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by Kimberly Carvell esson Plan Document Typ sson Plan **Lesson Plan Subject ** Science The Energy Cycle 8th Grade
 * Day Five - The Energy Cycle **
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Focus Attention / Motivation : 10 minutes Instruction Input and Modeling: 15 Minutes Student Engagement and Practice: 15 Minutes Closure: 5 Minutes
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**Overall Goal/ Purpose ** Students will be able to describe and explain the energy cycle. cycle, and circulation patterns in the ocean shape patterns in the environment and influence availability and quality of natural resources. ||
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 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IL.17.B ** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">STANDARD: Analyze and explain characteristics and interactions of the Earth's physical systems. ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IL.17.B.3a ** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">> Explain how physical processes including climate, plate tectonics, erosion, soil formation, water
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IL.17.B.3b ** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">> Explain how changes in components of an ecosystem affect the system overall. ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IL.17.C ** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">STANDARD: Understand relationships between geographic factors and society. ||

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be able to report on using solar energy to heat homes. -red, orange, and yellow cards -computers -articles -books //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Focus Attention/Motivation //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: When students come in, they will be given a card, either orange, yellow, or red. I will ask the students what is the greatest source of energy?
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//Instructional Input & Modeling:// I will then draw a chart on the board of the sources of the earth's energy. We will talk about the three major sources of energy; solar, geothermal, and tidal energy. Orange cards will be solar energy, yellow = geothermal, and red = thermal. These students will meet with their color partners and discuss the causes of the source of energy and where it comes from. We will talk about the percentage of total energy each source has and where each source comes from as a class..

//Student Engagement/Practice:// Next I will put students in research groups. Students will use a collection of different sources, books, articles, computers, etc. Students will research the cause of solar energy to generate electricity and heat homes. Students will investigate methods for generating and storing solar energy. Groups will then present their recommendations on the usefulness of solar energy.

//Closure:// For a closure, students will predict what changes are going to result if humans continue to cut down a large tract of forest, burn the cut trees, and turn the land into big cities. They could also do this as an illustration. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will hand in their future predictions or illustrations on what will happen in the future. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Resources ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">No resources added.
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**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Accommodations ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Gifted students may also come up with new sources for energy, or make a blueprint for a "green house".