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Generative Understanding Earth and its History (building background knowledge for Dinosaur
Topic: Expedition)
Introductory 2 As a class, we will read a text about Earth’s Formal assessment by students checking
Performances: beginning. Throughout reading students will answers to text based questions as we go
highlight key details. After reading, students over them as a class. Informal assessment by
will walk around the room with a partner to teacher. What are students highlighting as
answer posted text based questions. important details?
4 Students will make a class model of a Informal assessment by teacher. Are students
sedimentary rock using sand, pebbles, and making observations about layers and visible
larger rocks in a jar. Students will make pieces? Conferencing with students, are their
observations about what they notice about drawings matching the jar?
the rock, and draw the rock.
Guided Inquiry 1 Students will be given a set of sentences that Informal feedback by teacher. Walking the
Performances: describe scenes that are either happening in room and conferencing with students about
the daytime or nighttime. Students will use their sort. Probing questions about what key
text evidence and background knowledge to words are they underlining and what
infer what time of day the scene is experiences they have had in their lives to
happening. inform their decisions.
4 Students will be given 8 descriptions (clues) Formal self assessment by students. Teacher
of different types of rocks. Students will goes over correct matches while students
walk the room looking at posted pictures of correct their own work. Informal assessment
rocks that match the descriptions that they by teacher. Listening to students reasoning
have. Students will determine which for what type of rock they think the real rock
description matches which rock. Last, I will is. Are students noticing differences among
show students a real rock and have them the physical characteristics of common sed,
decided if its most like the sedimentary meta, and igneous rocks?
rocks, metamorphic rocks, or igneous rocks
and why they think that.
Culminating 1, 2 Students will use their knowledge of what Informal assessment. Teacher walking the
Performances: the Earth looks like today and the shapes of room observing the choices students are
the continents to infer what Pangea looked making. Are their decisions logical? Asking
like. Students will produce an individual students why they placed a continent
map, but will be able to confer with their somewhere.
tablemates about the placement of their
continents.
3 Students will be given a set of blank circles Formal summative assessment by teacher.
varying in size. Students will cut out the Did students correctly order and label the
circles and glue them on top of each other. layers of the Earth? Do students facts
Students will label each circle with a layer of correspond to the layers?
the Earth (smallest circle inner core...largest
circle crust). Then students will right one
fact about each layer. Students will use table
information charts made during jigsaw to
locate facts.
4 Students will go on a rock walk around the Informal assessment by teacher. Teacher
neighborhood of RBCS. Each student will walking the room and conferring with
collect one rock and bring it back to the students about what they notice about their
classroom. Students will closely observe and rock. Did students classify their rock as
draw their rock. Students will determine if sedimentary or not?
their rock is sedimentary or not based on
common characteristics of sedimentary
rocks.
Skill Strands:
X 1. Inferencing
X 2. Using Evidence
X 3. Classifying
✓ 4. Identifying important facts/details
✓5. Observations