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EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
EARTH SCIENCE (all levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Composition and Structure of the Universe
Days: 15
Subject(s):
Earth Science
Grade(s):
9
Key Learning(s):
Standards addressed: 3.3.10.B1
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.D.3
Eligible Content: S11.D.3.1.1, S11.D.3.1.2, S11.D.3.1.3
What laws explain how solar system members move?
How does the structure of our solar system determine how it was
formed?
Instructional Tools:
Planetary Orbits
Ellipses and Eccentricity
Create your own Hypothesis
Cause and Effect
HR Diagram
Properties of Stars
Life Cycle Cards
Unit Essential Question(s):
What does the structure and composition of our universe tell us
about its origin?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Explain how gravity is responsible
for planetary orbits.
Explain what caused the sun, Earth,
and most of the other planets to
form between 4 and 5 billion years
ago.
Provide evidence to suggest the Big Bang
Theory.
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
What physical laws explain
planetary motion?
What are the theories surrounding
the formation of our solar system?
How did the solar system form?
What evidence supports the Big Bang
theory?
Competencies:
Competencies:
Competencies:
Describe planetary motion and the
physical laws that explain planetary
motion.
Explain current scientific theories of
the origin of the Solar System and
universe (Big Bang, Solar Nebular,
stellar evolution).
Explain the evidence that supports the Big
Bang.
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Laws of planetary motion
Elliptical Orbits
Aphelion
Perihelion
Equal Area Law
Harmonic Law
p2=d3
Universal Law of Gravitation
Escape Velocity
Hypothesis
Theorynebular Hypothesis
Law of Conservation of Angular
Momentum
Protoplanet Hypothesis
Planetesimal Hypothesis
Red Shift
Doppler Effect
Edwin Hubble
COBE
Concept:
Describe the basic nuclear
processes involved in energy
production in a star.
Lesson Essential Questions:
How does a star progress through
its life cycle?
Competencies:
Describe structure, formation, and
life cycle of stars.
Vocabulary:
Fusion
Nebula
Protostar
Star
Stable-state
Giant/Supergiant
Dwarf
Supernova
Neutron Star
Black Hole
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
Earth Science (all Levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Earth Features and the Processes that
Change It
Days: 15
Subject(s): Earth Science
Grade(s):
9
Key Learning(s):
Standards addressed: 3.3.10A1
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.A.1, S11.A.3, S11.D.1
Eligible Content: S11.D.1.1, S11.D.1.2, S11.D.1.3
Instructional Tools:
Rock Cycle Game
Rock ID Lab
Snack Tectonics
How does the structure of today’s Earth give evidence to the
past?
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does plate tectonics play a role in changing and creating
earth’s land features?
What processes are necessary to move rocks through the cycle?
Concept:
Concept:
Relate plate tectonics to both slow
and rapid changes in the earth’s
surface.
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do plate boundaries play a role
in changing earth features?
How do the layers of earth play a
role in plate tectonics?
Concept:
Describe the rock cycle and the
processes that are responsible for
the formation of igneous,
sedimentary, and metamorphic
rocks.
Lesson Essential Questions:
Relate geochemical cycles to the
conservation of matter.
How are rocks formed and cycled?
How do chemical processes affect
change in geologic structure of the
Earth?
What characteristics are used to
identify igneous, sedimentary, and
metamorphic rocks?
Lesson Essential Questions:
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Competencies:
Explain and analyze the forces in
the lithosphere that continually
shape the Earth.
Competencies:
Analyze how human-made systems
impact the management and
distribution of natural resources.
Competencies:
Explain the significance and contribution
of water as a resource to living things
and shaping of the land.
Explain the processes that take
place at plate boundaries and how
they shape the earth. (Volcanic
activity, earthquakes, mountain
building, mid-ocean ridges, deep-sea
trenches, new land being formed)
Vocabulary:
Classify and describe major types of
rocks and minerals.
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Subduction
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
Convection Currents
Asthenosphere
Mantle
Inner Core
Outer Core
Crust
Moho
Rock Cycle
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Magma
Lava
Intrusive/Plutonic Extrusive/Volcanis
Aphanitic
Phaneritic
Mafic
Felsic
Clastic
Chemical
Organic
Fossils
Stratification
Contact and Regional Metamorphism
Foliated
Non-Foliated
Chemical Weathering
Acid rain
Carbon Cycle
Oxidation
Hydrolysis
Carbonation
Concept:
Explain how the Earth is composed
of a number of dynamic, interacting
systems exchanging energy or
matter.
Lesson Essential Questions:
How has the rock cycle created
features that we see today?
Competencies:
Analyze features caused by
interaction of processes that
change Earth’s surface.
(How wind and water help break rock
into soil, plate movement, earthquakes,
volcanic activity help form mountains
and valleys, flowing water and
deposition of material help form
deltas.)
