Fossil Fuels Two Weeks

/ Social Studies
Lesson Plan
Teacher: 6th Grade Teacher / Grade: 6th Grade
Lesson Title:
Scientist Impact on Fossil Fuels
STRANDS
Culture, Geography
LESSON OVERVIEW / Summary of the task, challenge, investigation, career-related scenario, problem, or community link.
This unit will discuss fossil fuels in the context of how scientist can impact their extraction, usages, and the perception of such extraction and usage. There will also be product and resource maps utilized to supplement the theme of fossil fuels. Although fossil fuel as a source of energy has been a primary energy source for many generations, it is an energy source that is highly controversial. Examining how different types of scientist may impact this field will allow students to explore the world of fossil fuels through a different set of eyes, so to speak. There will be a writing assessment for students to display their opinions on whether a geologist or anthropologist could impact the controversy of coal. Being situated in northeast Tennessee, many students will be very familiar with political rhetoric and other forms of coal controversy. Math will also be incorporated by examining how many barrels of oil are available, produced, and consumed by various places around the world.
MOTIVATOR / Hook for the week unit or supplemental resources used throughout the week. (PBL scenarios, video clips, websites, literature)
“Bill Nye” Found in Appendix A
“Earth Revealed” Found in Appendix C
“BP” Found in Appendix C
“America Revealed” Found in Appendix D
“Doing Anthropology” Found in Appendix E
DAY /
Objectives
(I can….) /

