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Big Idea:
Big Idea:
Solar energy produces air and ocean currents that influence the formation of weather systems.
Student Expectations:
Student Expectations:
Priority TEKS
Priority TEKS
8.10(A) [Supporting] Recognize that the Sun provides the energy that drives convection within the atmosphere and oceans, producing winds and ocean currents.
Focus TEKS
Focus TEKS
8.10(B) [Supporting] Identify how global patterns of atmospheric movement influence local weather using weather maps that show high and low pressures and fronts.
8.10(C) [Supporting] Identify the role of the oceans in the formation of weather systems such as hurricanes.
Ongoing TEKS
Ongoing TEKS
8.1(A) [Tools to Know] Demonstrate safe practices during laboratory and field investigations as outlined in the Texas Safety Standards.
8.2(A) [Tools to Know] Plan and implement comparative and descriptive investigations by making observations, asking well-defined questions, and using appropriate equipment and technology.
8.2(C) [Ways to Show] Collect and record data using the International System of Units (SI) and qualitative means such as labeled drawings, writing, and graphic organizers.
8.3(A) [Ways to Show] In all fields of science, analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing, including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations, so as to encourage critical thinking by the student.
8.3(B) [Ways to Show] Use models to represent aspects of the natural world such as an atom, a molecule, space, or a geologic feature.
8.4(A) [Tools to Know] Use appropriate tools to collect, record, and analyze information, including lab journals/notebooks, beakers, meter sticks, graduated cylinders, anemometers, psychrometers, hot plates, test tubes, spring scales, balances, microscopes, thermometers, calculators, computers, spectroscopes, timing devices, and other equipment as needed to teach the curriculum.
Student Learning Targets:
Student Learning Targets:
- I will recognize that the sun is the ultimate source of thermal energy on Earth.
- I will understand that energy from the sun does not distribute equally over Earth’s surface.
- I will explain the process of convection.
- I will describe how convection occurs in oceans and the atmosphere.
- I will know why hurricanes form over warm ocean waters.
- I will explain how wind is produced.
- I will identify different types of fronts.
- I will predict weather associated with different types of frontal systems as well as high and low pressure
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How does energy transfer from the Sun to Earth & the atmosphere?
- How are air circulation patterns within the atmosphere created?
- How does uneven heating of Earth’s surface result in air movement?
- How does solar energy affect ocean currents?
- How do ocean currents affect weather & climate?
Extra Information:
Extra Information:
Adopted Textbook: Texas STEM, McGraw-Hill
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