The Year in an Overview:

Students will begin the year with a general introduction to Earth & Space Science.  Next students will be introduced to the metric system. Temperature and Chemistry lessons will follow that will lead into rocks and minerals.  After that we will explore Geological features and mining practices. Natural resources including oil, gas, solar, wind, nuclear, and thermal will be investigated.

Then we will turn our attention to Astronomy.  The constellation project, utilizing Starry Night software and the solar research project will dominate this unit. Galaxies, planets, moons and other objects in the universe will be explored.

Next plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, fossils and geochronology will be investigated. Finally environment and ecology and weather explorations will conclude the year. The last event will be the student’s presentation of the year long National Park research project.  It will incorporate learned Earth and Space topics that relate to their National Park presentation.

        All activities are in conjunction with State/ National Academic Standards for Science and Technology. Text page numbers are given for students to see the connection with the text and reading strategies/ standards.

Please note: technology assignments will require students bringing in a memory USB  stick to save their projects on for transfer home. 

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