 Good morning everyone welcome back to the vlog happy Monday today is August 16th, and I just got to school. It's about 650 ish And of course I have more crap to bring in We are starting our unit of erosion and so I have Things Things Because you know I got to do everything extra around here. So I'm bringing in all of these little Things for my labs today. It's not really labs. They're more just like little Observation stations. Oh That's what I should call them Observation station I kind of like that because the purpose of them is to provide the students with a way to Explore erosion and weathering without me telling them what it is so I will Put all this stuff away, and then I will explain to you guys What our day is gonna look like? Okay guys, so I have my stations my observation stations all set up And I'm just gonna walk you guys through Kind of like each station, and then I'll bring you back over and show you guys the lesson Or at least what we're doing today. So Today Observation station number one now. Keep in mind. I got all of these station ideas from Generation Genius I love using Generation Genius as like a springboard to my science lessons because they always have some sort of like Explore activity in a station, and I love to use the five E's for my science lessons So today will be engaging and exploring tomorrow will be explain Wednesday will be elaborate, and then Thursday will do a little bit more elaboration than Friday I'll evaluate and see where we're at at this point. So anyway, the first station is called Well, I guess it doesn't have a name So the directions say to press down gently on the sugar cubes using your hands notebook task Write down your observations. What happened to the sugar cubes? So essentially the kids are going to be breaking them up by a force which is their hand to kind of simulate Rocks crushing rocks and weathering them down so this is supposed to simulate weathering and then I always put a little note there reset the station place a new Sugar cube into the Ziploc bag and toss the crumbs into the trash So I have my students resetting the stations for me Because essentially what I do is I pull three tables at a time. So I'll do tables one through three They'll come back and do their stations first. I'll do quick little six-minute rotations They get one minute to do the lab and then they get five minutes to write their observations down Anyway, so I'll pull those three groups first The other kids will be working on reading a story and a picture book that is related to erosion itself So and I'll show you guys which picture book I have the kids doing But this is station number one and then I have extra supplies back there if they need it Station number two is over here, and this is exactly why I have these tables y'all I know I haven't really talked about them, but this is exactly what they're for their first stations Station number two is a erosion Simulation so they're gonna lightly pour the water over the top of the slope as you can see I've created a nice little slope here Observe what happens to the soil right down their observations what happened to the soil So I want them to tell me that the soil Moved from the top of the tray to the bottom of the tray or Mary that maybe the water pushed the soil down Something along the lines of the soil moving And then again reset the station rebuild the slope by adding soil and soaking up any water left in the tub wash your hands So I'll have paper towels here in case they make a watery mess And then I have buckets full of soil for them to just kind of rebuild The slope and it's okay if it rebuilds down here as long as this space is empty and they're able to see the soil moving So then I brought a couple of watering cans from home. These are just like this one's caches This one's mine, and they'll just use these to lightly pour at the top and then station number three This one says to lightly sand down the rock for about 10 seconds over the black paper Observe what happens right down your observations what happened to the calcite so the rock that I have today is calcite And I actually got this from my science resource room I know I haven't shown you guys on the vlog, but I showed Instagram and if you guys saw it's pretty crazy I am gonna probably go down there in the next couple days So I will show you guys that room, but essentially they just take the sandpaper They stand down the calcite and the black paper really helps to see the sediment that falls off And so the again, this is really simulating like wind erosion wind with wind weathering And then all they do to reset is dust all the sediment off and reset the items now I could add something to this and have them blowing the sediment around with a straw, but that's actually gonna be part of my Elaborate station day, so I'm actually gonna do stations again on Wednesday for elaboration where they're gonna actually get to Simulate what they know now so now that they know more about erosion They'll be able to simulate a little bit better and have a better understanding so today is just to explore Before I introduce any information at all So I will show you guys what we're gonna do before stations Okay, so I'm gonna really quickly just walk you guys through my lesson for today and show you that text I was talking about so I'm gonna just turn you guys around and Present this Okay, so what I like to do is make a whole week of like one giant slide show for the week That way if I ever have a class that gets behind or something I can just mark which slide we left off on and then we can play catch-up later So I don't have five different slides one for each day I just keep one slide for the whole week and then that way if a kid's absent I can literally just share one slide show with them and they're gonna get everything that they need so I Always start with an essential question. I Also need to go to duty How do earth's forces and processes shape the earth's surface? So I'm gonna actually define earth's forces and processes today, and then I always put the Learning target for the whole standard So this standard is I can make observations and or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of Erosion by water ice wind or vegetation then I have the kids do a see-think wonder