Hello everyone!
Happy [Text] Tuesday! Today we read a multitude of informational texts about methods for determining the age of fossils and rocks, and climate patterns from Earth’s past.
We started the day with a quick review about radioactive dating and then finished up our interactive Radioactive Dating Simulation activity that we began yesterday. Next we transitioned into stations for our Text Tuesday Reading:
Our stations* were setup like this:
Reading and answering questions on page 40 of notebook:
Station 1: Radioactive Dating
Station 2: Fission Track Dating
Station 3: Optically Stimulated Luminescence
Station 4: Ice Cores
Station 5: Fossil Dating – Relative Dating
Poster Gallery Walk – completing Fossil Dating Information Chart:
Station 6: Fission Track Dating & Ice Core Dating
Station 7: Optical Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) & Radiocarbon (radioactive) Dating
Station 8: Fossil Dating – Relative Dating
*Shoutout to Mrs. Story for providing texts to use in our stations!
Overall we had another successful day of stations with smooth transitions! Well done to all of my students! Look at them in action!
Here’s the link to our class prezi: http://prezi.com/ljl5gvns_cij/more-ways-to-date-objects
Here are our informational texts: Fossil Dating Stations
Here’s our informational chart: Fossil Dating – Information Chart
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We will have CFA #2 on Friday October 25 (this is like a unit test)!
It will cover everything we’ve learned about Earth’s history and processes.
Start studying pages 28 through 41 in your interactive notebook!
Students may take their notebooks home to study this week!
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Have a great day!
Meredith is a National Board Certified Teacher and has been teaching middle grades science for over a decade. She enjoys all science curricula but life sciences are her passion. She loves creativity and organization and feels at her best in the classroom when she can infuse these aspects into her lessons to help set up her students for success.
