Date

Lesson

TEKS

1/22

Review Physical Science BM test.  Watch video(Eyewitness) for introduction to Earth Science

3.6B

1/23

LAB Globes, Maps, Natural Disasters.  Use a tennis ball and globe) to try to lay out like a map. Use typing paper to neatly wrap a ball(globe).

3.6B

1/24

Constructive and Destructive Forces(Kamico 138-142)

5.12A

1/25

LAB Cut an apple to represent how thin the Earth’s crust is.  Draw, color, and label the layers of the Earth.

5.12C

1/26

Changes to Earth’s surface. C6-C7  Vocab. Landforms, weathering, erosion, deposition, mass movement.(Kamico 155-158)

5.11A

5.12C

1/29

Interpreting the Past (Kamico 163-165)

5.11B

1/30

LAB Pangea  C20-C22 and P34 WB Vocab. Continental Drift, Pangea

3.6B

4.10A

1/31

Tectonic Plates, Magma, Volcano, Earthquakes, Faults, Land and Mountian Forming

3.6B

5.12AC

2/1

LAB Convection Currents Page 26 WB

3.6B

2/2

Types of Rocks- sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous; fossils, fossil fuels, natural gas, peat, lignite, bitumen, anthracite.

5.11B

2/6

LAB Types of rocks

5.11B

2/7

Compare Earth to the Moon (Kamico 149-152)

5.12C

2/8

LAB Erosion - using stream table

5.11C

2/9

Moon Cycles (Kamico 178-194)

5.12C

2/12

Weather (C64-C69)

4.6A

2/14

Review for test

2/15

6 weeks test

2/16

LAB Soil (Kamico 217-221)

4.11A

2/19

Causes of Wind C72-C75 Vocab. Local Winds, prevailing winds(Kamico 231-233)

4.11C

2/20

Reading TAKS Test

2/21

Revolve, Rotate, Axis, Eclipse, Moon Phases

5.6A

2/22

LAB Moon Phases

5.6A

2/23

Ocean Waters Move C94-C99 Vocab. Waves, current, tide

4.11B

5.12A

2/26

Climates C78-C83 Vocab. Climate, microclimate, El Nino, greenhouse effect, global warming.

5.12C

2/27

LAB waves C92-C93

4.11B

5.12A

2/28

Features of the Sun (Kamico253-256)

3/1

LAB Sunspots

3/2

Order of the planets (Kamico 249-250)

3/5

Changing land (Kamico 259-266)

5.11A

5.12C

3/6

LAB Reason fo the seasons

5.6A

3/7

Review for test

3/8

LAB Craters on Moon surface

3/9

3 weeks test

3/19

Solar System (Kamico 269-281)

3.11C

3/20

LAB Earth Science

3/21

Pattern Principle (Kamico 298-310)

3/22

LAB Earth Science

3/23

Review Earth Science

3/26

Review for Science BM test

3/27

Review for Science BM test

3/28

Science BM test

3/29

Review Science BM test

3/30

Review