3rd+6+weeks

11/10 - No School/Holiday Veteran's Day Observed 11/11 - Quiz on Measuring the Motion of Lithospheric Plates; Layers of the Earth; Glencoe Earth Science 11/12 - Quiz on Earth's Interior Structure; Read about Continental Drift in the Glencoe Earth Science textbook p. 294 11/13 - Supervolcano 11/14 - Supervolcano

11/17 - CO: Assign Homework on "Building" Features on Earth's Surface and Development of Plate Tectonics Theory; Read about seafloor spreading. Glencoe book. LO: Read about seafloor spreading, magnetic reversals, and geologic features caused by plate tectonic movement. 11/18 - CO: "Pangea Activity": Learn how scientists determined how Pangea was made up of the different continents using fossil, mountain, rock, climate, & puzzle-like fit clues. Locate the following on a world plate tectonic map and determine the type of crust involved: Himalayas, Andes, San Andreas Fault, Great Rift Valley of Africa, Japan, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Mariana Trench. 11/19 - CO: Quiz on "Building" Features on Earth's Surface. Review locations of Himalayas, Andes, San Andreas Fault, Great Rift Valley, Japan, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Marianas Trench. Learn about the different properties of matter: mass, volume, density; develop a procedure to determine the density of basalt and granite. Write down the procedure. 11/20 - Activity: Determine the density of basalt and granite based on procedure developed. 11/21 - CO: Quiz on Development of Plate Tectonic Theory; Review for the test (Jeopardy)

11/24 - Review for Test 11/25 - Test on Plate Tectonics 11/26 Holiday 11/27 Holiday 11/28 Holiday

12/1 - CO: Learn about earthquakes (p-waves, s-waves, surface waves, focus, epicenter, seismogram, etc.) LO: View brainpop on Earthqukes. Read Glencoe Earth Science on Earthquakes. Make a table with characteristics of different rocks. 12/2 - CO: Learn about shadow zones, p-waves, s-waves, and how scientists know the structure of the earth based on the behavior of seismic waves. 12/3 - CO: Review the water cycle. View brainpop on Water Cycle. Begin to review for the final exam. 12/4 - CO: Review volcanic hazards 12/5 - CO: Review continental drift/key pieces of evidence; bedrock geology: sedimentary, organic, chemical

12/8 - Review for Final Exam 12/9 - Earth Science Final Exam 12/10 - Earth Science Final Exam 12/11 - Review Scientific Method 12/12 - Review Scientific Method

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