1/16/12 - No School

1/17/12 - Friday's lesson was bumped to today due to early release (snow)
Learning Target: I can plan, implement, and analyze an experiment to make sand.
- Warm-Up: What comes first - sand or sandstone?  Why/how?
- Focus Question: How is sand made?
- Plan an experimental design to make sand
- Record data, diagram results
- Complete reflection questions on sheet
- Tape Sand Analysis sheet in workbook (p. 52)
- Cool-down: Use the sand analysis sheet to record data on the sand your group made

1/18/12
Learning Target: I can explain how sand is made.
- Warm-Up: Sand probe
- Discuss yesterday's lab and how we can answer the focus question
- Complete results and conclusion for "Making Sand: Inquiry"
- Cool-Down: Diagram how sand is made on p. 50 in workbook

1/19/12
Learning Target: I can compare and contrast sand from different locations and make inferences based on these observations.
- Warm-Up: p. 2
- Focus Question: Why does sand in different locations look different?
- Record focus question and prediction on p. 52
- Watch "sand dune" video
- Record sand observations on p. 53
- Cool-Down: Begin "sand questions" (p. 57)

1/20/12
- Warm-Up: quiz
- Complete and discuss "Sand Questions" (p. 57)
- Watch "weathering & erosion" video and answer video questions (p. 59, 61)
- Cool-Down: How does weathering affect rocks?