Earth's Changing Surface Bundle for Middle School
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6th - 8th, Homeschool
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NGSSMS-ESS2-3
NGSSMS-ESS3-2
NGSSMS-ESS3-1
NGSSMS-ESS2-2
NGSSMS-ESS2-1
Formats Included
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Pages
1000+
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Get this year long comprehensive Middle School Earth Science Bundle, designed for teachers looking for effective resources to teach weather, climate, plate tectonics, space science and more! This bundle is perfect for the entire school year, providing a diverse range of activities and experiments tPrice $181.30Original Price $259.00Save $77.70
Description
This bundle contain a variety of interactive activities to learn all about the forces that work to build up and break down Earth’s surface creating landforms. This covers both fast and slow changes and constructive and destructive forces. Below are the major topics covered in the bundle.
Topics Covered:
- Plate Tectonics – Covers Earth’s interior, convection in the mantle, continental drift, plate Boundaries, and landforms created at each plate boundary
- Earthquakes – Covers what causes earthquakes, faults and seismic waves, and earthquake safety
- Volcanoes – Covers types of volcanoes, structure of volcanoes, and volcanic eruptions
- Rock Cycle - Covers the igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and how they change from one form to another.
- Weathering and Erosion – Covers the causes of mechanical and chemical weathering as well as the agents of erosion and the landforms caused by weathering and erosion.
- Earth’s History - Covers reading the geologic record using clues within the rocks to organize Earth’s 4.6 billion year history into the geologic time scale.
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Total Pages
1000+
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Teaching Duration
1 Semester
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NGSSMS-ESS2-3
Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions. Examples of data include similarities of rock and fossil types on different continents, the shapes of the continents (including continental shelves), and the locations of ocean structures (such as ridges, fracture zones, and trenches). Paleomagnetic anomalies in oceanic and continental crust are not assessed.
NGSSMS-ESS3-2
Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. Emphasis is on how some natural hazards, such as volcanic eruptions and severe weather, are preceded by phenomena that allow for reliable predictions, but others, such as earthquakes, occur suddenly and with no notice, and thus are not yet predictable. Examples of natural hazards can be taken from interior processes (such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions), surface processes (such as mass wasting and tsunamis), or severe weather events (such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods). Examples of data can include the locations, magnitudes, and frequencies of the natural hazards. Examples of technologies can be global (such as satellite systems to monitor hurricanes or forest fires) or local (such as building basements in tornado-prone regions or reservoirs to mitigate droughts).
NGSSMS-ESS3-1
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes. Emphasis is on how these resources are limited and typically non-renewable, and how their distributions are significantly changing as a result of removal by humans. Examples of uneven distributions of resources as a result of past processes include but are not limited to petroleum (locations of the burial of organic marine sediments and subsequent geologic traps), metal ores (locations of past volcanic and hydrothermal activity associated with subduction zones), and soil (locations of active weathering and/or deposition of rock).
NGSSMS-ESS2-2
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales. Emphasis is on how processes change Earth’s surface at time and spatial scales that can be large (such as slow plate motions or the uplift of large mountain ranges) or small (such as rapid landslides or microscopic geochemical reactions), and how many geoscience processes (such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and meteor impacts) usually behave gradually but are punctuated by catastrophic events. Examples of geoscience processes include surface weathering and deposition by the movements of water, ice, and wind. Emphasis is on geoscience processes that shape local geographic features, where appropriate.
NGSSMS-ESS2-1
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process. Emphasis is on the processes of melting, crystallization, weathering, deformation, and sedimentation, which act together to form minerals and rocks through the cycling of Earth’s materials. Assessment does not include the identification and naming of minerals.
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