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Write a story or play from the perspective of a rock going through the processes of a Sedimentary Rock. Be sure to include academic vocab: WED, compaction, cementation, minerals, glue, sedimentary, sediment, pressure, weight, evaporate

Students will create, in groups, a 12-frame storyboard depicting their assigned original narrative. With photos of the storyboards, the groups willl then present their project to the class in an oral presentation. Each student is expected to speak in the presentation.

Students research an inner or outer planet, prepare and present a powerpoint presentation to the class.

Students will research a type of severe weather and create an informative presentation (written and oral) and create a model which demonstrates their weather phenomenon

LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems LS2.B: Cycle of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems

Students are to model their ecosystem. The model should include appropriate living and non-living organisms present. The paper should include an appropriate description of their ecosystem including the climate, what living and non-living organisms are present, how the living organisms meet their needs for survival, and example of a food chain or web that exists in this environment, what types of changes could take place, what those changes could do to the populations within that ecosystem, and what microbes might be present that may drastically effect the ecosystem.Students will need to state the species scientific name. Students will also have to discribe the interconnected relationships of the species of their choice. Key Points: that energy driving the ecosystem comes from the sun the web of life is contunually dying and feeding other sections of the ecosystem that diversity assures resilience

Students work collaboratively in groups of four to design a series of models which represent the the relative positions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon as they relate to each of the 8 phases of the moon. Students will present their models as a group demonstrating each of the 8 phases in order and can explain why they appear in the same order.

Next Generation Science Standards MS-ESS3 Earth and Human Activity

Next Generation Science Standards MS-ESS3 Earth and Human Activity

Students will research a type of severe weather and create an informative presentation.

LS2-3. Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.