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Science ES Core Strand 1 Strand 2 Strand 3 Strand 4 Strand 5
Standard 5
Students will understand how Earth science interacts with society.
Objective 1
- Characterize Earth as a changing and complex system of interacting spheres.
- Illustrate how energy flowing and matter cycling within Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere give rise to processes that shape Earth.
- Explain how Earth’s systems are dynamic and continually react to natural and human caused changes.
- Explain how technological advances lead to increased human knowledge (e.g., satellite imaging, deep sea ocean probes, seismic sensors, weather radar systems) and ability to predict how changes affect Earth’s systems.
- Design and conduct an experiment that investigates how Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, or hydrosphere reacts to human-caused change.
- Research and report on how scientists study feedback loops to inform the public about Earth’s interacting systems.
Objective 2
- Describe how humans depend on Earth’s resources.
- Investigate how Earth’s resources (e.g., mineral resources, petroleum resources, alternative energy resources, water resources, soil and agricultural resources) are distributed across the state, the country, and the world.
- Research and report on how human populations depend on Earth resources for sustenance and how changing conditions over time have affected these resources (e.g., water pollution, air pollution, increases in population)
- Predict how resource development and use alters Earth systems (e.g., water reservoirs, alternative energy sources, wildlife preserves).
- Describe the role of scientists in providing data that informs the discussion of Earth resource use.
- Justify the claim that Earth science literacy can help the public make informed choices related to the extraction and use of natural resources.
Objective 3
- Indicate how natural hazards pose risks to humans.
- Identify and describe natural hazards that occur locally (e.g., wildfires, landslides, earthquakes, floods, drought) and globally (e.g., volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes).
- Evaluate and give examples of human activities that can contribute to the frequency and intensity of some natural hazards (e.g., construction that may increase erosion, human causes of wildfires, climate change).
- Document how scientists use technology to continually improve estimates of when and where natural hazards occur.
- Investigate and report how social, economic, and environmental issues affect decisions about human-engineered structures (e.g., dams, homes, bridges, roads).
LIGHTBOX
Boreal Forests
pg 4 (2:05) Canada’s boreal forest
pg 6 (2:39) Why the boreal forest is important
pg 22 – website – threats to the boreal forest
pg 24 – website – tracking animals with radio collars
Bumblebees
pg 4 (1:19) Bees (no narration)
pg 8 (2:59) Bees are dying
pg 8 – website – types of bees
pg 12 (1:05) Bumble sounds (no narration)
Climate Change LB 363.73 SMI
pg 4 (4:00) Climate Change: Educate and take action
pg 4 – website – What is Global Warming? (NatGeo)
pg 8 – website – 2015 smashes record for hottest year
pg 10 – website – In a melting Iceland, drilling deep to stem climate change
pg 12 – website – Paleoclimatology: the ice core record
pg 14 – website – Why doesn’t anyone know how to talk about global warming?
pg 18 (2:45) Work together to reduce global warming
pg 22 – website – greenhouse gas emissions from livestock
pg 24 – website – collapse of the Larsen-B ice shelf
pg 28 (2:26) fire season is hotter and longer
pg 30 – website – Climate change has claimed its first mammal extinction
pg 32 – website – history of hydropower
pg 34 (1:53) United Nations addressing climate change
Coral Reefs
pg 4 (4:17) Why do we car about coral reefs
pg 18 (3:43) Protecting coral reefs
pg 20 (6:24) Coral reef species
Deciduous Forests LB 577.3 HUR
pg 4 (2:17) Need for forest ecosystem
pg 6 (1:50) Why leaves change color
pg 18 (1:24) Opossum
pg 20 – website – Acid Rain
Deserts LB 577.54 BAN
pg 4 (3:12) A day in the desert (no narration)
pg 6 (2:00) Sahara Desert and climate change
pg 20 (3:50) Gila Monster
pg 28 – website – Desert Food Web info plus (3:14) video
Earthquakes LB 551.2 NAU
pg 4 (1:00) Earthquake damage (silent)
pg 6 – website – animations of earthquake terms
pg 12 (1:01) California 1906 (computer animation)
pg 18 (:59) Seismograph
Hurricanes LB 551.55 ZAY
pg 4 (1:55) What is a hurricane?
