Earth Science Units
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Mid-Term Exam Review Sheet
Unit 1:
Section 1: (5.1b / 5.1c / 5.3A)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Understanding; The Universe Part 1 (24 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Film Link Origins Back to the Beginning Questions
Day 3: Computer Lab: Astronomy Size and Scale
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (5.1A / 5.1d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: The Hydrogen Spectrum
Day 2: Lab: Expansion Rates (Article Review Directions)
Day 3: Computer Lab: The Doppler Effect / Questions
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 2:
Section 1 (5.2C / 5.2D)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Solar system
Day 2: Lab: Intro to the Periodic Table
Day 3: Computer Lab: Questions,
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (5.2A / 5.2B)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Savage Sun
Day 2: Lab: Sunspot Lab (Pages 1-16)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Sunspot Lab (Pages 17-29)
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (5.2e / 5.2f)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Journey to the edge of the Universe
Day 2: Lab : Star Classification, Questions
Day 3: Computer Lab: Supernova Article Review
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (5.2g / 5.2h)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Mechanical Universe - Keplers Laws
Day 2: Lab: Keplers Laws (online classes please skip)
Day 3: Computer Lab : Keplers Laws , Questions
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 3:
Section 1: (2.1A)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Cosmic Voyage (30 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Earth: The Operators Manual , Video Questions
Day 3: Computer Lab: Earth Spheres Lab (Lab 1 parts A and C. Use Photo in Part B to Complete)
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (2.2f / 2.4d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Bill Nye, Science of Materials (Finish to hour)
Day 2: Lab: LCA Product Lab
Day 3: Computer Lab: Cradle to grave
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (2.3c / 2.3d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: The Cycle Series, The Nitrogen Cycle (14 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: The cost of coal / Writing Prompt
Day 3: Computer Lab: Writing Day
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (2.2b / 2.4A)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Ozone Depletion
Day 2: Lab: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
Day 3: Computer Lab: Hybrid Cars
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 4:
Section 1: (2.2A / 3.2A)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth's Core
Day 2: Lab: Finish Film: Earth's Core
Day 3: Computer Lab: Interior of the Earth
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (3.2B / 3.2d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Earths Interior (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Speed of Seismic Waves , Directions
Day 3: Computer Lab: Writing Prompt
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (3.1A / 3.1B)
Day 1: Lecture / Make up day
Day 2: Lab: Film: Gems and Minerals
Day 3: Computer Lab: Mineral Lab
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (3.1c / 3.1d / 3.1e)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Metamorphic Rocks (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Rock Lab
Day 3: Computer Lab: Rock Lab 2
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 5:
Section 1: (5.3e / 5.3f)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Geologic Time (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Radioactive Lab
Day 3: Computer Lab: Radiocarbon Lab
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (5.3D / 5.3g)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Evolution through Time (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Relative Dating (Parts 1 and 2)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Geologic Time (Part 1)
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (5.3B / 5.3C)
Day 1: Lecture
Day 2: Lab: Film: Historical Geology; A Glimpse of Earths Past (30 minutes)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Where is/was Ann Arbor?
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 6:
Section 1: (3.3A / 3.3d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Colliding Continents
Day 2: Lab: Plate Movement
Day 3: Computer Lab: Triple Junctions
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (2.2c / 3.3B)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Plate Dynamics (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Pyroclastic Lab
Day 3: Computer Lab: Mantle Plumes
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (3.2C / 3.r3e)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, The Sea Floor (28 minutes)
Day 2: Article Review: Ocean Floor
Day 3: Computer Lab : Ocean Floor Features
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (3.3C / 3.r3f)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Restless Earth: Earth History (29 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Rates of Plate Movement
Day 3: Computer Lab: Gulf Of California Lab / Gulf jpg / Southern Gulf jpg
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 7
Section 1: (3.4A / 2.2C)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Volcanoes, Mountains of Fire (27 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Fogo Volcano
Day 3: Computer Lab: Locating Volcanoes
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (3.4B / 3.4d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earthquakes, Our Restless Planet (20 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Plate Motion
Day 3: Computer Lab: Virtual Earthquake
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (3.4C / 3.4f)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earthquake, Some Were Prepared (30 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Nova, The Day the Earth Shook! (video lab / questions)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Earthquake Damage Lab
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (2.1C / 2.1B / 3.4e)
Day 1: Lecture / Film:Earth Revealed: Volcano
Day 2: Lab: Nova, In the Path of a Killer Volcano (video lab / questions)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Mount St. Helens
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 8:
Section 1: (4.1A / 4.1B / 4.1C)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed: Groundwater
Day 2: Lab: Water Budget
Day 3: Computer Lab: Water Budgets
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 9:
Section 1: (4.3f / 4.3g)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Clouds and Patterns of the Weather
Day 2: Lab: Moisture in the Atmosphere
Day 3:Computer Lab: AMS Water Vapor
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (4.3A / 4.3E / 4.3D)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Atmospheric Circulation