Materials & Resources

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Instructional Procedures

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Instruction /

Assessment

1 / I can elaborate upon the purposes of archaeology.
I can detail the job characteristics of an archaeologist. / Found in Appendix A
PDF Notes
iPads
Apple TV / Essential Question:
1.  What are the job characteristics of an archaeologist?
2.  What is the purpose of archaeology? / Remediation:
Seating to minimize distraction
Adjusted Questions:
1.Why is an archaeologist job a valuable science?
2.What limits their job compared to other sciences you are familiar with.
Enrichment:
Adjusted Questions:
1.How would the skills archaeologist use to make decision on ancient peoples be used to find and utilize fossil fuels?
2.Do you see potential conflicts of interest between an archaeologist and coal or gas companies? / Formative: Worksheet
Summarizing Strategy
Archaeologist
Set: “Write down the first three words you think about when you hear the word archaeologist.” Selected students will share their thoughts with the class.
Teaching Procedure:
•  Class will begin by watching “Bill Nye – Archaeology.”
•  Students will be presented with this lesson’s essential questions.
•  Students will take notes answering the essential questions based on the content within the video.
•  Students’ findings and the video’s content will be discussed directly the following the video.
•  The class will then be directed to “Archaeology” and perform the correlating worksheet.
•  Volunteer students will answer the worksheet’s questions in a discussion-oriented lecture based on the reading.
Summarizing Strategy:
•  After the instructor introduces the unit and explains very briefly what fossil fuels are and how we use them, students will begin this lesson’s summarizing strategy.
•  “Based on what you now know about archaeology, do you think archaeologist would have any role in the discovery or usage of fossil fuels?”
•  Students will take a few moments and generate responses. Selected students will share their thoughts with the class.
2 / I can identify what fossil fuels are.
I can explain how archaeology and the retrieval of fossil fuels coexist.
I can differentiate between resource maps and product maps. / Found in Appendix B
PDF Notes
iPads
Apple TV / Essential Questions:
1.  What are fossil fuels?
2.  How does archaeology and fossil fuel retrieval coexist?
3.  What is a resource map?
4.  What is a product map?
5.  What is an Archaeological Impact Assessment? / Remediation:
Seating to minimize distraction
Heterogeneous Table Groups
Anchoring Activity: During the reading, students of lower reading levels will receive one on one attention.
Enrichment:
Heterogeneous Table Groups
Elevated Reading (B.C. Archaeology) / Formative: Worksheets
Exit Tickets
Archaeology and Fossil Fuels
Set: “Provide a working definition for fossil fuels.” Students will be given a few moments to generate their responses. Selected students will share their thoughts with the class.
Teaching Procedure:
•  Students will first be directed to “Discovering Fossil Fuels” and perform the correlating worksheet.
•  Volunteer students will share their findings as the class reviews the worksheet’s seven questions.
•  Students will then view “Resource Map – Oil” and discuss it’s content. This map will be compared to “Product Map – Oil.”
•  Similarities and differences between the two will briefly discussed.
•  The class will then view “B.C. Archaeology.” Students will read this independently and then discuss their findings at their tables. This reading details how archaeology and land use coexist through Archaeological Impact Assessments.
•  Volunteer table groups may share their realizations with the class to generate discussion.
Summarizing Strategy:
•  “What is the difference between a product map and a resource map?”
•  Students will turn their answer to this question in as an exit ticket.
3 / I can provide details about the science of geology. / Found in Appendix C
iPads
PDF Notes
Apple TV / Essential Question: What is geology? / Remediation:
Seating to minimize distraction
Prompting
Heterogeneous Groupings
Adjusted Questions:
1.Why is geology more than just studying the earth?
2.Does the human impact on the earth have enough impact to off set the benefit of extracting oil?
Enrichment:
Heterogeneous Grouping / Formative: Worksheet
Table Presentations
Exit Tickets
Geology
Set: “Write down the first three words you think of when you hear the word geology.” Students will be given a few moments to generate responses. Volunteer students will share their responses to class discussion.
Teaching Procedure:
•  Students will first be directed to “UC Davis Geology” and perform the correlating worksheet.
•  Selected students will share their findings to supplement a lecture on the worksheet’s content.
•  Students will then watch “Earth Revealed.”
•  Before any discussion takes place students will watch “BP.”
•  Now that students know a little bit about geology and a little bit about new age ways of finding petroleum, students will work at their tables in groups of three students to formulate a list of reasons as to why geology is one of the most critical sciences in the modern world.
•  As directions are given students will be prompted to take into consideration all that geology and energy discoveries produce, both positive and negative.
•  Students will also need to formulate whether producing energy is more valuable than the productions of other sciences.
•  Each table will present their case for class discussion.
Summarizing Strategy:
•  “Identify the primary purpose of geology.”
•  Students will submit their responses as an exit ticket.
4 / I can explain the connection between geology and coal mining. / Found in Appendix D
PDF Notes
iPad
Apple TV / Essential Question: How are coal mining and geology connected? / Remediation:
Seating to Minimize Distraction
Prompting
Anchoring Activity: During the reading, selected students will receive one on one assistance.
Enrichment:
Elevated Reading
Adjusted Questions:
1.How might a geologist and a coal miner have a conflict of interest?
2.How might a geologist make coal mining even more profitable for coal mining companies? / Formative:
Worksheet
Geology and Coal Mining
Set: “What are two benefits that the science of geology produces?” Students will be given a few moments to generate responses. Selected students will share their thoughts for class discussion.
