Big Ideas |
Essential Questions
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Unit Questions |
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Introduction
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Surface Processes
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Earth History & Plate Tectonics |
Meteorology |
Climate
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Astronomy
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The Earth is a System of Systems.
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How can recognizing and understanding feedback and patterns help you figure out what’s going on in the Earth System? |
How can maps and models be used to understand interactions on earth? |
How does the interaction of air, water and earth shape the surface? |
What connections are there between the changing surface of the earth and the evolution of life? |
How does a cloud form?
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What interactions create our climate? How are they changing?
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What patterns can be found in the sky? |
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The Flow of Energy Drives the Cycling of Matter.
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Why does the Earth look the way it does? |
How can we predict if something will float or sink?
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Why does the Delaware look the way it looks? |
Are the continents really moving?
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What would the world be like without convection?
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What the world be like without convection?
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Why do we have seasons?
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Life, Including Human Life, Influences and is Influenced by the Environment.
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How do I fit in with all of Earth’s parts? |
How do I fit in with all of Earth’s parts?
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How do humans change the Earth’s surface?
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How does the movement of the Earth’s crust affect me? |
How does the weather affect me?
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What effect do I have on the climate?
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What does the life cycle of a star have to do with me?
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Physical and chemical principles are unchanging and drive both gradual and rapid changes in the Earth system. |
How has the Earth changed over time? (What has the evolution of life got to do with that?) How does the past help us predict the future? |
How does the past help us predict the future? |
Why does Earth’s surface look the way it does?
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How do we know how old the Earth is?
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Why do we have the weather we have?
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What can we learn from past climates?
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Why do we think the Universe is old?
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To Understand (Deep) Time and the Scale of Space, Models and Maps are Necessary. |
What makes a good model? |
What makes a good model of Earth?
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How can erosional/ depositional systems be modeled? |
How can an earthquake be modeled?
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How do we make weather forecasts? |
What factors have to go into a good climate model?
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How big is space?
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Nature of science
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How do we know what we know? |
How do we know what we know? |
How do we know what we know? |
How do we know what we know? |
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How do we know what we know? |
How do we know what we know? |