Question of the Day:

• What was the best part of your weekend?
• List two things you know about cells?

Learning Intention:

• Students will know the characteristics of life and how cells make something living

Success Criteria:

• Students will successfully complete a Cell Unit Pre-Test to show knowledge about cells

Activities:

• Cell Pre-Test

Homework:

• None

Question of the Day:

• How does an igneous intrusion alter rock layers?
• What is an index fossil?

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to successfully complete a unit test to show knowledge growth

Activities:

• Geologic Time Unit Test

Homework:

• None

Question of the Day:

• Why do scientists correlate rock layers?
• What bone do modern whales and its ancestors have in common?

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to successfully complete a unit test to show knowledge growth

Activities:

• Geologic Time Unit Test

Homework:

• None

Question of the Day:

• What can scientists use to determine where an organism lived by looking at its fossil?
• Why do structures of an organism change over time?

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to complete an escape room

Activities:

• Escape room

Homework:

• UNIT TEST TOMORROW!!!!!

Question of the Day:

• What is morphology?
• What evidence do scientists have that mass extinctions occurred?

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to complete an assignment and understand how horses have changed over time.

Activities:

• Interpreting Fossil Record Activity-must be turned in by the end of class today, I will not take it late!!

Homework:

• Study guide is due at the beginning of class tomorrow, it must be complete and correct.  If you do not know the answer to something use your resources like notes in google classroom or papers that have been turned back to you.
• UNIT TEST THIS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY!!!

Happy Fall!!!!

Question of the Day:

• What was the best part of your weekend?
• How are two ways horses changed over time?

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to complete an assignment and understand how horses have changed over time.

Activities:

• Interpreting Fossil Record Activity

Homework:

• Study guide is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday

Question of the Day:

• What is an adaptation?
• What is Natural Selection?

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to complete an assignment and understand how horses have changed over time.

Activities:

• Complete and turn in Changes in Horse Fossils Over Time
• Work on Unit 1 review guide (due next Wednesday)

Homework:

• None

Question of the Day:

• List three pieces of evidence that scientists have found to show whales have changed over time.

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to complete an assignment and understand how horses have changed over time.

Activities:

• Changes in Horse Fossils Over Time

Homework:

• None

Question of the Day:

• Why did Pakicetus turn to the ocean for food?
• Why was the discovery of the whale ear bone so important?

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to explain how horses evolved over time to the organism they are today.

Activities:

• Horse evolution

Homework:

• None

Question of the Day:

• What bones gave clues that Pakicetus was related to the modern whale?
• What are three characteristics of mammals that whales have today?

Learning Intention:

• Students will understand how the Earth was formed and how changes have occurred over time to plants and animals.

Success Criteria:

• Students will be able to successfully compare ancient ancestors to modern whales

Activities:

• Whales Morphed video and questions (turn in questions at the end of class)

Homework:

• None