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MS. Earth’s Systems
Associated Units:
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Earth Materials – Rock Cycle
Geological Processes – Plate Tectonics/Earthquakes/Volcanoes
Weathering and Erosion
Geologic History - Fossils, Deformation, Rock Strata
Water Cycle
To demonstrate mastery of the Performance Expectation(s) associated with this and related unit
modules students will:
MS-ESS1-4
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time
scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history.
MS-ESS2-1
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that
drives this process. They will understand that Earth materials that can be found in different
locations and energy sources that drive the location and changes in the location. They will
describe the relationships between components and cycling of different Earth processes.
MS-ESS2-2
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed
the Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales. They will describe and model the
slow and large-scale motion of the Earth’s plates, surface weathering, erosion, movement,
and the deposition of sediment ranging from large to microscopic scales, and rapid
catastrophic events. Understand that a given surface feature is the result of a broad range
of geoscience processes occurring at different temporal and spatial scales and that surface
features will continue to change in the future as geoscience processes continue to occur.
MS-ESS2-3
Students will analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental
shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions. They will
articulate a statement that relates the given phenomenon to a scientific idea, including how
events in the Earth’s 4.6 billion-year-old history are organized relative to one another using
the geologic time scale. They will explain how the relative order of events is determined on
the geologic time scale using rock strata and relative ages of rock units, major events in the
Earth’s history and/or specific changes in fossils over time. Students will use reasoning,
along with the assumption that theories and laws that describe the natural world operate today
as they did in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
Unit: Earth Materials/Rock Cycle
To demonstrate mastery of the Performance Expectation ESS2-1A, lesson unit may include the
following objectives, vocabulary and assessments:
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Classify rocks and minerals by their physical properties.
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Perform physical and chemical property analysis on rocks and minerals.
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Analyze rock and mineral data, classifying and identify on the basis of the properties..
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Distinguish physical properties of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic rocks and
explain how one kind of rock could eventually become a different kind of rock.
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Model the movement of energy that originates from the Earth’s hot interior and causes
the cycling of matter through the Earth processes of melting, crystallization, and
deformation, identifying Earth’s layers.
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Illustrate the rock cycle and describe the forces that change rocks and the changes that
occur.
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Differentiate Earth processes (e.g., melting, sedimentation, crystallization) drive matter
cycling (i.e., from one type of Earth material to another) through observable chemical and
physical changes.
Vocabulary
Mineral
Streak
Hardness
Igneous
Rock
Melting
Inner Core
Crust
Mesosphere
Crystal
Cleavage
Density
Metamorphic
Intrusive
Sedimentation
Outer Core
Lithosphere
Luster
Fracture
Ore
Sedimentary
Extrusive
Rock Cycle
Mantle
Asthenosphere
Resources
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Holt Science and Technology, Earth Science
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Google Earth
 STEMScopes – Earth Materials, Geoscience Processes, Weather and Erosion
Assessment
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Modeling
Argue: Claim-Evidence-Reasoning
Multiple Choice
Open-Ended Response
Scientific Investigation, Problem Solving and Engineering Design
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Science Notebook
 Mapping
Unit: Geological Processes – Plate Tectonics/Earthquakes/Volcanoes
To demonstrate mastery of the Performance Expectation(s) ESS2-2A, ESS2-2B, lesson unit may
include the following objectives, vocabulary and assessments:
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Describe the characteristics of the layers of the Earth.
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Identify and describe layers of the Earth by their physical properties.
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Explain how scientists know about the structure of Earth’s interior.
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Define tectonic plates and Continental Drift.
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Research and explain how sea floor spreading and magnetic reversals support plate
tectonics.
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Identify forces thought to move tectonic plates.
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Evaluate satellite data used to track movement of tectonic plates.
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Relate earthquakes and volcanoes to plate movement.
