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NGSS Performance Expectations

MS - ESS2-1.: Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.

MS - ESS2-2: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.

MS - ESS2-3.: Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.

MS - ESS3-1: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes

Student Learning Targets:

I can...

1. Describe the internal structure of the Earth

2. Explain the evidence supporting the theory of Plate Tectonics.

3. Analyze and interpret data to uncover the story of past plate motion in a place.

4. Use evidence to explain how and why natural resources are unevenly distributed across the Earth

5. Explain how landforms are continually created and destroyed over large and small time scales.

6. Recognize eras on the geological time scale and put major geological events in chronological order.