this goes in their notebooks And I'll just let you guys pause right here to see what that says And then I start asking them questions And defining the word process and then I just kind of go through and explain what a process is It's a series of steps or actions that produce an end result And then I give two explanations like two examples And then they have a discussion about other processes that they can think of and then I tell them that there are Processes are in our environment that cause change of the earth's surface And that one of those processes is called weathering and I don't actually define what weathering is And then I talk about how humans can do that too, and then we explore We're gonna explore them in stations. So then we go over station expectations The learning target and then we actually go through the stations and then I actually have the kids Discussing what happened at the station. So we'll do like a think-pair share for all three stations and then Epic reading if we finish that early everybody will jump back on epic and we are reading How Hugh Bennett saved America's soil and ended the decibel. So this is just a short story a picture book on something related to erosion so Rather than having them go and read like an informative text about erosion I'm just having them read something that's related to erosion because Tomorrow is when I'm going to explain what erosion is and teach them the vocabulary and The actual process what happens during each process and I use that during using doodle notes So our essential question the question that I want you to be able to answer by the time we're done with this Let's read it together, right? one two three how do earth's forces and processes shape the earth's surface okay couple of big words that you may not know the meaning of a couple you may Know the meaning of and we're gonna get through there. So our learning target are Objective I can make observations and Or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion By water ice wind or vegetation a lot of those words you have no idea what they mean Yet We will explore all of those words this week today, I want you to focus mostly on I can make observations Okay, we're gonna make observations so that we can learn what weathering and erosion mean Okay, I'm not gonna teach it to you today. You're gonna explore it on your own. There's our see-think wonder Just like before we have a three two one rule Today you'll write three things that you see in the picture You'll write down two things that you think about it or it could be what how you think it's happened or why it's the way it is and Then one question that you have about the picture. Okay, so for just a few minutes Make some observations. The only sense we can use today is our site, right? We can't smell that We can't touch it. We can't taste it, right? But you'll be able to touch some other things today So for now just use your eyes What three things do you see? We're not talking about it. We're not gonna share yet. We're gonna get through the whole see-think wonder by ourselves first Then we'll have a chance to share with our teams So right now I just want you to focus on the things that you're observing in the picture Things you see with your eyes Not what you think is happening not what you think you know Just the things that you see if you're ready and comfortable move on to your think step What do you think about this? Do you think you know how it happened? Do you think you know? why it happened or What's going on and then of course you're just dying to ask those questions Go ahead and put your questions down Have you guys a minute or two to share in just a few minutes once everybody's done Thinking and wondering Remember scientists are always questioning You are a scientist right now You and your table mates a few minutes to share your ideas and your thoughts That means that everyone at the table should share at least One thing if you're a person who's struggling to think on their own This is your moment to listen to your teammates as they contribute to the discussion Okay, if they say something that maybe you didn't think of before but you've thought about it now that you've heard it You may add it to your list. Okay. I'll give you guys a few minutes to talk in your table teams Yep, so that it can get you thinking about things that maybe you didn't think of before it's a great way to share All right, ready set talk, but maybe a plant growing out of a sidewalk Love that question to all. I don't know how but I saw it. Okay. It's because of an earth process No person did this sorry your mama did not do this If you don't In your teeth We're gonna act out the process of brushing our teeth or be mimes today Just your hands. Let me see what how you're doing my back rings. Does it hurt? Yeah, be careful Maybe put your notebook on top on top of it. Okay, so yeah, look What happened? It went into crumbs Turned into crumbs Okay, perfect job Matt So what happened to it? It's okay. It's gonna get messy What happened to it look over here what's happening over here water water what So some of it is soaking in but some of it is doing what what's happening to the soil not the water It's getting wet. What's happening here It's getting mushy and it's filling it's filling look at their soil down here now how to get there Water water what did the water do to it the water? The water made it wet so and it's so kind of throw the rest like just It's built so the water Hold it down the slope, right? Okay, right that down in your observations Righted in your observations meaning to your rocks It's getting it's getting what it's getting smoother they're rocks getting smoother. What else? It's getting what It's getting powdery so powders falling down Turning into dust okay great observations Observations look at that Okay, I Am so sweaty Okay, so it's the end of the day, and I think I'm gonna end the vlog here As you guys saw we were doing our see-think wonders and we talked about processes and forces Obviously, I turned the lesson off after a while But I wanted to thank you guys for being here for watching today And if you're not already don't forget to click that subscribe button and of course follow me on Instagram and I'll see you guys in the next one