Next Generation Standards
Curriculum Association
MS-LS1-3. Scientists and engineers are guided by habits of mind such as intellectual honesty, tolerance of ambiguity, skepticism, and openness to new ideas.
Students will think as scientists and engineers do, to brainstorm ideas of bettering the environment of the ocean.
MS-ESS2-5. The complex patterns of the changes and the movement of water in the atmosphere, determined by winds, landforms, and ocean temperatures and currents, are major determinants of local weather patterns.
Students will engage in discussions about weather, environmental changes, and ocean temperatures. They will then apply this to a project to enhance their learning experience.
K-ESS2-1.ESS2.D. Weather is the combination of sunlight, wind, snow or rain, and temperature in a particular region at a particular time. People measure these conditions to describe and record the weather and to notice patterns over time.
Students will learn the climate cycle and apply this to a hands-on project. Students will be able to visualize these within projects.
K-ESS2-2.ESS2.E. Plants and animals can change their environment.
Students will apply the relationship between plants and animals in their environment through a variety of projects.
K-ESS2-2.ESS3.C. Things that people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them. But they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things.
Students will brainstorm ideas on how to better the environment, and reduce the harmful impacts created by humans.
K-ESS2-1. Patterns in the natural world can be observed, used to describe phenomena, and used as evidence.
Patterns are fundamental in ocean formation impacted by the environment of the weather. Students will apply these patterns in varieties of projects.
K-ESS2-2. Systems in the natural and designed world have parts that work together.
Students will explore the weather system, food chain, and their relationship with the environment.
1-ESS1-1. Science assumes natural events happen today as they happened in the past.
Students will reference historical events and apply the knowledge to present and future events of the ocean.
2-ESS2-1.ESS2.A. Wind and water can change the shape of the land.
Applying knowledge from Earth Science, students will recognize the effect weather has on the formation of the Earth.
2-ESS2-2.SS2.B. Maps show where things are located. One can map the shapes and kinds of land and water in any area.
In this course students will learn to apply their knowledge of Earth Science to plate tectonics and its effect on the ocean floor. Students will be able to reference maps.