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Notebook Check 1
Start of school year to Friday 9-16-16
LT: use a model to demonstrate and describe how
the rotation of the earth causes night and day.
Do Now: 9-15-16
Six friends were wondering why the sky is dark at
night. This is what they said:
• Alan: “The clouds come in at night and cover the
sun.”
• Barbara: “The Earth spins completely around
once a day.”
• Catherine: “The Sun moves around the Earth
once a day.”
• Devin: “The Earth moves around the Sun once a
day.”
• Ethan: The Sun moves underneath the Earth at
night.”
• Felicia: “The Sun stops shining.”
Which friend do you think has the best reason for
why the sky is dark at night? Describe your ideas
about why the Earth is dark at night and light
during the day.
Agenda: day and night
• Discuss do now.
• Sun Earth model demonstration
• Define: rotation, axis, revolution
• Diagram of earth sun relationship
• What represents the following in the
Earth/Sun model…
• The Sun?
• The Earth?
• An observer from Earth?
• Reflection: use the RERUN acronym
• Demonstrate the following:
to reflect on what you learned
• Day to night
today’s learning target.
• noon
• Reminder: notebook quiz and
• midnight
stamp count tomorrow.
• sunrise
• Sunset
• Define and put in glossary: rotation, axis,
revolution.
• Draw a labeled diagram with sun and
earth to demonstrate your
understanding of the cause of day and
night.
• Label the following: sun, earth, axis,
rotation, revolution, day, night, sunrise,
sunset
LT: Generate evidence that the earth is a
sphere.
Do Now: 9-14-16
Agenda: A Round, Spinning Earth
1. How do we know the earth is
round? What evidence do you
have?
• 4 Aristotle proofs of round earth
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=vzImgJCgUkg
• Longitude vs latitude vs altitude
• Sailing ship model construction
• How do observations of ships at sea
provide evidence of Earth’s shape?
• Round earth/flat earth
simulation
• What is horizon?
• Columbus first voyage reading
• Define altitude, latitude, longitude on right side
• Multimedia guide longitude/latitude
• Find 0, 0 on the globe and map.
• Find the coordinates of Tacoma, WA.
• How do observations of ships at sea provide
evidence of Earth’s shape?
• Make sailing ship
• Demo on map and globe and multimedia
• A horizon is the imaginary line between where
the sky meets the earth or ocean. How is the
horizon different for the flat Earth and the round
Earth?
• Read pg 3-6. What was learned about the world
from Columbus’ first voyage? Who do you think
deserves credit for discovering the Americas?
LT: Generate evidence that the earth is a
sphere.
• For your reflection, write a
claim, evidence, reasoning about
how you know the earth is
round.
LT: be able to describe how moving the point of view away
from the Earth changes the observations you can make
about the Earth's surface.
Do Now: 9-13-16
Agenda: School to Space
• What is your cosmic address?
Describe you location in the
universe as accurately as
possible, right down to this
classroom.
• Planetary science brainstorm
• Bird’s eye view through google
earth
• Textbook.
• pg 79-84. How did they take each
photo?
• Reflection
Planetary science brainstorm
1. What is the closest star to Earth?
2. How many other planets are in our
solar system?
3. What other objects are found in
the solar system?
4. How big is the Earth compared to
other objects in the solar system?
1. Google maps. Search Stewart
middle school. Switch to Earth.
2. Click ft to switch into meters/km.
3. Make observations at each altitude
on “bird’s eye view” handout.
4. When finished, turn in your
computer and get a textbook. Look
at pg 79-84 and write a prediction
about how each photo was taken.
LT: be able to describe how moving the point of view away
from the Earth changes the observations you can make
about the Earth's surface.
Reflection
• Reflection: use the RERUN
acronym to reflect on what you
learned today’s learning target.
LT: assess my readiness for 8th grade science.
Do Now: 9-12-16
1. What is the message behind
the two cartoons?
2. How does the message relate
to school?
Agenda: 8th grade science pretest
• Discuss meaning of cartoons
• Scenario discussion
• Pretest on variables and space
science
Group project
Scenarios:
1. think to yourself and
write a response on
right side.
2. share with your
table (whip around)
3. Share out with class.
1. One person from your lab group is
hogging the supplies.
2. A person at your table hasn’t
written anything on your groups’
poster.
3. Your group’s experiment results
are different from the group next
to you.
4. A person from your table leaves to
socialize with another table.
• Reflection: What do you
remember about Planetary
Science from 6th grade? What
topics do you need to
review/relearn?