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EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
THE ENVIRONMENT LESSONS
THE ENVIRONMENT LESSONS
Lessons are intended to take 1-2 days to complete (1.5-2 weeks)
Table of Contents
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The Most Important Star: Our Sun
1.ESS.1: The sun is the principal source of energy. Sunlight warms Earth's Land, air and water.
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Lessons Developed by Laurie Trotter
The Sun Warming Up the Earth
The Sun Warming Up the Earth
Description: Students will learn about the sun through a video, a text of the video and vocabulary. They will then be ready to answer some questions which guide understanding and develop questions of their own.
Sunlight Causes Things to Melt
Sunlight Causes Things to Melt
Description: Students are asked to make some predictions about ice in the sun and in the shade before they watch a video or view pictures of two ice cubes melting. A short read about the sun and melting prepares students to answer questions and to make predictions and observations with their own Sun Melting Machine!
Thermometers are useful scientific tools
Thermometers are useful scientific tools
Description: Students will learn about temperature and that it can be measured in two different ways on a thermometer. The temperature can let us know what the weather will be like and how we should dress.
Staying cool on a sunny day.
Staying cool on a sunny day.
Description: Students will learn about shade and consider what they should use to provide more shade to keep cool. Choosing the right color of things to wear can make you cooler too because different colors absorb more heat. So on a hot sunny students will know where to go and how to dress to stay cool.
Think like a Scientist
Think like a Scientist
Description: Students will review the information they have been learning to this point. Now its time to explore, investigate, observe.
TAKING IT FURTHER
TAKING IT FURTHER
Sustaining Ecosystems
4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
5.LS.1: Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem
Essential Question: What impact can natural-caused changes and human-caused changes have on ecosystems and populations of plants and animals?
Lessons developed by Corey Bubon
What is an Ecosytem?
What is an Ecosytem?
Description: Students will learn about the things that make up an ecosystem through a video, a text of the video and a vocabulary review. They will then be ready to test their understanding.
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How are Ecosystems Alike and Different?
How are Ecosystems Alike and Different?
Description: Students are invited to select and read one or more articles about three different types of ecosystems. Then they will write a paragraph that explains the central idea of the article read useing at least two details from the article to support the response. Or students may select two of the articles to read and then write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the two ecosystems.
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How do Ecosystems Change?
How do Ecosystems Change?
Description: Students will learn about how an ecosystem can change through over time through succession caused naturally and because of human influence. They will consider the impact of natural hazards on an ecosystem and the populations of plants and animals that live there.
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Think Like an Environmental Scientist
Think Like an Environmental Scientist
Description: Students will put their understanding of ecosystems to work as they research the effects an environmental change has on organisms in an ecosystem to develop a plan to help return the ecosystem back to its original state.
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Create an Ecosystem
Create an Ecosystem
Description: Students will show and explain what they know about ecosystems. They will create a visual representation of an ecosystem and then construct a paragraph that details the relationship between the producer, the consumer, and the decomposer in the ecosystem.
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