Course: ______Semester At A Glance- Earth & Environmental Science

Un Unit Clarifying Essent Resources it Title and Objectives ial # Topics Questi ons  Lab Science 1. Why is http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=249003 (Earth Science Intro) 1 Safety Overview and lab safety important  Scienti safety for all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgUI5yt-otg (Bill Nye Earth Science- worksheet) fic Method students ?  Organi 2. Why is zation Earth http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=46788 (Scientific Method)  Branch Science es of Earth significant http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=110888 (measurements) Science ? http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=123895 (lab safety) Introductory Knowledge Quiz The Phantom Tollbooth (read in class if needed) Brochures/Study Guides

 Biome EEn.2.7 Explain What are http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=243468 (latitude/longitude rap) 2 s, how the Biomes & Latitude/Longitude worksheets classification lithosphere, how are Map labs and location hydrosphere, and they Quizzes  Mappi atmosphere classified? Biome Project ng individually and (land make- Biome PPT collectively affect up) Fly Away Home (DVD has worksheet) the biosphere. http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=37751 (5 biomes overview) EEn.2.7.1 Explain Why is how abiotic and Mapping biotic factors used and http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/tundra/ interact to create relevant in the various biomes science? http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=154812 (tundra) EEn.2.7.2 Explain why biodiversity is important to the http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=102665 (rainforest) biosphere. EEn.2.7.3 Explain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFeRFmqFChQ Bill Nye Ecosystems (has worksheet) Course: ______

how human activities impact the biosphere. (Overview to lead into lithosphere and hydrosphere…

 Rocks EEn.2.1 Explain How do Layers of the Earth* worksheet 3 /Minerals how processes you identify Rock Classification lesson* classification and forces affect rocks/miner A Journey to the Center of the Earth (DVD has worksheet)  Tecton the lithosphere. als? Journey to the Center Activities ic Forces EEn.2.1.1 Explain  Earthq how the rock What forces http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? uakes cycle, plate affect the video_id=217441&title=Layers_of_the_Earth&vpkey=6cf9bd7019&album_id= (layers of tectonics, lithosphere?  Volcan the Earth) oes volcanoes, and  Mass earthquakes What are Movements impact the the http://ww.tweachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=208502 (rock cycle rap) lithosphere. layers/spher  Sci-fi EEn.2.1.2 Predict es of the vocabulary the locations of Earth? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89C2TqkxTfw (Bill Nye rocks & soil) volcanoes, earthquakes, and How do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucQmSIKElU (Bill Nye Earth’s crust) faults based on humans information impact the http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=206200 (plate tectonics) contained in a Lithosphere variety of maps. ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyDkDSqQJLM (Bill Nye Erosion) EEn.2.1.3 Explain What forces how natural cause http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMFp5Gs0ANU (Magic School Bus volcanoes) actions such as earthquakes weathering, ? erosion (wind, http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/avalanches/ water and gravity), What are and soil formation plate affect Earth’s tectonics? surface. EEn.2.1.4 Explain What are the probability of the different and preparation for waves geohazards such as Observed? landslides, Course: ______

avalanches, How do the earthquakes and waves volcanoes in a change the particular area Earth? based on available data. How are earthquakes EEn.2.2 measured? Understand how human influences How are impact the natural lithosphere. disasters EEn.2.2.1 Explain catastrophic the consequences ? Can they of human activities be on the lithosphere prevented? (such as mining, deforestation, agriculture, overgrazing, urbanization, and land use) past and present. EEn.2.2.2 Compare the various methods humans use to acquire traditional energy sources (such as peat, coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear fission, and wood).  Hydrol EEn.2.3 Explain What is Water cycle worksheets* 4 ogy the structure and hydrology? http://thewaterproject.org/community/student-resources/water-related-education- and processes within materials-for-high-school/ (water intro) the the hydrosphere. What is the EEn.2.3.1 Explain water water http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=7708 (water cycle song intro) cycle how water is an cycle?  Huma energy agent n (currents and heat How do http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=136041 (water cycle basic stages) Impact transfer). humans on EEn2.3.2 Explain affect the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmtsWyqxnks (water cycle rap- CCS students) Course: ______

water how ground water water usage and surface water cycle? http://www.youtube.com/watch? interact.  Upwell v=BayExatv8lE&list=PL2bjZ_9wBoutjF4MF7yc82GOJAgwT5coD (Bill Nye water cycle) ing EEn.2.4 Evaluate How do we  Curren how humans use waste or t and water. EEn.2.4.1 pollute http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? flow Evaluate human water? video_id=200033&title=Ocean_Upwelling_Importance&vpkey=68e1072d13&album_id= patter influences on (upwelling) ns freshwater How can availability. we conserve http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKsoshERTzY (Bill Nye Oceanography) 4.02 Analyze it? mechanisms for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WKB7M8Qx2Q (Magic School Bus mussel beach) generating ocean What is currents and upwelling? upwelling: http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/glaciers/ (glaciers)

 Temperat http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/iceage/ (ice age) ure.  Coriolis effect.  Climatic influence.

