GSE Alignment – Grade 8
Oceanography
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LS2 (5-6)-7Students demonstrate an understanding of recycling in an ecosystem by …
7a explaining the processes of precipitation, evaporation, condensation as parts of the water cycle.
ESS1 (5-6)–2Students demonstrate an understanding of processes and change over time within earth systems by …
2a diagramming, labeling and explaining the processes of the water cycle including evaporation, precipitation, and run-off, condensation, transpiration, and groundwater.
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Water Wings
Water Cycle Powerpoint (includes videostreaming and accompanying worksheet)
How Wet is Our Planet
Prentice Hall - Earth’s Waters pp 14-17 Reinforcement:
Water Cycle Quiz
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ESS1 (7-8)–3Students demonstrate anunderstanding of processes and change over time within earth systems by …
3a evaluating slow processes (e.g. weathering, erosion, mountain building, sea floor spreading) to determine how the earth has changed and will continue to change over time.
3b evaluating fast processes (e.g. erosion, volcanoes and earthquakes) to determine how the earth has changed and will continue to change over time.
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Exploring the Ocean article pp 130-139 (Prentice Hall – Earth’s Waters) Reading Strategy Included Summarized in Powerpoint
Mapping the Ocean Floor - Videostream
Diagram the Ocean Floor
Shape of the Ocean Floor – Prentice Hall – Earth’s Waters pg 140
Seafloor Spreading - Videostream
Exploring the Ocean Quiz
Prentice Hall – Earth’s Waters :100-101 – Beach Erosion Beach Erosion Depleting our Coast – Videostream Raging Planet Tsunami – Videostream and follow-up lesson
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Catastrophic Events: Plate Tectonics
Catastrophic Events: Rock Cycle Unit
Catastrophic Events
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ESS1 (5-6)–4Students demonstrate anunderstanding of processes and change over time within earth systems by…
4b describing how differential heating of the oceans affects ocean currents which in turn influence weather and climate.
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Introduce through review of Convection Currents and differential heating of Earth’s surfaces (addressed in Catastrophic Events) and Direct vs. Indirect heating (addressed in Planetary Science)
Ocean Surface Currents: Maury Project
Marsigli Box : How does the Density of water affect Ocean Currents? Prentice Hall – Earth’s Waters: pp116-121
El Nino: Ocean Temperature and Climate Change http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/15/g68/seasnino.html National Geographic Xpeditions
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ESS2 (5-6)-8 Students demonstrate an understanding of temporal or positional relationships between or among the Earth, sun, and moon by...
8b explaining night/day, seasons, year, and tides as a result of the regular and predictable motion of the Earth, sun, and moon.
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Tracking Tides
Article: A Closer Look at Tides
Prentice Hall – Earth’s Waters pp 102-107
Tracking Tides: graphing tidal data
Connecting Moon Phase to Tides
“Tides Key Terms” - powerpoint
Read and discuss “Marching to the Beat of Tides”
Read and answer questions “Can Water Fall Up?”
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Planetary Science Unit addresses:
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LS2 (5-6) –5 Students demonstrate an understanding of equilibrium in an ecosystem by …
5a identifying and defining an ecosystem and the variety of relationships within it (e.g., predator/prey, consumer/ producer/decomposer, host/parasite, catastrophic events). LS2 (5-6) –6 Students demonstrate an understanding of energy flow in an ecosystem by …
6a identifying the sun as the major source of energy for life on earth and sequencing the energy flow in an ecosystem.
LS2 (5-6)-7Students demonstrate an understanding of recycling in an ecosystem by …
7b completing a basic food web for a given ecosystem. LS2 (7-8) –5Students demonstrate an understanding of equilibrium in an ecosystem by …
5a identifying which biotic (e.g., bacteria, fungi, plants, animals) and abiotic (e.g., weather, climate, light, water, temperature, soil composition, catastrophic events) factors affect a given ecosystem.
5b analyzing how biotic and abiotic factors affect a given ecosystem.
5c predicting the outcome of a given change in biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
5d using a visual model (e.g., graph) to track population changes in an ecosystem.
LS2 (7-8)-7Students demonstrate an understanding of recycling in an ecosystem by …
7a diagramming or sequencing a series of steps showing how matter cycles among and between organisms and the physical environment.
7b developing a model for a food web of local aquatic and local terrestrial environments.
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Beavertail /Rocky Shore Field Study Unit
Organism Identification
Biotic/Abiotic factors of Rocky Shore
Life Zones of the Rocky Shore
Rocky Shore Food Web Activity Narragansett Bay Food Web War
Food Web/Pyramid :Misc. Worksheets and handouts
Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem – powerpoint
“Biomes Wild Arctic” - videostream
Beavertail Field Trip/ lab report
Biotic Graphs (green crab vs asian shore crab) Abiotic Graphs (pollution vs organism) Natural event vs. organism, BALICAS kit
Fertilizer on your lawn and its ultimate effect on the intertidal zone
Oceanography final assessment (outcome of a change in biotic factors)
Prentice Hall – Earth’s Waters: Ocean Habitats, Intertidal Zone, Neritic Zone and Open Ocean pp 141-157
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