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NGSS: 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.
Part 1 (3-4 hours)
Part 1 (3-4 hours)
Google Doc: Make a copy of the Google Doc to record your answers or use the Google Doc in your Teachers Google Classroom.
Edpuzzle: Click on the picture to complete the Edpuzzle.
Earth's Outer Core
Earth's Outer Core
Watch the Bill Nye video (on left) and answer the Edpuzzle questions in the Google Doc above.
Watch the BrainPop and then take the Review Quiz. Put the answers in the Google Doc above.
Use this link to fill in the following paragraph. (Use the Google Doc to put your answers)
“Crust” describes the outermost shell of a ____________ planet. Our planet’s thin, 40-kilometer (25-mile) deep crust—just __% of Earth’s mass—contains all known life in the universe. Earth has _________ layers: the ________, the ________, and the _______. The crust is made of solid _______ and __________. Beneath the crust is the __________, which is also mostly solid ________ and _________, but punctuated by malleable areas of semi-solid __________. At the center of the Earth is a hot, dense ________ _________.
Listen to and/or read the article. (Put the answers in the Google doc)
a. The Earth crust which is divided into plates moves about _____________ inches in a year.
b. Why do scientists talk about the mantle as a kind of weather system?
c. What is a superplume?
d. What do scientists propose that these superplumes may be responsible for?
Click the Plate Tectonics A Webquest on the left and complete all the activities. (Put the answers in the Google Doc for all the slides listed)
Gimkit Test - Put your final score in the Google Doc
Phenomena: What would happen if the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupted? Would the human race survive? Watch the movie on the left and read the article, then answer the question in the Google Doc.
Part 2
Part 2
Google Doc: Make a copy of the Google Doc to record your answers or use the Google Doc in your Teachers Google Classroom.
Learn about Earth’s History by Observing Rock Formations and Fossils.
Learn about Earth’s History by Observing Rock Formations and Fossils.
Clarification Statement: Examples of evidence from patterns could include rock layers with marine shell fossils above rock
layers with plant fossils and no shells, indicating a change from land to water over time; and, a canyon with different rock layers in
the walls and a river in the bottom, indicating that over time a river cut through the rock.
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