High School Science

Geologic Time

Earth Science

Quarter 2

McGraw Hill Module 18

RESOURCES

PACING: 7 DAYS

● Module Launch: 45 min ● Lesson 1: 90 min ● Lesson 2: 135 min ● Lesson 3: 90 min ● Lesson 4: 90 min ● Lesson 5: 90 min ● Module Wrap-Up: 45 min

Module 18: Geologic Time Scale ● Phenomena: How was the pre-historic dragonfy different from the modern-day dragonfy? ● Lesson 1: Early Earth ● Lesson 2: The Atmosphere, Oceans & Early Life on Earth

● Lesson 3: The Paleozoic Era ● Lesson 4: The Mesozoic Era ● Lesson 5: The Cenozoic Era

STANDARD

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

● Scientists use Earth rocks, zircon crystals, moon

ESS.2.5 Engage in argument from evidence for how the simultaneous co-evolution of Earth’s systems and life on Earth led to periods of stability and change over geologic time. Examples could include how microbial life on land increased the formation of soil, which in turn allowed for the evolution of land plants or how the evolution of corals created reefs that altered patterns of coastal erosion and deposition providing habitats for the evolution of new life forms. (LS4.D, ESS2.D, ESS2.E)

rocks and meteorites to determine Earth’s age.

● Plate tectonics has

changed the surface of the Earth over time. ● Early life likely began between 3.9 and 3.5 bya. ● All dinosaurs, except birds, and many other organisms became extinct during a mass extinction event at the end of the Mesozoic. ● The Cenozoic is known as the Age of Mammals. ● Fossil evidence suggests

that modern humans appeared during the Pleistocene.

CONCEPTS (Nouns)

SKILLS (Verbs)

● Cycling of carbon through earth’s systems ● Earth’s systems (Hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere) ● Movement of carbon between systems results in changes to the system(s)

● Develop a quantitative model ● Use a quantitative model ● Describe the cycling of carbon