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Topic: Earths Processes

Title: Introduction to Earths Processes

Subject/Course: General Science

Grades: 7th

Stage1---Desired Results
Content Standards:
S2C2PO1
Describe how science is an ongoing process that changes in response to new information and discoveries.
S2C2PO2
Describe how scientific knowledge is subject to change as new information and/or technology challenges prevailing theories.
S6C1PO2
Describe the properties and the composition of the following major layers of the Earth:
crust
mantle
core
S6C1PO3
Explain the following processes involved in the formation of the Earths structure:
plate tectonics
volcanism
S6C2PO3
Analyze the evidence that lithospheric plate movements occur.
S6C2PO4
Explain lithospheric plate movement as a result of convection.
S6C2PO5
Relate plate boundary movements to their resulting landforms, including:
mountains
faults
rift valleys
trenches
volcanoes

Enduring Understanding/Big Idea:


Many processes have caused the Earths surface to change over time and these processes continue to affect us today.

Essential Questions: Write 2- 4 questions..


How do the layers of the Earth affect life on Earth?
How do Earths processes change the way Earth looks?

Stage 2----Assessment Evidence


Unit (Summative) Assessment:
Students will be provided diagrams of the various processes and resulting landforms and be required to identify the diagram and its components. They will then
answer questions about the processes responsible for the activity or landform depicted in the diagram.

Stage 3----Learning Plan


Learning Activities:
Unit calendar attached

Resources and Materials


Copyrighted resources:
Textbook: The Changing Earth. McDougal LIttell 2007 Chapters 1-4
Video: Inside Planet Earth from Discovery Channel
YouTube resources:
Lithosphere and Asthenosphere. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Zfk_x932c
Alfred Wegeners Theory of Continental Drift Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9ADpKnBSY
Convection Demos. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDUtS0IMws
Borrowed resources:
Plate tectonics lab. Retrieved from: http://geology.isu.edu/Digital_Geology_Idaho/Labs/Plate%20Tectonics%20Lab.pdf (revised to meet the
needs of my students, the standards and the time allowed for completion)
Resources to create:
Power points
Daily bell work
Daily exit tickets (formative assessments)
Summative assessment
Note-takers

Unit Calendar
MONDAY
Lesson: Review Earths
structure

TUESDAY
Lesson: Earths layers
affect life on Earth.

WEDNESDAY
Lesson: Earths layers
affect life on Earth.

Activity: Draw a
diagram of the Earths
layers, label and explain
these layers (summative
assessment)
YouTube video:
Lithosphere and
Asthenosphere

Video-Inside Planet
Earth

Video-Inside Planet
Earth continued

MONDAY
Lesson: Continental
drift and the theory of
plate tectonics
YouTube videos:
Convection Demos
Activity: complete notetaker based on
discussion and videos
MONDAY
Lesson: Earths
Processes
Activity: Plate tectonics
lab

TUESDAY
Lesson: Plate
boundaries
Activity: Draw a
diagram of the plate
boundaries, labeling all
parts and depicting the
various movements

Activity: Write an 8
sentence summary of
how life on Earth is
affected by each of its
layers based on
information in the
video.
WEDNESDAY
Lesson: Plate
boundaries
Activity: Draw a
diagram of the plate
boundaries, labeling all
parts and depicting the
various movements

TUESDAY
Lesson: Earths
processes
Activity: Plate tectonics
lab

WEDNESDAY
Lesson: Earths
processes
Activity: Summative
assessment

THURSDAY
Lesson: Science theories
change over time. These
changes can occur in
numerous ways.
Pangaea.
Activity: Were the
continents ever one big
supercontinent? Why?
(short written response
to prepare for
discussion)

FRIDAY
Lesson: Pangaea
Activity: Science Talk- The goal is for
students to understand that we have
knowledge that makes Pangaea a
possibility (to be discussed throughout
the unit) but there are still many
questions and not a consensus on all
aspects of this theory.
YouTube video: Alfred Wegeners
Theory of Continental Drift

THURSDAY
Lesson: Introduction to
resulting landforms
Activity: complete notetaker to be used in next
unit

FRIDAY
Lesson: Introduction to resulting
natural disasters
Activity: complete note-taker to be
used in next unit

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

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