Lesson+Plans+and+Activities


 * PHYSICAL EARTH SCIENCE **
 * Unit 1 - Intro/Nature of Science**

Day 1 Video clips (Banff Mountain Film, et al.) Science Pretest @ [|http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/sci.know2.pdf] PBS Survey @ [] Students will take two surveys to be completed by non-students. Review of rules and procedures.

Day 2 PBS Survey results. Graph by age, gender, etc. Begin Sequencing Events Cartoon Activity @ []

Day 3 Conclude Sequencing Events Cartoon Activity


 * Unit 2 - Weather**

Day 4 Interpret a Weather Map activity. Begin Long-Term Weather projects. Weather data @ []

Day 5 Predicting the Weather activity

Day 6 Track a Tropical Cyclone activity. Hurricane data @ [] WESH Hurricane Tracker http://www.wesh.com/hurricanetracker/index.html Hurricane Katrina Storm Surge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8-dw27Z1Q Hurricane Katrina Part 1: Ray Nagin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W53k7uHh_t4&feature=related Hurricane Katrina: The Drive: Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubbjgLDKGyk National Geographic Video http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/index.html ---How Katrina Formed 3:00 ---Doomed New Orleans 3:08 ---Katrina Day by Day 5:13 Day 7 National Geographic Twister Tracking @ [] National Geographic Video http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/index.html ---Tornadoes, Lightning in Rare Video ---http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/environment-natural-disasters/tornadoes/
 * Unit 3 - Oceans and Climate**

Day 8 Classifying Climates activity, Ocean Surface Temperatures activity. World map @ []

Biome Videos http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/environment-natural-disasters/tornadoes/ ---Vancouver Rain Forest ---Everglades ---Karoo Biome 3:16 ---Megatransect 2:58 ---Ndoki Rain Forest 3:14 ---Patagonia 3:43 ---Rocky Mountain Biolab:Amphibian 3:14

Day 9 Global Soils and Climate activity. World map @ [] Day 10 Desert Dwellers @ [] Day 11 Changes in Sea Level activity Day 12 Estuaries: Finding the Balance @ []

**Unit 4 - Earth Materials and Processes**

Day 13 Interpreting Changes in Rocks activity Day 14 Locating Igneous Rocks on Earth activity

Day 15 Plate Tectonics on North America activity

Day 16 __Nova Earthquake!__ DVD and questions

Day 17 __Earthquakes and Subduction Zones__

Day 18 Predicting Earthquakes activity. Recent earthquake data @ [] Day 19 __Nova Tsunami: The Wave That Shook the World__ DVD and paper

Day 20 The Dynamic Earth activity. Recent earthquake activity @ [] Recent volcanic activity @ [] Day 21 __Nova In the Path of a Killer Volcano__ DVD and action plan


 * Unit 5 – Dinosaurs**

Day 22 Physical Characteristics of Places: The Fossil Record @ [] Dino Directory @ []

Day 23 Solve Dinosaur Fossil Puzzles activity and [|www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/trex/dig/] Day 24 What Killed the Dinosaurs? @ [] Day 25 How did earth get animals? @ []

Which came first? activity @ [] Day 26 Survival of the Fittest @ [] **Unit 6 – Evolution and Natural Selection**

Day 27 Human Role in Dog Evolution @ [] Day 28 Investigating our past: Where did humans come from? @ [] Day 29 Genographic: Mapping the Human Journey @ [] Day 30 Ice Age @ [] Day 31 Can captive breeding save a species? @ [] **Unit 7 – Space**

Day 32 Size and Scale @ [] Day 33 Savage Sun @ [] Day 34 __Plotting the H-R Diagram__, National Radio Astronomy Observatory Take a Tour of Orion @ [|http://www.gb.nrao.edu/~rmaddale/Education/OrionTourCenter/index.htm] Day 35 The Color Spectrum: How does it work? @ [] Day 36 Star Gazers @ []


 * Unit 8 - Climate Change**

Day 37 Discuss bias, present two alternate viewpoints on a subject. Begin __An Inconvenient Truth__ Day 38 Conclude __An Inconvenient Truth__. Discuss dissenting views--man-made vs cyclical.

Day 39 Begin student research. Must address 1) Define bias in own words, giving examples 2) Was bias present in film? Give specific examples 3) Find 3 specific examples to support your view—man-made vs cyclical

Day 40 Students will finish research paper. Students will be divided by issue to prepare for defense of views.

Day 41 Students will present and defend papers. Point by point dissection of opposing views.