Earth Science is the study of the earth and its movements.  Students should be fluent win English as this course is vocabulary intensive.

Topics also includes:

• stars, the universe
• the understanding of mankind in the grander universal design.

Special topics will also include:

• when weather goes bad
• what happen when re run out of fish
• when the bog on hits, what should you do

Field Trips are optional when possible.

Special Notes

Areas of study will include:

• earth materials – rocks, minerals
• earth activities – volcanic, geysers, earthquakes
• rocks – bending, flowing, breaking
• continental drift – theory, evidence, plate tectonics
• earth’s biology, geologic times, relative vs. absolute
• fossils and earth history – formation, significance
• economic geology
• astronomy
• oceanography

Text Book: Earth Science by Spaulding and Namowitz – McDougal Littell Press

Unit 1 – Investigating earth
September

Earth and Its Environment (Introduction)

• Chapter 1 A new View of Earth – Notes
• Chapter 1.2 The Earth System’s Four Spheres – Notes
• Chapter 1.3 Cycles and the Earth – Notes
• Chapter 2.1 The Scientist’s Mind – Notes
• Chapter 2.2 Scientific Methods of Inquiry – Notes

Geological Science (Resources and Environment)

• Chapter 3.1 Modeling the Planet – Notes
• Chapter 3.2 Mapmaking and Technology – Notes
• Chapter 3.3 Topographic Maps – Notes
• Chapter 4.1 Earth’s Formation – Notes
• Chapter 4.2 Earth’s Rotation – Notes
• Chapter 4.3 Earth’s Revolution – Notes

Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity Made Easy

• Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity Made Easy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KfPtHec4s&feature=related
• The Elegant Universe – Einstein’s Relativity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpbGuuGosAY
• Space-Time And The Speed Of Light | Einstein’s Relativity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvZfx7iwq94&feature=related
• Relativity In 5 Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYWM2oZgi4E&feature=related

Unit 2 Earth Matter
September, October, November

Geological Science (Earth Materials)

• Chapter 5.1 Matter and Atoms
• Rocks Identification and Classifications-2011
• Birthstone Worksheet

Unit 3 Dynamic Earth
November, December

Geological Science (Plate Tectonics)

• Chapter 8 Notes

Geological Science (Volcanoes and Vulcanism)

• Chapter 9 Notes

Unit 4 Earth’s Changing Surface
December, January

Geological Science – Rocks and Erosion

Global Changes – when the Earth fights back

Unit 5 Atmosphere and Weather
February, March,

Atmospheric Science (The Atmosphere)

Atmospheric Science (Pressure and Winds)

Atmospheric Science (Evaporation, Precipitation, and Weather)

• Bad Weather – Tsunami
• Bad Weather – Tornado
• Bad Weather – Hurricane

Unit 6 Earth’s Ocean
March, April

Oceanographic Science (Oceans)

• Chp 22-24 – Notes

Unit 7 Space
April, May

Astronomical Science (Observing the Universe)

• Understanding the Universe

Astronomical Science (Stars and Galaxies)

• Understanding the Beginning of the Universe

Astronomical Science (The Sun and the Solar System)

• Gravity and Gravitational Pulls
• The Sun
• The Planets

Astronomical Science (The Earth and Moon)

Astronomical Science (Space Technologies)

• The very early universe
• Timeline of the Big Bang

Unit 8 Earth History
May, June

• Earth’s History (Geologic Time)