Vocabulary
Plate Tectonics
Earthquake
Fault
Convergent Boundary
Normal Fault
Friction
Trench
True North
Pyroclastic Material
Shield Volcano
Continental Drift
Hot Spot
Transform Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Reverse Fault
Continental Shelf
Ridge
Magnetic Reversal
Crater
Cinder Cone Volcano
Resources
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Holt Science and Technology, Earth Science
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Google Earth
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STEMScopes –Geoscience Processes
Volcano
Plate Boundary
Stress
Strike-Slip Fault
Magma
Lava
Accretion
Sea Floor Spreading
Caldera
Composite Volcano
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Assessment
Models
Argue: Claim-Evidence-Reasoning
Multiple Choice
Open-Ended Response
Scientific Investigation, Problem Solving and Engineering Design
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Science Notebook
Unit: Geologic History - Fossils, Deformation, Rock Strata
To demonstrate mastery of the Performance Expectation(s) ESS1.C, ESS2.1C, ESS2-2.A, and
ESS2-B, lesson unit may include the following objectives, vocabulary and assessments:
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Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and
earth structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
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Identify patterns in fossil, rock strata and earth structures.
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Organize given data that represent the distribution and ages of fossils and rocks,
continental shapes, seafloor structures, and/or age of oceanic and continental crust.
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Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata and fossils for how
the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history.
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Identify the relationship between continental shapes, rock strata and earth structures and
volcanic and earthquake activity
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Use the analyzed data to provide evidence for past plate motion.
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Develop models illustrating the distribution of structures (e.g., volcanic ridges at the
centers of oceans, trenches at the edges of continents) combined with the patterns of ages
of rocks that supports the interpretation of crust formation.
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Understand that the processes that shape the Earth today are the same as those that have
been at work throughout Earth’s history
Vocabulary
Plate Tectonics
True North
Tension
Strata
Continental Drift
Magnetic Reversal
Geologic Time
Trench
Resources
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Holt Science and Technology, Earth Science
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Google Earth
Folding
Sea Floor Spreading
Fossil
Compression
 STEMScopes –Geoscience Processes, Geologic History of Earth, Ancient Lands,
Seafloor Spreading, Earth Materials
Assessment
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Modeling
Argue: Claim-Evidence-Reasoning
Multiple Choice
Open-Ended Response
Scientific Investigation, Problem Solving and Engineering Design
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Science Notebook
 Mapping
Unit: Weathering and Erosion
To demonstrate mastery of the Performance Expectation(s) MS-ESS2-2C, MS-ESS2-2B, lesson
unit may include the following objectives, vocabulary and assessments:
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Define and differentiate mechanical and chemical weathering.
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Describe the various forms of physical and chemical weathering.
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Describe the physical changes that occur in rocks and minerals as a result of weathering and
erosion.
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Identify and describe the evidence necessary for explaining surface weathering, erosion,
movement, and the deposition of sediment ranging from large to microscopic scales.
 Perform lab investigations and collect and analyze weathering data.
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Research the effects of wind, water, glacial and gravitational erosion and deposition.
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Research explanations for cave and sinkhole formation.
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Use multiple valid and reliable sources, which may include students’ own investigations,
evidence from data, and observations from conceptual models used to represent changes
that occur on very large or small spatial and/or temporal scales to land surface and
subsurface features.
 Infer methods of erosion reduction and control.
Vocabulary
Weathering
Erosion
Stalactite
Acid precipitation
Humus
Chemical Weathering
Sedimentation
Sinkhole
Oxidation
Bedrock
Mechanical Weathering
Stalagmite
Abrasion
Soil
Topsoil
Parent Rock
Crevasse
Till
Creep
Saltation
Alluvium Fan
Leaching
Glacial drift
Mass Movement
Loess
Longshore current
Glacier
Stratified Drift
Mudflow
Deflation
Alluvium
Resources
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Holt Science and Technology, Earth Science
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Google Earth
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STEMScopes – Weathering and Erosion
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Maps
Assessment
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Modeling
Argue: Claim-Evidence-Reasoning
Multiple Choice
Open-Ended Response
Scientific Investigation, Problem Solving and Engineering Design
 Mapping