1. Bell-ringer: 5 minutes
Create your own model/description of a park
How can scientists use modeling to explain why and how certain events occur?
How might modeling be used to predict scientific events?
Copy CCSS/MS, Objectives, HW
If missing a grade… copy directions in folder
If you finish early, make your model specific to one local park of your choosing

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?)
Performance Task Grading Rubric
Connections Friday Volunteers
Identify what is needed to know to revise and understand the situation in the model
determining important info. from text and photo examples
guided and independent practice
Summary/ Parking lot feedback/ questions

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. 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. Annotating text and figures
Evidence
Underline
Key words or facts !
Interesting or new information ♥
Favorite / Something you like ?
Question or Confusion C
Connection *
This is important
I understand this part

9. Ways to Analyze Discuss the pros and cons of __________.
How can you classify ________ according to _________?
How can you compare the different parts of _________?
How is _________ connected to _________?
How would you explain _________?
What can you infer _________?
What can you point out about _________?
What evidence in the text can you find that _________?
What explanation do you have for _________?
What ideas support/validate_________?
What is the problem with _________?
Why do you think _________?

10. Reading Text
There are two major types of fossils - body fossils and trace fossils. Both are the remains of living organisms. Body fossils reveal the body structure of the organism while trace fossils reveal the activities of these organisms. The process of fossilization is called taphonomy.

11. Photos

12. Figures

14. Processes

17. Comparisons

18. Graphs

19. Summary/ questions
We can draw information from figures by: _____________________________________________
Last questions…
Homework:
Connections Friday Volunteers
Explore the class website
Print any materials needed for tomorrow
Tell me if your parent needs printed newsletters (no internet)