Science 6

Our World explains the environmental impacts that increasing populations have on the Earth and the techniques used to assess a community's affect on its local environment.

Demonstrates how changes in atmospheric variables such as density, unequal heating, air pressure, and moisture leads to the weather events that humans' experience daily. The unit also investigates the relationship between ocean currents, land masses, and other Earth features that affect global weather patterns and climate.

Explores the conditions within the Earth responsible for the geologic processes that shape the landscape around us and processes on the Earth's surface that alter that landscape over time.

Examines the 4.5 billion year history of the Earth, the major events that have occurred through time both geologically and biologically, and how scientists use relative and absolute aging techniques to organize these events into a Geologic Time Scale.

Identifies the impact the human population increases and per capital resource consumption has on the natural world and how usage of these resources carelessly is leading to the depletion of resources, climate change, pollution of our natural environment, and other major impacts felt worldwide.