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Recommendations for Earth Science
Standard
MS-ESS1-1
MS-ESS1-2
MS-ESS1-3
MS-ESS1-4
Lessons
Gaps
FOSS Earth History:
 6.2-6.4 Earth History
Timeline
 7.1-7.2 Index Fossils and
Sequencing Earth Events
STC CE:
 23.1 Investigating Ash
 24.1 Investigating Ash Fall
Other:
 How the Earth Was Made
(History Channel Video)
MS-ESS2-1
FOSS Earth History:
 8.1 Rock Cycle Introduction
STC CE:
 19.1 Investigating Magma
 19.2 Investigating Lava
 21.1 Observing Igneous Rock
 22.1 Investigating
Crystallization
MS-ESS2-2
FOSS Earth History:
 3.4 Differential Erosion
 4.1-4.6 Observing Sands,
Stream Tables, Weathering
and Erosion Video,
Sandstone and Shale
Formation
 5.1-5.4 Limestone
Environments and
Interpreting Depositional
Environments
STC CE:
 15.1 & 15.2 Investigating
Plate Movement
 15 Colliding, Sliding &
Separating Plates
 18 Introduction to Volcanoes
 19.1 Investigating Magma
 19.2 Investigating Lava
 Supplement
 Students need to build own
model of rock cycle
 19 An Island is Born
 20 Volcano Types
MS-ESS2-3
STC CE:
 15.1 & 15.2 Investigating
Plate Movement with
Models
 15 Colliding, Sliding &
Separating Plates
 15.3 Investigating Faults
with Models
 15 Earthquakes & Faults
 15 Earth’s Moving Plates
(Theory of Plate Tectonics)
Other:
 Map of Earth’s Fractured
Surface
 Google Earth scavenger hunt
for plate boundaries
MS-ESS2-4
STC CE:
 6.2 Modeling the Effects of
Colliding Air Pressure on
Cloud Formation
 6 Hurricane Formation and
the Water Cycle
Other:
 Bill Nye: The Water Cycle
MS-ESS2-5
STC CE:
 3.1 Investigating Rates of
Heating & Cooling
 4.1 Investigating the
Temperature of Air
 4 Air Masses
 4.2 Investigating How Warm
Air & Cool Air Move
 5.1 Investigating the Effects
of Colliding Air Masses
 5 Why Does the Wind Blow?
 5 Weather Fronts
 6.1 Observing Evaporation &
Condensation
 6.2 Modeling the Effects of
Air Pressure on Cloud
Formation
 6 Hurricane Formation and
the Water Cycle
MS-ESS2-6
MSS-ESS3-1
MSS-ESS3-2
MSS-ESS3-3
MSS-ESS3-4
MSS-ESS3-
STC CE:
 3.1 Investigating Rates of
Heating and Cooling
 3 The Source of Earth’s Heat
 4.1 Investigating the
Temperature of Air (relate
air temp to landforms)
 4.2 Investigating How Warm
Air and Cool Air Move
 4 Air Masses
 5.1 Investigating the Effects
of Colliding Air Masses
 5 Why Does the Wind Blow?
(including solar radiation
and seasons)
 5 Weather Fronts
 6 The Truth About Air
 7.1 Investigating the Effect
of Temperature on Ocean
Currents
 7 Ocean Currents
 7 How Trade Winds Cause
Upwelling
 7.2 Investigating Surface
Currents
 7 Surface Currents
 7 El Nino Stirs up the
World’s Weather