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Standard 2.0 Earth/Space Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the chemical and physical interactions (i.e., natural forces and cycles, transfer of energy) of the environment, Earth, and the universe that occur over time.
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Standard 2.0 Earth/Space Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the chemical and physical interactions (i.e., natural forces and cycles, transfer of energy) of the environment, Earth, and the universe that occur over time.
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Standard 2.0 Earth/Space Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the chemical and physical interactions (i.e., natural forces and cycles, transfer of energy) of the environment, Earth, and the universe that occur over time.
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A. Materials and Processes That Shape A Planet
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A. Materials and Processes That Shape A Planet
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A. Materials and Processes That Shape A Planet
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2. Recognize and explain how physical weathering and erosion cause changes to the earth's surface.
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2. Cite and describe the processes that cause rapid or slow changes in Earth's surface.
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2. Cite evidence to demonstrate and explain that physical weathering and chemical weathering cause changes to Earth materials.
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a. Investigate and describe how weathering wears down Earth's surface.
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a. Identify and describe events such as tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and flooding which change surface features rapidly.
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a. Identify examples of physical weathering, such as the effect of wind, ice, etc. and describe the changes caused in each.
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b. Cite evidence to show that erosion shapes and reshapes the earth's surface as it moves from one location to another.
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b. Recognize that the natural force of gravity causes changes in the Earth's surface features as it pulls things towards Earth, as in mud and rock slides, avalanches, etc.
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b. Describe the changes in materials caused by each of the chemical weathering processes listed:
- Rusting/tarnishing
- Dissolving by acid rain
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c. Cite examples that demonstrate how the natural agents of wind, water, and ice produce slow changes on the Earth's surface such as carving out deep canyons and building up sand dunes.
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c. Compare physical and chemical weathering and provide examples if changes caused in Earth materials or features by each of these processes.
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3. Explain how rock is formed from combinations of different minerals and that smaller rocks come from the breakage and weathering of bedrock (solid rock underlying soil components) and larger rocks; soil is made partly from weathered rock, partly from plant remains-and also contains many living organisms.
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a. Observe and classify a collection of minerals based on their physical properties.
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b. Identify and compare the properties of rocks that are composed of a single mineral with those of other rocks made of several minerals using their physical properties.
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c. Describe ways that the following processes contribute to changes always occurring to the Earth's surface.
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4. Differentiate among sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks based upon the processes by which they are formed.
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a. Identify and describe the processes that form sedimentary rock.
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b. Identify and describe the processes that form igneous rocks.
- Volcanic eruptions
- Igneous intrusions
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c. Identify and describe the processes that form metamorphic rocks.
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d. Cite features that can be used as evidence to distinguish among the three types of rocks and relate these features to the processes that form each rock type.
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e. Describe the processes that change one form of rock into another (rock cycle).
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B. Earth History
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B. Earth History
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B. Earth History
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2. Recognize and explain that fossils provide evidence about the plants and animals that lived long ago and about the nature of the environment at that time.
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a. Recognize and explain that the remains or imprints of plants or animals can become fossils.
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b. Describe the physical structures of an animal or plant based on its fossil remains.
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c. Identify what an animal or plant fossil is able to tell about the environment in which it lived.
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C. Plate Tectonics
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C. Plate Tectonics
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C. Plate Tectonics
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1. Recognize and describe the internal and external structure of the Earth.
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a. Recognize and describe that the Earth's mantle
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b. Recognize and describe that the Earth's core
- Is at the center of the Earth
- Is very hot
- Is dense and metallic
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c. Identify and describe the Earth's crust.
- The solid crust consists of separate plates
- The plates constantly move in different directions due to convection currents
- The plates interact with one another as a result of plate motion.
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2. Recognize and explain how major geologic events are a result of the movement of Earth's crustal plates.
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a. Recognize and describe the evidence for plate movement.
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b. Recognize and explain that major geologic events (earthquakes, volcanic activity, sea floor spreading) occur along crustal plate boundaries.
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D. Astronomy
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D. Astronomy
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D. Astronomy
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1. Identify and describe the variety of objects in the universe through first-hand observations using the unaided eye, binoculars or telescopes or videos and/or pictures from reliable sources.
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1. Identify and compare properties, location, and movement of celestial objects in our solar system.
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1. Recognize that objects of our solar system are interrelated.
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a. Observe and describe the stars and the planets as seen through a telescope, graphically in pictures or in video clips from reliable sources.
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a. Recognize that like all planets and stars, the Earth is spherical in shape.
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a. Recognize that Earth and its closest star, the sun, are part of a disk-shape galaxy of stars and that our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies.
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b. Identify the sun as the Earth's closest star.
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b. Identify the properties of the planet Earth that make it possible for the survival of life as we know it.
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b. Construct models with accurate scale that represent the position of the Earth relative to the sun and to other planets.
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c. Recognize that stars are like the sun, some are smaller and some larger.
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c. Compare the properties of at least one other planet in our solar system to those of Earth to determine if it could support life, as we know it.
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c. Identify and describe the general pattern of movement of all objects in our solar system.
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d. Recognize and describe that the stars are not all the same in apparent brightness.
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d. Identify and describe physical properties of comets, asteroids, and meteors.
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d. Recognize that the pull of gravity causes the pattern of motion of celestial objects.
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e. Recognize that the pattern of stars in the sky stays the same although their locations in the sky appear to change with the seasons.
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e. Provide evidence that supports the idea that our solar system is sun-centered.
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2. Recognize and describe the causes of the repeating patterns of celestial events.
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a. Describe the rotation of the planet Earth on its axis.
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b. Recognize and describe that the rotation of planet Earth produces observable effects
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c. Describe the revolution of the planet Earth around the sun.
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d. Recognize and describe that the revolution of the planet Earth produces effects.
- The observable patterns of stars in the sky stay the same although different stars can be seen in different seasons.
- Length of year
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e. Verify with models and cite evidence that the moon's apparent shape and position change.
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E. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere
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E. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere
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E. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere
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1. Recognize and describe that the amount of water on Earth continues to stay the same even though it may change from one form to another.
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a. Describe how water on Earth changes.
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b. Explain that the sun is the main source of energy that causes the changes in the water on Earth.
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c. Describe the relationship between the amount of energy from the sun and the quantity of water that is changed.
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d. Describe the processes that maintain a continuous water cycle.
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2. Recognize and describe that each season has different weather conditions
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a. Describe different seasonal weather conditions using data collected from weather instruments, models or drawings.
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b. Compare average daily temperatures during different seasons.
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c. Compare average daily wind speed and direction during different seasons.
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d. Compare average daily precipitation during different seasons.
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