1. DO NOW
V: 0
Tuesday
Jan. 7
Complete your New Year’s Resolution by answering the questions in complete sentences in your INB.
What is one thing that you want to improve upon in this class?
Why did you pick this as an area for improvement?
What 3 steps will you take to make sure you achieve your goal?
How will you know when you have achieved your goal?

2. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Homework Grade Level: Topographic Maps
Pre-AP: Topographic Maps
DUE MONDAY JAN. 13
Today’s Agenda
Review classroom expectations and procedures
Team building: 2 Truths, 1 False

3. TEKS
V: 0
8.9 (C) Interpret topographic maps and satellite views to identify land and erosional features and predict how these features may be reshaped by weather.

4. Vocabulary V: 0 contour line satellite view contour interval
land feature
altitude
erosional feature
successive
weathering
topographic map
erosion

5. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How does Earth’s surface change?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
revisit classroom expectations and procedures.

6. Classroom Expectations/Procedures
V: 1
Review the classroom expectations and procedures.

7. 2 Truths, 1 False
V: 2
On a piece of scratch paper, write 2 truths and 1 false about what you did over the holiday break.

8. DO NOW
V: 0
Wed/Thrs
Jan. 8-9
Complete a Venn Diagram comparing the features of the two maps at your table.
Topographic Physical

9. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Homework Grade Level: Topographic Maps
Pre-AP: Topographic Maps
DUE MONDAY JAN. 13
Today’s Agenda
Mt. Capulin Activity
Cornell Notes
Play-Doh and Topographic Maps
Exit Ticket

10. TEKS
V: 0
8.9 (C) Interpret topographic maps and satellite views to identify land and erosional features and predict how these features may be reshaped by weather.

11. Vocabulary V: 0 contour line satellite view contour interval
land feature
altitude
erosional feature
successive
weathering
topographic map
erosion

12. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How does Earth’s surface change?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Interpret topographic maps and satellite views to identify land and erosional features.

13. Mt. Capulin Activity
V: 1
Place the plastic model in the clear plastic box.
Tape the transparency sheet to the top of the box so that you still have room on one end of the box to pour water in.
Fill the plastic box with water up to the 1 cm mark.
Using a marker, carefully trace where the water makes contact with the model.
Fill the plastic box to the 2 cm mark and trace where the water makes contact with the model.
Repeat this procedure until the lines have been drawn at each water level and the model is completely submerged.

14. Mt. Capulin Activity
V: 1
Transfer the topographic map to your INB by placing the transparency behind the page where you want the image to go and tracing it. Title your map “Mt. Capulin”.

15. Mt. Capulin Activity
V: 1
Calculate the elevations for each contour line and add these to your topographic map. 1 cm = 250 ft. Altitude at the bottom of the box (the base of the volcano) is 6,280 feet. 0 cm = 6,280 ft 1 cm = 6280 ft ft = 6530 ft

16. Mt. Capulin Activity V: 1 QUESTIONS:
Describe the general shape of the contour lines when you are mapping a hill or a mountain. Use specific examples from our topographic map in your answer.
What is the relationship between the closeness of the lines and the steepness of the slope?
Would it be possible to distinguish a basin (an area of land that is lower at the center than it is at the edges) or a depression (an area that is lower than its surroundings) from a mountain on a topographic map? How would you show this?

17. Mt. Capulin Activity (Grade Level) V: 1
QUESTIONS:
Describe the general shape of the contour lines when you are mapping a hill or a mountain. Use specific examples from our topographic map in your answer.
When mapping a hill or a mountain, the general shape of the contour lines forms a…..

18. Mt. Capulin Activity (Grade Level) V: 1
QUESTIONS:
What is the relationship between the closeness of the
lines and the steepness of the slope?
In a topographic map, the closer the contour lines are to each other, the ________________ it is.
The further apart the contour lines are, the ____________ it is.

19. Mt. Capulin Activity (Grade Level) V: 1
QUESTIONS:
Would it be possible to distinguish a basin (an area of land that is lower at the center than it is at the edges) or a depression (an area that is lower than its surroundings) from a mountain on a topographic map? How would you show this?

20. Homework Reading & Cornell Notes V: 0
As a class, read the passage from the homework. Then, take Cornell Notes for the following vocabulary words: topographic map contour lines weathering erosion

21. Play-Doh
V: 2
Using the Play-Doh, create a model of the topographic map below. Then, draw a profile (side view) of the land feature. When you are finished, call your teacher over and have the profile sketch initialed.

22. Play-Doh
V: 2
Each table will now create a model of one of the topgraphic maps on the handout. Your teacher will tell each table which model they will be making. After you have created the model, draw a profile of the land feature. When you are finished, call your teacher over to initial the sketch of the topographic map.

23. Play-Doh
V: 2
As a table group, go to each of the other tables and determine which topographic was created. Then, sketch a profile of the land feature.

24. Exit Ticket
V: 0
Compare the topographic map of West Austin to East Austin. What are the differences? How does the map show this?

25. DO NOW
V: 0
Friday
Jan. 10
Make 5 observations about how the area has changed after erosion from El Nino.

26. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Homework Grade Level: Topographic Maps
Pre-AP: Topographic Maps
DUE MONDAY JAN. 13
Today’s Agenda
Sand Mountains
BrainPop Video

27. TEKS
V: 0
8.9 (C) Interpret topographic maps and satellite views to identify land and erosional features and predict how these features may be reshaped by weather.

28. Vocabulary V: 0 contour line satellite view contour interval
land feature
altitude
erosional feature
successive
weathering
topographic map
erosion

29. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How does Earth’s surface change?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Demonstrate effects of weathering and erosion of physical features.

30. Sand Mountains
V: 2
Using the sand in the plastic bins, create a mountain. In your INB, draw a picture of your sand mountain. Make 3 predictions about how weathering will affect the mountain.

31. Sand Mountains - Wind V: 2
Using the straws at the tables, blow air onto the sand mountain to demonstrate wind erosion. Draw a picture of the sand mountain after wind erosion and make observations about how the mountain has changed.

32. Sand Mountains - Rain V: 2
Using the pipette, model a light rain on the sand mountain. Draw a picture of the sand mountain after wind erosion and make observations about how the mountain has changed.

33. Sand Mountains – Flooding/River V: 2
Pour ¼ cup of water on the sand mountain to model a flood or a river rushing through an area. Draw a picture of the sand mountain after the flooding and make observations about how the mountain has changed.

34. BrainPop Video
V: 0
Weathering and Erosion