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Overview
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Enduring Understandings

 * The Earth changes over time, both rapidly and gradually.
 * Mapping conditions of the Earth can help anticipate natural disasters.

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Prior Learning (from S8 Anchors)
S8.D.2.1 Explain how pressure, temperature, moisture, and wind are used to describe atmospheric conditions that affect regional weather or climate.
 * S8.D.2.1.1 Explain the impact of water systems on the local weather or the climate of a region (e.g., lake effect snow, land/ocean breezes).
 * S8.D.2.1.2 Identify how global patterns of atmospheric movement influence regional weather and climate.
 * S8.D.2.1.3 Identify how cloud types, wind directions, and barometric pressure changes are associated with weather patterns in different regions of the country.

S8.B.3.2 Identify evidence of change to infer and explain the ways different variables may affect change in natural or human-made systems. S8.D.1.1 Describe constructive and destructive natural processes that form different geologic structures and resources.
 * S8.B.3.2.1 Use evidence to explain factors that affect changes in populations (e.g., deforestation, disease, land use, natural disaster, invasive species).
 * S8.B.3.2.2 Use evidence to explain how diversity affects the ecological integrity of natural systems.
 * S8.B.3.2.3 Describe the response of organisms to environmental changes (e.g., changes in climate, hibernation, migration, coloration) and how those changes affect survival.
 * S8.D.1.1.1 Explain the rock cycle as changes in the solid earth and rock types found in Pennsylvania (igneous – granite, basalt, obsidian, pumice; sedimentary – limestone, sandstone, shale, coal; and metamorphic – slate, quartzite, marble, gneiss).
 * S8.D.1.1.2 Describe natural processes that change Earth’s surface (e.g., landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, mountain building, new land being formed, weathering, erosion, sedimentation, soil formation).
 * S8.D.1.1.3 Identify soil types (i.e., humus, topsoil, subsoil, loam, loess, and parent material) and their characteristics (i.e., particle size, porosity, and permeability) found in different biomes and in Pennsylvania, and explain how they formed.
 * S8.D.1.1.4 Explain how fossils provide evidence about plants and animals that once lived throughout Pennsylvania’s history (e.g., fossils provide evidence of different environments).

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Learning Objectives: Working Draft

 * Explain the effects of heat, density, topography, and seasons on weather patterns.
 * Interpret and analyze weather maps to predict weather patterns.
 * Explain the processes that take place at plate boundaries and how these processes continue to shape Earth.
 * Analyze features caused by the interaction of processes that change Earth’s surface and environment.
 * Analyze how tools are used to predict and monitor the changing Earth's surface.

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Essential Learning Activities/Strategies/Technology: Working Draft

 * Convection Currents and Density
 * Coriolis Effect applied to Hurricanes
 * Reading Weather Maps
 * Layering and Density (Hands on Plastics)
 * Demonstrating Tectonic Activity (Clay Simulations/ Icing-Graham-Fruit Roll Cracker Activity)
 * Studying Seismic Data (Seismac)

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Supplemental Resources
[|Seasons & Ecliptic Simulator] [|Weekly Weather Maps] [|Pick your day Weather Map] Great site to observe weather patterns [|Weather Symbols & Visual] [] [] [] [] [] [] [|http://www.education.noaa.gov] Online Radar Maps Online Hurricane Images & Tracking Online Sea Surface Temperature Mapping Powerpoint Weather Reports [] [] [] [|USGS Education] [|Online Earthquake Simulation(Data-Rich)] [|Read Seismograms to Estimate Epicenter and Magnitude of an Earthquake]: Very Good!
 * Text- Science Spectrum** CH 20.2 Wind, Clouds; CH 20.3 Weather & Climate, Weather Maps


 * Text- Science Spectrum** Ch 19.1 Plate Tectonics & Earth Structure; 19.2 Volcanoes & Earthquakes; p 201 Background Radiation

The Eruption of Mount St. Helens! (IMAX) Good images, easy to ignore [] [] Online Tectonic Simulations Online Volcano & Earthquake Videos [|Earthquake Investigation Lesson Plan] (using blocks and rubber bands)

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