Norfolk Public Schools Science Learning in Place …...Norfolk Public Schools Science Learning in Place Plan: Science 6H Lessons Week 10: May 18 – 22, 2020 (Conservative Policies)

Norfolk Public Schools Science Learning in Place Plan: Science 6H Lessons

Week 10: May 18 – 22, 2020 (Conservative Policies)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Conservation Policies Assignments:

• Read the following lessons: -Keeping Water Clean and Safe -Protecting the Air -Caring for Land Resources

• Highlight or Underline sentences that identify main ideas for each section.

• Research and record any words you do not know, and the definition. (dictionary, online, phone, ask family, etc.)


• Review the following lessons: -Keeping Water Clean and Safe -Protecting the Air -Caring for Land Resources

• Complete the lesson questions 1-3.


• Review the following lessons: -Keeping Water Clean and Safe -Protecting the Air -Caring for Land Resources

• Complete the lesson questions 4-6.


• Read the article “Apple Suppliers Commit to Using Green Energy”

• Complete the Quiz questions 1-4.

• Justify your answers by highlighting or underlining and numbering sentences in the article with the number of the question it supports.


• Read the 6.9 Earth Resources

• Complete the lesson review questions 1-4.

Week 11: May 25 – 29, 2020 (Weather and Earth-Moon-Sun Interactions)


Weather Assignments:

• Read the lesson on Weather Maps


Weather Assignments:

• Review the lesson on Weather Maps and analyze the map key on page 284.

• Apply. Examine the four highlighted cites on the map. Use the space provided to identify current weather conditions in each city. Then forecast the weather conditions for Miami in the near future.

Earth-Moon-Sun-Interactions Essential Question: How are Earth’s days, years and seasons related to Earth’s movements in space?

• Read the lesson on Earth’s rotation, revolution, tilt and length of year.


Earth-Moon-Sun-Interactions Essential Question: How do the Earth, moon and sun affect each other to cause moon phases and eclipses?

• Read the lesson on Moon Phases and Eclipses.


Earth-Moon-Sun-Interactions Essential Question: What causes tides?

• Read the lesson on Tides.


Week 12: June 1 – 5, 2020 (Energy Budget and Watersheds)


Energy Budget Assignments:

• Read the PBS article on the Earth’s Energy Budget



• Review the PBS article on the Earth’s Energy Budget



• Analyze the Energy Budget diagram.

• Complete the Matching Activity by placing the action of incoming sunlight into the correct box of the diagram.

Watersheds Assignments:

• Read the article on Sea Rise and Storms on the Chesapeake Bay.

• Complete the lesson quiz questions 1-4.

Watersheds Assignments:

• Review the article on Sea Rise and Storms on the Chesapeake Bay.

• Complete the lesson quiz questions 5-8.

Lesson Review Questions

1. Describe laws passed in the 1970’s to prevent water pollution.

2. Identify the most important air pollution control law.

3. What are National Ambient Air Quality Standards?

4. How does selective cutting of forests conserve topsoil?

5. Explain how recycling conserves resources and energy.

6. What is the relationship between petroleum production, the

increased use of hybrid cars, and the level of air pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act that are in the air?


1. Identify 3 ways to conserve natural resources.

2. What is recycling? Name a minimum of 4 materials in the home that can be recycled.

3. What is soil conservation?

4. Describe public policy developed in Virginia to conserve soil.


1. Describe the atmospheric conditions and the type of front that produces thunderstorms.

2. What does isobars connect on a weather map?

3. What does a capital H and a capital L represent on a weather map?

4. For each of the three types of fronts provide the following: name of the front, draw the weather map symbol, and describe the type of weather associated with each.

a.

b.

c.


1. What movement of the Earth explains the why we experience day and night? Describe the position of earth and sunlight during daytime and nighttime.

2. Why do we have seasons on Earth?

3. Describe the tilt of the axis, amount of daylight hours and temperatures when the northern hemisphere experience winter.

4. Describe the length of time and the movement Earth makes during rotation and revolution.

Moon Phases and Eclipses


1. What cause the Earth to observe different phases of the moon?

2. Describe. What are two phases of a waxing moon, and how do they appear?

3. Describe. Where is the moon in its orbit at the time of a solar eclipse?

Tides


1. What causes tides?

2. Which areas ( A, B, C, or D) experience high tides when Earth, moon, and sun are aligned?

3.


1. What is the primary source of energy for Earth’s system?

2. Explain the different ways that energy interacts with Earth’s air, land, and water.

3. Describe the amount (%) of incoming sunlight and how it is distributed between space, atmosphere and Earth’s surface.

4. Identify 3 greenhouse gases. What is the role of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?

5. How does energy absorbed by Earth’s surface leave the system?

6. What factors can affect the balance of the energy budget?

Analyze the Energy Budget Diagram to summarize the actions of incoming

solar radiation.

Matching.

Directions: Appropriately match the actions below with each box in the

above diagram to summarize the energy budget.

▪ 4% Reflected upward ▪ 51% Absorbed at the surface ▪ 20% reflected to space ▪ 19% Absorbed in the atmosphere ▪ 6% Scattered upward

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Norfolk Public Schools Science Learning in Place …...Norfolk Public Schools Science Learning in Place Plan: Science 6H Lessons Week 10: May 18 – 22, 2020 (Conservative Policies)