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Vocabulary:
Rock Cycle
Volcanism
Plate Tectonics
Sediments
Deposition
Sorting
EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
Earth Science (all Levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Earth’s History
Days: 15
Subject(s): Earth Science
Grade(s):
9
Key Learning(s):
Instructional Tools:
Standards addressed: 3.3.10A3
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.D.1
Eligible Content: S11.D.1.1, S11.D.1.2, S11.D.1.3
Plate Boundary
Interactions
Convection Current Lab
How is the structure of today’s earth a product of the past?
Unit Essential Question(s):
How do we know that Earth’s processes have been constant over time?
Concept:
Explain how the evolution of Earth has
been driven by interactions between the
lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere,
and biosphere.
Lesson Essential Questions:
How did the interactions of the
lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere,
and biosphere form the present day
earth?
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Competencies:
Explain and analyze the forces in the
lithosphere that continually shape the
Earth.
Explain the processes that take place at
plate boundaries and how they shape the
earth.
Vocabulary:
Convection Current
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Tectonic Plates
Biosphere
Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Plate Boundary
EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
Earth Science (all Levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Earth’s Resources/Materials
Days: 15
Subject(s): Earth Science
Grade(s):
9
Key Learning(s):
Standards addressed: 3.3.10A2, 4.3.10A, 4.3.10B, 4.3.10C
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.A.3, S11.D.1, S11.D.2
Eligible Content: S11.D.1.1, S11.D.1.2, S11.D.2.1
Instructional Tools:
Alternative Energy Lab
Cool Fuel
Pender
What earth materials and resources are beneficial to man?
Unit Essential Question(s):
How do humans depend upon the earth for resources?
Concept:
Analyze the effects on the
environment and the carbon cycle
of using both renewable and
nonrenewable sources of energy.
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Lesson Essential Questions:
What is a resource?
Competencies:
Analyze how human-made systems
impact the management and
distribution of natural resources.
Vocabulary:
Renewable
Non-Renewable
Minerals
Metals
Non-Metals
Fossil Fuels
Resource
Reserve
Sustainable Yield
Biomass
Nutrient
EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
Earth Science (all Levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Sciences and Transfer of Energy
Days: 5
Subject(s): Earth Science
Grade(s):
Key Learning(s):
9
Instructional Tools:
Standards addressed: 3.3.10A4
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.D.2
Eligible Content: S11.D.2.1
Greenhouse Effect Lab
Greenhouse Effect
Diagram
Energy Transfer Cartoon
What are the different processes of energy transfer?
Unit Essential Question(s):
How are different types of energy moved through the systems of
the earth?
Concept:
Relate geochemical cycles to
conservation of matter.
Explain how the Earth’s systems
and its various cycles are driven by
energy.
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Lesson Essential Questions:
How is heat transferred through the
atmosphere?
Competencies:
Analyze how the transfer of energy
and substances between Earth’s
atmosphere and its surface
influences regional or global
weather or climate.
Vocabulary:
Climate Change
Radiation
Conduction
Convection
Advection
Isolation
Shortwave Radiation
Longwave Radiation
EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
Earth Science (all Levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Unifying Themes for Composition and
Structure of the Universe
Subject(s): Earth Science
Grade(s):
9
Days: 15
Key Learning(s):
Instructional Tools:
Standards addressed: 3.3.10.B2
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.A.1, S11.A.3
Eligible Content: S11.A1.1, S11.A.1.2, S11.A.1.3
Speed of Light Calculations
HR Diagram
Retrograde Motion of Mars
Lab
What characteristics and techniques are used to determine a
star’s movement in the universe and its progression in its life
cycle?
How do scientists group stars?
Unit Essential Question(s):
What properties of our solar system/galaxy can be applied to the
universe in general?
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Scale and Measurement
Constancy and Change
Scale and Measurement
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
How are the properties of stars
used to classify them on the
Hertzsprung-Russel diagram?
What are the differences between
our solar system/galaxy and the
universe?
How do you determine a star’s distance in
space?
How do you determine if a star is moving
away or toward an observer?
Competencies:
Competencies:
Competencies:
Explain how scientists obtain
information about the universe by
using technology to detect
electromagnetic radiation that is
emitted, reflected, or absorbed by
stars and other objects.
Vocabulary:
Describe changes in the universe
over billions of years.
Explain the scale used to measure the
sizes of stars and galaxies and the
distances between them.
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram
Main Sequence/Stable State
Spectral Class
Luminosity
Absolute Magnitude
Dwarf
Giant/Supergiant
Spiral Galaxy
Irregular Galaxy
Elliptical Galaxy
Quasars
Milky Way
Andromeda Galaxy
Local Group
Two Magellanic Clouds
Binary Stars
Cepheid Variables
Red Shift
Blue Shift
Doppler Effect
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Light Year
Astronomical Unit
Apparent Magnitude
Absolute Magnitude
Luminosity
Circumpolar Constellations
Spectroscope
Spectrum
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
Earth Science (all Levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Unifying Themes for Earth Structure,
Processes, and Cycles
Subject(s): Earth Science
Grade(s):
Days: 10
9
Instructional Tools:
Key Learning(s):
Standards addressed: 3.3.10A7
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.A.1, S11.A.2
Geologic Time Scale Activity
Watersheds Lab
Sedimentation Lab
How do cycles dominate and influence life on earth?
