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Lessons for Week of 1/30 - 2/3back to week index

Monday 1/30: Evolution

curricular goals

Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.

Goal 5: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of evidence of evolution in organisms and land forms. NCSCOS: 5.01, 5.02, 5.03.


warm-up

Divisions of Geologic Time include: Eon, Era, Period, Epoch.


in-class activities

1) Stations Activity: Three stations include: 1) Computer Station Ice Core, 2) Geologic Events Organizer Station, 3) Reading & Research Station Holt Text, pg. 452 - 459.

2) Test coming tomorrow on Hydrosphere from Study Island


homework

1) Notebook Check, Friday, February 3rd.

2) Geologic Era Project, Due Friday, February 3rd.

3) Reading: Holt text, pgs. 446 - 451 & Looking at Fossils Worksheet

4) Test coming tomorrow on Hydrosphere from Study Island




Tuesday 1/31: Evolution

curricular goals

Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.

Goal 5: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of evidence of evolution in organisms and land forms. NCSCOS: 5.01, 5.02, 5.03.


warm-up

No warm up today


in-class activities

1) Test on Hydrosphere from Study Island


homework

1) Notebook Check, Friday, February 3rd.

2) Geologic Era Project, Due Friday, February 3rd.




Wednesday 2/1: Evolution

curricular goals

Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.

Goal 5: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of evidence of evolution in organisms and land forms. NCSCOS: 5.01, 5.02, 5.03.


warm-up

Paleontologists assume that any rock containing a fossil of a Trilobite is about 400 million years old.


in-class activities

1) Stations Activity: Three stations include: 1) Computer Station Ice Core, 2) Geologic Events Organizer Station, 3) Reading & Research Station Holt Text, pg. 452 - 459.


homework

1) Notebook Check, Friday, February 3rd.

2) Geologic Era Project, Due Friday, February 3rd.




Thursday 2/2: Evolution

curricular goals

Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.

Goal 5: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of evidence of evolution in organisms and land forms. NCSCOS: 5.01, 5.02, 5.03.


warm-up

The Mesozoic Era is known as the Age of Reptiles because reptiles inhabited the land.


in-class activities

1) Stations Activity: Three stations include: 1) Computer Station Ice Core, 2) Geologic Events Organizer Station, 3) Reading & Research Station Holt Text, pg. 452 - 459.


homework

1) Notebook Check, Tomorrow.

2) Geologic Era Project, Due Tomorrow.




Friday 2/3: Evolution

curricular goals

Goal 1: Learners will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry. NCSCOS: 1.01, 1.05, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10.

Goal 5: Learners will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of evidence of evolution in organisms and land forms. NCSCOS: 5.01, 5.02, 5.03.


warm-up

The Cenozoic Era, the current era, is known as the Age of Mammals because mammals flourished and continue to flourish.


in-class activities

1) Student Project Presentations Activity

2) Notebook Check


homework

No Homework




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