Big Ideas:

To understand the componets of the Earth

Essential Questions:

How  are rock formed ? What are the processes in the rock cycle? What are earthquakes, plate tectonics, and volcanism?

Vocabulary:

igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, earthquakes, plate tectonics, volcanism

Month

Content

Skills

Asessment

Standards

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation

September

Physical Geology

Formative:

HS-ESS1-5; HS-ESS2-1; HS-ESS3-1,2,3,4

Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List

Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts

Rock Types and Characteristics

Simulate rocks at different stages and get a better understanding of the rock types and cycles.

Student Partipiation and Dialog

Use Technology (ie Simulations/Illustrations/Videos), Various Manipulatives and Word Play

Earthquakes

Create a glacier and noting its destructive power.

Study Guide Assignments

Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions)

Plate Tectonics

Discover how buildings withstand an earthquake by creating one and testing it accordingly.

Lab Practicles and/or Projects

Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations

Vocanism

Discover how convection currents work in order to support continental drift.

Chapter Quizzes

Produce a simulation be create and show the process of plate tectonics.

Reading / Vocabulary Exam

Witness how magma can spread and erupt from within volcanoes.

Summative:

Chapter Exam

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