Unit Essential Question(s):
What are earth movements and processes that impact civilization?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Scale/Models
Constancy and Change
Scale
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
What models can be used to
illustrate the Earth’s physical
features?
How does the Earth provide clues
to geologic and atmospheric
change?
What data was used to establish the
geologic time scales?
Competencies:
Interpret and create models of the
Earth’s physical features in various
mapping representations.
Competencies:
Relate constancy and change to the
hydrologic and geochemical cycles.
Competencies:
Apply an appropriate scale to illustrate
major events throughout geologic time.
Vocabulary:
Topography
Cartography
Geography
GIS
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Hydrologic Cycle
Geochemical Cycle
Geosphere
Eon
Epoch
Period
Era
Age
Concept:
Constancy/Change
Lesson Essential Questions:
Why has the earth and climate
changed over geologic time?
Competencies:
Describe factors that contribute to
global climate and change.
Vocabulary:
Greenhouse Effect
Angle of Isolation
Radiation
Re-Radiation
Albedo
Heat Sink
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
Earth Science (all Levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Water
Subject(s): Earth Science
Days: 15
Grade(s):
9
Instructional Tools:
Key Learning(s):
Standards addressed: 3.3.10A5, 4.2.10A, 4.2.7A
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.B.3, S11.D.1
Eligible Content: S11.D.1.1, S11.D.1.2, S11.D.1.3
Thermocline Lab
Cartography of Ocean Currents
Buoyancy Lab
How are all the oceans related?
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does water affect the Earth’s surface and its population?
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Explain how there is only one
ocean.
Explain the processes of the
hydrologic cycle.
Explain the dynamics of oceanic currents
and their relationship to global circulation
within the marine environment.
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the common
characteristics of the Earth’s
oceans?
What is the hydrologic cycle and
how does it influence water usage?
How do wind patterns, the rotation of the
Earth and continental barriers affect
surface currents in the ocean?
Competencies:
Explain and analyze the forces in
the lithosphere that continually
shape the Earth.
Competencies:
Explain and analyze the forces in
the lithosphere that continually
shape the Earth.
Competencies:
Explain and analyze the forces in the
lithosphere that continually shape the
Earth.
Explain the processes that take
place at plate boundaries and how
they shape the earth.
Explain the processes that take
place at plate boundaries and how
they shape the earth.
Explain the processes that take place at
plate boundaries and how they shape the
earth.
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Hydrosphere
Ocean Currents
Warm/Cold Currents
Eddies
Countercurrents
Thermalhaline
Tthermoclines
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Run-off
Evapotranspiration
Water budget
Deficit/Surplus
Porosity
Impermeable
Water Table
Hillside Spring
Well
Groundwater
Karst Topography
Recharge
Longshore Currents
Coriolsis Effect
Gulf Stream
Density
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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EAST PENNSBORO AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
COURSE:
Earth Science (all Levels)
Depth and pacing are based
upon level of students.
201, Academic Earth Science
202, Applied Earth Science
204, Honors Earth Science
Unit:
Weather and Climate
Subject(s): Earth Science
Days: 15
Grade(s):
9
Key Learning(s):
Instructional Tools:
Standards addressed: 3.3.10A6
Assessment anchors addressed: S11.A.1, S11.B.3. S11.D.2
Eligible Content: S11.B.3.1, S11.B.3.2, S11.B.3.3
Relative Humidity/Dew
Point Lab
Air Mass Analysis Lab
JASON Project
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Unit Essential Question(s):
What methods are used to study the weather?
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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Concept:
Concept:
Interpret meteorological data to
describe and/or predict weather.
Lesson Essential Questions:
Explain the phenomena that cause
global atmospheric processes such
as storms, currents, and wind
patterns.
Lesson Essential Questions:
What variables are used to effect
the weather?
How is heat transferred through the
atmosphere?
Competencies:
Use evidence or examples to
explain the characteristics and
interactions within an ecosystem.
Competencies:
Use evidence or examples to explain
the characteristics and interactions
within an ecosystem.
Analyze patterns of change in
natural or human-made systems
over time.
Analyze patterns of change in natural
or human-made systems over time.
Explain how human-made systems
impact the management and
distribution of natural resources.
Explain how human-made systems
impact the management and
distribution of natural resources.
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Humidity
Convection
Hadley Cell
Precipitation
Pressure
Advection
Air Masses
Dew Point
Insolation
Radiation
Conduction
Convection
Shortwave and Longwave Radiation
Advection
Absorption
Greenhouse Effect
Climate Change
Ozone (troposphere and
stratosphere)
Board Approval: April 19, 2011
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