Day 2: Weather Cycler Part 1 (Activities 1-2)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Weather Cycler Part 2 (Activities 3-4)
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (4.3B / 4.3C)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Weather Safety, Watch for the Warning
Day 2: Lab: Andover Tornado
Day 3:Computer Lab: AMS Ocean Impacts of Tropical Cyclones
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
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Unit 10:
Section 1: (4.2A / 4.2d / 4.2f)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: The Ocean Floor
Day 2:Lab: Seeing the Bottom of the Ocean
Day 3:Computer Lab: Virtual Field Trip Hawaiian Islands
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (4.2B / 4.2C)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: El Nino
Day 2:El Nino Cycler
Day 3:Computer Lab: Virtual Field Trip Monterey Bay
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (4.2e / 4.r2g)
Day 1:Lecture
Day 2: Lab: Film: Ocean and Climate
Day 3:Computer Lab AMS Oceans in the Global Water Cycle
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
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Unit 11
Section 1: (2.2D / 5.4B / 5.r4i)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Simply Science, Solar Energy in the Biosphere
Day 2: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 1
Day 3:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 2
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (5.4A / 5.4g)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Extreme Climate
Day 2: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 3
Day 3:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 4
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (5.4C / 5.4D)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Little Ice Age, Big Chill (Film Questions)
Day 2: Film: Little Ice Age, Big Chill
Day 3: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 5
Day 4:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 6
Day 5:Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (5.4e / 5.r4h)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Extreme Climate Part 3
Day 2:Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 7
Day 3:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 8
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 5: (5.4f / 5.r4j)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: 11th Hour
Day 2: Film: 11th Hour
Day 3: Film: 11th Hour
Day 4: Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 9
Day 5:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 10
Day 6: Test
Before The Flood Film Questions / Video Link
Content is linked. Move cursor over the Lecture, Lab, Computer Lab or Study Guide and click.
Guide to Translating Earth Science Assignments
Writing Rubric
Prompt
PTest
Mid-Term Exam Review Sheet
Unit 1:
Section 1: (5.1b / 5.1c / 5.3A)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Understanding; The Universe Part 1 (24 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Film Link Origins Back to the Beginning Questions
Day 3: Computer Lab: Astronomy Size and Scale
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (5.1A / 5.1d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: The Hydrogen Spectrum
Day 2: Lab: Expansion Rates (Article Review Directions)
Day 3: Computer Lab: The Doppler Effect / Questions
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Unit 2:
Section 1 (5.2C / 5.2D)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Solar system
Day 2: Lab: Intro to the Periodic Table
Day 3: Computer Lab: Questions,
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (5.2A / 5.2B)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Savage Sun
Day 2: Lab: Sunspot Lab (Pages 1-16)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Sunspot Lab (Pages 17-29)
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (5.2e / 5.2f)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Journey to the edge of the Universe
Day 2: Lab : Star Classification, Questions
Day 3: Computer Lab: Supernova Article Review
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (5.2g / 5.2h)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Mechanical Universe - Keplers Laws
Day 2: Lab: Keplers Laws (online classes please skip)
Day 3: Computer Lab : Keplers Laws , Questions
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Unit 3:
Section 1: (2.1A)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Cosmic Voyage (30 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Earth: The Operators Manual , Video Questions
Day 3: Computer Lab: Earth Spheres Lab (Lab 1 parts A and C. Use Photo in Part B to Complete)
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (2.2f / 2.4d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Bill Nye, Science of Materials (Finish to hour)
Day 2: Lab: LCA Product Lab
Day 3: Computer Lab: Cradle to grave
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (2.3c / 2.3d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: The Cycle Series, The Nitrogen Cycle (14 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: The cost of coal / Writing Prompt
Day 3: Computer Lab: Writing Day
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (2.2b / 2.4A)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Ozone Depletion
Day 2: Lab: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
Day 3: Computer Lab: Hybrid Cars
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 4:
Section 1: (2.2A / 3.2A)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth's Core
Day 2: Lab: Finish Film: Earth's Core
Day 3: Computer Lab: Interior of the Earth
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (3.2B / 3.2d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Earths Interior (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Speed of Seismic Waves , Directions
Day 3: Computer Lab: Writing Prompt
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (3.1A / 3.1B)
Day 1: Lecture / Make up day
Day 2: Lab: Film: Gems and Minerals
Day 3: Computer Lab: Mineral Lab
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (3.1c / 3.1d / 3.1e)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Metamorphic Rocks (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Rock Lab
Day 3: Computer Lab: Rock Lab 2
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 5:
Section 1: (5.3e / 5.3f)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Geologic Time (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Radioactive Lab
Day 3: Computer Lab: Radiocarbon Lab
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (5.3D / 5.3g)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Evolution through Time (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Relative Dating (Parts 1 and 2)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Geologic Time (Part 1)
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (5.3B / 5.3C)
Day 1: Lecture
Day 2: Lab: Film: Historical Geology; A Glimpse of Earths Past (30 minutes)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Where is/was Ann Arbor?
