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Earth Systems Science
8th Grade Standard 3.1 8.Earth Systems.3.1 Weather is a result of complex interactions of Earth's atmosphere, land
and water, that are driven by energy from the sun, and can be predicted and described through
complex models.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills
and Readiness Competencies:
1. Why does weather vary from day to day?
2. What are the strengths and limitations of
different types of weather models?
3. What are the variables that make predicting
weather challenging?
4. What actions should be taken to protect
yourself and others both indoors and/or
outdoors during severe weather conditions
common to your locality?
5. How do weather patterns relate to climate?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Differentiate between basic and severe
weather conditions, and develop an
appropriate action plan for personal safety and
the safety of others.
b. Observe and gather data for various weather
conditions and compare to historical data for
that date and location.
c. Use models to develop and communicate a
weather prediction.
Academic Vocabulary:
air mass
atmosphere
atmospheric pressure
cloud
Coriolis Effect
dew point
flood plain
Greenhouse Effect
hurricane
jet stream
severe weather
tornado
tsunami
water cycle
weather
weather advisory
weather warning
weather watch
wind
Assessment:
1. Evaluate student notes over the PowerPoint
for completeness.
2. Grade the Research Paper with rubric that is
attached to lesson.
3. Use the worksheet over weather map for
assessment.
4. Grade student tables from the lesson.
5. Grade the Lab Workbook.
6. Grade student lab results and explanations.
7. Assessments are available throughout the
unit.
8. Assessment is located within the lesson.
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8th Grade Standard 3.1 9. Create and use a rubric to evaluate the
feasibility and accuracy of the student action
plan posters for fire, flood, and tornado
events.
3. Worksheet over Weather Map
3. Key to Worksheet over Weather Map
9. Rubric Generator
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. Use the Weather PowerPoint for lecture and
discussion.
2. Have students write a research paper on
cloud formation and classification.
3. Students can create their own weather maps
and forecasting lab for tracking and predicting
weather.
4. Warm and Cold Fronts: This activity
teaches students how to interpret weather
maps with identified fronts.
5. Have students complete this lab over
interpreting current weather maps.
6. Have students complete this lab examining
temperature change.
7. The Severe Weather Unit: This unit consists
of a series of related lessons that form a
comprehensive study of dangerous weather
patterns in the United States.
8. Weather Unit: Students complete a lesson
series, learn data and graphing, examine
weather data (temporal and spatial), and use
the data to investigate questions about weather
patterns and trends.
Resources/Technology:
The Science Queen
Free Clip Art
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
The Science Spot
Geology Lesson Plans
Weather Units
Scholastic Weather Watch Sources
Middle School Weather Lessons
The Tornado Project
Activities and Resources on Weather
Examples of Cloud Types
Link to Historical Weather
A Teacher's Guide to Weather Lessons
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8th Grade Standard 3.1 9. Brainstorm, discuss, and role play the steps
of an appropriate action plan for use in the
event of fire, flood, tornado. Consider both
the need for personal safety and the safety of
others. Have the students create three posters
(one on each topic) which must include
feasible action plans for each event. Display at
school and in the community as Public Service
Announcements.
1. Weather PowerPoint
2. Cloud Research Paper with Rubric
3. Create Your Own Weather Map
4. Weather Fronts
5. Lab
6. Lab Examining Temperature
7. Severe Weather Unit
8. Weather/Climate Unit
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8th Grade Standard 3.2 8.Earth Systems.3.2 Earth has a variety of climates defined by average temperature,
precipitation, humidity, air pressure, and wind that have changed over time in a particular
location.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills
and Readiness Competencies:
1. How does the climate in one area compare
and contrast with another area?
2. Why are there different climates on Earth?
3. How has Earth’s climate changed over
time?
4. What evidence supports and/or contradicts
human influence on climate change?
5. What is the difference between weather and
climate?
6. How is climate affected by geographical
location and features?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Develop, communicate, and justify an
evidence-based scientific explanation to
account for Earth’s different climates.
b. Research and evaluate direct and indirect
evidence to explain how climates vary from
one location to another on Earth.
c. Examine, evaluate, and question
information from a variety of sources and
media to investigate how climates vary from
one location to another on Earth.
Academic Vocabulary:
air pressure
atmospheric pressure
climate
global warming
humidity
ozone layer
precipitation
temperature
Assessment:
All assessments are located within the lesson
plans provided.
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. Changing Forest: Students explore criteria
for classifying forests and then compare a
tropical rainforest to a local forest. They read
about the Maya Biosphere Reserve in
Guatemala and analyze maps of the region to
determine recent changes in forest cover.
2. Protecting through Certification: Students
explore different criteria that may be involved
in forest certification and consider the benefits
of certification to the Guatemalan rainforest
Resources/Technology:
Free Clip Art
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
Video on Climate Modeling
Link to Climates of the World
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8th Grade Standard 3.2 and rainforest communities. They then create a
brochure to educate family, friends, and other
students about the benefits of buying certified
forests products when they have the choice.
