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 These are many of the lessons and concepts that will be covered in my class this year! 

 Here is a brief overview of the Science Unit on the changing of Earth's surface! 

 Below are several links that will take you to the lessons that we will be using to learn all about the Earth's systems. Lesson # 1 Introduction to Planet Earth Lesson # 2 Finding Different Landforms on Earth Lesson # 3 Volcanic Eruptions Lesson # 4 Tectonic Plates Lesson # 5 Researching Project Lesson # 6 Creating the Water Cycle Lesson # 7 Podcasting Radio Show Lesson # 8 Make Your Own Video Lesson # 9 Drawing Mt. St. Helen Lesson # 10 Final Comparison

A Unit Overview Alexa Meyer Planet Earth, a Dynamic System

 Overview This Unit is intended to open up the students view and understanding of Earth, using vocabulary and pictures that are based around the systems that change the surface of the Earth. Starting with volcanoes, to tectonic plates, to human landscaping, the students will be learning many different concepts that help explain why the planet we live on looks this way.

 Student Audience This Unit is designed for use in a 5th grade classroom. It is also designed to be used towards a better understanding of Natural Science and planet Earth.

 Timeframe This Unit will take 12 days to complete, with a period of 45 minutes to a hour spent each day learning and implementing each of the tasks involved in the lessons.

 Rationale We are teaching our students this lesson because it is important that 5th grade students have an understanding of the dynamic planet that they inhabit. This understanding will further their learning and understanding in other more complex science concepts that they will be learning in middle school. It is also imperative that our students understand this curriculum because it will help them understand the world around them and it will answer the questions about why certain things happen on Earth.

<span style="color: #114aee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Unit Objectives <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Students will be able to describe in detail the complex systems that effects planet Earth including, The Water System, Weathering, Volcanoes, Tectonic Plates and Earthquakes, Human Landscaping, Mountain Formations, Fault lines, and Crust Spreading. <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Students will be able to develop skills related to the appropriate use of the internet through research. <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Students will be able to understand the way in which each system on Earth is related to every other system and the effects each system has on Human life.

<span style="color: #114aee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Unit Standards <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Here is a link to the standards and I have also included a few of them in bulleted form.

<span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Colorado State Standards

<span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Analyze and interpret data identifying ways Earth's surface is constantly changing through a variety of processes and forces such as plate tectonics, erosion, deposition, solar influences, climate, and human activity. <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Develop and communicate an evidence based scientific explanation around one or more factors that change Earth's surface <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Develop and communicate an evidence-based scientific explanation for changes in weather conditions (DOK 1-3) <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Gather, analyze, and interpret data such as temperature, air pressure, wind, and humidity in relation to daily weather conditions (DOK 1-3) <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Describe weather conditions based on data collected using a variety of weather tools (DOK 1-2) <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Use data collection tools and measuring devices to gather, organize, and analyze data such as temperature, air pressure, wind, and humidity in relation to daily weather conditions (DOK 1-2)

<span style="color: #114aee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Variations or Adaptions <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For those students that have significant learning disability, I would do several things the help them be able to learn and compete the assigned work. I would set aside more time for the students to work on their projects. Every day there is a 30 minute period for extra work and one on one time with me, it will be during this period that the students will have access to all the technology and materials needed for each lesson in this Unit. I will also give each students a list of the lessons and the activities involved at the start of this Unit so that each students will be able start work early as well as to have time to transition to the new concepts and ideas. <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Another accommodation that I can make for students with learning disabilities, I could make the same lesson slightly less work by only giving them half of the work load of other students. For those learning disabled children that have hearing impairments, or a hard time readings or taking notes, I could assign another student to help them read aloud, take notes for them. Of course in every day and every lesson we want to make sure that we are employing all of the requirements and adaptations written out in a Special Education student's IEP. <span style="color: #9b11ee; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Lastly I could change certain portions of a students lesson for the day if they seem to struggle with anyone aspect of the material. For instance if a child does better in making a presentation than writing a paper, I would change the lesson so that they could use their best skills to learn and create a similar type of work for the same material.