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Activity Calendar for School Year 2020-2021 Earth Materials in Our Lives Earth ScienceEarth Activity Materials Calendar, 2020-2021 in OurSchool YearLives EARTH SCIENCE WEEK www.earthsciweek.org Earth Science Week 2020 • American Geosciences Institute • www.americangeosciences.org Geoscience All Around here can you find Earth materials? In every part of your life. Raw materials are essential to Wfood, clothing, medicine, buildings, employment, manufacturing, industry, transportation, energy, recycling, and more. That’s why Earth Science Week 2020 focuses on the theme “Earth Materials in Our Lives,” raising awareness of the many ways that raw materials impact humans — and the ways human activity impacts these materials — in the 21st century. The celebration engages young people and others in exploring this theme through learning resources and activities. Help promote understanding of humans’ complex interactions with the Earth materials of our geosphere (earth), hydrosphere (water), atmosphere (air), and biosphere (living things). Visit the Earth Science Week website (www.earthsciweek.org). Check out new links to educational materials and information. Engage young people and others in the vital role they can play in Earth science. And keep learning about the geosciences throughout the school year. Use this calendar, which features education resources, important geoscience dates, and exciting academic activities. Connect with geoscience learning all year long! Images ©iStockphoto.com ©Shutterstock.com. This page, clockwise from bottom Geoff Camphire left: ©Shutterstock/ChrisMilesPhoto; ©Shutterstock/Andresr; ©Shutterstock/Creativa; ©Shutterstock/MonkeyBusinessImages; ©iStock/manonallard; ©iStock/SerrNovik. Cover: Associate Director, Communications center: ©iStock/vgajic. Side images clockwise from top right: ©Shutterstock/kawinnings; ©iStock/lrescigno; ©iStock/kozmoat98; ©Shutterstock/Darwel; ©iStock/Alexey Rezvykh; American Geosciences Institute ©iStock/GaryKavanagh; ©iStock/sergeyryzhov; ©iStock/Helga Miller. Earth Science Week Is for You his year, you’re invited to join the tens of millions of participants in all 50 states T and nations worldwide who are celebrating Earth Science Week. Now in its 23rd year, this exciting event has grown steadily in momentum and participation since the American Geosciences Institute held the first Earth Science Week in 1998. Every year, people in schools, workplaces, Whether you are a faculty member, student, www.earthsciweek.org civic centers, and elsewhere celebrate parent, geoscientist, or ordinary citizen, you can Earth Science Week to help build public play a leading role in Earth Science Week. On How can you get involved? Explore understanding and appreciation of the Earth the event’s website at www.earthsciweek.org, the Earth Science Week website at sciences, promote recognition of the value you’ll find ideas and tips for planning activities www.earthsciweek.org. You’ll find of Earth science research, and encourage at your school or workplace, along with a host of tools designed to make stewardship of the planet. Earth Science contact information for geoscience resources your event experience easy, fun, Week serves the geoscience community by: in your area where you can work with local and rewarding! geoscientists to plan activities. • giving students new opportunities to On the website, you’ll see a list of tips discover the Earth sciences, In addition, this calendar features a variety of to help you share your Earth science • highlighting the contributions made by exciting activities that you can conduct — in knowledge with young people, lead the geosciences to society, the schoolyard, at home, or elsewhere in the an excursion, or attend an event in community — to explore the theme “Earth your area: A planning checklist, tips • publicizing the message that Earth Materials in Our Lives.” This year’s theme for fundraising, recommendations for science is all around us, focuses on the many ways that raw materials working with the news media, ideas impact humans, and vice versa, today. for events, educational activities, • encouraging responsible stewardship of ways to get official recognition, the planet through an understanding of Let us know how you are planning downloadable logos and images, Earth processes, to celebrate! Send us an email at kit ordering information, a map of [email protected]. Celebrate Earth potential partners and activities near • providing a forum where geoscientists can Science Week: October 11–17, 2020! you, and much more. share their knowledge and enthusiasm about the Earth and how it works, and To stay up-to-date on the latest CHECK THE DATE developments and upcoming • making learning about Earth science fun! Please independently confirm the dates of activities, subscribe to the Earth any geoscience events in which you plan to Science Week Update electronic participate. Due to the COVID-19, some events Top to bottom: Artwork by 2019 ESW Contest finalist Ares Bandebo- newsletter at www.earthsciweek.org. Cambra; Winning photo in the 2019 ESW Contest by Tonya Boone.; scheduled