S6E: Earth and Space Science

S6E1: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about current scientific views of the universe and how those views evolved.

S6E1.c: Analyze and interpret data to compare and contrast the planets in our solar system in terms of: size relative to Earth, surface and atmospheric features, relative distance from the sun, and ability to support life.

Solar System

S6E1.d: Develop and use a model to explain the interaction of gravity and inertia that governs the motion of objects in the solar system.

Gravity Pitch

S6E2: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the effects of the relative positions of the sun, Earth, and moon.

S6E2.a: Develop and use a model to demonstrate the phases of the moon by showing the relative positions of the sun, Earth, and moon.

Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Phases of the Moon

S6E2.b: Construct an explanation of the cause of solar and lunar eclipses.

2D Eclipse

S6E2.c: Analyze and interpret data to relate the tilt of the Earth to the distribution of sunlight throughout the year and its effect on seasons.

Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Summer and Winter

S6E3: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to recognize the significant role of water in Earth processes.

S6E3.b: Plan and carry out an investigation to illustrate the role of the sun’s energy in atmospheric conditions that lead to the cycling of water.

Water Cycle

S6E3.c: Ask questions to identify and communicate, using graphs and maps, the composition, location, and subsurface topography of the world’s oceans.

Ocean Mapping

S6E3.d: Analyze and interpret data to create graphic representations of the causes and effects of waves, currents, and tides in Earth’s systems.

Tides - Metric

S6E4: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how the sun, land, and water affect climate and weather.

S6E4.b: Plan and carry out an investigation to demonstrate how energy from the sun transfers heat to air, land and water at different rates.

Coastal Winds and Clouds - Metric

S6E4.c: Develop a model demonstrating the interaction between unequal heating and the rotation of the Earth that causes local and global wind systems.

Coastal Winds and Clouds - Metric
Hurricane Motion - Metric

S6E4.d: Construct an explanation of the relationship between air pressure, weather fronts, and air masses and meteorological events such as tornados and thunderstorms.

Hurricane Motion - Metric
Weather Maps - Metric

S6E4.e: Analyze and interpret weather data to explain the effects of moisture evaporating from the ocean on weather patterns and weather events such as hurricanes.

Hurricane Motion - Metric

S6E5: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to show how Earth’s surface is formed.

S6E5.b: Plan and carry out an investigation of the characteristics of minerals and how minerals contribute to rock composition.

Mineral Identification

S6E5.c: Construct an explanation of how to classify rocks by their formation and how rocks change through geologic processes in the rock cycle.

Rock Cycle

S6E5.d: Ask questions to identify types of weathering, agents of erosion and transportation, and environments of deposition.

Erosion Rates
Rock Cycle
Weathering

S6E5.e: Develop a model to demonstrate how natural processes (weathering, erosion, and deposition) and human activity change rocks and the surface of the Earth.

Building Pangaea
Erosion Rates
River Erosion
Rock Cycle
Weathering

S6E5.f: Construct an explanation of how the movement of lithospheric plates, called plate tectonics, can cause major geologic events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Plate Tectonics

S6E5.g: Construct an argument using maps and data collected to support a claim of how fossils show evidence of the changing surface and climate of the Earth.

Building Pangaea

S6E6: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the uses and conservation of various natural resources and how they impact the Earth.

Water Pollution

S6E6.c: Construct an argument evaluating contributions to the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

Carbon Cycle
Greenhouse Effect - Metric