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You can find a variety of ACT/Aspire prep questions using Problem-Attic.  Teacher may display questions on the SmartBoard and have students copy questions and answers.
https://www.problem-attic.com/login

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Please refer to Monday's bell ringer.

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Please refer to Monday's bell ringer.

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Please refer to Monday's bell ringer.

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Please refer to Monday's bell ringer.

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Free gamified quizzes on every subject that students play in class and at home. Pick an existing quiz or create your own for review, formative assessment, and more.

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What is weather?

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What is a vortex?

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Where does heat in the Earth's atmosphere come from?

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What is severe weather?

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How does a vortex form?

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Our Ideas about Weather and Climate - Lesson 1.1 and 1.2
These lessons may be stretched into two days or condensed into one.

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Introducing Storms - Lesson 2 (2 days)

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Heating Earth's Surface - Lesson 3 (2 Days)

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This is an activity where everything is pulled together for you. It is from TpT.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/NGSS-Climate-Change-Extreme-Weather-Claim-Evidence-Reasoning-3431520

If you do not wish to use the TpT activity, then you may complete the below activity.

Read the attached article.
https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/extreme-weather

Students should create a claim, evidence (written and visual), reasoning, and connections of each of these things in a foldable.

Instructions for foldable scroll down to "How to create a four-square foldable". Put Claim in the top left, Writen Evidence in the top right, Visual Evidence in the bottom left, Reasoning in the bottom right, and Connections in the middle.
http://ilove2teach.blogspot.com/2011/12/pegs-to-hang-ideas-onfreebies.html

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Introducing Storms - Lesson 2 (2 days, Continued)

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•Weather is short-term changes in the atmosphere, such as changes in temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind, and precipitation. Climate is the average w…

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Create a Weather/Climate Concept Map in notebook
Example: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rz-2Pl3fL30/TM5E0OTUzdI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Roi64QriSxQ/s1600/Weather+Monitoring.jpg

Read the attached article and have students complete a quick write about what they think and know.
https://www.seeker.com/two-thirds-of-the-earth-is-covered-by-clouds-1769829749.html

Complete the activity attached for weather (flood, drought, hurricane, tornado, blizzard/snow storm, severe thunderstorm, hail)
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/extreme-natural-events/

Group students and have them label where they believe different types of weather would occur on a map.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/US_state_outline_map.png

Come back together to discuss group work.

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Create a demonstration so the students have an idea what they will be doing.
Tornado in a Bottle: (You can add glitter, nuts and bolts, food coloring, etc. to make it more entertaining)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YeohecMNyk

Have students create tornadoes in bottles. Have students practice getting the swirling effect to get the water from one bottle to the next.

Have students make observations about the glitter, nuts/bolts, etc. The location, speed of movement, etc.

Students need to reference how this model is similar to the real thing.

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Students will complete a lab testing the heating and cooling rates of soil and water.
https://www.powershow.com/view1/1fbc2e-ZDc1Z/Investigating_the_Heating_and_Cooling_Rates_of_Soil_and_Water_Lab_powerpoint_ppt_presentation

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Log into MCPSS website
Go to Discovery Education
Log in
Go to My Content folder on the left side, District Content, 6th Grade Earth and Space Science, Tornado.

Read Tornado Alerts and discuss with students the difference in warnings and watches.

Follow the Tornadoes Content Collection Lesson Plan

The 4 video clips are the full video, so I just attached the full video. Have students take detailed notes while watching.

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climate

concept map

weather

hurricane

tornado

drought

flood

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Monday's Vocab

Cloud

Satellite Image

Vortex

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Students should complete the reading and answer the questions that go along with it.
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.elionline.com/res/ftpeli/resources/bestcommercialpractice/int/D1_W4_int.pdf&hl=en_US