PTT: 1) Turn to p. 50 2) Title the page - Plate Tectonics: Creating Mountains 3) Record the date 4) Record the essential question - Goal 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:
1) Get the "Mountain Types" graphic organizer and tape it to p. 50 in your notebook
2) Read the article (download it below) about mountain types.
3) Fill in the graphic organizer based on what you read.
4) Think about the image above. Based on what you read, what type of mountains are the Sierra Madres? Answer this using a complete sentence AND describe the evidence you used to come to this conclusion.
Task 2: Read information about how the Sierra Madres formed in particular 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: 1) Title page 51: The Sierra Madres: Folded Mountains 2) Record the date 3) Follow the directions to create a folded mountain using plasticine http://science-mattersblog.blogspot.mx/2011/03/plate-tectonics-look-inside-folds-and.html 4) Record observations about how your folded mountain forms - what happened as the plates collided? 5) Draw and label a diagram of your folded mountain on p. 51
Task 4/Closure: Use the questions below to help you write a paragraph about how our mountains (the Sierra Madre Orientals) formed. - 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 - Quiz on Day 2: 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 2
PTT: Spend 5 minutes reviewing for quiz
Task 1: Take quiz
Task 2/Closure: 1) Make sure your notebook is up-to-date for a notebook grade
2) Make a blog post reflecting on your progress so far this year. Use the comments below as a guide...
How are you doing in science right now? Why?
What specific things are you doing well that you need to continue doing?
What specific things do you need to start doing to help you do better?
3) REMEMBER to select the science category when you make your blog post - otherwise I won't see it!!!!
Week 10, Day 3
PTT:
Watch this video. See if you can identify moments where rocks and soil were being moved (erosion), where rocks were broken (weathering), and where rocks and sediments were dropped off and left somewhere (deposition).
Task 1: Set up notebook and define terms
1) Turn to p. 52 in your science notebook
2) Record the date
3) Record the title - Notes: Weathering and Erosion
4) Record the Goal Question: What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
5) Divide the page into 2 halves - label one half "Weathering" and the other half "Erosion"
6) Record the following definitions on the appropriate half of the page Weathering: The process where rocks are broken down into smaller rocks, sediments, and soils
Erosion: The process where rocks and soil are moved from one location to another location where they are deposited
7) Highlight the new vocabulary terms in blue
Task 2: Gather information
1) You are going to use the linked google presentation to take notes about the forces that cause weathering and erosion to happen. Please watch in PRESENT mode so that you can view the videos. Presentation Link
2) Be sure to answer the record the information that the presentation prompts you to do as you go through it.
Task 3/Closure: Reflect on what you've learned
1) Turn to p. 53 in your science notebook
2) Record the date and re-read the goal question: what is the difference between weathering and erosion?
3) Record the title: Comparing Weathering and Erosion
4) Choose ONE of the following options to show your understanding of the answer to the goal question
OPTION 1: Complete a box and T or Venn Diagram comparing weathering and erosion. Then draw images to represent each process - include depictions of all the forces that cause it.
OPTION 2: Create a drawing that depicts a landscape affected by weathering and erosion. This should be accurate (all notes correct), big (take up the whole page), colorful (all colored), and detailed (create a key or description that explains how each process is represented in your picture).
OPTION 3: Write a one page response that has 3 paragraphs - in the first explain what weathering is and how it happens, in the second paragraph explain what erosion is and how it happens, and in the third paragraph explain how weathering and erosion are different but also how they work together to shape the landscape.
NOTE: This page is meant to show your understanding of the goal question (what is the difference between weathering and erosion?). Be sure that whatever option you choose, your p. 53 addresses that question.
Week 10, Day 1
Table of Contents
1) Turn to p. 50
2) Title the page - Plate Tectonics: Creating Mountains
3) Record the date
4) Record the essential question - Goal 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:
1) Get the "Mountain Types" graphic organizer and tape it to p. 50 in your notebook
2) Read the article (download it below) about mountain types.
3) Fill in the graphic organizer based on what you read.
4) Think about the image above. Based on what you read, what type of mountains are the Sierra Madres? Answer this using a complete sentence AND describe the evidence you used to come to this conclusion.
Task 2:
Read information about how the Sierra Madres formed in particular
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 3:
1) Title page 51:
The Sierra Madres: Folded Mountains
2) Record the date
3) Follow the directions to create a folded mountain using plasticine
http://science-mattersblog.blogspot.mx/2011/03/plate-tectonics-look-inside-folds-and.html
4) Record observations about how your folded mountain forms - what happened as the plates collided?
5) Draw and label a diagram of your folded mountain on p. 51
Task 4/Closure:
Use the questions below to help you write a paragraph about how our mountains (the Sierra Madre Orientals) formed.
- 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?
HELPFUL INFO: Take a look at this blog post about how plate tectonics have affected Mexico
Homework:
Study for earth's layers and plates quiz
- Quiz on Day 2:
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 2
PTT:
Spend 5 minutes reviewing for quiz
Task 1:
Take quiz
Task 2/Closure:
1) Make sure your notebook is up-to-date for a notebook grade
2) Make a blog post reflecting on your progress so far this year. Use the comments below as a guide...
How are you doing in science right now? Why?
What specific things are you doing well that you need to continue doing?
What specific things do you need to start doing to help you do better?
3) REMEMBER to select the science category when you make your blog post - otherwise I won't see it!!!!
Week 10, Day 3
PTT:
Watch this video. See if you can identify moments where rocks and soil were being moved (erosion), where rocks were broken (weathering), and where rocks and sediments were dropped off and left somewhere (deposition).
Task 1: Set up notebook and define terms
1) Turn to p. 52 in your science notebook
2) Record the date
3) Record the title - Notes: Weathering and Erosion
4) Record the Goal Question: What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
5) Divide the page into 2 halves - label one half "Weathering" and the other half "Erosion"
6) Record the following definitions on the appropriate half of the page
Weathering: The process where rocks are broken down into smaller rocks, sediments, and soils
Erosion: The process where rocks and soil are moved from one location to another location where they are deposited
7) Highlight the new vocabulary terms in blue
Task 2: Gather information
1) You are going to use the linked google presentation to take notes about the forces that cause weathering and erosion to happen. Please watch in PRESENT mode so that you can view the videos.
Presentation Link
2) Be sure to answer the record the information that the presentation prompts you to do as you go through it.
Task 3/Closure: Reflect on what you've learned
1) Turn to p. 53 in your science notebook
2) Record the date and re-read the goal question: what is the difference between weathering and erosion?
3) Record the title: Comparing Weathering and Erosion
4) Choose ONE of the following options to show your understanding of the answer to the goal question
OPTION 1: Complete a box and T or Venn Diagram comparing weathering and erosion. Then draw images to represent each process - include depictions of all the forces that cause it.
OPTION 2: Create a drawing that depicts a landscape affected by weathering and erosion. This should be accurate (all notes correct), big (take up the whole page), colorful (all colored), and detailed (create a key or description that explains how each process is represented in your picture).
OPTION 3: Write a one page response that has 3 paragraphs - in the first explain what weathering is and how it happens, in the second paragraph explain what erosion is and how it happens, and in the third paragraph explain how weathering and erosion are different but also how they work together to shape the landscape.
NOTE: This page is meant to show your understanding of the goal question (what is the difference between weathering and erosion?). Be sure that whatever option you choose, your p. 53 addresses that question.