Monday– October 17th DAILY AGENDA REQUIRED MATERIALS Start of Class Routine Pre-Test Boomtown Assessment Reflection Graphing Welcome to Boomtown! Activity Science Binder Pencil/Eraser

Pre-Test 1 _______ B B B B B

Pre-Test 1 Grading Write your score on your Bellwork and circle it. 5/5  3 4/5  2 3/5  1 2/5 or less  0

Boomtown Assessment Reflection Graph your score on line a: 5/5  3 4/5  2 3/5  1 2/5 or less  0

Clear your desk, except for the Welcome to boomtown! worksheet

What is your role? Welcome to Boomtown! You have been awarded a contract to build Boomtown’s newest housing area. Over the past 100 years, Boomtown has welcomed thousands of new residents.

What is Boomtown? Boomtown is a large town. It is 100 miles from one side of the town to the other.

Boomtown’s Area Boomtown has three main areas: Swamp Seaside Cliff Green Hill

Landform A feature of the Earth’s surface Examples: lake stream valley canyon hill ridge mountain.

Swamp Area that has a high proportion of water but dominated by trees surrounding the area.

Cliff A straight up and down rock formation that is steep. In Boomtown it is near the water.

Hill A naturally raised area, it is not as high or rough as a mountain.

Boomtown Engineering Report 1 Work with your shoulder partner to read the Procedures and complete the Boomtown Engineering Report Data Table.

Conclusion Directions: Which area of Boomtown should you build the new housing development? State one area EX: Based on research, engineers should build in the _______ area of Boomtown) State the positives of building in that area. Answer the question “What makes it better than the other areas.” Use data to prove this (EX: building on the moon means that zero endangered species will be harmed) State one weakness of building in the area. (EX: Even though building on the moon is the best option, it will still …) 5 – 6 sentences Proper grammar!