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INSTRUCTIONAL OVERVIEW
Teacher_Susan Steele____ Class___Science____
Unit Topic: The Earth – The Atmosphere
Core Standards Taught:
SC-07-2.3.1 Students will make inferences and predictions related to changes in the Earth’s surface or
atmosphere based on data/evidence.
The Earth’s processes we see today, including erosion, movement of lithosphere plates and changes in
atmospheric composition, are predictable and similar to those that occurred in the past. Analysis of
evidence from Earth’s history substantiates the conclusion that the planet has also been influenced by
occasional catastrophes such as the impact of an asteroid or comet.
DOK 3
Vocabulary:
Radiation, conduction, convection, greenhouse effect, global warming, wind, global winds, jet streams, primary
and secondary pollutants, acid precipitation, atmosphere, lithosphere, erosion, pollution, climate change
WEEK OF:
MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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Bell Ringer:
__ Program Review
 How could movement of a divergent plate affect the Earth?
Learning Target:
 I can identify the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.I can compare and contrast the layers
of the Earth.
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Open ended questioning within Nearpod Presentation
K.C over Learning targets
Bell Ringer:
• What gases make up the atmosphere?
__ Program Review
Learning Target:
 I can identify the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.I can compare and contrast the layers
of the Earth.
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I can use data to predict changes in the atmosphere.
Teaching Strategy Used:
 Summary/Note Taking using Nearpod Presentation
 Cooperative Learning
Essential Questions of the Day:
 How does Radiation, conduction, and convection heat relate to the atmosphere?
Assessment:
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WEDNESDAY
I can use data to predict changes in the atmosphere.
Teaching Strategy Used:
 Summary/Note Taking using Nearpod Presentation
Essential Questions of the Day:
 How could changes in the amount of gases in the atmosphere change life on Earth?
 How does the Earth receive and react to heat?
Assessment:
Open ended questioning within Nearpod Presentation
Bell Ringer:
__ Program Review
 Describe how our Earth would be different if there was little or no Oxygen in the
atmosphere?
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Learning Target:
Effort/Recognition
 I can identify the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.I can compare and contrast the layers
Homework/Practice
of the Earth.
 I can use data to predict changes in the atmosphere.
Nonlinguistic
Cooperative
Learning
Objects/ Feedback
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Teaching Strategy Used:
 Cooperative Learning
Essential Questions of the Day:
 How could changes in the amount of gases in the atmosphere change life on Earth?
 How does the Earth receive and react to heat?
Assessment:
Student driven activity
THURSDAY
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Bell Ringer:
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How do P and S waves help us to determine what the Earth’s composition?
Learning Target:
 I can describe the different boundaries.
 I can explain how movement in the Earth’s mantle results in the motion of the
lithospheric plates.
 I can predict how the Earth’s surface will change at the different types of lithospheric
plate boundaries.
Teaching Strategy Used:
 Summary/Note Taking using Nearpod Presentation
Essential Questions of the Day:
 How do the different boundaries contribute to land formations?
 Where are the different boundaries more likely to be found?
Assessment:
Interactive questioning with in the nearpod presentation.
FRIDAY
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Bell Ringer:
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Describe one of the plate boundaries. (How does it occur? What land formation occurs at that
boundary?)
Learning Target:
 I can describe the different boundaries.
 I can explain how movement in the Earth’s mantle results in the motion of the
lithospheric plates.
 I can predict how the Earth’s surface will change at the different types of lithospheric
plate boundaries.
Teaching Strategy Used:
 Nonlinguistic
Essential Questions of the Day:
 Why would it be important to understand the boundaries and results of movement?
 How could knowing how the land is affected at these boundaries help us?
Assessment:
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Program Review:
Students will do a journal entry describing the types of boundaries, where they
occur, and what land formations occur there?