Today students completed an activity called "Who Dunit". This activity helps students understand the concept of relative age and the law of superposition. It starts off with students having to solve a crime scene mystery by looking at different tracks from cars and foot prints. Then it leads into students using the same principles of solving the crime scene mystery and relating that to solving the mystery of dating rocks. See below for the link to this activity. Students also took their vocabulary quiz on the first set of vocab words for this unit. This week's new set of vocab words were also given out, see below for this list. We will be working on dating rocks all week with several different activities planned. More on that later....
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Hello everyone! This week we have hit the ground running with our Earth History Unit. The past couple of days in class we have spent time taking notes on fossils, relative age, absolute age, and dating rocks and fossils. Today we started working on a stations activity where students will read about different ways to date rocks and fossils and answer some questions about each reading at the station. At their tables, students were given time to read quietly and then participate in a Round Robin style conversation about how to answer the questions. Students were directed to come up with an agreed upon consensus of what the answer to each question was and write that on their paper. All of my students did a fabulous job with that activity and I am looking forward to finishing that up tomorrow in class. Below you will find a link to the powerpoint presentation I am using for this unit as well as the fill-in-the-blank notes we have used so far.
Don't forget that your vocabulary words are due MONDAY 10/27/14 and you will be having a quiz over these words that day! Have a wonderful evening. Tomorrow is FRIDAY!! YAY! Earth History PowerPoint Part 1 - Fossils and Relative Age student notes Part 2 - Absolute Age student notes Whew! What a whirlwind of a week we had last week. Students finished out the chemistry unit with a test for a grade in my classroom. We also completed the district benchmark assessment for this unit. Today students were able to complete the district Reading benchmark assessment as well. Now that all that testing is complete, we are finally getting started with our new unit on Earth History. Today, students received their new set of vocabulary words (see below for the list). These words are due completed in the proper format by Monday (10/27/14), we will also have a vocab quiz that day. We also were able to refresh our memories of the rock cycle and plate tectonics by watching a video. For homework, students are required to complete a reading assignment with questions on the rock cycle (see below for a copy of this). Tomorrow, students can expect to hit the ground running with our new topic on fossils and relative dating. Have a great day!!!
Today, students did an AWESOME job rotating through 6 different lab stations that demonstrated physical properties and changes. The 6 different stations were the following:
Station 1: It's Just Paper Station 2: Can Crush Station 3: Sink or Float? Station 4: Mystery Objects Station 5: Water Can Bend? Station 6: M&M's Magic Before the lab started students worked on Pre-Lab questions that we went over together before the lab started. For homework tonight, students should be working on the Review & recap worksheet. This is due tomorrow. See below for a copy of this paper. Be sure to check out the pictures of my fantastic scientists in action! Tonight's Homework: Review & Recap of Physical Properties & Change |
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