before the printing of this calendar Participants in the 2019 USGS Take Your Kids to Work Day, credit: Check it out! AGI, background by NPS; Participants in the 2019 National Fossil may have been rescheduled or reformatted as Day at the Grand Canyon, credit: AGI, background by NPS. “virtual meetings” since that time. August 2020 LEARNING ACTIVITY: Nature’s Water Filter GRADES 6-8 oil is a filter that helps maintain a clean over the gravel/floatie mixture. Observe. purple, so the blue dye was pulled out environment and safe drinking water. Discuss: by the soil. Why? MATERIALS S • Did the floaties end up in the bottom 6 Opposite charges attract and like charges • 4 3-oz clear solo cups When rain falls on a soil surface, or when cup? Why, or why not? repel. The smallest soil particles are clay, • 4 5-oz clear solo cups (with contaminated water is introduced to a soil • What is this type of filtration? which have a negative charge. If the red 3–5 small holes in the surface, it infiltrates into the soil. As water 2 Ready to explore chemical filtration? dye goes through the soil, it must also bottom of each cup) moves downward, the soil acts as a natural Create three more cups — one with fine have a negative charge; the blue dye has a • 4 funnels water filter, removing harmful contaminants sand, one with topsoil, and one with positive charge which attracts and binds it • Play sand and delivering clean water to rivers, lakes, and potting soil or crushed peat moss. to the clay (sorption). Discuss: • Topsoil underground water reservoirs called aquifers. 3 Mix 0.5 g grape drink powder into 1 liter • As more of the drink mix is poured • Planting mix or peat moss of water. through the soil, does the water in the • Fine gravel Two types of filtration occur during this 4 Slowly pour 50 ml grape drink into each of bottom cup get progressively more • Grape drink mix packet, e.g., process — physical and chemical. Physical the four cups. For each cup, observe and purple? Why? The clay in the soil has Kool-Aid® filtration happens when large particles are record what happens: reached its capacity to capture the • “Floaties” such as leaves, tea physically prevented from traveling through • What color is the grape drink that goes positively charged blue ions. leaves, or grass clippings small soil pores and are therefore removed into each cup? • Did the water in the sand change color? • Water from water. Chemical filtration happens when • What color is the water that collects in Why or why not? Likely, it stayed purple, • Pen and paper for recording contaminants dissolved in water are attracted each of the bottom cups? which means that there is not any clay and held to the soil itself. This process is • Is the color of the water the same in the in it to attract the blue dye. What about called sorption. three cups? the gravel? • How much time does it take for water to This activity demonstrates how soil acts as a drain out of the top cup? Supplemental materials, videos, physical and chemical filter for contaminants. 5 Set aside the bottom cups (keep the water and worksheets are available in them). Pour the grape drink mix into at www.soils4teachers.org/esw. PROCEDURE the gravel a second time and collect the For the teacher: Before doing this activity, water in a new cup. Repeat the process visit www.soils4teachers.org/esw and review three times for the sand and six times for NGSS CONNECTIONS the set-up video. To set the stage for the the soil, and collect the water in new cups • Science and Engineering Practices — following activity, play the “Soils Clean and each time. Observe and record: Analyzing and Interpreting Data Capture Water” video for students. • Is the color different for the gravel cup • Disciplinary Core Ideas — Earth Materials Source: Soil Science Society of 1 Ready to explore physical filtration? Fill a on the second try? and Systems America. Adapted with permission. 5-oz cup half-full of gravel. Add “floaties” • What about for the sand and topsoil? • Cross-Cutting Concepts — Credit for the lesson plan, activity, and video to the top. Put the cup over the funnel. • Has the water in one of the cups turned Cause and Effect: Mechanism belongs to Drs. Clay Robinson, Michelle Blumer, and SSSA. Slowly pour about 100 ml (3 oz) water red? Why? Blue and red dyes make and Explanation Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Happy Birthday! Henry Darwin Rogers, American Structural Geologist, Contributed to the Theory of Mountain Building, Born 1808 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Happy Birthday! Johann Gottlob Lehmann, Did You Know? German Geologist Noted Happy Birthday! U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour for Fundamental Work in Neil Armstrong, American Astronaut Barbara Morgan the Stratigraphy, Published the First Astronaut, the First Man to Walk First Educator to Safely Reach Friendship Day Geologic Profile, Born 1719 on the Moon, Born 1930 Space, 2007 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Did You Know? The First Three Fossil Bones of Happy Birthday! “SUE” Tyrannosaurus rex Skeleton Edward W.
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