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Unit Name: Earth’s History Topic/Sub-Unit: Studying The Earth Scientifically Which Standards are students learning in this unit? Standard 1.1.A: Understand that scientific investigations involve asking a focused scientific question. Investigations differ depending upon the question being asked. (Essential) Standard 1.1.B: Understand that: Fair test design supports the validity of the investigation. Sometimes it is not possible to know everything that will have an effect on the investigation or control all conditions. (Essential) Standard 1.1.C: Understand that: The purpose of accurate data collection is to provide evidence to compare with the prediction. (Essential) Standard 1.1.D: Understand that: The body of scientific knowledge grows as scientists ask questions, conduct investigations, develop explanations and compare results with what is already known. (Essential) Standard 1.1.E: Understand that: The purpose of communicating is to share and justify results. Scientists communicate their results to others, including the details that allow others to replicate the results. (Essential) Standard 1.1.F: Understand that: Scientific habits of mind and other sources of knowledge and skills are essential to scientific inquiry. Habits of mind include tolerance of ambiguity, skepticism, openness to new ideas, and objectivity. Other knowledge and skills include mathematics, reading, writing, and technology. (Important) Standard 1.2.A. Advances in technology can expand the body of scientific knowledge. Technological tools allow people to observe objects and phenomena that otherwise would not be possible. Technology enhances the quality, accuracy, speed and analysis of data gathered. (Important) 1.3.A. Over the course of human history, contributions to science have been made by different people from different cultures. Studying some of these contributions and how they came about provides insight into the expansion of scientific knowledge. Level: Compact By the end of this unit, students will be able to… Know: Vocabulary: Observation Inference Geologist Geology Understand: Scientific inquiry involves using experimental design accurately to expand our scientific knowledge of the Earth. Do: Observe landforms and draw logical conclusions based upon the observations. Study the scientific contributions of John Wesley Powell and describe how the contributions expanded the body of scientific knowledge. Generate testable questions based on observations. Design and conduct investigations to test hypotheses. Collect accurate data using appropriate tools and methods. Organize data into tables, graphs, and charts. Analyze data, form conclusions and communicate the results. Form explanations based on conclusions and known scientific information. Unit Name: Earth’s History Topic/Sub-The Rock Cycle Which Standards are students learning in this unit? Standard 1.1.A: Understand that scientific investigations involve asking a focused scientific question. Investigations differ depending upon the question being asked. (Essential) Standard 1.1.B: Understand that: Fair test design supports the validity of the investigation. Sometimes it is not possible to know everything that will have an effect on the investigation or control all conditions. (Essential) Standard 1.1.C: Understand that: The purpose of accurate data collection is to provide evidence to compare with the prediction. (Essential) Standard 1.1.D: Understand that: The body of scientific knowledge grows as scientists ask questions, conduct investigations, develop explanations and compare results with what is already known. (Essential) Standard 1.1.E: Understand that: The purpose of communicating is to share and justify results. Scientists communicate their results to others, including the details that allow others to replicate the results. (Essential) Standard 1.1.F: Understand that: Scientific habits of mind and other sources of knowledge and skills are essential to scientific inquiry. Habits of mind include tolerance of ambiguity, skepticism, openness to new ideas, and objectivity. Other knowledge and skills include mathematics, reading, writing, and technology. (Important) Standard 1.3.A. Advances in technology can expand the body of scientific knowledge. Technological tools allow people to observe objects and phenomena that otherwise would not be possible. Technology enhances the quality, accuracy, speed and analysis of data gathered. (Important) 5.1.C. The formation of sediment and soil requires a long period of time as rocks are weathered, eroded and deposited. Important 5.2.D. Constructive processes that build up the land and the destructive processes of weathering and erosion shape and reshape the land surface. The height of Earth landforms is a result of the difference between the rate of uplift and the rate of erosion at a particular location. Important By the end of this unit, students will be able to… Know: Vocabulary: Sedimentary Rock Sandstone Limestone Shale Metamorphic Rock Igneous Rock Rock cycle Weathering Erosion Deposition Understand: Processes of weathering, erosion and deposition that change Earth’s surface today are the same processes that occurred in the past. The surface of the Earth is constantly changing due to processes that cause rock to change from one kind to another. Landforms on Earth are created and destroyed by the processes that cycle rock. Do: Use appropriate instruments and tools to identify sedimentary rocks; limestone, shale and sandstone. Model the formation of sandstone, shale and limestone. Infer the environmental conditions in which limestone, sandstone and shale formed. Explain how the processes of weathering, erosion and deposition contribute to sedimentary rock formation. Use appropriate tools to identify metamorphic and igneous rocks. Compare the properties and methods of formation of sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks. Describe how processes on Earth cause rocks to cycle. Unit Name: Earth’s History Topic/Sub-Evidence for Earth’s History Which Standards are students learning in this unit? 7.2.A. The Earth’s present day species evolved from earlier, distinctly different species. Many thousands of layers of sedimentary rock provide evidence for the long history of the Earth and for the long history of changing life forms whose remains are found in the rocks. More recently deposited rock layers are more likely to contain fossils resembling existing species. (Compact) 7.2.D. Extinction of a species occurs when the environment changes and the adaptive characteristics of a species are insufficient to allow its survival. Most of the species that have lived on Earth no longer exist. (Essential) 5.2.K. Past geological events and environments can be reconstructed by interpreting fossilized remains and successive layering of sedimentary rocks. Important 5.2.L. The fit of continental coastlines, the similarity of rock types and fossilized remains provide evidence that today’s continents were once a single land mass. The continents moved to their current positions on plates driven by energy from Earth’s interior. Important By the end of this unit, students will be able to… Know: Understand: Vocabulary: The Earth’s surface has changed Differential erosion over time. Evidence for this is Rock sequences found in fossils, matching rock Rock correlation types, and the fit of the Law of Superposition continental coastlines. Fossils Index fossils Humans have only recently been Plate Tectonics present on Earth yet Geologic time understanding processes that occur today allow scientists to understand Earth’s history. Do: Compare Earth’s history to a timeline. Explain the importance of fossil evidence in understanding Earth’s history and infer why less in known about Earth’s past when organisms with hard parts did not exist. Infer how the environment on Earth changed over time based on evidence from sequential, undisturbed rock layers. Given the fit of coastlines, matching index fossil evidence form one continent to another, and matching rock types from one continent to another, infer that the continents must have been joined at one time and have moved apart to their present positions.