Monday, September 17th Entry Task

1. Give your lab write up to the person behind you. (if you are in the back row give it to the person in the front row)

2. Correct the lab report that was given to you. Use the “How to write an 8th grade lab report” worksheet to grade them accurately.

3. Focus on circling or highlighting corrections, not giving a grade

Schedule:• Lab review• Book Check Out• Book Scavenger Hunt

Homework:• Finish Scavenger hunt if

not complete

Objective: • I can understand how to utilize my Earth Science book

Please have on your desk:• Lab report write up for

Oreo Cookie lab

Tuesday, September 18th

Entry Task Thinking back to what you saw in your textbook...

1.List 3 specific things you are excited about learning about this year in Geology Class2.List 3 specific things that you think might be challenging this year in Geology Class

Schedule:•Scavenger Hunt Review •Geology Test Pre Assessment

Homework• Read 1.1

Objective: I can understand how to use my science book to it’s fullest

Please have on desk:• Scavenger Hunt

Wednesday, September 19st

Entry Task Remember from your reading that the Earth system has four main parts that interact. Identify the parts involved in the following scenarios: (write down the scenario and list parts interacting)1.Wind blows a sailboat across a lake2.A bear digs under a log to search for food3.People wear a path through a forest, and rain further erodes the path

Schedule:• Earth System Foldable

Objective I can understand the 4 spheres that make up Earth’s system

Homework: •1.1 Quiz tomorrow

The Earth System

• System: an organized group of parts that work together to form a whole.

• The Earth system has four major parts:

1.Atmosphere

2.Hydrosphere

3.Biosphere

4.Geosphere

Atmosphere

• The mixture of gases and particles that surrounds and protects the surface of Earth.

• The mixture of gases:– Nitrogen (78%)– Oxygen (21%)– Carbon dioxide, water

vapor, and other gases (1%)

Hydrosphere

• Made up of all the water on Earth:– Oceans, lakes, and

glaciers– Rivers, streams, and

underground

• Water covers 75% of the Earth’s surface– 3% is fresh water – 70% in glaciers and polar

ice

Biosphere

• All life on Earth:– in the air – on the land– in the waters

Geosphere

• All the features on Earth’s surface:– Continents– Islands– Sea floor– Everything below the

surface

The Earth’s Geospherecrust: thin, rocky shell that includes continents and sea floor

mantle: thick layer of hot rock

outer core: molten metal, mostly iron

inner core: solid metal, mostly iron

The atmosphere, hydrosphere, The atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere work together biosphere, and geosphere work together to form one large system called Earth.to form one large system called Earth.

geosphere biosphere

atmospherehydrosphere

1.1 Questions

• On the back of your foldable, answer the following questions using full sentences, IQIA.

• Questions #1-6 on page 14.

• EXTRA CREDIT!!!!!– Draw a colored picture to represent each of

the spheres

Thursday, September 20th

Entry Task

Answer the following questions using full sentences, IQIA.

1.Define system. Compare an open and a closed system2.Name the four parts of the Earth system.3.Give two examples of how the Earth system’s four parts can interact with each other.

Schedule:•RSG 1.1 •1.1 Quiz

Objective•I can explain the spheres that make up Earth’s system

Homework: •None

Please have on desk:•Earth System Foldable

Friday, September 21st

Entry Task Write down 5 facts that you already know about fossils.

Schedule:• Read/RSG 9.1

Homework:• 9.1 Review Questions

Objective: • I can understand that Earth’s past is revealed in rocks and fossils.

9.1 Review Questions

• Page 293 #1-6

• Do in notebook

• Use full sentences, IQIA.