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Essential Questions for Unit: • How can we demonstrate that Earth is a geologically active planet? • How do Earth’s different systems/processes interact? • How do different sources of energy act on the Earth? • Why does the surface of the Earth change? Ch. 4 Vocabulary List
 * What do geological formations tell us about how the Earth changes and will continue to change?
 * What evidence do we have to support the idea that the continents are moving?

Jan 31 Fossil Assessment - Moodle Today's Question to begin to look at: **How does material move within and between the different layers of the planet Earth?**

 Convection Lab:

Open here for background and procedures here



HOMEWORK: Read Ch. 4 Section 2 Work on vocabulary lists

Feb 4 Complete Convection lab and Summary Questions Read next class lab procedures

Feb 6 Review Convection - [|animation here] Be able to connect lab activity to what is happening in the Earth's surfaces Bill Nye - Earth's Crust - video and diagram Edible Tectonics- answer questions on google doc

HW Read Ch. 4 Section 3

Feb 10 Review Edible Tectonics Questions Sea- Floor Spreading - **[|Webquest here:]**
 * How is the ocean floor different than the surface we’re standing on? **

[|A Bouncing Baby Island]- read the article here

**HW: Complete Reading all Ch. 4 for Tuesday** **[|Quizlet here]**

**Chocolate Lava Demo - [|click here]**

**Feb 12** **Review Sea Floor Spreading** **Lithosphere and Plate Movement** **After completing sheet on Measuring Plate Movement** **[|The Jason Project]**

**Feb 14** **Review Measuring Plate Movement** **Begin Wegener's Theory of Plate Tectonics Activity** **Complete on Tuesday** **HW: Ch. 4 Review sheet shared on Google Drive** **Quiz 2/21 - Thursday**

Feb 19 Complete Wegener's Puzzle Activity Discussion Questions shared on Google Drive Review for Content Quiz- Thursday

[|Pangea Song]

Feb 21 Moodle Quiz- Plate Tectonics Being Selecting Ideas for Performance Assessment Review Requirements- select Earth feature for your focus

Review of Plagiarism

Feb 25 Citation List Discussion - ebib, bibme Notes - EBSCO Due Date Discussion

Feb 27 Continue in class research - gathering citations Begin to think about visual part- Prezi, Glogster (could be fun!), PPT, I movie These will need to both be presented on March 7th. We will be making a turnitin.com account on March 5th to run through the written assessment


 * Remember March 3rd we will be attending the High School registration information session - more info. to come **

**Written part for performance assessment will be submitted by the end of class on Tuesday including citations** **Visual part - Thursday - will be shared**
 * March 3rd **
 * Attend high school registration information session in the HS **

March 5 Complete written part- submit on turnitin.com - Originiality checker Submit citations

March 7 Visual part of performance assessment due Review and respond to visual by classmates -check rubric Share in class Collect textbooks