Bell-ringer: 5 minutes Create your own model/description of a park How can scientists use modeling to explain why and how certain events occur? How might modeling be used to predict scientific events? Copy CCSS/MS, Objectives, HW If missing a grade… copy directions in folder If you finish early, make your model specific to one local park of your choosing

Mantra Today is a great day for science because: science is power. You are powerful because: I always make a difference.

Agenda Class Website!! / Parent-signed notes? Paper Return/ Grade Sheets/ Collection (Make-up work?) Performance Task Grading Rubric Connections Friday Volunteers Identify what is needed to know to revise and understand the situation in the model determining important info. from text and photo examples guided and independent practice Summary/ Parking lot feedback/ questions

Paper return/ Grade Sheet Update Your Name Class/Period Miss Krichten Grade Sheet No. Name of Assignment Unit Name Date Points Earned 1. How Do You Know Inquiry 8/6/15 2. Science / Observations 8/7/15 3. Measurement 8/11/15 4. Scientific Method Quiz 8/17/15

Performance Task Rubric

Connections Friday 1-2 volunteers How could you find out more about or interact with fossils or previous life? OR Local current event related to modeling, causes and effects, fossils…

What do we need to understand? What knowledge should we know to understand how animals fossilize/ get buried and left behind? Environments, Grass/Soil, Weather, & Water Cycle Where/why bones are found, what happens to them Where animals live/ normal diet, animals vs. humans Fossil and animal ID and types Graves Time Scale and Dating How/where things die, extinctions/why, & decomposition (what/how long) Preservation (freezing, amber, ash, etc.) Which animals fossilize/how

Annotating text and figures Evidence Underline Key words or facts ! Interesting or new information ♥ Favorite / Something you like ? Question or Confusion C Connection * This is important I understand this part

Ways to Analyze Discuss the pros and cons of __________. How can you classify ________ according to _________? How can you compare the different parts of _________? How is _________ connected to _________? How would you explain _________? What can you infer _________? What can you point out about _________? What evidence in the text can you find that _________? What explanation do you have for _________? What ideas support/validate_________? What is the problem with _________? Why do you think _________?

Reading Text There are two major types of fossils - body fossils and trace fossils. Both are the remains of living organisms. Body fossils reveal the body structure of the organism while trace fossils reveal the activities of these organisms. The process of fossilization is called taphonomy.

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Summary/ questions We can draw information from figures by: _____________________________________________ Last questions… Homework: Connections Friday Volunteers Explore the class website Print any materials needed for tomorrow Tell me if your parent needs printed newsletters (no internet)