Earth Unit

Welcome Back! We are ready to start this new year right!!!
We are half way through the school year, can you believe it??? We are now beginning a new unit on Earth's interior layers.

The key concepts for this unit are: Earth's layers are ordered according to their density, how particles are sorted by size AND density and basics of plate tectonics.

Students will be required to do an Earth model project at home worth 50 test points (students will bring home a rubric) and a tennis ball for an activity.

Due dates for these things:
1/13 Tennis Ball
1/17 Earth Model due
1/18 Earth Test

Class Schedule (please note that topics are subject to change)
1/2-3 No School
1/4 Begin Earth's interior- Red book read pages 96-102; Earth's layers notes, begin questions if time
1/5 finish notes and DR; What's inside the Earth? work on questions
1/6 Begin class activity for Earth's interior.

1/9 Finish class activity, grade questions, BN Earth's Crust
1/10 Sort it Out notes, Prep Earth's Density Lab
1/11 Earth's Density Lab; **** Tennis balls due Friday!!!
1/12 Earth as a model, begin tennis ball activity
1/13 Finish tennis balls; There is no place like Earth

1/16 No school!!!
1/17 Earth model due; review for test
1/18 Earth Test
1/19-20 Reteach/ Enrich

Students who do not pass the earth test will be relearning the information and retaking the test on 1/19 & 1/20. Those who pass the first time will get to do some fun science enrichment stuff to celebrate their achievement on those two days!!!