11/21 Do Right Now Table of Contents: Week of 11/21 Warm-ups 11/21 Warm-up Take a textbook. Open to page 184. Read “My Planet Diary” and answer #1 and 2 in your comp book.

Agenda Warm-up/Super Scientist CER missing How do Scientists Study Ancient Climate? Notes Tree Ring Lab

What are three ways scientists study past climates? 11/22 Do Right Now Everything off your desk except for comp book and pencil. Warm-up for 11/22 What are three ways scientists study past climates?

Warm-Up Answer Drill in lakebeds for ancient pollen to see what plants grew in that location in the past. Look at tree rings. Thicker rings mean warm or wet climate. Thinner rings mean dry or cool climate. Look at ice core samples. Analysis of ice and pollen/dust in ice tells allows scientists to infer what climates in the past were like.

Agenda Update planner Warm-up Highlight and read about evidence for natural factors that cause climate change. Concept map

11/23 DO RIGHT NOW Warm-up: The four natural factors that affect climate change that we learned about yesterday are….

Warm-up Answer Movements of the continents Earth’s orbit shape and ice ages Volcanic activity Solar changes

Agenda Warm-up Summative Concept Map Happy Thanksgiving!!