Lauren Wilson: Earth Unit Lesson Plan for the Week of Oct 6

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Monday
FAIR DAY
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Objective
s
SWBAT:
NONE
SWBAT:
Students will be able
to relate plate
tectonics to crustal
features.
TEKS: 8.9B
SWBAT:
Students will be able
to relate plate
tectonics to crustal
features.
TEKS: 8.9B
SWBAT:
Students will be
able to relate
plate tectonics to
crustal features.
TEKS: 8.9B
SWBAT:
Students will be
able to relate
crustal features
to plate tectonics.
TEKS: 8.9B
P ENGAGE:
NONE
ENGAGE:
Daily Quiz:
TBD based on
previous days lesson

Vocab: Lithosphere
ENGAGE:
Daily Quiz:
TBD based on
previous days lesson

Vocab: Asthenosphere
ENGAGE:
Daily Quiz:
TBD based on
previous days
lesson

Vocab: Mantle

ENGAGE:
Daily Quiz:
TBD based on
previous days
lesson

Vocab: Crust
LA EXPLORE:
NONE
EXPLAIN:
NONE
ELABORATE:
NONE
EXPLORE:
Bathometric Maps
EXPLAIN:
Draw and color on
worksheets
Discuss convergent,
divergent, and
transform boundaries
ELABORATE:
Interactive Notebooks
and Cornell Notes

EXPLORE:
Bathometric Maps
Fossil Match Puzzle
Handouts
EXPLAIN:
Matching the fossils
puzzle
Discussions as the
maps are being
completed.
ELABORATE:
Cornell Notes and
Interactive Notebooks
EXPLORE:
Fossil Match
Investigation
Boundary
Evidence and
Notes
EXPLAIN:
What is a
landform?
How are
landforms
created?
What are
involved?
ELABORATE:
Boundary and
plate Cornell
notes. Interactive
notebooks.
EXPLORE:
Graham Cracker
Lab Plate
Tectonics in a
Box
EXPLAIN:
Roll ups are
oceanic crust
Graham crackers
are continental
crust
Icing is magma

ELABORATE:
Cornell notes
over convergent,
divergent, and
transform
boundaries
N EVALUATE/ASSESS:
NONE

EVALUATE/ASSESS:
Closing Question:
What do we use as
EVALUATE/ASSESS:
Closing Question:
What will happen to
EVALUATE/ASSESS:
Closing Question:
Differentiate
EVALUATE/ASSESS:
Closing Question:
What does the
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Monday
FAIR DAY
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

evidence for plate
boundaries?
Also, remind students
about -Homework 5
due Friday


the Himalayan
Mountains in the
future?
Also, remind students
about -Homework 5
due Friday

between an
oceanic plate and
a continental
plate.
Also, remind
students about -
Homework 5 due
Friday

graham cracker
represent? What
does the fruit roll
up represent?
What does the
icing represent?
Fun Question
Friday- EXIT
TICKET: Also,
remind students
about -Homework
5 due Friday

Resources NONE Text book
Handouts
Colored Pencils
Interactive Notebooks
PowerPoint
Text book
Handouts
Colored Pencils
Interactive Notebooks
PowerPoint
Text book
Interactive
Notebooks
Fossil Match
Class sets
PowerPoint

Text book
Interactive
Notebooks
PowerPoint
Handouts
5 Graham
Crackers per
group
3 fruit roll ups per
group
1/2 can of icing
per class
Wax paper
Red food coloring