycle" and record the essential question "Essential Question: How are rocks made?")
4. As a group, copy and complete the Journey Through the Rock Cycle paper on p. 51 (everyone in your group should have the same answers)
Closure:
Create a summary statement at the bottom of p. 51. Use this sentence starter: I learned that the rock cycle...
Week 12, Day 2
PTT:
1) Tape the rock cycle vocabulary onto p. 52 in your science notebook
2) Record the date
3) Title the page: Rock Cycle Vocabulary
4) Record the goal question - Essential Question: How do rocks change from one type to another type?
5) Read through each vocabulary term and highlight the word in one color and highlight key words from the definition in another color (we will have a quick vocabulary quiz on Monday, so be studying these every night)
6) Watch this video:
Task 1: Graded assignment!!!
1) Get a worksheet for the Rock Cycle Interactive Lesson and tape this to page 53
2) Go through each part of the lesson - read very carefully, watch all video clips, complete all interactive activities - and complete the notes as you go
Lesson link here: http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html
3) When you are done, take a screenshot of your final score - email this to me so I can record your score (otherwise you get a 0!)
It should look like this (first and last name please!)
Task 2: Graded assignment - due November 5th
1) Go back to your Rock Cycle Diagram on p. 50 - read through your rock cycle and make sure that the diagram is complete - add an image to each picture that represents what it is (examples: weathering and erosion could include an image of rain falling on a rock; sediments could include a picture of broken bits of rock)
2) Go to your Journey through the Rock Cycle assignment on p. 51 - read this over
3) You will create a rock cycle comic strip on a piece of paper or online (alternative options: video, prezi with pictures) that represents your journey through the rock cycle. It must include:
Rubric
1. There must be text and colored illustrations at least 5 colors in every box AND every slide must be numbered.
2. Must use rock characteristics of Crystals, Fossils, Gas Bubbles, Ribbon-like layers, Glassy Surfaces, sand or pebbles in your rock cartoon. Use a legend to accurately label the characteristics in your cartoon.
3. Identify whether your rock is sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous in your storyline. Use your legend to outline the cartoon box the color of your rock.
4. Underline the 5 process of rocks changing in your cartoon story; compacting & cementing, cooling, melting, weathering & erosion, and heat & pressure
5. Synthesis: a creative title of your cartoon that incorporates the story, cartoon and rock cycle.
Student Examples:
Homework:
1) Study rock cycle vocabulary
2) Rock Cycle Comic Strip due November 5th
Week 12, Day 3
PTT:
1) Self-check: did you finish the interactive rock cycle lesson and send me a screenshot of your final quiz score? (P.S. It MUST have your name in the screenshot or I am not counting the grade.)
2) Look at the examples of the comic strips in yesterday's lesson. Read them over. What does this represent? Could the comic have gone in a different order?
Task 1:
Discussion about the connection between layers/plates and the rock cycle - how can we connect these pieces of content? how are they related?
Specifically: What role do the plate movements have in the rock cycle? What role does magma have in the rock cycle (how is it made)? What layers are affected by the rock cycle?
Task 2: GRADED ASSIGNMENT (due Tuesday, November 5)
1) Take a look at these animations for review (if needed - you might want to look at them while writing your comic)
Interactive Rock Cycle Animation
Metamorphic Rock Formation
Deposition
Clastic Sedimentary Rock Formation
Igneous Rock Formation (see the first video)
2) Turn to p. 51 - "Journey through the Rock Cycle" - is this done?
3)
OPTION 1:
- If you don't have your "Journey through the Rock Cycle" paper done, come meet with me at station 1 to discuss how to complete this part of the assignment
OPTION 2:
- If it's done, then start making the comic strip (you can use the comic strip outline paper or make your own)
You will create a rock cycle comic strip on a piece of paper or online (alternative options: video, prezi with pictures) that represents your journey through the rock cycle. It must include:
Rubric (Comic)
a. There must be text and colored illustrations at least 5 colors in every box AND every slide must be numbered.
b. Must use rock characteristics of Crystals, Fossils, Gas Bubbles, Ribbon-like layers, Glassy Surfaces, sand or pebbles in your rock cartoon. Use a legend to accurately label the characteristics in your cartoon.
c. Identify whether your rock is sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous in your storyline. Use your legend to outline the cartoon box the color of your rock.
d. Underline the 5 process of rocks changing in your cartoon story; compacting & cementing, cooling, melting, weathering & erosion, and heat & pressure
e. Synthesis: a creative title of your cartoon that incorporates the story, cartoon and rock cycle.
Rubric (iMovie)
1. There must be narration, sound effects and music included in your iMovie.
2. Must use rock characteristics of Crystals, Fossils, Gas Bubbles, Ribbon-like layers, Glassy Surfaces, sand or pebbles in your rock iMovie.
3. Identify whether your rock is sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous in your storyline. Use your legend to outline the cartoon box the color of your rock.
4. Include the various processes using some form of pictures, sound effects, drawings or simple explaination; compacting & cementing, cooling, melting, weathering & erosion, and heat & pressure
5. Synthesis: a creative title of your cartoon that incorporates the story, cartoon and rock cycle.
Student Models:
Closure:
Reflect on what you got done today. Do you feel like your understand the rock cycle and how it works? Are you ready to complete and turn in an awesome rock cycle comic strip?
Homework:
- Rock Cycle Vocabulary Quiz on Monday!
- Rock Cycle Comic Strip due Tuesday