Welcome to Mr Andersen's 6th grade Science Class -  Gowana Middle School - Room G4

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Stand Your Ground (click for a printable version)        Timeline: 4 Weeks

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Critical Concepts:  By the end of the unit, students will learn to....

    ·        Discuss and describe differences between plains, plateaus and the main types of mountain.

    ·        Describe features on a topographic map and understand how they are created and read.

    ·        Contrast mechanical and chemical weathering and how climate might affect them.

    ·        Discuss how environmental conditions affect the evolution of soil horizons.

    ·        Describe the importance of soil and different human activities that might lead to its loss.

    ·        Define erosion and deposition and ways that their impact might be reduced.
Readings Requirements:

    ·         Chapter: 1-1, 1-2, 1-3

    ·         Chapter: 2-1, 2-2, 2-3

Click here for a printable copy of the "Stand Your Ground" Unit Notes
Key Vocabulary
 Erosion
Plateau 
Soil Profile
Humus
Permeability
Horizon		 Deposition
Weathering
Leaching 
Compost
Oxidation
Plain		 Contour Line
Soil
Climate
Water Cycle
Runoff
Desertification		 Mechanical Weathering
Ice Wedging
Chemical Weathering
Topographic Map
Mountain
Mineral
Practice Problems: Be aware that the Practice Problems are due on the due dates.

 

 

Name

Handout #1

Directed Reading: Weathering

Handout #2

Note Taking: Weathering and Soil

Handout #3

Directed Reading: Viewpoints

 

Test and Quiz

Quizzes after chapter #2 materials and test during the final week of the unit TBA

Be aware of the due dates as they are given.

In-Classs Activities: 
Soil Posters and Erosion Blues:  Investigate the physical and chemical characteristics of the Gowana garden.. Click here for the Good Soil Poster Rubric or Click Here for Erosion Project Rubric ot here for the Erosion Scroll Resource Packet
  •  Question:Are all the soil and land formations on earth made by giants and ants at night?Are all the soil and land formations on earth made by giants and ants at night?
  • Materials:  oster paper, Painters paper, Coloring and drawing tools, worksheets, planning pages and group packetsPoster paper, Painters paper, Coloring and drawing tools, worksheets, planning pages and group packets

Mining a Mountain - Take an unknown sample sort out this mixed up situation.
  • Question: Is it possible to separate a mixture back into its original parts?
  • Materials: Core Sample, Scales, Pick, Filters, Crusher, Magnet, Water, Screen
 A Chalky Experience: When does water have the time to make a cave?
  • Question:  hat variables affect the rate which chemical and physical weathering occurWhat variables affect the rate which chemical and physical weathering occur
  •  Materials:  Chalk, 2 Small Beakers, Metric Ruler, Vinegar, Hot Plate, Graduated Cylinder, Thermometer


 The Black Box(Click for Summary):  How do we see things without seeing them??Click Here for procedures to make a graph.
  • Question: Using only numbers, is it possible to draw a picture of something that you can not see ?
  •  Materials::  Box, 2 Probes, Cardboard, Glue, Data Tables, Computer using Excel Spreadsheet

More information can be found about this topic at the following websites.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05fire/background/mapping/mapping.html

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/gallery/maps/maps.html

http://reynolds.asu.edu/topo_gallery/movies/terrain_profile_haze.mov

http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/sensing/index.html

http://scripps.ucsd.edu/marianas/