7th Grade Science Guide

7.2: Changes to Earth 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 3

● Many trace fossils have been found in Emery County. ● LIttle Cottonwood Canyon and Big Cottonwood Canyon have very different rock layers, even though they are not far from each other. ● The rock layers in the mouth of Parley’s Canyon are curved. ● In Monument Valley, the buttes have distinct rock layers. ● Trilobite fossils are found throughout Utah, sometimes on the surface, and sometimes in deep rock layers. END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE SUPPORTS ● I can make an argument using evidence that the geologic time scale shows the age and history of Earth. ○ Language Supports: ■ CER Sentence Frames ■ Connector to link clauses (as a result of, therefore, when we see, to be more precise, however, on the other hand) ■ Diagrams, models, data (in the data we see, in this diagram we can see that, our model shows that)

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

● Law of Superposition Newsela article ● How can you tell a rock’s age? Newsela article ● Dating fossils in rocks gives us a timeline of human evolution Newsela article ● How index fossils help to defne geologic time Newsela article ● Students could pick a time in the geologic timeline to research and then write a narrative story about an organism or plant that lived in that time period and what everyday life might have been like.

Skill Building

Extension

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ● SEEd 7.2.6 Formative Assessment

ELA CONNECTIONS ● RST.6-8.1 Cite specifc textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts. ● RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a fowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table). ● RST.6-8.9 Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.