DATE OBJECTIVE TOPICS Pages EVALUATION

Week from Introduce myself ● Introduction Week. Diagnostic Activities

February 6 to
th
and have students
February 9 th
introduce ● Gather student information. Book Activities
themselves.
● Establish and discuss guidelines for the
Begin to learn class.
students' names.
Chapter 1: Plate Tectonic
Students will analyze
and interpret data ● Drifting Continents Pages 8-11
in the distribution of
fossils and rocks,
continental shape,
and sea-floor
structures to explain
 Wegner´s
Hypothesis.

Week from Students Will ● Sea-Floor Spreading Pages 11-17 Classwork #1: Book Activities
February 12th to construct a Chapter #1.
● The Theory of Plate Tectonics Pages 18-23
February 16 th
scientific Value 4%
explanation for the
formation of Laboratorio #1: Reconocimiento de
mid-ocean ridges. Equipo y material de laboratorio.
Value 5%
Students will
develop and use a
apply scientific
principles to explain
how sea-floor
spreading affects
Earth crust.

Week from Students will Chapter 2: Earthquakes Homework #1: Glossary.

February 19 to
th
construct a Pages 38-45 Value: 5%
February 23 th
scientific ● Forces in the Earth´s Crust
explanation based Pages 46-52
● Earthquakes and Seismic Waves
on evidence of how
stress in the crust
changes Earth
‘surface.
 Students Will
integrate qualitative
and scientific
technical
information to
describe how the
energy of an
earthquake travels
through Earth.

Week from Students Will apply ● Monitoring Earthquakes Pages 54-59 Classwork #2: Book Activities
February 26 to
th
scientific principles Chapter #2.
March 1st to explain how
seismograph works. Value 3%

Week from March Students will Chapter 2: Weathering and Soil

Classwork #3: Worksheet
4 to March 8
th th
construct a
● Rocks and Weathering Pages 72-79 Activities
scientific
explanation based Value 5%
Pages 80-85
on evidence to ● How Soil Forms?
show how
Homework #2: Safety Measures
weathering and
During Earthquakes
erosion affect
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Earth´s surface.
 Students will
develop and use
models to describe
the composition of
soil and how it
forms.

Week from March Students Will ● Soil Conservation Pages 86-88 Classwork #4: Study Guide
11th to March 15th construct an Value 5%
explanation based
on empirical Review Activities
evidence about Value 5%
how soil can lose its Classwork #4: Book Activities
value. Chapter #3.

Value 3%

Week from March Exams Week Exams Week Written Exam 60%
12th to March 22nd
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