Teaching Strategy:
•  Students will read the summary portion of “Mining Geology” and perform the correlating worksheet.
•  Selected students will answer the worksheet’s seven questions to supplement a brief lecture covering the worksheet’s content.
•  “America Revealed” will then be watched by the class.
Summarizing Strategy:
•  “After watching ‘America Revealed’ what aspects of geology do you think would be the most valuable in terms of mining?”
•  Students will be given a few moments to formulate adequate reflections.
•  Volunteer students may share their thoughts to close the class session.
5 / I can provide details about the science of anthropology.
I can detail how anthropology might impact fossil fuel extraction or usage. / Found in Appendix E
iPads
PDF Notes
Apple TV / Essential Question:
1.  What is anthropology?
2.  How might anthropology impact fossil fuel extraction or usage? / Remediation:
Seating to minimize distraction
Homogeneous Groups
Anchoring Activity: During the list creation, selected groups will receive one on one assistance.
Enrichment:
Homogeneous Groups / Formative: Worksheet
List
Anthropology
Set: “How does geology impact coal mining? Identify two ways.” Students will be given a few moments to generate responses. Volunteer students may share their thoughts for classroom discussion.
Teaching Procedure:
•  Students will be directed to “Anthropology” and perform the correlating worksheet.
•  Selected students will be called upon to share their answers to supplement a brief lecture.
•  Class will then view “Doing Anthropology” with the central question being, “how might anthropology be useful in the realm of fossil fuel extraction or usage?”
•  Students will be placed into homogeneous groups to create a list of items that answer the question above.
•  Each table will share their list with the class and a master list will be created on the board by the instructor.
Summarizing Strategy:
•  “What possible benefits do you see anthropology being capable of producing?”
•  Volunteer students will share their thoughts to close this class session.
6 / I can provide details on how geology and/or anthropology could help or harm coal controversy. / Found in Appendix F
iPads
Paper
Pencil / Essential Question: How can the sciences of geology and anthropology play a role in coal controversy? / Remediation:
Seating to minimize distraction
Anchoring Activity: While students create bubble diagrams, selected students will receive one on one attention.
Enrichment:
Adjusted Questions:
1.Would scientific evidence or personal/cultural understanding be a better avenue to attacking/defending coal?
2.Does the appearance of mountain top removal make it very hard to defend from a cultural perspective? / Formative:
Bubble Diagram
Geology and Anthropology’s Impact
Set: “What is the central concept of anthropology?” Students will be given a few moments to generate responses. Select students will share their response for the class to review.
Teaching Strategy:
•  Class will begin by watching “Coal: The Documentary.”
•  Students will then be given directions about their in class essay. This essay will be done on day seven of the unit.
•  The central question of the essay is the essential question of today’s lesson.
•  Students will work individually to create bubble diagrams.
•  This writing topic is complex and will require students support their opinions with facts and quality information.
•  Students may use their iPads to research items that will guide their thinking.
Summarizing Strategy:
•  Volunteer students will share their bubble diagrams with the class to induce discussion on the essay topic.
7 / I can provide details on how geology and/or anthropology could help or harm coal controversy. / MacBooks / Essential Question: How can the sciences of geology and anthropology play a role in coal controversy? / Remediation:
Seating to minimize distraction
Prompting
Additional time
Enrichment:
Individual Writing / Summative: Anthropology Essay
Coal Controversy
Set: “Get out your bubble diagrams and pull up Word on your MacBook.” As today’s class is a summative assessment of an in class essay the set will make the most of the time allotted.
Teaching Strategy:
•  Students will be presented with the essay’s central question (today’s essential question) and be instructed that a five paragraph, well organized essay is the expectation.
•  Students will be given the entire period to complete this assessment.
•  Students who finish will be directed to find interactive maps involving fossil fuels.
Summarizing Strategy:
•  If all students finish in time for any discussion, students will verbally reflect on the challenges of writing an essay in fifty minutes.
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Project Day 1—refer to unit plan
Topic—Fossil Fuel Keynote
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Project Day 2—refer to unit plan
Topic—Fossil Fuel Keynote
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Project Day 3—refer to unit plan
Topic—Fossil Fuel Debate
STANDARDS / Identify what you want to teach. Reference State, Common Core, ACT
College Readiness Standards and/or State Competencies.
GLE’s
1.03 Appreciate the relationship between physical environments and culture.
1.04 Recognize how cultural and individual perceptions affect places and regions.
1.06 Understand the influence of science and technology on the development of culture through time.
3.01 Understand the characteristics and uses of maps.
3.04 Understand the physical and human characteristics of place.
SPI’s
6.1.spi.2. identify the job characteristics of archaeologists, anthropologists, geologists, and historians.
6.3.spi.5. use a variety of maps to understand geographic and historical information (i.e., political maps, resource maps, product maps, physical maps, climate maps, vegetation maps).
6.3.spi.6. interpret a graph that illustrates a major trend in world history (i.e. population growth, economic development, governance land areas, growth of religions).

Vocabulary:

Archaeology: the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.

Geology: the science that deals with the earth's physical structure, its history, and how human and other factors impact it.

Anthropology: the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture

Fossil Fuels: a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.

Archaeological Impact Assessment: an assessment of how land usage will impact archaeological sites.