| Week |
Topic |
Nevada
Science Standards
|
Activity |
| 10 |
Astronomy and Space Exploration |
N.12.B.1: Science, technology, and
society influenced one another in both positive and negative ways.
|
Apollo 13: Video and worksheet. |
| 11 |
Earth Science: Our home planet
Layers like onions....
Atmosphere, Hydrosphere,
Lithosphere, Asthenosphere |
N.12.A.1 Students know tables, charts,
illustrations and graphs can be used in making arguments and claims in
oral and written presentations.
N.12.A.5 Students know models and modeling can be
used to identify and predict cause-effect relationships.
|
Lab 5: Earth Egg
Cut-away
earth
Cornstarch plastic Demo. |
| 12 |
Rocks, minerals and the rock cycle.
Moh's Crossword Quiz
|
E.12.C.2:Students
know elements exist in fixed amounts and move through solid earth, oceans,
atmosphere and living things as part of biogeochemical cycles.
|
Lab 6: Moh's hardness scale
Lab 7: Big 3 Rock Types: Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.
|
| 13 |
Soils:
Dirt that helps you eat?
Online Review: Earth Structure and Rock cycle.
Quiz: Earth Structure and Rock Cycle
|
E.12.C.5 Students know soils, derived
from weathered rocks and decomposed organic material, is found in layers |
Lab 9: Soil profiles representative of Nevada environments |
| 13 |
Earthquakes
|
E.12.C.2: Students
understand the concept of plate tectonics including the evidence that
supports it (structural, geophysical and paleontological evidence). |
Lab 10: Virtual Earthquake and seismology
Killer Quake video and worksheet |
| 14 |
Continental
Drift and plate
tectonics |
E.12.A.4 Students know convection and
radiation play important roles in moving heat energy in the Earth system.
E.12.C.2 Students understand the concept of plate
tectonics including the evidence that supports it (structural, geophysical
and paleontological evidence).
|
Lab 11: Rock On: Evidence of Pangea |
| 15 |
Continental
Drift and plate
tectonics |
E.12.A.4 Students know convection and
radiation play important roles in moving heat energy in the Earth system.
E.12.C.2 Students understand the concept of plate
tectonics including the evidence that supports it (structural, geophysical
and paleontological evidence).
|
Lab 11: Rock On: Evidence of Pangea
Lab Due
|
| 16 |
Quiz: Earthquakes, continental drift
and Plate Tectonics
Topographic
Maps |
E.12.C.2 Students understand the
concept of plate tectonics including the evidence that supports it
(structural, geophysical and paleontological evidence).
|
Lab 12: Topo
Tank |
| 17 |
Practical Lab Final |
N.12.A.1 Students know tables, charts,
illustrations and graphs can be used in making arguments and claims in
oral and written presentations.
N.12.A.2 Students know scientists maintain a permanent record of
procedures, data, analyses, decisions, and understandings of scientific
investigations.
N.12.A.3 Students know repeated experimentation allows for
statistical analyses and unbiased conclusions.
N.12.A.4 Students know how to safely conduct an original scientific
investigation using appropriate tools and technology.
|
Perform Lab on your own to demonstrate what you have
learned.
(An Earth Science Topic of the instructors choosing)
|
| 18 |
Review and
Semester Final |
|
End of 1st Semester. |
Okay, time for some review. If you
had to guess, what state of matter is shown in this atomic force image? Hint: It
is crystalline.