Due to a major electrical upgrade at the Kennesaw Warehouse, scheduled for November 21st through November 30th, ALL IT services (including the DMS website, I Parent, Picasso, and e-mail, among others) will be unavailable during that same time period.
New Unit!! Inside the Earth
No eggs today, we have to postpone the lab activity "Characteristics of the Earth". Volunteers need to bring in a hard-boiled egg with its shell!
This week our topic will be the Structure of the Earth.
Essential Question(s) for the Unit:
- How do the forces within the earth affect the formations of the Earth's surface?
- How do temperature, pressure, and composition vary as you descend into each layer of the Earth?
- How does the density difference of each layer play an important roll withing the earth?
- How do convection currents in the mantle cause changes to the earth's surface?
GPS Essential Question(s) for Unit:
- How are the earth's layers alike and different?
- What challenges stand in the way of sending explorers to the center of the earth?
Picasso vocabulary: crust, mantle, outer core, inner core, lithosphere, asthenosphere
Warm-up:
- Create a cover for your CW folder. It should represent the Unit we have just completed "Weathering and Erosion". It should be neat, colorful, and creative. The folder should include a proper heading.
- Take your CW assignments and the CW Table of Contents for the "Weathering and Erosion" Unit and place them in the folder you created. I will collect them and share them with your parents during Conference Week.
Classwork:
- Add new TOC to your CW section. Add the first assignment, "Parent Letter" for Ch. 7. This makes a perfect study guide for this unit. We will read sections 1-4 in the coming weeks. The next test will be on Wed. December 10th.
- Discovery notes: Classification of the Earth. There are 2 systems used for naming Earth's layers. One is based on the chemical composition and the other according to physical structure. Students draw 2 diagrams in their SCI Journal representing these to systems and label.
Homework: NONE :)
