No. of Days | Essential Question and Blooms Connection | Essential Standard and Objectives | Essential Vocabulary | Laboratories and Activities | |
5 | Introduction to Scientific Method and SI System (Measuring) | SI system Hypothesis Theory | Design experiments and collect data. Clearly identify variables. Measuring Lab | ||
10 | How do the different movements and position of Earth affect diurnal, annual and seasonal cycles? How does the sun’s energy contribute to life on Earth? What is Earth’s role as a body in space? | 1.1 Explain the Earth’s role as a body in space.
| Hubble Law and the Expanding Universe (Balloon Activity): Life Cycle of Stars (Comparing Human life cycle to the life cycle of a star): Why doesn't the Moon fall to Earth? Orbits and Gravity Activity: Interactive HR Diagram (relationship of stars magnitude/brightness and temperature) | ||
10 | What factors affect air density and how do they influence winds, air masses, fronts and storm systems? How do human activities affect air quality? | 2.5 Understand the structure of and processes within our atmosphere 1. Summarize the structure and composition of our atmosphere. 2. Explain the formation of typical air masses and the weather systems that result from air mass interactions.(new) 3. Explain how cyclonic storms form based on the interaction of air masses. 4. Predict the weather using available weather maps and data (including surface, upper atmospheric winds, and satellite imagery). 5. Explain how human activities affect air quality. | Atmosphere foldable Jet stream an online weather school NOAA: http://www.srh.weather.gov/jetstream/global/global_intro.htm | ||
5 | What are the causes of recent changes in Atmospheric composition and how might they affect the climate in the future? What impacts have human had on the atmosphere and air quality? What are the consequences of climate change? | 2.6 Analyze patterns of global climate change over time. 1. Differentiate between weather and climate. 2. Explain changes in global climate due to natural processes. 3. Analyze the impacts that human activities have on global climate change (such as burning hydrocarbons, greenhouse effect, and deforestation). 4. Attribute changes to Earth’s systems to global climate change (temperature change, changes in pH of ocean, sea level changes, etc.). | Graph changes in atmospheric CO2 from the Mauna Loa data and analyze changes. | ||
5 | How does water transfer energy? How would you explain the relationship between groundwater and surface water? | 2.3 Explain the structure and processes within the hydrosphere. 1. Explain how water is an energy agent (currents and heat transfer). 2. Explain how ground water and surface water interact. | |||
5 | How does the human population influence the availability of freshwater? (Advantages and Disadvantages) How do humans influence water quality in NC’s river basins, wetlands and tidal environments? | 2.4 Evaluate how humans use water. 1. Evaluate human influences on freshwater availability. 2 Evaluate human influences on water quality in North Carolina’s river basins, wetlands and tidal environments. | Pucker effect | ||
5 | Review | BENCHMARK | |||
10 | How do Earth's tectonic plates interact? What is the relationship between Earthquakes, volcanoes and tectonic plates? | 2.1 Explain how processes and forces affect the lithosphere. 1. Explain how the rock cycle, plate tectonics, volcanoes, and earthquakes impact the lithosphere. 2. Predict the locations of volcanoes, earthquakes, and faults based on information contained in a variety of maps. 3. Explain how natural actions such as weathering, erosion (wind, water and gravity), and soil formation affect Earth’s surface. 4. Explain the probability of and preparation for geohazards such as landslides, avalanches, earthquakes and volcanoes in a particular area based on available data | Weathering & Erosion Ch16: Shorelines Soil sieves & pg.158-161z Plate Tectonics Rock cycle story PT cookie catcher Timeline SE geo-history (Ch.19) |
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