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Unit 6:
Section 1: (3.3A / 3.3d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Colliding Continents
Day 2: Lab: Plate Movement
Day 3: Computer Lab: Triple Junctions
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (2.2c / 3.3B)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, Plate Dynamics (28 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Pyroclastic Lab
Day 3: Computer Lab: Mantle Plumes
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (3.2C / 3.r3e)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed, The Sea Floor (28 minutes)
Day 2: Article Review: Ocean Floor
Day 3: Computer Lab : Ocean Floor Features
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (3.3C / 3.r3f)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Restless Earth: Earth History (29 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Rates of Plate Movement
Day 3: Computer Lab: Gulf Of California Lab / Gulf jpg / Southern Gulf jpg
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
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Unit 7
Section 1: (3.4A / 2.2C)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Volcanoes, Mountains of Fire (27 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Fogo Volcano
Day 3: Computer Lab: Locating Volcanoes
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (3.4B / 3.4d)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earthquakes, Our Restless Planet (20 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Plate Motion
Day 3: Computer Lab: Virtual Earthquake
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (3.4C / 3.4f)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earthquake, Some Were Prepared (30 minutes)
Day 2: Lab: Nova, The Day the Earth Shook! (video lab / questions)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Earthquake Damage Lab
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (2.1C / 2.1B / 3.4e)
Day 1: Lecture / Film:Earth Revealed: Volcano
Day 2: Lab: Nova, In the Path of a Killer Volcano (video lab / questions)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Mount St. Helens
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Unit 8:
Section 1: (4.1A / 4.1B / 4.1C)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Earth Revealed: Groundwater
Day 2: Lab: Water Budget
Day 3: Computer Lab: Water Budgets
Day 4: Test / Study Guide
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Unit 9:
Section 1: (4.3f / 4.3g)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Clouds and Patterns of the Weather
Day 2: Lab: Moisture in the Atmosphere
Day 3:Computer Lab: AMS Water Vapor
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (4.3A / 4.3E / 4.3D)
Day 1: Lecture / Film: Atmospheric Circulation
Day 2: Weather Cycler Part 1 (Activities 1-2)
Day 3: Computer Lab: Weather Cycler Part 2 (Activities 3-4)
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (4.3B / 4.3C)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Weather Safety, Watch for the Warning
Day 2: Lab: Andover Tornado
Day 3:Computer Lab: AMS Ocean Impacts of Tropical Cyclones
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Unit 10:
Section 1: (4.2A / 4.2d / 4.2f)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: The Ocean Floor
Day 2:Lab: Seeing the Bottom of the Ocean
Day 3:Computer Lab: Virtual Field Trip Hawaiian Islands
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (4.2B / 4.2C)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: El Nino
Day 2:El Nino Cycler
Day 3:Computer Lab: Virtual Field Trip Monterey Bay
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (4.2e / 4.r2g)
Day 1:Lecture
Day 2: Lab: Film: Ocean and Climate
Day 3:Computer Lab AMS Oceans in the Global Water Cycle
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Unit 11
Section 1: (2.2D / 5.4B / 5.r4i)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Simply Science, Solar Energy in the Biosphere
Day 2: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 1
Day 3:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 2
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 2: (5.4A / 5.4g)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Extreme Climate
Day 2: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 3
Day 3:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 4
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 3: (5.4C / 5.4D)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Little Ice Age, Big Chill (Film Questions)
Day 2: Film: Little Ice Age, Big Chill
Day 3: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 5
Day 4:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 6
Day 5:Test / Study Guide
Section 4: (5.4e / 5.r4h)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: Extreme Climate Part 3
Day 2:Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 7
Day 3:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 8
Day 4:Test / Study Guide
Section 5: (5.4f / 5.r4j)
Day 1:Lecture / Film: 11th Hour
Day 2: Film: 11th Hour
Day 3: Film: 11th Hour
Day 4: Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 9
Day 5:Computer Lab: AAPS Earth Science Climate Studies Website Lab 10
Day 6: Test
Before The Flood Film Questions / Video Link