Grade 7 Lesson Plans 1/3 – 1/7 December 28, 2010

Unit 3
Essential Question: How does the use of energy affect you and your nation?

Monday
Objectives: Introduce unit of study on Energy, compare Kinetic and Potential Energy
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: What is Energy? Students create a bubble map at their tables to inform their peers of their current knowledge of energy.
2. Energy Bingo – students play an interactive game that introduces the concepts we will learn on energy.
3. Article Reading on Potential and Kinetic Energy, article questions on Forms of Energy pages 8-9Energy Flows
4. Copy definitions of vocabulary

Tuesday
Objective: Catagorize examples of Potential and Kinetic Energy, explore laws of conservation
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: Draw a picture of a rollercoaster. Label your drawing with the points in which potential energy is highest and kinetic energy is highest.
2. Wind-Up toys: practice and apply potential and kinetic energy.
3. Table sorting – tables sort cards to catagorize kinetic and potential energy as well as forms of energy.
4. PPT on Energy TransfersEnergy Transfer
5. Notes on Laws of Energy
6. Homework: forms of energy Forms of Energy Homework

Wednesday
Objective: Explore forms of energy in laboratory experiments
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: What are some differences between thermal energy and chemical energy? Where are these often observed?
2. Introduce Lab rotations, perform experiments. pages 30 – 34 energy lab stations guide
3. Wrap-Up and Discussion

Thursday
Objective: Identify and Catagorize different sources of energy
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: what is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources?
2. View PPT and take notesEnergy Resources
3. Introduce Energy EnigmaEnergy Enigma
4. Homework: Solar Power from Moon Solar Power from Moon – Solar Energy Homework

Friday
Objective: Research resources, categorize factual information, and debate pros and cons of various resources.
Agenda:
1. List as many renewable resources as you can remember.
2. Complete Energy Enigma

7th Grade Lesson Plans 12/13 – 12/17 December 13, 2010

Essential Question:

Monday
Objective: Assess student learning of waves and wave energy
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: Bingo on Wave Energy
2. Quiz on Wave Energy
3. Students that are completed can make up missing work or read Science World Magazines while they are waiting for other classmates to complete the quiz.

Tuesday
Objective: discuss forms of energy
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: as table groups, complete a bubble map of each type of energy source they can think of.
2. Text reading on energy sources
3. Lancer Notes on Energy Forms
4. Homework: worksheet on energy sources

Wednesday
Objective: conceptualize solar energy
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: what kind of energy does the sun produce?
2. Discovery video on Solar Energy – students complete note-taking guide while viewing.

Thursday
Objective: complete the reading requirement for the School Wide Read, The Tomorrow Code
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: If I had not read chapters 1-5, explain the main focus points to catch me up.
2. Students will alternate partner reading and silent reading chapters 6-8.

Friday
Objective: complete the reading requirement for the School Wide Read, The Tomorrow Code
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: If I had not read chapters 1-5, explain the main focus points to catch me up.
2. Students will alternate partner reading and silent reading chapters 9-11.

6th Grade Lesson Plans 1/3 – 1/7 December 10, 2010

Essential Question: How does the use of energy resources affect you and your community?

Monday
Objective: Create fossils in a lab setting to mimic properties learned in class.
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: review lab expectations
2. Review Lab set-up and activity
3. Complete the Fossils Lab

Tuesday
Objective: Analyze results of fossils created, discuss types of fossils.
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: is the fossil we created a trace or mold fossil? How do you know?
2. Students complete day 2 of Fossil Lab – analyze date and answer questions.
3. Video Clips on FossilizationFossilization Video Clips
4. Homework: Fossil Homework

Wednesday
Objective: Understand the sequence of events needed for a fossil to form.
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: What type of rock are fossils formed in? How do we know?
2. Students watch video clips that describe the sequence of events needed for fossils to form.
3. Note taking guide on fossil formation.

Thursday
Objective: Reveiw for upcoming quiz on fossils and geologic time
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: how does geologic time help to organize fossils found on Earth?
2. BINGO of vocabulary words used
3. Jeopardy game to prepare students for upcoming quiz.
4. Homework: Read article and complete crossword to review terms of fossilization.how-fossils-are-made – homework 1-6

Friday
Objective: Assess learning of fossils and geologic time.
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: quick review, what is the difference between a cast fossil and a trace fossil?
2. Students take quiz

6th Grade Lesson Plans 12/6 – 12/10 December 6, 2010

Essential Question: How does the use of energy resources affect you and your community?

Monday
Objective: Introduce Geologic Time
Agenda:
1. How old is the Earth? How do we know?
2. As a team, fill out a circle map of geologic Time
3. Geologic Time – Video Clip introduction
4. Introduce text reading protocol
5. Students read text and follow protocol

Tuesday:
Obective: Synthesize information on Geologic Time
Agenda:
1. Warm Up: where were the first human remains ever found?
2. Students watch video clips and take notes on Geologic Time
3. Lancer Notes on Geologic Time

Wednesday
Objective: Student continue to discuss, “How do we understand the Earth’s History and how is that timeline broken into understandable chunks of time?”
1. Warm-Up: put these in order smallest chunk of time to largest: period, eon, era, epoch (answer = epoch, period, era, eon)

2. Finish website exploration: students explored the interactive time-line on the following website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/deeptime/index.html . They wrote down ten facts that they learned.

3. Watch video clip, completing circle map as a note taking guide. This is a discover video called TLC Elementary School: Prehistoric Earth.
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=3FF74D22-6652-4502-B8A4-E3ED305DC497&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

Thursday
Objective: Create a timeline of Earth’s history
Agenda:
1. What is our current Eon?
2. Students complete a timeline of the Earth’s History.
Homework: given in class.

Friday
Objective: Finish timelines
Agenda:
1. Review expectations for timelines.
2. Students complete timelines and answer questions about timelines.

7th Grade Lesson Plans 12/6 – 12/10

Essential Question:

Monday
Objective: Introduce Wave Energy
Agenda:
1. What are the different types of wave energy? How can energy be passed through waves?
2. As a team, fill out a circle map of wave energy.
3. Wave Energy – Video Clip introduction
4. Introduce text reading protocol
5. Students read text and follow protocol

Tuesday:
Obective: Synthesize information on Wave Energy
Agenda:
1. Warm Up: where do you encounter wave energy in your everyday life? Make a list.
2. Round Robin what we know about waves.
3. Lancer Notes on Wave Energy from PowerPoint
4. Prepare for upcoming lab

Wednesday
Objective: Apply knowledge of wave energy in a lab scenario
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: review expectations for lab experiments
2. Students complete wave energy lab

Thursday
Objective: Analyze data from wave energy lab
Agenda:
1. What type of waves are shown in the images on the screen?
2. Students complete a lab report on the wave energy lab.

Friday
Objective: Express learning of wave energy with a formative assessment
Agenda:
1. What are the differences between compression waves and transitional waves? Explain.
2. Students complete a poster project that will express their learning of wave energy.