Unit 3:
"Man, oh, man, what have we done?"
AOI:
Community and Service
Unit Question:
How have humans affected Earth?
Vocabulary:
drought, radiation, convection, climate, acid rain, ozone layer, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases,
global warming, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, water cycle, system, extinction
Assessment:
MYP Criteria A & B - 11-18 "Man and the Climate"
MYP Criteria C, D & F - 11-23 - Garbology Lab
Date
Content
Homework
Assessment
11-23
Third week of 3rd six weeks
Finish “Man & Climate” presentations
Begin “Wastes Lab”
None
11-24
Complete “Wastes Lab”
11-25
Holiday
Finish
11-26
11-27
11-9
First week of 3rd six weeks
Unit 3 Vocabulary
11-10
Begin Project :
“Man and the Climate” http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/gw.html
11-11
Work on project
http://www.ehow.com/how_2044984_prevent-global-warming.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art
11-12
http://coolcities.us/
11-13
Last class to work on project.
Presentations will be on Tuesday.
11-2
Sixth week of 2nd six weeks
Review for Unit 2 Test
Study
11-3
Unit 2 Test
Pre-assess Unit 3
11-4
Analyze Topography Maps
11-5
Complete Topography Map Activity
11-6
Tracking the TEKS.
Review MMA
10-26
Fifth week of 2nd six weeks
Review essays.
Review Rock Cycle.
Introduce Moon Phases
10-27
Moon Phase Act.
“Lunar Learner”
10-28
Moon Phase Webquest
http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/moon/lunar_phases_main.html
http://www.sunrisesunset.com/
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html http://starryskies.com/The_sky/events/lunar-2003/phases.html
10-29
Continue Moon Phase study.
10-30
Enriched Moon Phase activities.
10-19
Fourth week of 2nd six weeks
Investigating rocks Activity
10-20
Early Release Day
Ws – R&R 11-2,11-3,11-4
10-21
Classifying Rocks Activity
10-22
Read pages 406 – 409
GR 11-5
Draw the Rock Cycle in science notebook
10-23
Journey Through the Rock Cycle Activity
10-5
Second week of 2nd six weeks
Vocabulary – “Geology”
10-6
Begin “Dynamic Earth” Project
http://geology.com/news/# http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/ http://www.recentearthquakes.net/ http://www.livescience.com/volcanoes/ http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/activity/ http://www.platetectonics.com/ http://www.wenval.cc/rdawes/Basics/platetectonics.html http://baird.si.edu/minsci/tdpmap/viewer.htm http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
http://www.emsc-csem.org
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/Contdrift.shtml
10-7
Continue working on “Dynamic Earth” Project
10-8
10-9
Last day to work on “Dynamic Earth” Project
9-28
First week of 2nd six weeks
Begin Unit 2 – Waves Voc
9-29
Unit 1 Test
Pre-assess Unit 2
9-30
Lab – ”Wavy Motions” p. 142
10-1
Guided Reader 4-1 & 4-2
10-2
Pep Rally Schedule
Musical Instruments
9-14
Fourth week of 1st six weeks
Newton’s Laws Web quest
http://can-do.com/uci/ssi2001/newtonsphysicsnb.html
9-15
District MMA Science
9-16
Early Release
Lab – “Come Fly With Us”
9-17
Guided Reader 3-1
WS - Calculations
9-18
Discuss Calculation WS
Newton’s “Activities”
9-7
Third week of 1st six weeks
9-8
Review Labs
Lab Safety Quiz
Vocabulary Force/Motion
9-9
Online book registration
Web quest – Scientific Method
http://scientificmethodandseeds.blogspot.com/search/label/2.%20The%20Scientific%20Method
9-10
Complete Web quest
Graphing Activity
9-11
Lab Practicum Quiz
8-31
Second week of 1st six weeks
Lab safety and tools of measurement
Get safety contract signed
9-1
Tools of measurement memory game
9-2
Lab “Techniques”
9-3
Lab “Measuring Metrics”
Study for safety quiz
9-4
Discuss labs.
8-24
Staff Development
8-25
First Day of the first six weeks.
Champs
https://www.applytexas.org/adappc/html/preview_10.html
8-26
MYP lessons
8-27
Set up science notebooks.
8-28
Preassess Unit 1
Unit 1 Voc: Safety/Method
