1. Do You Know?
How does the type or location of a living thing determine what becomes a fossil?
Take out behavior log
Copy Objective, HW into assignment list

2. Activate Prior Knowledge:
Analyze the following image:

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

4. Connections Friday
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…
Tell me about a time when you saw a fossil!

5. Paper return/ Grade Sheet Update
No.
Name of Assignment
Unit Name
Date
Points Earned 1.
How Do You Know
Inquiry
8/10/16
/10 2.
Community Map
8/15/16 /7 3.
Scientific Method Quiz
8/18/16
/16 4.
Biweekly Test #1
RI/RL
8/24/16

6. Goals
* State the Objective(s)/Standard (s)- Sci.7.1a, L.7.4b-L.7.6, RI.7.4
* State the Purpose (Big Idea) - By understanding how fossils are made, we learn our place in life, and what our future may be
SWBAT reference relevant information and quotes as evidence to support performance task explanations of the cause of fossilization

7. Agenda
Identify what is needed to know to revise and understand the situation in the model
Dating Review
Death and Preservation
Summary/ feedback/ questions

8. 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

9. Dating Review: Do-Now
List all the ways you can date something or determine how old it is.

10. Dating rings…
The usefulness of teeth and other bones…

11. Carbon Dating
Half-Lives  
  Years Past  
  C-14Atoms 
       0
   1 N 1
 5,730
1/2 N 2
11,460
1/4 N 3
17,190
 1/8 N 4
22,920
1/16 N 5
28,650
1/32 N 6
34,380
1/64 N 7
40,110
1/128 N 
Dating samples are usually charcoal, wood, bone, or shell, but any tissue that was ever alive can be dated
Following death, no new carbon is consumed. 
Progressively through time, the carbon-14 atoms decay
Half-life of carbon-14 is about 5,730 years
Discuss the pros and cons of using carbon dating techniques 

12. Location, Location, Location
Fossilization

14. Decomposition Scavengers Insects Bacteria and Fungi
Materials like carbon and nitrogen return to the soil or air and back into other living things

15. Decomposition/Decay Temperature Drops 3-6 hours: muscles stiffen
Blood pools
Acidity rises, breaks down tissue on the inside
Bacteria multiply then insects
Gases cause bloat, oozing
Maggots and disintegration
All that remains of the cadaver at this stage is dry skin, cartilage, and bones
Plant growth

16. Extinctions: A Reset Button?
Asteroid impacts
Climate change
Volcanoes
Glaciation
Sea Rise
K-T extinction

17. Preservation

18. Compare your notes!
Students will compare notes taken during class and write down any missing quotes or facts that would be useful to answer how fossilization occurs

19. Summary/ questions
There are multiple ways to tell how old something is
There are multiple ways to be preserved after death
Stages of decay bring flesh to bones
Last questions…
Redoing performance task Monday! Be ready! Know your related vocab, how things decay, and become fossils!

20. 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)
Your peers – Feedback to 1 or 2 people… What is something you saw him/her do that matched up with our class values? Why was it really great to see this?

21. Monday: Redo Performance Task

23. Optional HW David Attenborough’s “First Life”

24. This Week…
Culminating in a single project Responsible to work at home Establishing controls and testing variables All in the intro to start us off Teaching one another what we care about most Ending with pride, ownership for your experiments