3. Climate Basics: In this activity, students
explore the relationship between CO2 and
climate by graphing changes in atmospheric
CO2 over a 50-year period. They also
interview family members or neighbors to find
out whether they have observed any climate
changes in the area.
4. Carbon Cycle: Earth has a fixed number of
carbon atoms which circulate among air,
plants, animals, soil, and minerals by way of
the carbon cycle. This activity uses a game to
introduce students to the carbon cycle and to
help them see how carbon in the atmosphere is
connected to living things.
5. Trees and Carbon Activity: Forests store
more carbon than any other land-based
ecosystem. Tropical rainforests, like
Guatemala’s Petén region, have the potential
to store even more. In this activity,
students measure a tree to estimate the amount
of carbon stored in it.
6. Forests of Guatemala: Students learn about
the distribution of forest and humans around
the world and then analyze maps of the Maya
Biosphere Reserve to determine recent
changes in forest cover and to consider the
causes of these changes.
7. Investments in Forest Carbon: Students
consider what makes the forest valuable to
people and then read a case study about a
community in the Petén preparing to sell
carbon credits based on carbon sequestered in
the community’s forests.
Animation for Air Circulation
Rainforest Alliance
Climate PowerPoint
Interactive Climate Model
Climate Games and Activities
8th Grade SCOPE Lessons
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8th Grade Standard 3.2 8. What is a greenhouse? This activity is
designed to have students become familiar
with how a greenhouse retains heat by
building simple models. Through discussion,
they can gain an understanding of how the
atmospheric Greenhouse Effect causes the
earth to retain heat.
9. What factors influence a greenhouse?
Students identify at least three factors
affecting the heat-trapping ability of a
greenhouse, including the transparency of the
greenhouse cover, color of the surfaces inside
the greenhouse, and type of surfaces inside.
10. Human Activity and Climate Change: In
this activity, students examine graphs of GHG
emissions and their increases associated with
human activity.
1. Guatemala's Changing Forest
2. Protecting through Certification
3. Climate Basics
4. Carbon Cycle
5. Trees and Carbon
6. Forests of Guatemala
7. Investments in Forest Carbon
8. What is a Greenhouse?
9. Factors that Affect a Greenhouse
10. Human Activity and Climate Change
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8.Earth Systems.3.3 The solar system is comprised of various objects that orbit the Sun and are classified based on their characteristics.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills and Readiness Competencies:
1. How are the various bodies in the solar system similar and different?
2. How does investigating characteristics of the various bodies in the solar system provide clues to Earth’s origin and evolution?
3. Why do objects such as satellites, moons, and planets stay in orbit?
4. How is the life cycle of a star such as the sun similar to the cycle of life on Earth?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Construct a scale model of the solar system and use it to explain the motion of objects in the system such as planets, sun, moons, asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets.
b. Describe methods and equipment used to explore the solar system and beyond.
c. Design an investigation that involves direct observation of objects in the sky, and analyze and explain results.
d. Research, critique, and communicate scientific theories that explain how the solar system was formed.
e. Use computer data sets and simulations to explore objects in the solar system.
f. Recognize that mathematical models are used to predict orbital paths and events.
Academic Vocabulary:
asteroid comet dwarf planet meteor moon orbit cloud orbital path planet satellite solar system star sun
Assessment:
1. Grade the question sheet from the Solar System to Scale Lab.
2. & 3. Examine the PowerPoint notes for completeness.
4. Use the lab sheets for assessment.
5, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11. Assessments are located within the lessons.
6. Use a rubric to evaluate the multimedia presentation.
1. Solar System Scale Lab Worksheet 6. Multimedia Rubric #1 6. Multimedia Rubric #2
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6. Multimedia Rubric #3 6. Multimedia Rubric #4
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. Have students construct a scale model of the solar system. They will need a large open space (e.g., football field) and the Solar System to Scale Lab pdf.
2. Use the Explore the Solar System PowerPoint created by NASA to lecture and have students take notes. This covers methods and equipment.
3. Use the informational PowerPoint on the solar system and its formation for students to learn as they take notes.
4. Use the full lab book for comparing the size and distance of the solar system.
5. Puzzling Planets: Students learn the order of the planets, research the main characteristics of the nine planets, and understand the basic structure of our solar system.
6. What's Out There?: At the conclusion of each mission, students create a multimedia presentation to share during a mock press conference.
7. Out of Darkness a New Night Sky: Students explore the advances made with the optical telescope, from Galileo to Kepler. They use their own powers of observation to make deductions about the surface of Mars from visual imagery and to formulate research questions for explorers on the surface of Mars.
8. Modeling the Solar System Lesson: In this lesson, students calculate the relative distances between planets in our solar system, build a model illustrating those distances to scale, and compare the model with standard solar system
Resources/Technology:
Free Clip Art
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
Grade 8 SCOPE Lesson (Scroll to Unit 5.)
The Known Universe YouTube Video
Scholastic's Solar System
Pictures of Solar System to Scale NASA Solar System Exploration Earth's Different Satellite Orbits Image of Solar System Earth Science Unit
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illustrations.
9. Best of the Solar System Lesson: Introduce students to planetary research and familiarize them with the planets and their features.
