OpenSciEd Unit 6.4 · Lesson 02 · 2.B
Look for students to locate mountain regions identified…
MS-ESS1-4MS-ESS2-1Assessment opportunity · Formative assessment
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Facilitation guidance from the lesson plan — what to notice in student thinking and how to respond while teaching.
Building towards
2.B Use digital tools to examine a large data set at different spatial and temporal scales to compare global earthquake activity to local activity.
What to look / listen for
- Look for students to locate mountain regions identified in case site information and narrow focus to earthquake data that applies to those areas that would not be discernible at a larger scale.
- Students should filter through earthquake data and analyze the large sets of earthquake data for any patterns in depth, location, frequency, or magnitude at the regional scale for evidence of earthquakes being causal or correlational to mountain movement and growth.
What to do
- If students are not able to narrow the focus of their research to specific mountains, guide students to identify each mountain and range, and help students zoom into the data specific to those ranges.
- If students are having trouble discerning the data, help students adjust the earthquakes by magnitude to limit the amount of data shown, and reference the key to show differences in magnitude and depth.
- If there is too much data for students to analyze, instruct students to narrow the year range for their data by only playing a certain portion of the data slider.