Untitled LessonLesson 2.1: “Investigating Landforms on Venus”

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Lesson 2.1: “Investigating
Landforms on Venus”

Geology on Mars

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Warm-Up

5 MIN

Geology on Mars: Lesson 2.1

Activity 1

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Investigation Notebook pg 20

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Introducing Active
Reading

10 MIN

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Activity 2

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Remember, your mission
is to find out what
geologic process formed
the channel on Mars. If
flowing water formed it,
that means Mars once
had the liquid water
needed to support life.

Multiple Choice

What is a Geological Process?

• What formed the river water or lava

• What is the rock made of

• Where is mars?

• The jelly donut

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Chapter 2 Question

How can we gather more evidence about whether
lava or water formed the channel on Mars?

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Next, we’ll read an article
about Venus, another
rocky planet. A scientist
observed interesting
landforms on Venus and
wanted to get evidence
about the process that
created them.

Open Ended

What is an interesting landform to you? Write 4 sentences

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Earth scientists read a lot. They read about
investigations other scientists have done, and
to learn more about Earth and space science.
They read carefully and critically, making sure
that they understand the ideas.

Active Reading is a way of reading science
texts that is similar to how scientists read.

Multiple Choice

What is Annotating?

• Active Reading

• Reading slow

• Reading with confidence

• Reading with a purpose

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Raise your hand if you have ever read
something for class but realized you didn’t
actually remember or didn’t try to really
understand what you were reading.

Why do you think that happens?

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Annotating a text means
recording your own
thinking as you read.

This is an article that a
student annotated while
reading.

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Here’s an example of how
annotations can look in a
digital version of the
article.

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Investigation Notebook pg 21

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Active Reading:
“Investigating Landforms
on Venus”

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Activity 3

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Throughout this unit, we’ll
read articles in the
Amplify Library.

Let’s take a look at how
it works.

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I will model Active Reading. I’ll show you:

● how to annotate to show your thinking.
● some strategies you can use, such as

asking questions, making connections,
identifying challenging words, and usingan
image to understand the text.

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Activity 3

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I’ll read the title and the
first two sentences of the
article out loud.

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Sometimes, something I’ve read makes me
stop and ask a question. I can record my
question as a note.

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There are some
challenging words in this
article. I can highlight
them so I can think more
about them as I read or
so I can ask my partner
for a definition later.

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Images can help me
understand difficult
words.

This one helps me
picture that novae are
round landforms found
on Venus’s surface.

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It’s still not clear how big
novae actually are.

I can add another note to
record my question.

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Investigation Notebook pg 22

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Discussing Annotations

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Activity 4

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Next, you will look over
your annotations and
choose some to discuss.

Let’s talk about the
different hashtags you’ll
use to select your
annotations.

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Step 1: Prepare to Share

Step 2: Discuss

Step 3: Prepare to Present

Choose an interesting
question or connection to
share with a partner.

Tag it with #share.

Discussing Annotations

Talk about your chosen
annotation with a partner.

Tag it with #discussed if you
were able to resolve your
questions.

Choose an interesting or
unanswered question to
present to the class.

Tag it with #present.

#share

#discussed

#present

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Investigation Notebook pg 22

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Let’s discuss your questions and see if we can answer them as a class.

What interesting or unanswered questions do
you still have about the article?

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Geology on Mars: Lesson 2.1

Good work trying out the Active Reading
approach.

The habit of asking questions and annotating
does not develop overnight. It takes time.
Sophisticated readers are always practicing
reading actively.

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Review your annotations
and then answer the
reflection question.

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Investigation Notebook pg 22

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Homework

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Activity 5

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Activity 5

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For this activity, you will
record your initial ideas
about the Chapter 2
Question.

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Activity 5

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