Earth Science 🌎

🧑‍🏫 Mr. Porter

📆 2025-26

2025.09.05 Earth Science

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather vacation in Hawaii or Alaska?

📋 Agenda

  1. Question of the Day
  2. Survival Island Share Out
  3. Graphing Notes
  4. Measurement Olympics

🎯 Goals

🥅 Collaborate with Peers

🥅 Collect & Graph Data

📆 Upcoming

  • ☑️ HW: Signed Safety Contracts

Board Meeting - Survival Island

Rules 📝

  1. 👂 Listen
  2. 🗣️ Speak Clearly
  3. ❔ Ask Questions
  4. 🤔 Seek to understand
  5. 👉 Refer to your board and use evidence
  6. 🌟 Come to consensus

Goals 🎯

  1. Practice Presenting to Class
    • speaking clearly
    • listening intently
  2. Learn how to come to class consensus
    • What does the majority of the data show?
  3. Create a culture of learning from each other

Measurement Olympics

🏃 🏋️ 🏊 🌬️ 🥇

Measurement Events

Event 1: Long Jump 🏃

Event 2: Reaction Time ⏱️

Event 3: Lung Capacity 🌬️

Event 4: Cool Down 🧊 🌡️

Station 1: Long Jump 🏃

Compare student's height to their average long jump

  1. Measure your height
  2. Measure three long jumps
  3. Calculate your average jump
  4. Record in class data table on Canvas

Station 2: Reaction Time ⏱️

Make a bar graph representing each group members average reaction time for their dominant and non-dominant hand

  1. Hold ruler above your partners hand, and without warning drop the ruler. Your partner should catch the ruler.
  2. Use the calculator in the group spreadsheet to convert the distance the ruler fell into a time
  3. Record 3 trials for your dominant and non-dominant hand. Average the times.
  4. Make your bar graph

Station 4: Lung Capacity 🌬️

Make a histogram of balloon cirumferences that we can inflate the balloons to with one breath

  1. Get your own balloon -- YOU ONLY GET 1 BALLOON
  2. Take a big breath and inflate the balloon as much as you can with 1 exhale.
  3. Pinch the balloon so no air comes out.
  4. Tie it, or hold it while partner measures the maximum circumference of the balloon.
  5. Record in the class data table in the class spreadsheet.

Station 4: Cool Down 🧊 🌡️

Compare the cooling rate of water when different number of ice cubes are added to water.

  1. Fill each beaker in your group up the same amount using the tap water.
  2. Add in different amounts of ice cubes according to the data table.
  3. Record the temperature each minute for 10 minutes
  4. Graph each cups temperature on the graph.

2024.09.05 Earth Science

❓ of the 📅: Sweet or savory for breakfast?

📋 Agenda

  1. Sit Anywhere (For Now)
    • you will move later
  2. Do Now (fill out questionnaire & card)
  3. Question of the Day
  4. Grouping Game
  5. Survival Island

🎯 Goals

🥅 Introductions

🥅 Classroom Culture

🏠 Homework

  • Signed Safety Contract

Do Now

  1. Fill out index card:
    1. Name
    2. Phone number to reach your parents/guardians if you sleep through the Regents exam
    3. Favorite Candy
    4. Favorite Emoji
    5. Emoji the describes your current mood
  2. Fill out Paper Quesionnaire

Lab Grouping Game

  • There are 15 of you
  • Based on your cards get into LOGICAL groups of 3
  • Check whole class answer with Mr. Porter
    • 4 Chances to Check
  • Reorganize if necessary

(Yes this is the game Connections)

Answers

Answers

  • States of Matter: Gas, Liquid, Solid
  • Energy: Juice, Spirit, Vigor
  • Classical Elements: Air, Fire, Water
  • Things with Rings: Circus, Saturn, Tree
  • Desserts: Pie, Cake, Cobbler

Survival Island 🌴

  1. Share your survival skill that you wrote down with your group
  2. Using everyone's skill develop a plan to survive or escape the deserted island
  3. On your whiteboard present your plan (drawing, mind map, set of instructions)
    • Highlight everyone's skill
  4. Share Plan to the class