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)
Unit 3 Dynamic Earth
November, December
Geological Science (Plate Tectonics)
Geological Science (Volcanoes and Vulcanism)
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)
Unit 6 Earth’s Ocean
March, April
Oceanographic Science (Oceans)
Unit 7 Space
April, May
Astronomical Science (Observing the Universe)
Astronomical Science (Stars and Galaxies)
Astronomical Science (The Sun and the Solar System)
Astronomical Science (The Earth and Moon)
Astronomical Science (Space Technologies)
Unit 8 Earth History
May, June
- Earth’s History (Geologic Time)