3/12 Thurs: Weathering Intro

HW: Terms to be done by Friday, March 20th

Learning Target: I can identify the causes and differences between chemical and mechanical weathering.  I can weigh the factors that cause weathering to happen at different rates.

AGENDA:
1. Weathering Brainpop and Quiz-classwork grade
    example of ice wedging video
2. Read the article posted on the Science Google Classroom-answer the questions on the worksheet(s)

3/10 Tues: Plate Tectonics Informational Text Readings

HW: Complete the Choice Board-due Thursday
Readworks Article on Plate Tectonics (assigned yesterday)-due Thursday (no school Wed)

AGENDA:
1.  How does density relate to how the Earth's Layers are formed?  Be able to answer this question after watching this video
2. Read the booklet Plate Tectonics and complete the Non-Fiction Reading Response Choice Board (Choose 3 in a row and be sure to pass through the center. Quick review of Cornell Notes

3/9 Mon: Plate Tectonics Lab

HW: Read the Readworks article on Plate Tectonics-80% is the goal on the multiple choice-due Wednesday!!!!

Learning Target:  I can provide a demonstration of the different types of plate boundaries and what effects they cause in the Earth's crust.

AGENDA:
 Write up the lab below on the lab sheets.  Perform the experiment. Answer the questions and draw your conclusions based on what you have observed.

3/6 Fri: Plate Tectonics Intro

HW: None

Learning Target: I can draw a picture explaining how the movement within the mantle causes the tectonic plates of the crust to move and in what different ways.

AGENDA:
1. Plate Tectonics BrainPop and answer the review quiz together as a class
2. Read pages 42 to 47 and complete pages 11 thru 13 in the Guided Reading Packet
Monday will be a tectonic plate lab!!
3. National Geographic Plate Tectonics Video-take notes
4. Complete the Gizmo

3/4 & 3/5 Wed & Thurs: Pangaea Gizmo

HW: Claim with Evidence sheet on Pangaea (using info from the Gizmo Lab to support)-given Thursday, DUE FRIDAY

AGENDA:
1. Pangaea Evidence Video
2. Complete the warm up together for the Pangaea Gizmo.
3. Work on Pangaea Gizmo- Activities A thru C

3/3 Wed: Sea Floor Spreading-the causal evidence to support Wegner's Theory of Continental Drift

HW: None

Learning Target:  I can explain how Earth's crust is created and destroyed.

AGENDA:
1. Review Continental Drift with VIDEO

2. pages 33 to 39. Answer the questions on pages 5 and 10 of Guided Reading Packet
3.Sea Floor Spreading Evidence

3/2 Mon: Continental Drift and Formation of Continents

HW: Make up missing assignments

AGENDA:
1. Formation of Continents Video
2. Read pages 28 to 32 and complete section 3 in the guided reading packet. Review answers together.
3. Continental Drift Notes in class-reviewed together.  Be sure to add why Wegener's theory was rejected.