1. Bell-ringer: 5 minutes Identify relevant information from the image
Describe what conclusions you can make by using that information
Copy CCSS/MS, Objectives, HW
If missing a grade… copy directions in folder

2. Mantra Today is a great day for science because: science is power.
You are powerful because:
I always make a difference.

3. Agenda Class Website!! / Parent-signed notes?
Paper Return/ Grade Sheets/ Collection (Make-up work?)
Connections Friday Volunteers
Evolutionary History (Using fossils)
Geology and Geography
Guided and independent practice
Summary/ questions
GO, GO FEEDBACK FRONTIER!

4. Paper return/ Grade Sheet Update
Your Name Class/Period Miss Krichten Grade Sheet
No.
Name of Assignment
Unit Name
Date
Points Earned 1.
How Do You Know
Inquiry
8/6/15 2.
Science / Observations
8/7/15 3.
Measurement
8/11/15 4.
Scientific Method Quiz
8/17/15 5.
1st Attempt: Fossil Model
8/19/15

5. Performance Task Rubric

6. Connections Friday 1-2 volunteers
How could you find out more about or interact with fossils or previous life? OR
Local current event related to modeling, causes and effects, fossils…

7. What do we need to understand?
What knowledge should we know to understand how animals fossilize/ get buried and left behind?
Environments, Grass/Soil, Weather, & Water Cycle
Where/why bones are found, what happens to them
Where animals live/ normal diet, animals vs. humans
Fossil and animal ID and types
Graves
Time Scale and Dating
How/where things die, extinctions/why, & decomposition (what/how long)
Preservation (freezing, amber, ash, etc.)
Which animals fossilize/how

8. Do-Now Which person’s theory do you agree with more? Why?
Georges Cuvier: Earth's features are mostly accounted for by violent, large-scale events that occurred in a relatively short amount of time. (Catastrophism)
James Hutton: The earth is constantly changing and forming and has been for billions of years (Uniformitarianism)

9. Geology
The study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change
Law of Original Horizontality
Sedimentary rock layers, and large lava flows, are initially deposited in a horizontal or nearly horizontal orientation due to gravity (Figure 4). Therefore if rock layers appear tilted to the horizon we can assume the rocks have been moved into that position by some crustal disturbance sometime after their deposition

10. Dating rocks
Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships:
Carbon Dating:  

11. Dating the Earth How can we date the planets? In between??
Earth billion years ago
Moon bya
Milky Way 13.2 bya
Mars 4.5 bya
In between??
The oldest life?
3.5 bya

12. Glaciation Events Name Period (Ma) Period Era Quaternary
2.58 – present
Neogene
Cenozoic
Karoo
360 – 260
Carboniferous 
and Permian
Paleozoic
Andean-Saharan
450 – 420
Ordovician and 
Silurian
Cryogenian (or Sturtian-Varangian)
850 – 635
Cryogenian
Neoproterozoic
Huronian
2400 – 2100
Siderian and 
Rhyacian
Paleoproterozoic

13. Long History of Life

14. Vendian (or Ediacaran)
Period
Epoch
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Holocene
Pleistocene
Tertiary
Pliocene
Miocene
Oligocene
Eocene
Paleocene
Mesozoic
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Paleozoic
Permian
* Carboniferous
Pennsylvanian
Mississippian
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian
Vendian (or Ediacaran)
Long History of Life

15. Do-Now Describe where you live in as many different ways as possible
If you wanted to know more about the people around you, what would you do?

16. Geography
The study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth

17. GO GO FEEDBACK FRONTIER!
Miss K – In my baggie (Comments on my teaching, living up to my goals, and any personal things you need to privately tell me)
Parking Lot – Back of the door in your period’s “parking spot”
Your peers – Feedback to 1 or 2 people