pg 8 (1:20) NOAA – You can’t stop a hurricane
pg 12 – website – Extreme weather photos
pg 22 (2:08) Hurricane hunters
Ice LB 551.3 WHE (K)
8 (1:30) Hailstorm
pg 10 – website – disappearing glaciers
pg 12 (2:10) about glaciers
pg 14 – website – Landforms from glaciers
Machines LB 621 PAR
pg 4 (4:36) Machines (no narration)
pg 10 – website – best temperature for a fridge
pg 22 (3:05) Short history of the Internet
pg 26 – website – Short history of the video game console
pg 30 (3:52) Modern fossil fuels
Natural Resources LB 333.7 WIL
pg 5 (3:31) rising temperatures affect wheat growth
pg 8 – website – American Bison
pg 10 – website – Desalination in the Persian Gulf
pg 13 (3:37) precious metals
pg 16 – website – forest product consumption and production
?pg 18 – website – Climate Report Shifts on Biofuels
pg 20 – website – selective logging
pg 26 – website – solar industry data
pg 27 (1:26) Volcanoes affect the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface
Precipitation LB 551.48 PUR
pg 4 (2:35) Availability of fresh water
pg 4 – website – Water cycle details
pg 16 (3:20) Monsoons and their effects (human and economic)
pg 18 (3:45) Understanding weather maps
Renewable Energy LB 333 SMI
pg 4 (2:52) Denmark island of Samso: first island powered 100% by renewable energy
pg 4 – website – importance of renewable energy in the fight against climate change
pg 8 (1:12) animated – hydroelectric energy
pg 8 – website – Energy.gov Home
pg 12 – website – rival emerges for Swansea’s tidal pool energy plans
pg 16 (1:02) animated – renewable energy: wind turbines
pg 16 – website – windmills on the great plains
pg 20 – website – Will wind turbines ever be safe for birds?
pg 22 – website – animation: How a wind turbine works
pg 24 ( 1:50) Animation- renewable energy: the sun
pg 24 – website – How much can you save with solar panels?
pg 28 – website – The rise of a giant solar power plant in California’s central plain
pg 32 (1:00) Animation – geothermal energy
Volcanoes LB 551.2 NAU
pg 4 (6:22) About volcanoes (USGS)
pg 6 – website – (:20) An eruption
pg 6 – website – (1:05) Ocean eruption
pg 12 (2:28) Swimming in a oceanic rift
pg 18 (1:53) – Career – Vulcanologist
Waste Management LB 363.73 NEV
pg 4 (5:36) Waste: problems with landfills
pg 8 – slide-show – pictures of effects of human garbage on nature
pg 10 – website – The truth about ‘planned obsolescence’ of tech
pg 12 – website – The great pacific garbage patch
pg 14 – website – The world’s trash crisis
pg 16 (5:17) nuclear waste
pg 18 – website – sewage treatment – inefficient removing drugs
pg 20 – website – Waste not, want not – tailings and mine waste
pg 22 – website – recycling computer waste
pg 26 (3:53) Love Canal: toxic waste in communities
pg 26 – website – burning garbage to produce electricity
pg 32 (3:27) Earth Day: environment activism
Water LB 551.48 MCC
pg 4 (2:30) Availability of fresh water
pg 8 (3:52) Water treatment
pg 12 (5:00) Modern hydroponics
Water LB 551.48 WHE
pg 4 (1:07) How much freshwater?
pg 8 (2:40) cartoon -water bodies
pg 12 (2:39) cartoon -Earth’s water cycle
pg 10 – website – Water footprint calculator (EXCELLENT)
Water Cycle LB 551.48 PUR
pg 4 (6:25) water cycle
pg 4 – website – Detailed water cycle for kids
pg 8 – website – Types of clouds
pg 16 (4:20) BP Oil Spill
pg 16 – website – Graphic information on BP oil spill
pg 18 (2:15) career: forest hydrologist
Weather LB 551.6 PAR
pg 4 (4:32) What is weather? – Earth
pg 22 (4:18) wind farms
pg 28 (3:00) Tornadoes
pg 30 – website – About El Nino
Wind LB 550 WHE
pg 4 (2:43) How to fly a kite
pg 8 (1:36) Trees affected by wind (bad Audio)
pg 12 (1:25) About dust storms
pg 16 – website – control a twister
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