Tuesday 1/31

Essential Question: How are hurricanes related to the water cycle?

Warm Up (12 min):

• Watch this Water cycle animation
• Draw Model Diagram of the Water Cycle in your science notebook (p. 7)

1.  Hurricanes 101 Video

2. Work with your table partners, and use the diagrams below and the video link to answer the questions on your worksheet.

2. Watch the video: 27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta and answer the questions on your worksheet

Monday 1/30

Today we are going to set up our new science notebooks and start learning about Water, Weather and Climate.

1. Notebook Setup

2. Water, Weather and Climate Title Page

3. Pair Share: What is a cycle:? What is the water cycle?

• Click on the appropriate Padlet below to write a couple sentences about what you already know about the water cycle:
• Period 3  
• Period 5

4. Focus Question: How does the way water cycles on Earth affect weather and climate? (write the focus question in your notebook, then do a quick write to answer the question)

• Watch this water cycle animation

5. Ticket Out: Water Cycle Diagram in your science notebook

Friday 1/27

• Complete this Group Evaluation Google Form

• You must bring in a new science journal (bound composition book) on Monday! Let me know if this is a problem for you. You will get points for having it!!

Thursday 1/26 – Friday 1/27

National Parks Presentations

• Open your Presentation and turn it in through Google Classroom.

• You will be graded based on your presentation (see rubric in Google Classroom or SchoolLoop) and you will also get points for listening attentively to other presentations. Take notes! We will have a writing assignment based on the presentations after they are completed. 

Wednesday 1/25

National Park Presentation Project

Project Goal: Work with your group  to research a National Park from the link below. You will work with a group of up to three partners to create a slide presentation to share with the class.

Find a Park NPS Website

Attention:

• Make sure your project is correctly named (ParkNamePeriod#)
• All text on your slides must be in your own words. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE TEXT!
• Don't put too much writing on each slide. Be brief, just include main points.
• Follow the rubric to make sure you have included everything you need to include
• Presentations are due tomorrow (Thursday)!

Monday 1/23

National Park Presentation Project

Project Goal: Work with your group  to research a National Park from the link below. You will work with a group of up to three partners to create a slide presentation to share with the class.

Find a Park NPS Website

Warm-Up: What is the difference between weather and climate?

Attention:

• Make sure your project is correctly named (ParkNamePeriod#)
• All text on your slides must be in your own words. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE TEXT!
• Don't put too much writing on each slide. Be brief, just include main points.
• How much progress have you made? Remember, the presentation has to be ready to present to the class on Thursday.

Thursday 1/19-Friday 1/20

National Park Presentation Project

Project Goal: Work with your group  to research a National Park from the link below. You will work with a group of up to three partners to create a slide presentation to share with the class.

1. Choose one national park from the list below:

• Great Smoky Mountains
• Yosemite
• Glacier
• Yellowstone
• Pinnacles
• Death Valley
• Hawaii Volcanoes
• Zion
• Grand Canyon
• Arches
• Joshua Tree
• Channel Islands
• Olympic
• Everglades
• Denali
• Glacier Bay
• Hot Springs
• Lassen Volcanic
• Great Sand Dunes
• Big Bend

Find a Park NPS Website

2. Use the template presentation from Google Classroom. One person from the group should make a copy of the template, name it with the name of the park and your period. Then share it with the other members of your group so that they can work on it with you.

Title slide: Include name and location of park and the names of the group members and period.

Each slide must include at least one picture that helps explain the topic of the slide.

Wednesday 1/18

Lakeview Bulletin

Agenda

1. Goals

2. Pair Share: What is a cycle:? What is the water cycle?

3. Click on the appropriate Padlet below to write a couple sentences about what you already know about the water cycle:

 Period 3  Period 5

Homework Due Tomorrow (Thursday): Bring in a new Science Notebook (bound composition book)