Week+1+(Unit+3)

Monday, January 4
//What is geology?// Objective:

1. Daily Catalyst What is one thing you look forward to accomplishing in the new year?

2. Vocabulary Word Splash
 * ======A set up words related to the upcoming unit will be displayed on the Promethean board: oil, earthquakes, diamonds, coal, mining, mantle, igneous, metamorphic, sediment, Pangaea, plate tectonics, fault, glacier, mountain, dinosaur, evolution, fossil, volcano, crust, continent, river basin, Jurassic, erosion, magma, mineral, gold, hot spot======
 * ======Students will write down each of the words.======
 * ======Students will then choose one key term and illustrate it. (For those who want a challenge, they can illustrate more than one key term in a single diagram!)======
 * ======Students will write a prediction about what all of these words have in common.======
 * ======The term GEOLOGY will then be displayed on the screen.======

3. Defining Geology

 * ======Geology is one branch of Earth science. A slide will be shown that displays four pictures (one of rock layers, lightning storm, galaxy, and underwater diver) that relate to each of the four branches of Earth science: geology, meteorology, astronomy, and oceanography. Students will STOP AND JOT what they know about one of the four branches. Students will share what they wrote and it will be charted on the board.======
 * Geology is a study of all of the terms included in the word splash. Students will create an H-chart with a title that says "Geology is the study of Earth's..." three headings: materials, processes, and history.
 * Students will then group each of the words from the word splash into the three columns. Students will work with a partner.
 * Students might discover (through discussions with a partner) that some words can be categorized in more than one column.
 * As a class, we we will classify each term and discuss the meanings of some unknown terms.

4. Video Clip
 * Students will watch two very brief clips from Discovery Streaming that describe geology.

5. Exit Slip
 * Students will generate a sentence that defines the discipline of geology. They will be prompted with "Geology is the study of..." and will be encouraged to use FANBOYS to expand their definitions.

//Homework Continue to gather materials, complete background report, and carry out experiment for the science fair. //

Tuesday, January 5
//How can we improve the writing of our science fair reports?// Objective:

//Homework Continue to gather materials, complete background report, and carry out experiment for the science fair. //

Wednesday, January 6
//How can we improve the writing of our science fair reports?// Objective:

//Homework Continue to gather materials, complete background report, and carry out experiment for the science fair. //

Thursday, January 7
//What is geology? Objective: //

1. Daily Catalyst

//Links Shown// http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/ http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/find_regions.cfm http://www.nationalatlas.gov/dynamic/dyn_vol-us.html

//Homework Continue to gather materials, complete background report, and carry out experiment for the science fair. //