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Each week this year we will be focusing on a different aspect of the Science FCAT test in class in an activity called "FCAT Focus". In this section we will be providing the content of the lessons so that students may preview them to enhance discussion, review for the assessment if they were absent or review to better prepare for the Science FCAT. Answers to the activities will not be presented online before they are presented in class and the assessment, or it's answers, will not be posted. Our focus lessons will be posted below by date, most recent first. If there is a particular lesson that you would like more information on, or generally, what you might do to prepare for the Science FCAT please take a moment to share your question in the community forum. On that note, if you'd like to expand on one of the focus lessons please see Mr. Yeazell or Mr. Mason to find out how you can earn extra credit for your initiative!
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Essential Question:
How did the fossil of a tropical turtle end up frozen in the Canadian Arctic?
Related Benchmarks:
SC.912.E.7.9: Cite evidence that the ocean has had a significant influence on climate change by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, carbon, and water.
Objectives:
Explain that Earth’s climate, geological activity, and life forms may be traced and compared.
Essential Vocabulary:
Climate: weather conditions of a region (temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds) throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.
Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having been dug up"): are the preserved remains of animals, plants, and other organisms from the past. Fossils are only found in sedimentary rock.
Carbon Dioxide (chemical formula CO2): a gas released by burning fossil fuels and other processes
Enrichment:
Chemistry Enrichment: CO2 is a chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom.
Biology enrichment: Carbon dioxide is used by plants during photosynthesis to make sugars
Modeled Instruction (Reading passage):
Essential Question:
- How did the fossil of a tropical turtle end up frozen in the Canadian Arctic?
Related Benchmarks:
- SC.912.E.7.9: Cite evidence that the ocean has had a significant influence on climate change by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, carbon, and water.
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Decomposers - Week of 11/9 |
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Essential Question: - What is the role of a decomposer in a food web?
Related Benchmarks: - 912.L.17.9 Use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers. Explain the pathway of energy transfer through trophic levels and the reduction of available energy at successive trophic levels.
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Ecological Succession - Week of 10/12 |
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Essential Question: - What are the types and stages of succession?
Related Benchmarks: - SC.912.L.17.8 Recognize the consequences of the losses of biodiversity due to catastrophic events, climate changes, human activity, and the introduction of invasive, non-native species.)
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Gravitational Force - Week of 11/2 |
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Essential Question: - What are gravitational forces and how are they used?
Related Benchmarks: - SC.912.P.12.4: Describe how the gravitational force between two objects depends on their masses and the distance between them.
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Periodic Table - Week of 9/28 |
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Essential Question: - How are elements organized on a periodic table?
Related Benchmark: - SC.8.P.8.6 Recognize that elements are grouped in the periodic table according to similarities of their properties
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