4.03 Analyze the mechanisms that produce the various types of shorelines and their resultant landforms:

 Nature of underlyin g geology.  Long and short term sea-level history.  Formatio n and Course: ______

breaking of waves on adjacent topograph y.  Human impact.

4.04 Evaluate water resources:

 Storage and movemen t of groundwa ter.  Ecologica l services provided by the ocean  Environm ental impacts of a growing human populatio n.  Causes of natural and manmade contamin ation.

 Life EEn.2.5.1 Worksheets, 5 Cycles- Summarize the Overhead, diagrams, etc. Nitrog structure and Course: ______

en, composition of our http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45kf3oP0eGI (Bill Nye atmosphere) Carbo atmosphere. n, EEn.2.5.5 Explain Oxyge how human http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=195438 (Carbon cycle) n activities affect air quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaFVfHftzpI (Nitrogen cycle) EEn.2.6.3 Analyze the impacts that human activities have on global climate change (such as burning hydrocarbons, greenhouse effect, and deforestation).

 Weath 5.01 Analyze air What is Twister 6 er masses and the life Weather? Weather Maps  Climat cycle of weather ology systems: What is http://www.youtube.com/watch?  El Climatolog v=uBqohRu2RRk&list=PL2bjZ_9wBoutjF4MF7yc82GOJAgwT5coD (Bill Nye wind) Nino & La  Planetary y? Nina wind http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=195341 (wind patterns)  Data belts. How does Collection &  Air climate Patterns masses. differ from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHivnBsuMJA ( Bill Nye storms)  Warm/  Frontal weather? Cold fronts systems. How are  Isobars  Cyclonic they systems. measured and/or 5.02 Evaluate predicted? meteorological observing, analysis, and prediction:

 Worldwid e observing systems. Course: ______

 Meteorol ogical data depiction.

5.03 Analyze global atmospheric changes including changes in CO2, CH4, and stratospheric O3 and the consequences of these changes:

 Climate change.  Changes in weather patterns.  Increasin g ultraviolet radiation.  Sea level changes.

EEn.2.6 Analyze patterns of global climate change over time. EEn.2.6.1 Differentiate between weather and climate. EEn.2.6.2 Explain changes in global climate due to natural processes. Course: ______

 Ecolog EEn.2.7.1 Explain What are Nim’s Island*, Hoot, or the Lorax 7 y how abiotic and renewable Oil spill/pollution Lab  Evoluti biotic factors and non- on interact to create renewable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHutG0e58os (natural resources)  Renew the various resources? able & non- biomes in North http://www.brainpop.com/science/ourfragileenvironment/globalwarming/ renewable Carolina How can Resources EEn.2.7.2 Explain we  Human why biodiversity conserve http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtKALD2LOk0 (life cycles) Impact is important to resources?  Sci-fi the biosphere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGIdxUhkZSs (Magic School Bus hydroelectricity) vocabulary EEn.2.7.3 Explain What is alternative  Pre- how human http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQdMY9Mx4E (Magic School Bus swamp debate) Biology activities impact energy? (abiotic, the biosphere. biotic, EEn.2.7.1 Explain What can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvtRf4TAO4 (food webs) symbiosis, how abiotic and humans do to help etc) biotic factors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1pp_7-yTN4 (biotic & abiotic factors) interact to create preserve the various biomes resources in North Carolina for future EEn.2.7.2 Explain generations why biodiversity is ? important to the biosphere. What is EEn.2.7.3 Explain point- how human source vs activities impact non-point the biosphere. source 4.05 Investigate pollution? and analyze environmental issues and solutions for North Carolina's river basins, wetlands, and tidal environments:

 Water Course: ______

quality.  Shoreline changes.  Habitat preservati on.

 Astron EEn.1.1 Explain  W Life as We Knew It 8 omy the Earth’s role hat makes Astronomy Videos- 5 on Edmodo  The as a body in up the Solar System space. Solar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7G72DYAXUY (Bill Nye the moon)  The EEn.1.1.1 Explain System? Sun’s role in the Earth’s  http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/solsticeandequinox/ space motion through How did  Baryce space, including the Solar nter precession, System http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/seasons/  Nutatio nutation, the form? n barycenter, and  W http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/internationalspacestation/  Precess its path about the hy is the ion galaxy. Sun so http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dme-G4rc6NI (scientific notation)  Rotatio EEn.1.1.2 Explain importan n how the Earth’s t?  Revolu rotation and  W tion revolution about hy is the  Season the Sun affect its moon so s shape and is importan related to seasons t? and tides.  W EEn.1.1.3 Explain hat how the sun would produces energy life be which is like with transferred to the no moon? Earth by  W radiation. hat is EEn.1.1.4 Explain barycent how incoming er, solar energy nutation, makes life and possible on Earth. precessio Course: ______

n and how are they related?