1. DO NOW Pick up the green standards sheet.
Pick up Student Information sheet. Work on filling this out now. Take it home and get your parents to fill in whatever you do not know.
Bring it back tomorrow.
Get out blue sheet from yesterday. If you did not get one, get one from a teacher.

2. EARTH SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS PROJECT
During the Fall semester you will collect a total of FIVE articles, with one article per unit. You may use your study guides, syllabus, or standards to provide more information about the elements that are included under each standard.

3. FIVE UNITS Earth’s Formation Plate Tectonics Changing Lithosphere
Weathering
Erosion

4. EARTH SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS PROJECT
Each article in your collection must:
Be related to a specific unit.
Be written after January 1, 2015.
Be at least 500 words in length.
Be from a reliable and credible news source with sufficient evidence to back the story. Not sure what is credible? Ask us!
Be submitted online through Google Drive and shared with your teacher with a link to the article.
You must have one article per unit.

5. EARTH SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS PROJECT
For each article you will include a written summary with the following information:
Title of the Article.
author of the Article.
Link to the source webpage.
The specific Earth Systems standard the article is related to. (GREEN SHEET)
A one paragraph written summary on the page adjacent to the page where you secure each article, focus on the Who’s, What’s, Where’s, When’s, Why’s, and How’s of the article.

6. STANDARDS

7. EARTH SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS PROJECT
For each article you will include a written summary with the following information:
A second paragraph reflection on the article – why it is important, what you find most interesting and how it relates to the specific topic you are connecting it to.
Two questions that you have about the article that you don’t understand.
You will submit one article to Google Docs for each unit no later than TWO days after the unit test. Each article will count as 20% of the project grade for Fall semester.

8. EARTH SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS
Grading: 20 points per Article link and Write up (10 points for content or substance, 10 points for language mechanics – grammar, spelling, etc.) Work that is submitted late will be accepted with a 50% penalty
At the end of the semester all points earned on the five articles will be combined for the Fall summative project grade.

9. EARTH SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS
Please Note: Academic dishonesty of ANY type will NOT be tolerated.
If you are found to have falsified article dates, sources, etc., or plagiarize your work– you will receive a ZERO for this summative project grade.
Additionally, this is an INDIVIDUAL project, no two students should be found to have the same five articles or identical summaries and reflections in their scrapbooks (considered as plagiarism).

10. EARTH SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS
You have:
Blue handout describing the project.
Green handout listing the standards.

11. What is Earth System Science?

12. Video link (6 minutes): Why Earth Science?
WHAT IS EARTH SCIENCE?
Video link (6 minutes): Why Earth Science?

13. GEOLOGY Geology: The study of Earth’s solid material and structures
The processes that create them
Topics include:
Rock & Mineral Formation
Plate tectonics
Weathering & Erosion
Landscapes evolution
Geologic History
Natural Resources

14. OCEANOGRAPHY Oceanography: The study of the ocean Changes over time
Topics include:
Chemical Composition
Currents & Heat Transport
Acidification
Geologic processes in ocean basins
Interaction with Atmosphere

15. METEOROLOGY Meteorology: The study of the atmosphere and weather
Topics Include:
Weather patterns
Clouds
Extreme Weather
Global Wind Belts
Fronts
Atmosphere circulation

16. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
The study of the effects people have on their environment
Topics include:
Interaction of Earth’s systems with Biosphere

17. CLIMATOLOGY Climatology:
The study of long term conditions of the weather at a place
Topics include:
How climates are created
How they shape the environment

18. ASTRONOMY Astronomy: The study of outer space, and everything in it.
Topics include:
Stars
Planets & worlds
Galaxies
Interstellar medium

19. EARTH’S SYSTEMS

20. GEOSPHERE Solid part of the planet:
Lithosphere - the rigid outer shell of the geosphere; includes the crust & upper mantle
Asthenosphere - partially molten, upper layer of the mantle – flowing, plastic-like material
Interior:
Mantle
Inner Core
Outer Core

21. HYDROSPHERE Consists of the water on the Earth: Ocean – 97%
Glaciers – 2%
Seas
Lakes
Rivers
Atmosphere

22. ATMOSPHERE Blanket of gases that surrounds our planet
Thermosphere – protects from ultraviolet (UV) & X-ray wavelengths Mesosphere
Stratosphere – protects from UV (ozone)
Troposphere – all weather occurs here

23. BIOSPHERE
All organisms on Earth and the environments in which they live.

24. ACTIVITY: CHOSE ONE
Use all 12 Earth Systems Science vocabulary words to create ONE of the following:
Make an illustrated word wall poster.
Design a poster on the major branches of Earth Science and the different interacting spheres. Include Illustrations.
Create a brochure on the branches of Earth Science.
Create an illustrated concept map.
Create an Earth Systems Science collage that includes images and vocabulary.
DUE MONDAY!
Words to know:
Geology
Meteorology
Oceanography
Climatology
Environmental Science
Astronomy
Geosphere
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
You may use online resources, the textbook or this presentation on the class website