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EARTH SCIENCE CONTENT & LANGAUGE OBJECTIVES
BENCHMARK 3
DYNAMIC EARTH
Content Objectives (Students will be able to):
D-1: Identify ways in which various resources can be recycled and reused.
D-2: Explain the water cycle.
D-3: Identify factors that cause or affect weather patterns.
D-4: Identify factors that affect the rate of evaporation, condensation, and cloud formation.
D-5: Identify the difference between weather and climate.
D-6: Explain how geography affects climate.
D-7: Recognize the solid Earth is layered with a lithosphere, a hot convecting mantle, and a
dense metallic core.
D-8/10: Identify the processes and factors that result in different kinds of landforms affecting
water flow, soil erosion, and deposition.
D-11: Describe the evidence for and the theory of plate tectonics.
D-12/13: Explain the rock cycle in terms of constructive, and destructive forces in land
formation, and describe that the total amount of Earth material stays the same.
Language Objectives (Students will):
Content
Code
Write definition
D-1
natural resource, renewable,
fossil fuel, hydrocarbon, energy
source, geothermal, alternative,
recycling, solar, hydroelectric,
nuclear
oceans, salt water sources,
freshwater sources,
groundwater, runoff, aquifers
D-2
D-3
weather, temperature, wind
speed, humidity, Coriolis effect,
fronts, air mass, isobars, air
pressure
D-4
humidity, clouds, evaporation,
condensation, cumulus, sirrus,
sratus, alto, temperature,
precipitation, storm types
D-5
climate, different types of
climates, time frames, seasons
D-6
latitude, longitude, elevation,
currents, ocean currents,
leeward, windward, Coriolis
effect, El nino, La nina
D-7
lithosphere, mantle, core, crust,
Moho, plasticity, athenasosphere
Locate
Information
textbook, websites,
trade books, field
trip, guest speaker
Draw/Diagram
Design/Create
Share
cycles (nitrogen,
carbon, etc),
recycling
experiments, poster
projects, reports,
journaling,
presentations
textbook, websites,
trade books, field
trip, guest speaker
textbook, websites,
trade books, field
trip, guest speaker,
weather stations
textbook, websites,
trade books, field
trip, guest speaker,
weather stations,
videos
textbook, websites,
trade books, field
trip, guest speaker,
weather stations,
videos
textbook, websites,
trade books, field
trip, guest speaker,
weather stations,
videos
textbook, websites,
trade books, guest
speaker, videos
water cycle
demonstrations,
poster projects,
journaling
weather maps
experiments, poster
projects, reports,
journaling,
presentations
of water
cycle
weather maps
weather maps,
water cycle, cloud
types
experiments, poster
projects, reports,
journaling,
weather
maps,
presentations
weather maps,
world climate
map, US climate
map
experiments, poster
projects, reports,
journaling,
weather
maps,
presentations,
climate maps
weather maps,
climate maps,
ocean current
maps (gulf stream)
experiments, poster
projects, reports,
journaling,
Earth's
structure/interior
experiments,
poster projects,
journaling
weather
maps,
presentation,
ocean current
maps
presentations
D-8/10
volcanic landforms, oceanic
landforms, glacier landforms,
erosion, deposition, cave
formations
textbook, websites,
trade books, guest
speaker, videos
landforms, erosion
processes,
photography
D-11
plate tectonics, convection
currents, fossils, divergent,
convergent, boundaries,
Wegener, continental drift,
Pangaea
textbook, websites,
trade books, guest
speaker, videos
D12/13
rock cycle, metamorphic,
igneous, sedimentary,
deposition, earthquake
terminology, volcano
terminology, weathering,
erosion
textbook, websites,
trade books, guest
speaker, videos
Pangaea, plate
boundary
diagrams and
maps, convection
current
graph, rock cycle
experiments, poster
projects,
journaling,
Powerpoint
presentations
experiments, poster
projects, activities
presentations
models, posters
models
THE EARTH IN SPACE
Content Objectives:
S-1: Explain the relationship between the cycle of seasons and the tilt of the Earth on its axis.
S-1
seasons, solstice,
equinox, eclipse
textbook, websites,
trade books, guest
speaker, videos,
star charts
diagram Earth's
orbit,
demonstrations of
shadowing
models,
posters,
activities
presentations