Welcome

Earth Science

Directions for this Alternative School Class

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Welcome to this online class! The hope is that you will gain an understanding of the principles of Earth Science through a combination of reading and interactive ideas.

For each topic covered, you will have a PRE-activity, which is a reading or worksheet, designed to make you think about what you already know about the topic.

This is found above the actual gizmo when you login at ExploreLearning.

After that, you will be given an ExploreLearning Gizmo to help you understand the ideas through a game or an activity.

At the end of the activity is a quiz. You may use the gizmo to help create conditions tht help you answer the question.

Grading details are at the bottom of this web page. Please contact Winnie or mapowell if you need additional help. Good luck!


BM1: Students will see energy and its resultant movement as a part of the earth’s system.

C1: Students will look at energy transfer in the earth, from sources outside the earth, and through the atmosphere, crust, and oceans.

C2: Students will be able to identify the theory of plate techtonics through a study of the arguments for and against continental drift.



Related Material for BM1



ExploreLearning #1 Plate Techtonics Gizmo

ExploreLearning #2 Continental Drift Gizmo

ExploreLearning #3 Energy Conversion Gizmo

ExploreLearning #4 Rock Conversion Gizmo



BM2: Students will understand aspects of geochemical cycles.

C1: Students will be able to explain aspects of the water cycle.

C2: Students will be able to explain aspects of the carbon cycle.

C3: Students will be able to take a position on global warming.

C4: Students will experiment with limited amounts of variables in a fixed system.



Related Material for BM2

ExploreLearning #5 Greenhouse Gases

ExploreLearning #6 Water Cycle Gizmo

ExploreLearning #7 Forest Ecosystem Gizmo


BM3: Students will synthesize information about the formation and patterns of the solar system.

C1: Students will contrast processes that lead to the accretion of matter in a planetary body.

C2: Students will study factors that lead to the development of seasons



Related Material for BM3


ExploreLearning #8 Phases of the Moon Gizmo

ExploreLearning #9 Seasons in 3D

ExploreLearning #10 Solar Systems



BM4: Students will compare process that led to the formation of the universe.

C1:Students will look at the constituents of stellar matter.

C3: Students will take a position for/against the big bang theory.



ExploreLearning #11 Stellar Spectra


Final 5 paragraph typed essay:



Option 2: Based on the complex nature of the seasons, the solar system, the Big Bang and the formation of stars, why do you think scientists avoid mixing religion and science together into one subject? Explain your reasoning.



Points:

11 ExploreLearning Activities/Tests @ 10 points each = 110 points

11 Activities or Worksheets @ 10 points each = 110 points


1 Final Essay @ 50 points



Total points: 280