Vocab Card Review and Quiz Overview

Today we continued to reflect on how our cards should be set up and also looked over last week's quiz.

AIM: I will successfully critique 3 vocabulary connection cards and review my quiz.

Standard: 7LD.V.10 Determine definitions and word spelling using many sources.

Do Now
1) What vocabulary term means:"Path earth travels around the sun?"
2) What vocabulary term means:"Deep valley usually under the ocean."
3) What vocabulary term means:""Past things that have influence on today."
4) Which scientist developed the Big Bang Theory?"

Lesson Steps:
After correcting our Do Now questions we went over three cards to practice how we should create our project. Students not only graded an example but they also had to explain why some of the cards did not receive a passing grade. Here is a copy of the handout:

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Once teams determined why the card with the flower would make the passing grade they then had to work on fixing up the other cards. So teams had to make a convincing connection between horses and Pangaea and then a connection between trains and an interglacial period.

I then returned student quizzes from last week and we reviewed misconceptions about the Big Bang Theory and the creation of land bridges during the ice ages.

Today was Friday so students in the "green" had 10 minutes of free time while I counseled with students about their grades if they were in the "yellow" or "red" section of our progress board.

Homework:
Complete the Vocabulary Connection Project with 10 cards and a cover card. The rubric is available in yesterday's blog posting. See the examples below to get a better sense of how these cards are to look.

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