NB 81 2/5/14

This is our last notebook page that we will add for Chapter 9. Notebook checks will be on Wednesday/Thursday of next week, and I will be grading Notebook pages 75 – 81. I will snap a picture of our notebook rubric on Monday of next week and add to the blog.

Lesson 3 of Chapter 9 began with the important question — How can Earth’s surface change rapidly? This led to the inspiration behind our notebook page. We discussed things that could cause Earth’s surface to change rapidly — tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanoes, fires, etc. Students were given time to choose at least 2 and illustrate them. On the bottom of the page we discussed things that caused Earth’s surface to change slowly as a review of Lessons 1 and 2.

W.E.D. NB 80

I found this cute illustration on Pinterest over the summer, and I knew that I would have to include it in our Science class this year. Weathering, erosion, and deposition are hard concepts to understand, and I thought this illustration would help our 4th graders learn the material.

I’ve included these key words on our vocabulary definitions on our test so students can easily recognize the definitions.
Weathering — “breaks it”
Erosion — “carries it”
Deposition — “drops it”

Weathering NB 79 1/29/14

In case you haven’t heard — we have a 2.5 delay in the morning due to weather. This means our school day will start at 10:30!! 🙂

Today in Science we completed Lesson 1. We discussed how physical and chemical weathering affect landforms. We contrasted the two types of weathering on notebook page 79. I snapped a pic of a student example. We will have 3 test questions from today’s material. Study Guides will go home next week.