BHS Earth Science Guide

The Nature of Storms

Earth Science

Quarter 4

McGraw Hill Module 10

Students use tools, technologies, and/or models to analyze the data and identify and describe relationships in the datasets, including: ● The relationships between the changes in one system and changes in another (or within the same) Earth system; and ● Possible feedback, including one example of feedback to the climate. ● Students analyze data to identify effects of human activity and specifc technologies on Earth’s systems if present. Interpreting Data Students use the analyzed data to describe a mechanism for: ● The feedback between two Earth’s systems and whether the feedback is positive or negative, increasing (destabilizing) or decreasing (stabilizing) the original changes. ● Students use data to predict weather based on observed patterns. *When “describe” is referenced, any of the following descriptions could be used: written, oral, pictorial, and kinesthetic.

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

Skill Building

STEM Unit Project- Have students apply what they learned in their module to their Unit Projects

Extension

Data Analysis Lab: How can you calculate a heat wave? (p. 275)

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

Standard 2.6 Standard 3.4

ELA CONNECTIONS

● Cite specifc textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to important distinctions the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account. ● Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a text by paraphrasing them in simpler but still accurate terms. ● Write arguments focused on discipline - specifc content. ● Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. ● Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of fndings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. ● Cite specifc textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to important distinctions the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account. ● Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a text by paraphrasing them in simpler but still accurate terms. ● Write arguments focused on discipline - specifc content.