Earth Science GeoInquiries

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will interpret landform features within topographic maps. • Students will determine distances and scale from the map. • Students will predict implications of landforms for health and safety in recreation.

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• Students will assess housing choices based on natural hazard risks. • Students will determine the type of data necessary to assess natural hazard risk.

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• Students will explore mineral resources used in their lives and learn the origins of these resources to better predict where they might be found.

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• Students will differentiate rock types from their texture, color, and crystal size. • Students will explain the location relationships between areas of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks using the rock cycle

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will work to recognize landforms from small to large scale. • Students will associate clues from the landscape, describing how they were formed.

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• Students will explain the pattern of earthquakes globally to gain insight about the driving forces that cause them. • Students will differentiate ways that large plates of the crust interact when they meet.

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Cracked Plates: Earthquake Prone

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will describe how the energy from breaking rocks at an earthquake epicenter travels away in waves. • Students will determine where earthquakes occur using the difference in speed of waves from the seismograph.

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Earth Moves: Seismic Stations

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will describe how magma is generated at plate boundaries and hot spots. • Students will determine how melted crust involved in the creation of the volcano influence volcano properties.

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will describe forces at work in mountain building. • Students will distinguish constructive from destructive forces in landscape development.

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Mountain Building: Volcanos

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will explore local streams to determine from where their home use water originates. • Students will follow local streams to see how water returns back to the nearest sea.

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Rivers: Watershed Analysis

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will use the maps and pop-ups to characterize world oceans. • Students will use remote sensing to identify high-productivity zones and their relationships to ocean regions.

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Oceans: Hot Spots

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will use the maps and pop-ups to characterize ocean currents. • Students will use remote sensing to identify warm and cold currents.

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will show regional patterns to the pressure of the air around the content. • Students will show how pressure variation and temperature changes can be used to predict upcoming weather.

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will use the tracks of hurricanes in 2005 to compare wind speed to the air pressure within the hurricane and sea surface temperature. • Students will determine the impact of air pressure and sea surface temperature on hurricane strength.

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will describe changes in global temperature and precipitation amounts and infer their consequences on current bioregions.