10. Scaling Down the Solar System: In this lesson, students work collaboratively to gain a better understanding of the vastness of space by scaling down the solar system.
11. Searching for Just the Right Planet Task is an interactive class activity. Scenario: It is now the year 2055. Z-Tech, a large multi-national company, wants to put a space hotel in orbit around one of the other planets in our solar system. Your class has been given the job of searching for the perfect location for this hotel.
1. Solar System to Scale 2. Explore the Solar System with Notes 3. Solar System Information PowerPoint 4. Lab Book 7. Out of Darkness a New Night Sky Lesson 8. Modeling the Solar System Lesson 9. Best of the Solar System 10. Scaling Down the Solar System 11. Searching for Just the Right Planet Task
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8th Grade Standard 3.4 8.Earth Systems.3.4 The relative positions and motions of the earth, moon, and sun can be
used to explain observable effects such as seasons, eclipses, and moon phases.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills
and Readiness Competencies:
1. Why do we observe changes in the relative
positions of the earth, moon, and sun from
Earth over time?
2. How do the relative positions of the earth,
moon, and sun affect natural phenomenon on
Earth?
3. How are the tides affected by the earth,
moon, and sun's positions?
4. What are the different shapes and phases of
the moon?
5. What is a solar eclipse? Lunar eclipse?
6. What causes the seasons on earth?
7. How can models help us to explain the
relative motions of the earth, moon and sun?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Develop, communicate, and justify an
evidence-based explanation using relative
positions of the earth, moon, and sun to
explain natural phenomenon, including tides,
eclipses of the sun and moon, and the different
shapes of the moon as viewed from Earth.
b. Analyze and interpret data to explain why
we have seasons.
c. Use models to explain the relative motions
of the earth, moon, and sun over time.
Academic Vocabulary:
eclipse
lunar
moon
moon phase
natural phenomenon
season
sun
tide
Assessment:
1. Have the students place the cookies in order
of the moon's phases and the teacher can
generally evaluate the correctness of the phase
and order.
2. Use the Virtual Moon Lab Sheet for
assessment.
3. Assessment is located within the lab. Grade
the Moon Phases and Eclipses lab sheet.
4. Evaluate the correctness and completeness
of all or parts of the Seasons Lab Book.
5. Examine the notes over presentation as
assessment.
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6. Grade the quiz over the PowerPoint
Presentation.
7. Use the pre/post test embedded in the
Lesson Plan.
8, 9, & 10. Assessment is located within
lesson.
2. Virtual Moon Lab Sheet
6. Quiz for PowerPoint Presentation
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. Oreo® Moon Phases: Students recreate the
lunar phases using the frosting from Oreo
cookies. Any round cookie or crackers with
cream cheese can also be used if Oreos are not
an option.
2. Students access the Virtual Moon Phase
Lab and follow procedures.
3. Moon Phase Eclipse Lab: Students
demonstrate and illustrate how the relative
positions of the sun, earth and moon cause the
phases of the moon as seen from Earth.
4. Season Lab Book: This is a book with
multiple activities that the students can do
alone, in small groups, or as a class.
5. Use the PowerPoint presentation on seasons
for teaching and discussion.
6. Use the PowerPoint presentation on Moon
Phases for teaching and discussion.
7. Lesson Plan on Tides: Students describe
how sea levels are constantly changing with
daily and monthly cycles and list some causes
Resources/Technology:
Daylight Hour Explorer
Eclipse Slideshow Simulator
Lunar Phase Quizzer
Seasons and Elliptical Simulator
Free Clip Art
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
Tides and Currents Resources
eThemes
Oreo Moon Phases Pictures
Phases of the Moon Lab Activity
Moon and Sun PowerPoint
Science Class.Net Site with Multiple
Activities
NOAA Ocean Service Lessons
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8th Grade Standard 3.4 and effects of tidal changes.
8. Ocean Current Lab: Students define ocean
currents and understand overall surface
circulation. The lab shows the relationship
between global air circulation and oceanic
currents. Students learn about the influences of
wind, water temperature, landmasses, and
water density on currents.
9. Seasons on Earth: In this lesson, students
use class discussion, interactive activities,
hands-on activities, and videos to learn about
the seasons, Earth's motion, and the role of its
tilted axis. Students also study satellite data
showing seasonal changes of plant life and
explore an example of long-term natural
climate change.
10. Seasons Greetings: This lesson uses video
segments from the NATURE film Earth
Navigators to explain what causes the earth’s
seasons and seasonal changes. Students
explore the causes and effects of the changes
in the earth’s seasons using a hands-on activity
and a Web interactive. As a culminating
activity, students learn about seasonal
milestones using video segments from Earth
Navigators.
1. Oreo Moon Phases
2. Virtual Moon Lab
3. Moon Phases and Eclipse Lab
4. Seasons Lab Book
5. PowerPoint on Seasons
6. PowerPoint on Moon Phases
7. Lesson Plan on Tides
8. Ocean Current Lab
9. Seasons on Earth Lesson
10. Seasons Greetings
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