Earth's+Forces+5-E

TAKS Scopes 5-E

Day 1: Engage: chalk activity from AIMs – called Weathering Away. Stds. take chalk and rub against sand paper to demonstrate the difference between weathering (breaking the chalk into dust) and then erosion (wind blowing the dust away). Activity pages that go with this activity. Have students write both definitions for weathering and erosion in their science logs along with a picture showing each.

Day 2 – 4: (during reading b/c of procedural text) Review the definitions of weathering and erosion from yesterday. Explore: Make earthquakes using TAKScopes –making dough with cut paper plates – demonstrating rapid changes. Make glaciers with AIMs –using ice with soil – all day observation – demonstrating slow changes. Discuss erosion and deposition with sediment displacement. Volcano Day – Jan. 15th – discuss expectations for h.w. - students can bring in a volcano and materials so we can go outside and erupt them or research a volcano.

Day 5: Explain:Questions from TAKS Scopes about the changes to the earth (rapid and slow) – make a chart in their science logs of the rapid vs. slow changes. Rapid changes: earthquakes, tsunami, flood, and volcanoes. Slow changes: erosion (by forces of wind, water, waves, gravity and glaciers), glaciers carve valleys and lakebeds, and glaciers deposit rocks to form hills

Elaborate:United Streaming: Weathering and Erosion: [] Rapid Changes: []

Expository passage from TAKScopes Books from closet and videos in closet Writing Connection: [|Trapped by the Ice Writing Strategies.doc]  Evaluate: