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Earth/Environmental Science Common Core Curriculum Map 2012-2013
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Unit Number: 1
Common Core Unit Name: Scientific Inquiry
Suggested Unit Pacing: Ongoing – throughout each unit
Enduring Understanding: The process skills support development of reasoning and problem-solving ability and are the core of scientific methodologies.
Life long learning through scientific inquiry.
Key Academic Vocabulary:
scientific method
inquiry
theory
scientific law
data
Standard
No specific standards
are addressed as this
unit is infused
throughout each of the
subsequent units.
hypothesis
control
variable (manipulated/independent and
responding/dependent)
analyze
interpret
sample
replication
probability
evidence
Essential Questions
(Ch.1.1) What is earth science?
(Ch.1.1) What are the fields of earth science?
(Ch. 1.1, 1.5) What is the scientific method?
(Ch.1.1, 1.4) What kinds of questions can science answer?
(Ch.1.5, pgs. 728-731) What are the steps in the scientific method?
(Ch. 1.5) How does a hypothesis differ from a theory?
(Ch. 1.5) What are the types of variables in an experiment?
(Ch. 1.5) What types of instruments are used to measure and record scientific data?
(Ch.1.5) Why is important that scientist share their findings with other scientists?
(pgs. 732-733) What are some lab safety precautions?
(pgs. 732-733) What are some lab safety hazards?
(pgs. 732-733) What are the lab safety symbols?
(pgs. 732-733) What types of equipment is used in a science lab?
(Ch. 1.5) Why is sample size important in science?
(Ch. 1.5, pgs. 730-731) What are the types of variables in an experiment?
(Ch. 1.5) Why is a control group important?
(Ch. 1.5) Why must scientists replicate their findings?
(Ch. 1.4) How can the earth be seen as a system?
(Ch. 1.4) How can earth science address the problems of limited resources and a growing
population?
(Ch. 1.4) What are some environmental problems?
(Ch. 1.4) What solutions have scientists come up with to solve environmental problems?
(Ch. 1.4) What are the risks and benefits of new technology?
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Mapping tree map
NC map scavenger hunt
Topographic map WS
What is Earth Science
flow map
Review crossword
Contour Island
Enviro Issue Form and
Rubric
Measurement Sheet (2)
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Unit Number: 2
Common Core Unit Name: Biosphere
Suggested Unit Pacing: 1.5 weeks
Enduring Understanding: The biosphere is a complex unit of the Earth that is ever-changing and can be affected by many natural and unnatural processes.
Key Academic Vocabulary:
biosphere
sustainability
biotic and abiotic factors
biomes
biodiversity
Standards
En2.8 Evaluate human
behaviors in terms of
how likely they are to
ensure the ability to live
sustainably on Earth.
En2.7 Explain how the
lithosphere,
hydrosphere, and
atmosphere individually
and collectively affect
the biosphere.
conservation
alternative energy technologies: geothermal, solar,
wind, hydroelectric, nuclear, biofuels, etc.
conventional and sustainable practices
agriculture and aquaculture
population growth
natural resources (renewable and nonrenewable)
reduce, reuse, recycle
fossil fuel
stewardship
Essential Questions
(Ch. 4.1) What are the earth’s natural resources?
(Ch. 4.1) Why are our resources limited?
(Ch. 4.1) How are resources distributed globally?
(Ch. 4.2) How can we help ease the shortage of natural resources?
What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors?
How do these factors interact in the deciduous forests of North Carolina?
What is biodiversity and why is it important?
What impact do humans have on the biosphere?
What are alternative energy sources and evaluate their use in North Carolina and
globally?
What does sustainable mean?
What is agriculture and aquaculture?
Evaluate sustainable practices and their impact on the environment?
Evaluate trends in human population.
What effect does human population growth have on Earth's resources?
What impact is recycling having on Earth's natural resources?
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Water usage calculator
Environmental Issues scavenger
hunt
Sustainability
Global Warming and Sea Level
Rise
Energy Consumption
Albedo Effect
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Unit Number: 3
Common Core Unit Name: Lithosphere
Suggested Unit Pacing: 8 weeks
Enduring Understanding: The lithosphere is a complex structure that is ever-changing and can be affected by many natural and unnatural processes.
Key Academic Vocabulary:
velocity
refraction
epicenter
focus
fault
Richter scale
Mercalli scale
lithosphere
asthenosphere
continental and oceanic crust
mantle
inner and outer core
fossil fuel
natural resource
conservation
stewardship
renewable and nonrenewable resources
energy sources: geothermal, solar, wind,
hydroelectric and nuclear
rock cycle
minerals
physical/chemical properties
streak
luster
cleavage
fracture
hardness
crystal structure
atom bonding
theory of plate tectonics
plate boundaries
ocean trench
mountain ranges
mid-ocean ridges
earthquake
magnitude
seafloor spreading
subduction zone
paleomagnetism
hot spot
geology
element
energy
density
lithosphere
magma
igneous rock (intrusive and extrusive)
sedimentary rock
metamorphic rock
mechanical and chemical weathering
deposition
exfoliation
bedding
frost/ice wedging
talus
mass movement
cementation
compaction
seismic waves
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Standards
EEn.2.1 Explain how
processes and forces
affect the lithosphere.
EEn.2.2 Understand how
human influences impact
the lithosphere.
Essential Questions
(Ch. 9.1) What is the theory of continental drift?
(Ch. 9.1) What was Wegner’s evidence for continental drift?
(Ch. 9.2) What was missing from the theory of continental drift?
(Ch. 9.2, 9.3) Describe each of the three types of plate boundaries?
(Ch. 9.4) What is paleomagnetism and how does it show us seafloor spreading?
(Ch. 9.5) What are five forces/mechanisms of plate movement?
(Ch. 3.1) What is the rock cycle?
(Ch. 3.2-3.4) What are the three types of rocks?
(Ch. 3.2) What are the characteristics of an igneous rock? How is it formed?
(Ch. 3.3) What are the characteristics of a sedimentary rock. How are they formed?
(Ch. 3.4) What are the characteristics of a metamorphic rock? How are they formed?
(Ch. 3.1) What forms of energy drive the rock cycle?
(Ch. 3.1) What is the relationship between the rock cycle and plate tectonics?
(Ch. 3.1) How do atmospheric and hydrologic processes affect the rock cycle?
(Ch. 5.1) What is weathering?
(Ch. 5.1) What are the types of weathering?
(Ch. 5.1) What factors increase the rate of weathering?
(Ch. 5.2) What is soil?
(Ch. 5.2) What are the main components of soil?
(Ch. 5.3) What are the main soil horizons/layers?
(Ch. 8.1) What is an earthquake?
(Ch. 8.1) What is the difference between an epicenter and a focus?
(Ch. 8.1) What causes earthquakes?
(Ch. 8.1) What is elastic rebound hypothesis?
(Ch. 8.2) How are earthquakes measured?
(Ch. 8.2) What are the three types of seismic waves?
(Ch. 8.3) How are earthquake magnitudes and destruction measured?
(Ch. 8.4) What do seismic waves tell us about the structure of the earth?
What is the risk of earthquakes in N.C.?
Where might earthquakes occur in N.C.?
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Sedimentation Tube WS
Mineral ID WS
Locating Earthquake Epicenters
Heating and Cooling lab
Volcano plotting WS
Making a rock profile
If the Earth was a cookie
Characteristics of the Earth
Spreading Sea Floor
Patterns of Crustal Activity
Interpreting Geologic History
Correlating Rock Outcrops
Continental Drift
Tree map of mineral groups
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Unit Number: 4
Common Core Unit Name: Hydrosphere
Suggested Unit Pacing: 2.5 weeks
Enduring Understanding: Ocean currents impact global climate by transferring heat.
Only a small percentage of global water is available for consumption and agricultural purposes.
Humans have a major impact on fresh water and should treat it as a nonrenewable resource.
Key Academic Vocabulary:
Erosion
Deposition
Stream channel
Down-cutting
Sediment
Sedimentation
Tributary
Meander
Drainage basin
Permeability
Moraine
Alluvial fan
Delta
water table
porosity
Standards
EEn.2.3 Explain the
structure and processes
within the hydrosphere.
EEn.2.4 Evaluate how
humans use water.
Ocean current
Upwelling
Coriolis Effect
Turbidity current
Wave crest/trough
Wave period
Wavelength
Shoreline
Sea level
Isostatic adjustment
Barrier island
Continental shelf
Continental slope
saturated
infiltration
Continental rise
Abyssal plain
Seamount
mid-ocean ridge
seafloor spreading
Groundwater
Ecology
Contamination
Porosity
Permeability
Water cycle
River basin
Wetland
Intertidal zone
runoff
Essential Questions
(ch 16.1) How do ocean currents affect climate?
(ch 16.1) How does the Coriolis Effect impact ocean currents?
(ch 16.2) How do waves affect the shoreline?
(ch 6.3) What is the difference between the porosity and the permeability of the soil?
(ch 6.3) How does groundwater move?
(ch 6.3) How does a growing human population threaten our water resources?
(ch 6.3) What are some environmental threats to groundwater?
What are some environmental threats to our water resources in North Carolina? Are
there any plausible solutions?
What are wetlands and what important roles to they serve for the environment?
Suggested Activities
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Plotting ocean currents
Creating stream features
Water beneath the surface
brochure
How does a developing stream
change the landscape?
Stream divides and river systems
Sediment sorting and agents of
transportation
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Unit Number: 5
Common Core Unit Name: Atmosphere
Suggested Unit Pacing: 2.5 weeks
Enduring Understanding: The atmosphere is a complex structure whose intricate parts interact to affect the Earth with immediate results, as well as gradual
too.
Key Academic Vocabulary:
Air mass
(Planetary/Global) Wind belts
Front
Cyclone
Anticyclone
Jet stream
Meteorology
Coriolis Effect
Weather
Climate
Temperature
Isotherm
Humidity
Saturation
Relative humidity
Water vapor
Cloud
Dew point
Precipitation
Humidity
Air pressure
Isobar
Millibar
Barometer
Anemometer
Evaporation
Condensation
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Methane (CH4)
Stratospheric O3 (Ozone)
UV radiation
Sublimation
Deposition
Climate
Greenhouse Effect
Global Warming
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Standards
EEn.2.5 Understand the
structure of and
processes within our
atmosphere.
