Students will be able to:
use the information from virtual activities, textbooks, hans-on activites, and classroom discussions to
-learn what causes seasons.
-relate seasons to the duration and directness of sunlight.
Students took a quiz on this week's remediation for 7th grade physical science benchmarks: SC.7.P.10.1; SC.7.P.10.3; SC.7.P.11.2; and SC.7.P.11.4.
Students watched a BrainPop movie on Seasons.
Students then took notes on pages 186-188 of their 8th grade texts. Be sure to place the following in your table of contents:
Date-3/8
Benchmark-SC.912.R.5.6
Topic-Seasons
Be sure to make a Cornell notes page that has the date, page number (be sure to include the page number in your table of contents), and topic. Draw something to remind you or represent what you've learned about the seasons. Don't forget that once you complete the notes, you must make up a level one, two and three question to accompany the notes. Also, complete the summary on the bottom of the page that summaries your notes on seasons.
A good level one question could be: What are seasons?
Level two: Compare and contrast the earth's position and the weather during summer and winter for the Northern Hemisphere.
Level three: How would the seasons be different if Earth were not tilted on its axis?
Be sure to use highlighters (three) to highlight the question and its answer in the same color.
Your notes should include:
-the names of the seasons
-how sunlight hits earth
-the earth's tilt angle
-earth's tilted axis and what happens because of it
-the definition of solstice and the dates
-the definition of equinox and the dates
Remember, your planet project is due in class tomorrow!
-how each hemisphere differs in temperature and amount of sunlight during the summer and winter because of the tilt of the earth