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“To Optimize Teaching And Learning Utilizing Technology”
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Standard 1: Earth
& Space
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A. Explain how technology can be
used to gather evidence and increase our understanding of the universe. |
1. Describe how the early Earth was different
from the planet we live on today, and explain the formation of the Sun, Earth
and the rest of the Solar System from a nebular cloud of dust and gas
approximately 4.5 billion years ago. |
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B. Describe how Earth is made up of
a series of interconnected systems and how a change in one system affects
other systems. |
2. Analyze how the regular and
predictable motions of Earth, Sun and Moon explain phenomena on Earth (e.g.,
seasons, tides, eclipses and phases of the Moon). 3. Explain heat and energy transfers
in and out of the atmosphere and its involvement in weather and climate
(radiation, conduction, convection and advection). 4. Explain the impact of oceanic and
atmospheric currents on weather and climate. 5. Use appropriate data to analyze and
predict upcoming trends in global weather patterns (e.g., el Nino and la
Nina, melting glaciers and icecaps, changes in ocean surface temperatures). 6. Explain how interactions among
Earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere have resulted
in the ongoing changes of Earth’s system. 7. Describe the effects of
particulates and gases in the atmosphere including those originating from
volcanic activity. 8. Describe the normal adjustments
of Earth, which may be hazardous for humans. Recognize that humans live at
the interface between the atmosphere driven by solar energy and the upper
mantle where convection creates changes in Earth’s solid crust. Realize
that as societies have grown, become stable and come to value aspects of the
environment, vulnerability to natural processes of change has increased. 9. Explain the effects of biomass
and human activity on climate (e.g., climatic change, global warming). 10. Interpret weather maps and their
symbols to predict changing weather conditions worldwide (e.g., monsoons,
hurricanes and cyclones). 11. Analyze how materials from human
societies (e.g., radioactive waste, air pollution) affect both physical and
chemical cycles of Earth. |
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C. Explain that humans are an
integral part of the Earth’s system and the choices humans make today
impact natural systems in the future. |
12. Explain ways in which humans have had a
major effect on other species (e.g., the influence of humans on other
organisms occurs through land use, which decreases space available to other
species and pollution, which changes the chemical composition of air, soil
and water). 13. Explain how human behavior affects the
basic processes of natural ecosystems and the quality of the atmosphere,
hydrosphere and lithosphere. 14. Conclude that Earth has finite
resources and explain that humans deplete some resources faster than they can
be renewed. |
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D. Summarize the historical
development of scientific theories and ideas, and describing emerging issues in
the study of Earth and space sciences. |
15. Use historical examples to show how new
ideas are limited by the context in which they are conceived; are often
rejected by the social establishment; sometimes spring from unexpected
findings; and usually grow slowly through contributions from many different
investigators (e.g., global warming, Heliocentric Theory, Theory of
Continental Drift). 16. Describe advances in Earth and space
science that have important long-lasting effects on science and society (e.g.,
global warming, heliocentric theory, plate tectonics theory). |
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