EEn.2.6 Analyze
patterns of global climate
change over time.
Essential Questions
(ch 19.1) What generates pressure differences between two areas?
(ch 19.1) What causes the wind?
(ch 19.1) Winds try to blow in which direction?
(ch 19.1) How are winds named? (e.g. A Northerly winds blow from the ___ to the ___)
(ch 19.1) What causes the Coriolis Effect?
(ch 19.1) How does the Coriolis Effect affect the direction of the winds (or ocean currents)?
(ch 19.1) How do winds blow/circulate in a low pressure system (cyclone)?
(ch 19.2) What are the names and approximate latitudes of the global wind belts and associated
high/low pressure areas?
(ch 20.1) What two properties do we use to name an air mass? What names are used for each?
(ch 20.2) What is a front?
(ch 20.2) Describe each of the 4 main types of fronts including the map symbol for each one?
(ch 17.1) Explain the difference between the weather and the climate?
(ch 18.1,19.1) What is air pressure and with what instruments do we measure it?
(ch 18.1,19.1) What instruments do scientists use to measure temperature? wind direction? wind
speed?
(ch 18.1) What is the difference between humidity and relative humidity?
(ch 18.1) What process occurs when air is cooled to its dew point? Explain how we might ‘see’
that the air has reached its dew point?
(ch 18.1) What is the difference between relative humidity and the dew point?
(ch 18.2) Describe what happens to air as it rises higher into the atmosphere? As it sinks towards
the ground?
(ch 18.3) Describe each of the 5 main types of precipitation?
(ch 17.1) What are the most common gases that make up our atmosphere?
(ch 17.1) What are the 4 main layers of our atmosphere? Which do we live in?
(ch 17.1) What is the ozone layer, why is it important to life on earth, and where is it found?
(ch 21.1) How does latitude affect climate – especially temperature? How does elevation affect
climate?
(ch 21.3) Why are CO2, CH4, and water vapor known as “greenhouse gases”?
(ch 21.3) How does burning fossil fuels affect the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
(ch 21.3) How does cutting down large forests affect the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
(ch 21.3) What is Global Warming?
(ch 21.3) What effect is Global Warming having on the amount of water vapor in the air?
(ch 21.3) What effect is Global Warming having on the Arctic sea ice and Ice sheets in Antarctica
and Greenland?
(ch 21.3) How might Global Warming affect global sea levels? Hurricanes?
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Worldwide Climate
Zones
Cyclonic Weather
Systems
Climate and Water
Cycle – El Nino and La
Nina
Carbon Dioxide and
Global Warming
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Unit Number: 6
Common Core Unit Name: Astronomy
Suggested Unit Pacing: 2.5 weeks
Enduring Understanding: The Earth's place in the universe is one of significance and insignificance; the factors that exist in order for life to be sustained on
Earth are very specific and astounding, yet there are countless celestial bodies that exist with similar conditions.
Key Academic Vocabulary:
Nebular Theory
Nebula
Big Bang theory
Steady State theory
Inflation theory
Astronomy
Meteor
Comet
Asteroid
Terrestrial planets
Jovian(Gas Giant) planets
Rotation
Revolution
Axis
Perihelion
Aphelion
Perigee
Apogee
Gravity
Inertia
Ellipse
Light Year
Stellar evolution
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Protostar
Black hole
Supernova
White dwarf
Supergiant/giant
Main sequence
Doppler Effect
Red/blue shift
Hubble’s Law
Optical telescope
Radio telescope
Spectroscope (Spectroscopy)
Electromagnetic spectrum/radiation
precession
nutation
barycenter
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Standard
EEn.1.1 Explain the
Earth's role as a body in
space.
Essential Questions
What is astronomy?(ch 22.2)
Explain how the tilt of the Earth’s axis, combined with the revolution of the Earth
around the Sun, causes the seasons.(ch 22.2)
Explain the two main motions of the earth and how long each takes to complete one
time (ch 22.1)
What forces combine to keep a planet in an elliptical orbit around the sun (or the
Moon around the Earth)? (ch 22.2)
Explain which motion is responsible for:
*Day and Night.
* The rising and setting of the sun & stars.
* The apparent motion of the stars around the North Star (Polaris).
* The changing position of stars in the night sky with each passing day.
* The changing angle of the Sun’s highest position in the sky with each passing day.
* The changing phases of the Moon.
* The same side of the moon always facing the Earth.
Where in it’s orbit is a planet moving the fastest? slowest? (ch 22.2)
Compare Earth’s perihelion and aphelion. (ch 24.2)
What types of electromagnetic radiation do stars and other celestial objects produce?
Which can we see?(ch 24.1)
How does the energy of light photons change as the wavelength becomes shorter
(bluer)? As the wavelength become longer (redder)?
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Properties of Stars
Orbits
Measuring the Earth
Dimensions of the Solar System
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