Science for Everyone: BM 5: Plate Tectonics

Sunday, August 30, 2009

BM 5: Plate Tectonics

Create a series of 4-6 coloring pages that will indicate your knowledge of the following concepts. The pages are designed for 3-5 graders. Terms that are not used in the book will be defined on a final vocabulary review sheet.

Heat Transfer

Convection

Conduction

Radiation

Plate tectonics

Radioactive evidence

Fossil evidence

Seafloor spreading

Ring of Fire

Earthquakes

Volcanoes

Plate boundaries

Sedimentary rock

Igneous rock

Metamorphic rock

Prevailing winds

Layers of the earth

Alfred Wegener

THINGS to REMEMBER

Cartoons are meant to be line drawings. They should be drawn in one color of ink (a Sharpie marker works great for this). You may create them using a paint tool in powerpoint or by hand. You may not simply use clipart, although you may print something and trace.

Grading Rubric

10	7-9	3-6	0-2
Use of vocabulary concepts (x2)	All concepts correctly illustrated or defined	One or two minor concept mistakes	Four or more concepts missing	More than half of the concepts missing
Examples are relevant to young children (x1)	All examples are relevant	Minor mistakes in examples	Examples are haphazard or unclear	Examples don’t make sense to young children
Composition of coloring page(x1)	Drawings are original composition and not smudged. Drawings include a statement that explains the coloring page in language kids can understand	Drawings look like they were ‘borrowed’ from someone else. Drawings include statements that are unclear or hard for kids to understand.	Drawings are smudged and look like they are not original. Statements are unclear or missing.	Drawings are messy or indecipherable. Statements are unclear
Concepts covered (x2)	Coloring pages cover 10 or more concepts correctly. A vocabulary page is included	Coloring pages cover 7-9 concepts correctly. A vocabulary page is included	Coloring pages cover 4-6 concepts corectly. A vocabulary page is included.	Coloring pages do not cover concepts correctly, OR a vocabulary page is NOT included.

This is due on Thursday, September 3.

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Sci.SI1.1: Using experimentation, students will contrast types of forces

Benchmark assessment: Students will create a Video voiceover a clip on YouTube, taking the role of a science broadcast announcer.

Components

Students will:

Sci.SI1.1.1 Demonstrate how balanced and unbalanced forces are related to motion.

Sci.SI1.1.2 Test, collect data, and verify Newton's laws of motion.

Sci.SI1.1.3 Contrast forces that act from a distance, including gravitation and magnetism.

Sci.SI1.1.4 Explain how mass and weight differ at different locations in the universe.

Sci.SI1.2: Through research and inquiry, students will apply the concepts of transverse waves to the use of sound and light wave technology.

Benchmark assessment: Student will synthesize their knowledge of light and sound waves to make a musical instrument that can play at least four distinct pitches and use the music created as part of a shadow puppet show.

Components

Students will:

Sci.SI1.2.1 Experiment with sound and light waves to identify the following structures or relationships: crests, troughs, frequency, wavelengths, amplitude, energy transmission, resonance(standing waves) and speed

Sci.SI1.2.2 Identify and experiment with part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Sci.SI1.2.3 Use light to create penumbras, umbras, and colored shadows.

Sci.SI1.2.4 Experiment with wind or string instruments of varying pitch.

Sci.SI1.3: Through experimentation, Students will observe energy transformations, including potential and kinetic energy

Benchmark assessment: Students will create mousetrap cars and reflect upon the energy transformations.

Components

Students will:

Sci.SI1.3.1 Model changes in gravitational potential energy, spring potential energy, and kinetic energy.

Sci.SI1.3.2 Examine the energy changes in a variety of simple machines

Sci.SI1.3.3 Analyze the effectiveness of a machine for a job using its actual mechanical advantage.

Sci.SI1.4: Using inquiry and models, students will utilize alternative energies.

Benchmark assessment: Students will build a structure that allows us to utilize solar or wind energy in a useful way.

Students will:

Sci.SI1.4.1: Experiment with passive and active solar energy.

Sci.SI1.4.2: Experiment with models of wind energy.

Sci.SI1.4.3? Explain energy transformations in alternative energies.

Sci.SI1.5: Students will model heat transfer mechanisms as a rationale for weather and plate movement on the earth.

Benchmark assessment: Students will create a coloring book that shows the concepts of the chapter in a way that is understandable to a young reader.

Students will:

Sci.SI1.5.1: Contrast convection, conduction, and radiation inside the earth, in its water and weather patterns, and from the sun.

Sci.SI1.5.2: Examine the prevailing winds at different locations on earth, and discuss the movement of weather systems.

Sci.SI1.5.3 Model plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanos.

Sci.SI1.5.4: Analyze fossils and other technologies for tracking plate movement

Sci.SI1.6: Students will apply knowledge of geochemical cycles to the issue of climate change.

Benchmark Assessment: Students will come up with a life plan that discusses their usage of various cycles and ways to minimize their effect on the planet.

Students will:

Sci.SI1.6.1: Diagram movement of material between geochemical reservoirs.

Sci.SI1.6.2: Contrast the effect of various geochemical cycles on temperature and atmospheric concentration.

Sci.SI1.6.3: Quantify amounts of material found in reservoirs through visual and experimental models.

Sci.SI1.6.4: Explore ways to minimize their carbon footprint.

Sci.SI1.7: Students will apply their knowledge of the origin and scale of

space.

Benchmark Assessment: Students will create museum exhibits that are interactive, visual and three-dimensional to illustrate their understanding of the components.

Students will:

Sci.SI1.7.1: Model the solar system size and scale.

Sci.SI1.7.2: Examine distances in the cosmos based upon the concept of light speed.

Sci.SI1.7.3: Create time scales for geology on earth, the formation of the solar system, and the big bang.

Sci.SI1.7.4: Examine the process of radioactivity in a star like our Sun, and model its life cycle.